A crude enzyme preparation from Penicillium multicolor efficiently produced mainly gentiotriose to gentiopentaose (d.p. 3-5) by transglycosylation using a high concentration of gentiobiose as the substrate. The resulting gentiotriose was examined in a gustatory sensation test using human volunteers, and was determined to have one-fifth of the bitterness of gentiobiose. The crude enzyme preparation was analyzed by chromatography to determine the enzyme responsible for formation of the gentiooligosaccharides. The transglycosylation was shown to take place in two stages by a combination of beta-glucosidase and beta-(1 -> 6)-glucanase. In the initial stage, which was the rate-limiting step in the overall process, beta-glucosidase produced mainly gentiotriose from gentiobiose. In the second step, beta-(1 -> 6)-glucanase acted on the resulting gentiotriose, which served as both donor and acceptor, to produce a series of gentiooligosaccharides (d.p. 4-9) by transglycosylation. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Mode of action of a β-(1→6)-glucanase from Penicillium multicolor
beta-(1 -> 6)-Glucanase from the culture filtrate of Penicillium multicolor LAM7153 was purified by ammonium sulfate precipitation, followed by cation-exchange and affinity chromatography using gentiotetraose (Gen(4)) as ligand. The hydrolytic mode of action of the purified protein on beta-(1 -> 6)-glucan (pustulan) was elucidated in real time during the reaction by HPAEC-PAD analysis. Gentiooligosaccharides (DP 2-9, Gen(2-9)), methyl beta-gentiooligosides (DP 2-6, Gen(2-6) beta-OMe), and p-nitrophenyl beta-gentiooligosides (DP 2-6, Gen(2-6) beta-pNP) were used as substrates to provide analytical insight into how the cleavage of pustulan (DP 320) is actually achieved by the enzyme. The enzyme was shown to completely hydrolyze pustulan in three steps as follows. In the initial stage, the enzyme quickly cleaved the glucan with a pattern resembling an endo-hydrolase to produce a short-chain glucan (DP 45) as an intermediate. In the midterm stage, the resulting short-chain glucan was further cleaved into two fractions corresponding to DP 15-7 and DP 2-4 with great regularity. In the final stage, the lower oligomers corresponding to DP 3 and DP 4 were very slowly hydrolyzed into glucose and gentiobiose (Gen(2)). As a result, the hydrolytic cooperation of both an endo-type and saccharifying-type reaction by a single enzyme, which plays a bifunctional role, led to complete hydrolysis of the glucan. Thus, beta-(1 -> 6)-glucanase varies its mode of action depending on the chain length derived from the glucan. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
A facile and effective synthesis of α-(1→6)-linked mannose di-, tri-, tetra-, hexa-, octa-, and dodecasaccharides, and β-(1→6)-linked glucose di-, tri-, tetra-, hexa-, and octasaccharides using sugar trichloroacetimidates as the donors and unprotected or partially protected glycosides as the acceptors
作者:Yuliang Zhu、Fanzuo Kong
DOI:10.1016/s0008-6215(01)00070-2
日期:2001.5
coupling of 12 with the octasaccharide acceptor 20 . Similar strategies were used for the syntheses of β-(1→6)-linked glucose di-, tri-, tetra-, hexa-, and octamers. Deprotection of the oligosaccharides in ammonia-saturated methanol yielded the free α-(1→6)-linked mannosyl and β-(1→6)-linked glucosyl oligomers.