Abstract
Enzymatic depolymerization of seaweed polysaccharides is gaining interest for the production of functional oligosaccharides and fermentable sugars. We describe a thermostable alginate lyase belonging to Polysaccharide Lyase family 7 (PL7), which can be used to degrade brown seaweed, Saccharina latissima, at conditions also suitable for a commercial cellulase cocktail (Cellic CTec2). This enzyme, AMOR-PL7A, is a β-d-mannuronate specific (EC 4.2.2.3) endoacting alginate lyase, which degrades alginate and poly mannuronate within a broad range of pH, temperature and salinity. At 65 °C and pH 6.0, its Km and k cat values for sodium alginate are 0.51 ± 0.09 mg/mL and 7.8 ± 0.3 s -1 respectively. Degradation of seaweed with blends of Cellic CTec2 and AMOR-PL7A at 55 °C in seawater showed that the lyase efficiently reduces viscosity and increases glucose solublization. Thus, AMOR-PL7A may be useful in development of efficient protocols for enzymatic seaweed processing.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 2936-2945 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry |
Volume | 67 |
Issue number | 10 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 13 Mar 2019 |
MoE publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |
Funding
This research was supported by the Research Council of Norway through grants 229003 (BIOFEEDNovel salmon feed by integrated bioprocessing of nonfood biomass), 237841 (Foods of Norway), and 221568 (NorZymeD). Infrastructure was supported in part by NorBioLab grants 226247 and 270038 provided by the Research Council of Norway. The authors would like to thank Marianne Slang-Jensen for advice in the studies of protein stability.
Keywords
- alginate lyase
- biorefining
- brown seaweed
- PolyM
- Saccharina latissima
- salt tolerance
- Metagenomics
- Temperature
- Biocatalysis
- Bacteria/classification
- Hydrothermal Vents/chemistry
- Enzyme Stability
- Polysaccharide-Lyases/chemistry
- Seaweed/chemistry
- Substrate Specificity
- Phaeophyceae/chemistry
- Phylogeny
- Polysaccharides/chemistry
- Arctic Regions
- Bacterial Proteins/chemistry
- Kinetics
- Hydrogen-Ion Concentration