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Published on: October 23, 2016
Stabilization of free and immobilized enzymes using hyperthermophilic chaperonin
Jiro Kohda1, Hirofumi Kawanishi, Ken-Ichiro Suehara
1Department of Information Machines and Interfaces, Faculty of Information Science, Hiroshima City University, 3-4-1 Ozuka-higashi, Hiroshima 731-3194, Japan. kohda@bio.im.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp
Abstract:
Chaperonins suppress the denaturation of proteins and promote protein folding in vivo. Because hyperthermophilic chaperonins are expected to be used as a stabilizer for proteins, the effects of a group II chaperonin from a hyperthermophilic archaeum, Thermococcus strain KS-1 (T. KS-1 cpn), on the stabilization of mesophilic and thermophilic free enzymes and an enzyme co-immobilized with T. KS-1 cpn were studied. T. KS-1 cpn prevented the thermal inactivation of yeast alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH), jack bean urease, and Thermus flavus malate dehydrogenase (MDH) at high temperatures. T. KS-1 cpn also improved the long-term stability of ADH at lower temperatures. Moreover, the residual ADH activity of ADH co-entrapped with T. KS-1 cpn was improved and maintained at a higher level than that of the entrapped ADH without chaperonin. T. KS-1 cpn is useful for the stabilization of free and immobilized enzymes and applicable to various fields of biotechnology.
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