TY - JOUR
T1 - Screening of bacteriophages producing endo-N-acetylneuraminidase
AU - Miyake, Katsuhide
AU - Muraki, Tsutomu
AU - Hattori, Kouji
AU - Machida, Yuichi
AU - Watanabe, Masaki
AU - Kawase, Mitsuo
AU - Yoshida, Yasuko
AU - Iijima, Shinji
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supportedb y a Grant-in-Aid (No. 07455327fr)o m the Ministry of Education, Science,S ports and Culture of Japan. We thank Michio Ohta for helpful discussionsa nd Manami Goto for preparationo f the manuscript.
PY - 1997
Y1 - 1997
N2 - Seven different bacteriophages were isolated from sewage with Escherichia coli K1 strains as host bacteria. These phages showed specific degrading activity for the host capsular polysaccharide, α2,8-linked polysialic acid. The bacteriophage-associated endo-N-acetylneuraminidases degraded only a homopolymer of α2,8-linked sialic acid and were not able to degrade other sialylated carbohydrates such as sialyl lactose. With respect to the minimum substrate size, each enzyme had its own specificity. Among the seven phages isolated, three enzymes exhibited novel endo-N-acetylneuraminidase activity in that they produced sialyl dimer as a main product and two of them degraded sialyl trimer or tetramer.
AB - Seven different bacteriophages were isolated from sewage with Escherichia coli K1 strains as host bacteria. These phages showed specific degrading activity for the host capsular polysaccharide, α2,8-linked polysialic acid. The bacteriophage-associated endo-N-acetylneuraminidases degraded only a homopolymer of α2,8-linked sialic acid and were not able to degrade other sialylated carbohydrates such as sialyl lactose. With respect to the minimum substrate size, each enzyme had its own specificity. Among the seven phages isolated, three enzymes exhibited novel endo-N-acetylneuraminidase activity in that they produced sialyl dimer as a main product and two of them degraded sialyl trimer or tetramer.
KW - Bacteriophage
KW - Colominic acid
KW - Endo-N- acetylneuraminidase
KW - Escherichia coli K1
KW - Sialic acid
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U2 - 10.1016/S0922-338X(97)82793-6
DO - 10.1016/S0922-338X(97)82793-6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0030823718
SN - 0922-338X
VL - 84
SP - 90
EP - 93
JO - Journal of Fermentation and Bioengineering
JF - Journal of Fermentation and Bioengineering
IS - 1
ER -