[Extracellular beta-D-glucosidase of the Penicillium canescens marine fungus].

Extracellular beta-D-glucosidase was isolated in a homogeneous state from the Penicillium canescens marine fungus. According to SDS-electrophoresis, the molecular weight of the enzyme was 64 kDa and the maximal activity was observed at pH 5.2 and 70 degrees C.

[Distribution of O-glycosylases in marine fungi of the Sea of Japan and the Sea of Okhotsk: characterization of exocellular N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase of the marine fungus Penicillium canescens].

The capacity to produce exocellular enmzymes was studied for 92 samples of fungi from various marine habitats in the Sea of Okhotsk (78 strains) and the Sea of Japan (14 strains). Strains producing highly active glycanases and glycosidases were found. Synthesis of O-glycosylhydrolases was stimulated by addition of laminaran to the nutrient medium.

Chaperone Skp from Yersinia pseudotuberculosis exhibits immunoglobulin G binding ability.

A low-molecular-weight cationic protein that can bind human and rabbit immunoglobulins G has been isolated from Yersinia pseudotuberculosis cells. This immunoglobulin binding protein (IBP) interacts with IgG Fc-fragment, the association constant of the resulting complex being 3.1 microM(-1).

[Polysaccharide and lipid composition of the brown seaweed Laminaria gurjanovae].

Polysaccharide and lipid composition of the Pacific brown seaweed Laminaria gurjanovae is determined. Alginic acid is shown to be the main polysaccharide of its biomass (about 28%); it consists of mannuronic and guluronic acid residues at a ratio of 3 : 1. The yield of water-soluble polymannuronic acid is low and does not exceed 1.

Purification, cDNA cloning and homology modeling of endo-1,3-beta-D-glucanase from scallop Mizuhopecten yessoensis.

The retaining endo-1,3-beta-D-glucanase (LV) with molecular mass of 36 kDa was purified to homogeneity from the crystalline styles of scallop Mizuhopecten yessoensis. The purified enzyme catalyzed hydrolysis of laminaran as endo-enzyme forming glucose, laminaribiose and higher oligosaccharides as products (Km approximately 600 microg/mL). The 1,3-beta-D-glucanase effectively catalyzed transglycosylation reaction that is typical of endo-enzymes too.