Synergism of endoenzyme and exoenzyme on hydrolysis of soluble cellulose derivatives.
A kinetic model that represents the reaction of hydrolysis of water-soluble cellulose derivatives by a mixed endo- and exoenzyme system is proposed with the following assumptions: at an early stage of the reaction, endoenzymes split the substrate molecule in order to supply the newly formed nonreducing ends to exoenzymes until the molecular weight of the substrates reaches a low value; after that point, the reaction kinetics obeys only the rate equation of the reaction of the exoenzymes in which the reaction parameters change linearly with decrease of the molecular weight of the substrates. Hydrolysis experiments of soluble cellulose derivatives, carboxymethyl cellulose and hydroxyethyl cellulose, were carried out with endo-and exoenzymes separated from Trichoderma Koningii cellulase. The critical molecular weight of the substrate, from that point the action of endoenzyme can be neglected, was determined from the experimental data. That was ca. 4000 D. With that value, the model fits well the experimental data. Synergism of both enzymes appears as enhancement of the rate of the reaction at the early stage of the reaction.
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Department of Chemical Engineering, Niigata University, Igarashi 2, Niigata, zc 950-21, Japan.
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