13589-06-5Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Purification and characterization of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia-derived l-amino acid ester hydrolase for synthesizing dipeptide, isoleucyl-tryptophan
Hossain, Md Saddam,Tanaka, Takahiro,Takagi, Kazuyoshi,Hayashi, Junji,Wakayama, Mamoru
, (2018)
In the present study, we purified α-amino acid ester hydrolase (AEH) from cell-free extracts of the Stenotrophomonas maltophilia strain HS1. The approximately 70-kDa AEH from S. maltophilia HS1 (SmAEH) was homogeneous in sodium dodecyl sulphate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) analyses, and was present as a tetramer in gel-filtration experiments. The activity of the SmAEH enzyme was then determined by monitoring the synthesis of the antihypertensive agent dipeptide isoleucyl-tryptophan (Ile-Trp) from isoleucyl methyl ester (Ile-OMe) and tryptophan (Trp). In these experiments, SmAEH had wide substrate specificity for acyl donors, such as Gly-OMe, β-Ala-OMe, Pro-OMe and Trp-OMe and Ile-OMe, and maximal activity were observed under conditions of pH 9.0 and 30?°C. SmAEH also showed the greatest stability at pH 9.0, whereas its activity was reduced by 40% after 10-min incubation at approximately 50?°C. In subsequent activity assays in the presence of various metal ions, Ag+ strongly inhibited enzyme activity. Finally, SmAEH activity was completely inhibited by phenylmethanesulfonyl fluoride (PMSF), suggesting that the protein is a serine protease.
Identification of novel L-amino acid α-ligases through hidden markov model-based profile analysis
Senoo, Akihiro,Tabata, Kazuhiko,Yonetani, Yoshiyuki,Yagasaki, Makoto
body text, p. 415 - 418 (2010/09/30)
L-Amino acid α-ligase (Lal), catalyzing the formation of α-dipeptides from unprotected l-amino acids in an ATP-dependent manner, is used in cost-effective fermentative production of dipeptides. We searched for novel Lals by in silico screening using Hidden Markov Model-based profile analysis, and identified five novel Lals that showed low similarity and different substrate specificity from known Lals.
