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Kanpiengjai, A; Lumyong, S; Nguyen, TH; Haltrich, D; Khanongnuch, C.
(2015): Characterization of a maltose-forming alpha-amylase from an amylolytic lactic acid bacterium Lactobacillus plantarum S21
J MOL CATAL B-ENZYM. 2015; 120: 1-8. FullText FullText_BOKU

Abstract:: A maltose-forming alpha-amylase was purified from the culture supernatant of Lactobacillus plantarum S21 cultivated on starch. The enzyme is a monomer with a molecular mass of 95 kDa, its activity is Ca2+-independent, and the optimum of amylase activity was found at pH 5.0 and 45 degrees C. A remarkable property of the enzyme is its stability over the broad pH range of 4.0-8.0 at 37 degrees C, where 80-95% of its activity was retained for 12 days and 70-75% was retained for 30 days. The main hydrolysis products from starch, amylose, amylopectin as well as glycogen were maltose (60%) and glucose (38%). The ORF of 2733 bp was confirmed to be an amylase-encoding gene by sequence comparison. The amylase gene encodes a protein of 910 amino acids including a signal peptide sequence. Both the nucleotide and amino acids sequence shared more than 96% identity with the alpha-amylases from L. plantarum A6, L. manihotivorans LMG18010 and L. amylovorus NRRL B-4540, yet the properties of the enzyme showed some distinct differences to these latter alpha-amylases and other lactobacillal alpha-amylases. (C) 2015 Published by Elsevier B.V.
Authors BOKU Wien:: Haltrich Dietmar; Nguyen Thu Ha
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