title: Purification and N-terminal amino acid sequence of fructose-6-phosphate phosphoketolase from Bifidobacterium longum BB536.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The key enzyme in the fructose-6-phosphate shunt in bifidobacteria, Fructose-6-phosphate phosphoketolase (F6PPK; E.C. 4.1.2.22.), was purified to electrophoretic homogeneity for the first time from Bifidobacterium longum (BB536).
  
  
  RESULTS
  A three-step procedure comprising acetone fractionation followed by fast protein liquid chromatography (FPLC) resulted in a 30-fold purification. The purified enzyme had a molecular mass of 300 +/- 5 kDa as determined by gel filtration. It is probably a tetramer containing two different subunits with molecular masses of 93 +/- 1 kDa and 59 +/- 0.5 kDa, as determined by SDS-PAGE.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The deduced N-terminal amino acid sequences of the two subunits revealed no significant similarity between them and other proteins when compared to the data bases of EMBL and SWISS-PROT, indicating that this could be the first report on N-terminal amino acid sequence of F6PPK.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The data from this study will be used to design oligonucleotide probe specific for bifidobacteria and to study the gene encoded F6PPK.
authors: Department of Biotechnology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
authors: K G
authors: KG
authors: Fandi
authors: H M
authors: HM
authors: Ghazali
authors: A M
authors: AM
authors: Yazid
authors: A R
authors: AR
authors: Raha
mesh_terms: D000446:Aldehyde-Lyases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001644:Bifidobacterium / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data
chemical_list: D000446:Aldehyde-Lyases; C065556:fructose-6-phosphate phosphoketolase