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Microstructure of poly(γ-glutamic acid) produced by Bacillus subtilis consisting of clusters of D- and L-glutamic acid repeating units
Wang, Fei,Ishiguro, Masaji,Mutsukado, Mai,Fujita, Ken-Ichi,Tanaka, Toshio
experimental part, p. 4225 - 4228 (2010/03/31)
Poly(γ-glutamic acid) (PGA) produced by a strain of Bacillus subtilis was partially hydrolyzed into various oligopeptides so that the dipeptide fraction was isolated by the preparative thin-layer chromatography. HPLC analysis was applied to the detection of each of the four stereoisomers in this fraction using chemically synthesized authentic samples. The fraction consisted of N-γ-D-glutamyl-D-glutamic acid, N-γ-L-glutamyl-L-glutamic acid, N-γ-D-glutamyl-L-glutamic acid, and N-γ-L-glutamyl-D-glutamic acid at a ratio of 5.9:6.0:1.0:1.0. On the basis of this result, a model was proposed for the microstructure of the bacterial PGA, in which D- and L-glutamic acid repeating units are alternately linked in a single chain of the molecule.