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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, April 2003, p. 1944-1952, Vol. 69, No. 4
0099-2240/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.4.1944-1952.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Cloning and Heterologous Expression of a ß-D-Mannosidase (EC 3.2.1.25)-Encoding Gene from Thermobifida fusca TM51

Emese Béki,^1,2 István Nagy,³ Jos Vanderleyden,³ Szilvia Jäger,⁴ László Kiss,⁴ László Fülöp,⁵ László Hornok,^1,2 and József Kukolya^1*

Department of Agricultural Biotechnology and Microbiology,¹ Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Szent István University,⁵ Agricultural Biotechnology Center, Gödöllõ,² Institute of Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary,⁴ Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium³

Received 5 August 2002/ Accepted 3 January 2003

Thermobifida fusca TM51, a thermophilic actinomycete isolated from composted horse manure, was found to produce a number of lignocellulose-degrading hydrolases, including endoglucanases, exoglucanases, endoxylanases, ß-xylosidases, endomannanases, and ß-mannosidases, when grown on cellulose or hemicellulose as carbon sources. ß-Mannosidases (EC 3.2.1.25), although contributing to the hydrolysis of hemicellulose fractions, such as galacto-mannans, constitute a lesser-known group of the lytic enzyme systems due to their low representation in the proteins secreted by hemicellulolytic microorganisms. An expression library of T. fusca, prepared in Streptomyces lividans TK24, was screened for ß-mannosidase activity to clone genes coding for mannosidases. One positive clone was identified, and a ß-mannosidase-encoding gene (manB) was isolated. Sequence analysis of the deduced amino acid sequence of the putative ManB protein revealed substantial similarity to known mannosidases in family 2 of the glycosyl hydrolase enzymes. The calculated molecular mass of the predicted protein was 94 kDa, with an estimated pI of 4.87. S. lividans was used as heterologous expression host for the putative ß-mannosidase gene of T. fusca. The purified gene product obtained from the culture filtrate of S. lividans was then subjected to more-detailed biochemical analysis. Temperature and pH optima of the recombinant enzyme were 53°C and 7.17, respectively. Substrate specificity tests revealed that the enzyme exerts only ß-D-mannosidase activity. Its kinetic parameters, determined on para-nitrophenyl ß-D-mannopyranoside (pNP-ßM) substrate were as follows: K_m = 180 µM and V_max = 5.96 µmol min^-1 mg^-1; the inhibition constant for mannose was K_i = 5.5 mM. Glucono-lacton had no effect on the enzyme activity. A moderate trans-glycosidase activity was also observed when the enzyme was incubated in the presence of pNP-M and pNP-ßM; under these conditions mannosyl groups were transferred by the enzyme from pNP-ßM to pNP-M resulting in the synthesis of small amounts (1 to 2%) of disaccharides.

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* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Agricultural Biotechnology and Microbiology, Szent István University, Páter K. u. 1., Gödöllõ H-2103, Hungary. Phone: 36 28 526100. Fax: 36 28 526165. E-mail: kukolya{at}abc.hu.

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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, April 2003, p. 1944-1952, Vol. 69, No. 4
0099-2240/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.4.1944-1952.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

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