Purification and use of Methanobacterium wolfei pseudomurein endopeptidase for lysis of Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum.
AUTOR(ES)
Kiener, A
RESUMO
The pseudomurein-degrading enzyme from autolysates of Methanobacterium wolfei was purified approximately 500-fold to electrophoretic homogeneity by ion-exchange chromatography under anaerobic conditions. Analysis of the soluble cell wall fragments produced by the pure enzyme from a cell wall preparation of M. thermoautotrophicum indicated that it is a peptidase hydrolyzing the epsilon-Ala-Lys bond of pseudomurein. A partially purified preparation of pseudomurein endopeptidase was free of nuclease activity and thus proved useful for the preparation in high yields of undegraded chromosomal and plasmid DNA from M. thermoautotrophicum. The partially purified enzyme was also used for the preparation of protoplasts, which were stabilized by 0.8 M sucrose. Under growth conditions the protoplasts produced methane and increased up to 100-fold in size, but failed to regenerate a cell wall.
ACESSO AO ARTIGO
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