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. 1999;87(3):383-5.
doi: 10.1016/s1389-1723(99)80050-4.

Purification and gene cloning of a chitosanase from Bacillus ehimensis EAG1

K Akiyama  1 , T Fujita, K Kuroshima, T Sakane, A Yokota, R Takata
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Purification and gene cloning of a chitosanase from Bacillus ehimensis EAG1

K Akiyama et al. J Biosci Bioeng. 1999.

Abstract

Bacillus ehimensis EAG1 (IFO15659) produced and secreted chitosanase in the presence of exogenous chitosan. The chitosanase was purified from the culture filtrate of the bacterium to apparent homogeneity in SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The purified enzyme had a molecular weight of approximately 31,000. A 1.9-kbp DNA fragment containing the chitosanase gene was cloned and the complete nucleotide sequence was determined. The sequence was found to contain a single open reading frame encoding a protein of 302 amino acids. The deduced amino acid sequence showed significant homology with the chitosanase from Bacillus circulans MH-K1.

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