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Cellodextrin utilization and β-glucosidase production by Bacteroides polypragmatus

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DOIResolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00413033
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  1. National Research Council of Canada
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Abstract
Bacteroides polypragmatus, a mesophilic obligate anaerobe, was shown to simultaneously ferment glucose and cellobiose giving ethanol as a major metabolic end-product. A mixture of higher cellodextrins was also utilized. The bacterium produced a β-glucosidase with a pI value of 4.2 and a molecular weight of approximately 100000 daltons. The enzyme was intracellular and functioned optimally at pH 7. The K m values obtained with p-nitrophenyl-β-d-glucoside and cellobiose as substrates were 0.73 mM and 100 mM, respectively. The enzyme was quite stable at elevated temperatures; in the presence of 10% glycerol (v/v), it had a half-life of 4 h at 55°C. It was also stable during long-term storage at either 4°C or-20°C, provided that 10% (v/v) glycerol was added to preparations maintained at-20°C.
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  • Archives of Microbiology 145 (1986): 91–96.
LanguageEnglish
NRC numberMACKENZIE1986
NRCC 25676
NPARC number9387828
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