title: Determination of enzymes from Colletotrichum sp. AHU9748 essential for lepidimoide production from okra polysaccharide.
abstract: The allelopathic substance lepidimoide (Lp), which exhibits multiple functions in the growth and development of plants, was produced by Colletotrichum sp. AHU9748 from okra polysaccharide. Okra polysaccharide has the repeating structure (1-->4)-O-alpha-(d-galactopyranosyluronic acid)-(1-->2)-O-alpha-l-rhamnopyranose in its hexasaccharide repeating unit of its main chain. To determine the enzymes essential for Lp production, the supernatant of a culture broth was fractionated by repeated column chromatographies to identify two serial fractions responsible for Lp production and non-Lp production by measuring Lp production together with beta-galactosidase (beta-gal), rhamnogalacturonan lyase (RG-lyase) and acetylesterase (AE) activities, which we hypothesized to be necessary for Lp production from the structure of Lp. We confirmed the presence of these three enzymatic activities in the highest-Lp-producing fraction. The addition of purified RG-lyase to fractions producing no or a small amount of Lp demonstrated that beta-gal and RG-lyase activities are necessary for Lp production. The N-terminal amino acid sequences of the three separated proteins on SDS-PAGE confirmed the presence of enzymes identical to beta-gal, RG-lyase and AE in the Lp-producing fractions.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Applied Microbiology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, N9W9, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-8589, Japan.
authors.forename: Chayaporn
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Saranpuetti
authors.forename: Michiko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: Teruo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sone
authors.forename: Kozo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Asano
authors.forename: Fusao
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Tomita
mesh_terms: D028483:Abelmoschus; D000115:Acetylesterase / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism; D020231:Colletotrichum / Q000201:enzymology*; D004187:Disaccharides / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D011133:Polysaccharide-Lyases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism; D011134:Polysaccharides / Q000378:metabolism*; D001616:beta-Galactosidase / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D004187:Disaccharides; D011134:Polysaccharides; C103036:lepidimoide; C096859:rhamnogalacturonan acetylesterase; D000115:Acetylesterase; D001616:beta-Galactosidase; D011133:Polysaccharide-Lyases