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Glucan synthesis in the genus : isolation and characterization of glucansucrase genes, enzymes and glucan products from six different strains Free

Abstract

Members of the genera and synthesize various -glucans (dextran, alternan and mutan). In , until now, the only glucosyltransferase (GTF) enzyme that has been characterized is of 121, the first GTF enzyme synthesizing a glucan (reuteran) that contains mainly -(1→4) linkages together with -(1→6) and -(1→4,6) linkages. Recently, partial sequences of glucansucrase genes were detected in other members of the genus . This paper reports, for the first time, isolation and characterization of dextransucrase and mutansucrase genes and enzymes from various species and the characterization of the glucan products synthesized, which mainly have -(1→6)- and -(1→3)-glucosidic linkages. The four GTF enzymes characterized from three different strains are highly similar at the amino acid level, and consequently their protein structures are very alike. Interestingly, these four GTFs have relatively large N-terminal variable regions, containing RDV repeats, and relatively short putative glucan-binding domains with conserved and less-conserved YG-repeating units. The three other GTF enzymes, isolated from , and , contain smaller variable regions and larger putative glucan-binding domains compared to the GTF enzymes.

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Keyword(s): GBD, glucan-binding domain , GTF, glucosyltransferase , HPSEC, high performance size exclusion chromatography and iPCR, inverse PCR
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Glucan synthesis in the genus Lactobacillus: isolation and characterization of glucansucrase genes, enzymes and glucan products from six different strains
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