title: Characterization of an alkaline lipase from Proteus vulgaris K80 and the DNA sequence of the encoding gene.
abstract: A facultatively anaerobic bacterium producing an extracellular alkaline lipase was isolated from the soil collected near a sewage disposal plant in Korea and identified to be a strain of Proteus vulgaris. The molecular mass of the purified lipase K80 was estimated to be 31 kDa by SDS-PAGE. It was found to be an alkaline enzyme having maximum hydrolytic activity at pH 10, while fairly stable in a wide pH range from 5 to 11. The gene for lipase K80 was cloned in Escherichia coli. Sequence analysis showed an open reading frame of 861 bp coding for a polypeptide of 287 amino acid residues. The deduced amino acid sequence of the lipase gene had 46.3% identity to the lipase from Pseudomonas fragi.
authors.affiliation: Applied Microbiology Research Group, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Taejon, South Korea.
authors.forename: H K
authors.initials: HK
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: J K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: T K
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Oh
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D005798:Genes, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics*; D008049:Lipase / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011514:Proteus vulgaris / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D012988:Soil Microbiology
chemical_list: D008049:Lipase