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Cellulase production from Pseudoalteromonas sp. NO3 isolated from the sea squirt Halocynthia rorentzi

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Pseudoalteromonas sp. NO3 was isolated from the hemolymph of diseased sea squirts (Halocynthia rorentzi) with symptoms of soft tunic syndrome. The strain was found to produce an extracellular cellulase (CelY) that consisted of a 1,476 bp open reading frame encoding 491 amino acid residues with an approximate molecular mass of 52 kDa. Homologies of the deduced amino acid sequence of celY with the products of the celA, celX, celG and cel5Z genes were 92.6, 93.3, 92.6, and 59.1%, respectively. Additionally, CelY had 50–80% remnant catalytic activity at temperatures of 10–20°C. Highest carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) hydrolysis was observed at pH 8.0 and 40°C. CMC activity was determined by zymogram active staining and different degraded product profiles for CelY were obtained when cellotetraose, cellopentaose, and CMC were used as substrates. This study identified a transglycosylation activity in CelY that allows the enzyme to digest G4 to G2 and G3 without the production of G1.

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This work was supported by the 21C Frontier Microbial Genomics and Applications Center Program, Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Republic of Korea, and by the MKE (The Ministry of Knowledge Economy), Korea, under the ITRC (Information Technology Research Center) support program supervised by the IITA (Institute for Information Technology Advancement, IITA-2009-C1090-0902-0001).

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  1. Division of Food Science and Aqualife Medicine, Chonnam National University, Yeosu, 550-749, Republic of Korea

    Duwoon Kim, Seon-Jun Kim, Tai-Sun Shin, Sung-Joo Jung & Myung-Joo Oh

  2. Department of Biological Science, Sunchon National University, Suncheon, 540-742, Republic of Korea

    Keun Sik Baik, Seong Chan Park & Chi Nam Seong

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Kim, D., Baik, K.S., Park, S.C. et al. Cellulase production from Pseudoalteromonas sp. NO3 isolated from the sea squirt Halocynthia rorentzi . J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol 36, 1375–1382 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10295-009-0623-y

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