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Abstract

The production and properties of an aminopeptidase from were studied. was grown in continuous culture over a range of dilution rates and the cell-bound and extracellular levels of aminopeptidase and trypsin-like protease (TLPase) measured. At high growth rates (0.6μ) TLPase specific activity was low and found exclusively as cell-bound activity; at low growth rates (0.0375 μ), specific activity was high and 26% was found as extracellular activity. In contrast, aminopeptidase specific activity was highest at 0.3 μ and the ratio of cell-bound to extracellular activity was relatively constant at all growth rates. Only about 5% of the total activity was extracellular. The aminopeptidase, which has a wide specificity towards artificial substrates, was purified to homogeneity, as judged by SDS-PAGE, from the supernatant fluid of cells grown in continuous culture in a tryptone/glucose/thiamine medium. The enzyme has a molecular mass of 61 kDa, a pI of 6.3, a pH optimum close to 7.5 and showed a requirement for magnesium or calcium ions. The N-terminal sequence of the first 10 amino acids (Asp-Val-Asn-Met-Leu-Trp-Tyr-Val-x-Arg…) showed no similarity to any published sequence. This enzyme in its cell-bound or extracellular form may be important in the nutrition and pathogenesis of in the human oral cavity.

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