PMID: 9435061Jan 22, 1998Paper

Purification and properties of ArfI, an alpha-L-arabinofuranosidase from Cytophaga xylanolytica

Applied and Environmental Microbiology
M J Renner, J A Breznak

Abstract

An alpha-L-arabinofuranosidase (alpha-L-arabinofuranoside arabinofuranohydrolase [EC 3.2.1.55]; referred to below as ArfI) from Cytophaga xylanolytica XM3 was purified 85-fold by anion-exchange and hydrophobic interaction column chromatography. The native enzyme had a pI of 6.1 and an apparent molecular mass of 160 to 210 kDa, and it appeared to be a trimer or tetramer consisting of 56-kDa subunits. With p-nitrophenyl-alpha-L-arabinofuranoside as the substrate, the enzyme exhibited a K(m) of 0.504 mM and a Vmax of 319 mumol.min-1.mg of protein-1, and it had optimum activity at pH 5.8 and 45 degrees C. ArfI was relatively stable over a pH range of 4 to 10 and at temperatures up to 45 degrees C, and it retained nearly full activity when stored at 4 degrees C for periods as long as 24 months. The enzyme also released arabinose from 4-methylumbelliferyl-alpha-L-arabinofuranoside, as well as from rye, wheat, corn cob, and oat spelt arabinoxylans and sugar beet arabinan, but not from arabinogalactan. ArfI showed no hydrolytic activity toward a range of p-nitrophenyl- or 4-methylumbelliferyl-glycosides other than arabinoside, for which it was entirely specific for the alpha-L-furanoside configuration. ArfI interacted synergistically w...Continue Reading

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