By applying different classical and fast protein liquid chromatographic techniques, three xylanases (beta-1,4-d-xylan xylanhydrolase) were purified to homogeneity from the extracellular enzymatic complex of Bacillus polymyxa. The three enzymes (X(34)C, X(34)E, and X(22)) were small proteins of 34, 34, and 22 kDa and basic pIs 9.3, >9.3, and 9.0, respectively. X(34)C and X(34)E are closely relat...

Fe(VI) is an unusual and strongly oxidizing form of iron, which provides a potentially less hazardous water-purifying agent than chlorine. A novel on-line electrochemical Fe(VI) water purification methodology is introduced. Fe(VI) addition had been a barrier to its effective use in water remediation, because solid Fe(VI) salts require complex (costly) syntheses steps and solutions of Fe(VI) dec...

A crude preparation of alkaline phosphatase (EC 3.1.3.1) from calf intestinal mucosa was purified by affinity chromatography on Sepharose-bound derivatives of arsanilic acid, which was found to be a competitive inhibitor of the enzyme. Three biospecific adsorbents were prepared for the chromatography, and the best results were obtained with a tyraminyl-Sepharose derivative coupled with the diaz...

Despite the apparent link between the presence of alkaline phosphatase (ALP) and various cancers, it has so far been difficult to determine distinct differences between seminoma-derived ALP and placental ALP (PLAP). In order to determine specificity, we purified ALP from a seminoma type of human testicular cancer tissue and compared its biochemical and immunological properties with those of PLA...

Neutral and alkaline invertase were identified in cells of a suspension culture of carrot (Daucus carota L.) and purified to electrophoretic homogeneity. Neutral invertase is an octamer with a molecular mass of 456 kD and subunits of 57 kD, whereas alkaline invertase is a tetramer with a molecular mass of 504 kD and subunits of 126 kD. Both enzymes had sharp pH profiles, with maximal activities...

An alkaline xylanase secreted by Paenibacillus macquariensis RC 1819 has been purified using ammonium sulfate fractionation, ion exchange chromatography using DEAE-cellulose and gel filtration chromatography over Sephadex G-200 and Sephadex G-100. The purified enzyme had the specific activity, 25.2 units/mg protein with birchwood xylan as a substrate. The purified enzyme showed a single protein...

Activity was determined by the rate of hydrolysis of 13-glycerophosphate on p-nitrophenyl phosphate (8). The determination with sodium 13-glycerophosphate was carried out as follows. The reaction mixture consisted of 0.05 M Tnis-HC1 (pH 10), 0.023 M sodium 13-glycerophosphate, 0.004 M MgCl2, and enzyme in a final volume of 2 ml. After incubation at 37° for 30 mm, 2 ml of 10% tnicbloroacetic ac...

A gene (tap) encoding a thermostable alkaline phosphatase from the thermophilic bacterium Thermus thermophilus XM was cloned and sequenced. It is 1506 bp long and encodes a protein of 501 amino acid residues with a calculated molecular mass of 54.7 kDa. Comparison of the deduced amino acid sequence with other alkaline phosphatases showed that the regions in the vicinity of the phosphorylation s...

Polysaccharide is widely distributed in natural resources, and currently attracts scientists' attention for their various bio-functions including immunomodulatory activity, hypoglycemic hypolipidemic antitumor promoting effects on gastrointestinal function, so on. The purity structure characteristics of different polysaccharides greatly restrict the in-depth study bioactivity mechanism. Therefo...

In 1957, we reported (1) the purification of alkaline phosphatase of swine kidney to a specific activity of about 150,000 units on a basis of total nitrogen content; the units were those as defined by Roche and Bouchilloux (2). At that time, this was the highest activity reported for any alkaline phosphatase, but one or two other workers have since appeared to achieve a similar order of activit...