Purification and Properties of an Extracellular Protease Produced by the Entomopathogenic Fungus Beauveria bassiana
AUTOR(ES)
Bidochka, Michael J.
RESUMO
Beauveria bassiana GK2016 grown in a medium with gelatin as the sole carbon and nitrogen source produced an extracellular protease. The protease production was highest when the fungus was grown on a semiliquid medium and was purified about 18-fold, with a recovery of 21%. The protease molecular weight was estimated by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis to be about 35,000. It had an optimum activity at pH 8.5 and 37°C and was rapidly inactivated at 50°C. Its enzymatic activity was that of an endopeptidase which hydrolyzed elastin, casein, and gelatin but was much less active on bovine serum albumin and collagen. No trypsinlike activity was detected on N-α-benzoyl-dl-arginine-p-nitroanilide. It was, however, inhibited by phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride, indicating that a serine residue is present in the active site. The protease was unaffected by metal-chelating agents, sulfhydryl reagents, trypsin inhibitor, and chymotrypsin inhibitor.
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