title: Molecular and enzymatic characterization of a maltogenic amylase that hydrolyzes and transglycosylates acarbose.
abstract: A gene encoding a maltogenic amylase of Bacillus stearothermophilus ET1 was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli. DNA sequence analysis indicated that the gene could encode a 69,627-Da protein containing 590 amino acids. The predicted amino acid sequence of the enzyme shared 47-70% identity with the sequences of maltogenic amylase from Bacillus licheniformis, neopullulanase from B. stearothermophilus, and cyclodextrin hydrolase (CDase) 1-5 from an alkalophilic Bacillus 1-5 strain. In addition to starch, pullulan and cyclodextrin, B. stearothermophilus could hydrolyze isopanose, but not panose, to glucose and maltose. Maltogenic amylase hydrolyzed acarbose, a competitive inhibitor of amylases, to glucose and a trisaccharide. When acarbose was incubated with 10% glucose, isoacarbose, containing an alpha-1,6-glucosidic linkage was produced as an acceptor reaction product. B. stearothermophilus maltogenic amylase shared four highly similar regions of amino acids with several amylolytic enzymes. The beta-cyclodextrin-hydrolyzing activity of maltogenic amylase was enhanced to a level equivalent to the activity of CDase when its amino acid sequence between the third and the fourth conserved regions was made more hydrophobic by site-directed mutagenesis. Enhanced transglycosylation activity was observed in most of the mutants. This result suggested that the members of a subfamily of amylolytic enzymes, including maltogenic amylase and CDase, could share similar substrate specificities, enzymatic mechanisms and structure/function relationships.
authors.affiliation: Department of Food Science & Technology and Research Center for New Bio-Materials in Agriculture, Seoul National University, Suwon, Korea.
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Cha
authors.forename: H G
authors.initials: HG
authors.lastname: Yoon
authors.forename: Y W
authors.initials: YW
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: H S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: K S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Kweon
authors.forename: B H
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Oh
authors.forename: K H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Park
mesh_terms: D020909:Acarbose; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000681:Amylases / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D001483:Base Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D017124:Conserved Sequence; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D001411:Geobacillus stearothermophilus / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics; D006031:Glycosylation; D006868:Hydrolysis; D008956:Models, Chemical; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016297:Mutagenesis, Site-Directed; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D014312:Trisaccharides / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D014312:Trisaccharides; D000681:Amylases; D020909:Acarbose