Chondroitinase-Producing Bacteria in Natural Habitats
AUTOR(ES)
Kitamikado, Manabu
RESUMO
A search was undertaken for bacteria which degrade chondroitin sulfate in nature and to find bacteria with a usefully high rate of chondroitinase (ChSase) productivity. First, 253 ChSase-producing bacteria were obtained from aquatic and land environments in Japan by aerobic and anaerobic screening methods. Identification according to Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology or Bain and Shewan (1968) permitted assignment of the majority of the isolates to seven genera, Aeromonas, Vibrio, Flavobacterium, Beneckea, Proteus, Micrococcus, and Arthrobacter. Next, ChSase productivities of all the isolates were compared with those of two established ChSase-producing stock strains, Proteus vulgaris NCTC 4636 and Flavobacterium heparinum ATCC 13125. As a result, special attention was given to production by a strain of Aeromonas sp. of large quantities of extracellular ChSase-AC. None of the isolates from the current study displayed significant ChSase-ABC productivity. Finally, ChSase-AC was prepared from the culture fluid of the Aeromonas strain by fractional precipitation with ammonium sulfate, chromatography on phospho-cellulose and diethylaminoethyl-cellulose, and gel filtration on Sephadex G-200. It was concluded that the Aeromonas strain may represent a profitable source of the enzyme ChSase-AC.
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