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Molecular Cloning and Characterization of a New and Highly Thermostable Esterase From Geobacillus Sp. JM6

Molecular Cloning and Characterization of a New and Highly Thermostable Esterase From Geobacillus Sp. JM6

Yanbing Zhu, Wenguang Zheng, Hui Ni, Han Liu, Anfeng Xiao, Huinong Cai

J Basic Microbiol. 2015 Oct;55(10):1219-31.

PMID: 26175347

Abstract:

A new lipolytic enzyme gene was cloned from a thermophile Geobacillus sp. JM6. The gene contained 750 bp and encoded a 249-amino acid protein. The recombinant enzyme was expressed and purified from Escherichia coli BL21 (DE3) with a molecular mass of 33.6 kDa. Enzyme assays using p-nitrophenyl esters with different acyl chain lengths as the substrates confirmed its esterase activity, yielding the highest activity with p-nitrophenyl butyrate. When p-nitrophenyl butyrate was used as a substrate, the optimum reaction temperature and pH for the enzyme were 60 °C and pH 7.5, respectively. Geobacillus sp. JM6 esterase showed excellent thermostability with 68% residual activity after incubation at 100 °C for 18 h. A theoretical structural model of strain JM6 esterase was developed with a monoacylglycerol lipase from Bacillus sp. H-257 as a template. The predicted core structure exhibits an α/β hydrolase fold, and a putative catalytic triad (Ser97, Asp196, and His226) was identified. Inhibition assays with PMSF indicated that serine residue is involved in the catalytic activity of strain JM6 esterase. The recombinant esterase showed a relatively good tolerance to the detected detergents and denaturants, such as SDS, Chaps, Tween 20, Tween 80, Triton X-100, sodium deoxycholate, urea, and guanidine hydrochloride.

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Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
AP1008119832	JM6		1008119-83-2	Price

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