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The soil isolate Cellulomonas cellulans AM8 produces an extracellular l-amino acid oxidase (L-AAO) with broad substrate specificity. The strain produced up to 0.35 unit (U)/ml of the extracellular L-AAO in a simple medium containing glycerol and yeast extract. The enzyme was easily purified up to 30 U/mg protein using Phenyl-Sepharose fast flow. The purified enzyme migrated as single band on sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) with a molecular mass of 55 kDa. On native PAGE the molecular mass was approx. 300 000 kDa, which may be due to aggregation. With the exception of glycine, proline, and threonine, all the amino acids normally constituting proteins were oxidized. The V max values from 0.7 to 35.2 U/mg for aspartic acid and lysine, respectively, and the K m values from 0.007 to 7.1 mm for cysteine and valine, respectively, were obtained at 25° C and pH 7.0 in oxygen-saturated solutions. The L-AAO had a pH optimum of 6.5–7.5. It was stable for several months at — 30° C and for some days at 35° C. Ferricyanide served as an electron acceptor with a V max of 50 U/mg and K m for 0.3 mm with phenylalanine as the substrate.
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Braun, M., Kim, J.M. & Schmid, R.D. Purification and some properties of an extracellular l-amino acid oxidase from Cellulomonas cellulans AM8 isolated from soil. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 37, 594–598 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00240732
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