A trehalose-producing bacterium, Arthrobacter sp. strain Q36, was isolated from soil. From a supernatant of the culture broth, two novel enzymes related to trehalose synthesis were partially purified by Sepabeads FP-DA column chromatography. One enzyme catalyzed the conversion of maltopentaose into maltotriosyl trehalose by intramolecular transglycosylation, showing it to be maltooligosyl trehalose synthase. The other hydrolyzed the product transferred by the former into maltotriose and trehalose specifically, showing it to be maltooligosyl trehalose trehalohydrolase. In addition to the bacterial strain isolated, several bacteria kept in our laboratory were found to produce these enzymes. The enzymatic system was proposed to be a novel biosynthesis of trehalose in bacteria involving the following reactions: maltodextrin→maltooligosyl trehalose, maltooligosyl trehalose→maltodextrin + trehalose. When these enzymes acted on amylose simultaneously, the trehalose in the reaction mixture reached more than 80% in content.
从土壤中分离出了一种产生曲哈糖的细菌--节杆菌 Q36 菌株。通过 Sepabeads FP-
DA 柱色谱法,从培养液的上清液中部分纯化出两种与三卤糖合成有关的新型酶。一种酶通过分子内转糖基化催化麦芽酮戊糖转化为
麦芽三糖,表明它是麦芽
寡糖三糖合成酶。另一种则将前者转移的产物特异性地
水解为
麦芽三糖和曲哈糖,表明它是麦芽
寡糖基曲哈糖曲哈
水解酶。除了分离出的细菌菌株外,我们还发现实验室中的几种细菌也能产生这些酶。该酶系统被认为是细菌中一种新型的三卤糖
生物合成方法,涉及以下反应:麦芽
糊精→麦芽
寡糖基三卤糖,麦芽
寡糖基三卤糖→麦芽
糊精+三卤糖。当这些酶同时作用于
直链淀粉时,反应混合物中的三卤糖含量达到 80% 以上。