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Purification and characterization of a laccase from the white-rot fungus Trametes multicolor

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The wood-degrading fungus Trametes multicolor secretes several laccase isoforms when grown on a simple medium containing copper in the millimolar range for stimulating laccase synthesis. The main isoenzyme laccase II was purified to apparent homogeneity from the culture supernatant by using anion-exchange chromatography and gel filtration. Laccase II is a monomeric glycoprotein with a molecular mass of 63 kDa as determined by sodium dodecylsulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, contains 18% glycosylation, and has a pI of 3.0. It oxidizes a variety of phenolic substrates as well as ferrocyanide and iodide. The pH optimum depends on the substrate employed and shows a bell-shaped pH activity profile with an optimum of 4.0 to 5.0 for the phenolic substrates, while the nonphenolic substrates ferrocyanide and 2,2′-azino-bis(3-ethylbenzthiazoline-6-sulfonate) show a monotonic pH profile with a rate decreasing with increasing pH.

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  1. Division of Biochemical Engineering, Institute of Food Technology, University of Agricultural Sciences Vienna, Muthgasse 18, A-1190, Vienna, Austria

    Christian Leitner, Johann Hess, Christiane Galhaup, Roland Ludwig, Bernd Nidetzky, Klaus D. Kulbe & Dietmar Haltrich

  2. Wood Composite and Chemistry Center Austria (Wood Kplus), Area 1, Muthgasse 18, A-1190, Vienna, Austria

    Christiane Galhaup & Dietmar Haltrich

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Leitner, C., Hess, J., Galhaup, C. et al. Purification and characterization of a laccase from the white-rot fungus Trametes multicolor . Appl Biochem Biotechnol 98, 497–507 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1385/ABAB:98-100:1-9:497

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