title: Purification and characterization of alpha-L-fucosidase from Streptomyces species.
abstract: Streptomyces sp. 142, isolated from a soil sample, produced alpha-fucosidase when cultured in the presence of L-fucose. The enzyme was purified 700-fold with an overall recovery of 17% from a cell-free extract by cation exchange chromatography and gel filtration chromatography. The apparent molecular weight of the purified enzyme was 40,000 by gel filtration chromatography. The enzyme had a pH optimum of 6.0 and was stable at pH 4.5-7.0. Substrate specificity studies with oligosaccharides labeled with 2-aminopyridine as the substrate showed that the enzyme specifically hydrolyzed terminal alpha 1-3 and alpha 1-4 fucosidic linkages in the oligosaccharides but did not hydrolyze alpha 1-2 or alpha 1-6 fucosidic linkages or a synthetic substrate, p-nitro-phenyl alpha-L-fucoside. The purified enzyme released L-fucose from a fucosylated glycoprotein, alpha 1-acid glycoprotein. Thus, the substrate specificities of the Streptomyces alpha-fucosidase resembled those of alpha-fucosidases I and III isolated from almond emulsin rather than those of other microbial alpha-fucosidases.
authors.affiliation: Biotechnology Research Laboratories, Takara Shuzo Co., Ltd. Shiga, Japan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sano
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hayakawa
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: kato
mesh_terms: D002236:Carbohydrate Conformation; D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D002850:Chromatography, Gel; D002852:Chromatography, Ion Exchange; D006023:Glycoproteins / Q000378:metabolism; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D007700:Kinetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D008970:Molecular Weight; D013302:Streptomyces / Q000201:enzymology*; D013379:Substrate Specificity; D013816:Thermodynamics; D005644:alpha-L-Fucosidase / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D006023:Glycoproteins; D005644:alpha-L-Fucosidase