title: Production of two types of phytase from Aspergillus oryzae during industrial koji making.
abstract: In our previous study, it was determined that phytase produced by Aspergillus oryzae plays an important role in supplying phosphate to yeast in the process of making sake. During koji making, two types of phytase (Phy-I and Phy-II) are produced. The purified phytases have high thermal and pH stability, in comparison to phytase purified from a submerged culture (ACP-II). In the present study, Phy-I and Phy-II retained their activities for 45 h. The NH2-terminal sequence of Phy-1, which is eight amino acids in length, was identical to that of ACP-II, but the molecular weights of these two forms, as estimated by SDS-PAGE, were quite different from each other (Phy-I, 120 kDa; ACP-II, 58 kDa). From the NH2-terminal amino acid sequence analysis of the predominant phytase (Phy-II), a molecular weight of 116 kDa was expected to reflect a new type of phytase produced only in koji culture. The substrate specificity of Phy-II was sufficiently broad that it hydrolyzed not only phytic acid and p-nitro phenyl phosphate, but also glucose 6-phosphate and glycerol 1-phosphate. In the process of making koji, Phy-I was produced at an early stage, followed by Phy-II; with both phytases being thought to function to hydrolyze phytic acid cooperatively.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Biotechnology, Graduate School of Advanced Sciences of Matter, Hiroshima University, 12321 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 73928530, Japan. fujitaj@miyagi.jst-plaza.jp
authors.forename: Jin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fujita
authors.forename: Seiko
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shigeta
authors.forename: Yu-Ichi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamane
authors.forename: Hisashi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fukuda
authors.forename: Yasuzo
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kizaki
authors.forename: Saburo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wakabayashi
authors.forename: Kazuhisa
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authors.lastname: Ono