Yotsombat Akkharapimon, Hasegawa Tae, Mino Kohei, Takata Goro
The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Ehime University, 3-5-7 Tarumi, Matsuyama, Ehime, 790-8566, Japan.
Faculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University, 2393 Ikenobe, Miki-cho, Kita-gun, Kagawa, 761-0795, Japan.
Protein Expr Purif. 2019 Apr;156:58-65. doi: 10.1016/j.pep.2019.01.004. Epub 2019 Jan 7.
The novel isolated Rhizobium sp. S10 was identified as d-glucoside 3-dehydrogenase (G3DH) producing microbe. Therefore, the gene encoding for G3DH from Rhizobium sp. S10 was cloned and overexpressed in Escherichia coli strain JM109 as a soluble enzyme complex. The recombinant G3DH (rG3DH) was purified with relatively high specific activity of 38.54 U/mg compared to the previously characterized and cloned G3DHs. The purified rG3DH showed the highest activity at pH 7.0, 40 °C toward cellobiose. It can also oxidize a broad range of mono-disaccharides including saccharide derivatives. The glycosides oxidizing activity combined with chemical reaction, could produce d-gulose from lactitol via 3-ketolactitol.