title: Production and characterization of alcohol oxidase from Penicillium purpurescens AIU 063.
abstract: A filamentous fungus belonging to Penicillium purpurescens was isolated as a strain grown well in methanol medium. The strain produced an alcohol oxidase (AOD), which oxidizes short-chain primary alcohols and ethylene glycol, by incubation with a medium containing not only methanol, but also ethanol, ethylene glycol, glycerol or glucose. This AOD belonged to the same group as AOD from methylotrophic yeast, but some properties were different from AODs from methylotrophic yeast and other fungi. Thus, this enzyme consisted of four identical subunits of 66 kDa, while AODs from methylotrophic yeasts were of eight subunits. The enzyme activity was enhanced to two-fold by incubation at pH 6.0 and 40 degrees C for 60 min, whereas the K(m) values for ethanol and ethylene glycol did not change.
authors.affiliation: Department of Agro-bioscience, Iwate University, Ueda 3-18-8, Morioka 020-8550, Japan. kiso@iwate-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Kimiyasu
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Isobe
authors.forename: Toyofumi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ogawa
authors.forename: Michihiko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kataoka
authors.forename: Sakayu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shimizu
mesh_terms: D000429:Alcohol Oxidoreductases / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D003470:Culture Media; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D007526:Isoelectric Point; D007700:Kinetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D008970:Molecular Weight; D010407:Penicillium / Q000201:enzymology*; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D013379:Substrate Specificity; D013696:Temperature
chemical_list: D003470:Culture Media; D000429:Alcohol Oxidoreductases; C019643:alcohol oxidase