Purification and Partial Characterization of a Collagenolytic Enzyme Produced by Pseudomonas aeraginosa SCU Screened from Rotten Hides

Strain Pseudomonas Aeraginosa SCU isolated from rotten hides is shown to produce various gelatinolytic enzymes with molecular masses ranging from - 50 to - 200 kD. A gelatinolytic enzyme called PAC exhibiting collagenolytic activity is purified by SP sepharose fast flow, Sephadex G-200 gel filtration and native PAGE cutting method. The purified enzyme has an apparent molecular weight of about 110 kD by SDS PAGE without β-mercaptoethanol. Treatment withtβ-Me suggests that PAC is dissociated into three subunits approximately 33 kD, 25 kD and 20 kD with a ratio of 2:1:1, named sub A, sub B and sub C repectively. EDFA and EGTA display a significant inhibitory effect on the enzyme activity while PMSF, leupeptin and pepstain do not appreciably inhibit it. The first 15 amino acid residues of the major subunit (subA) are determined and the sequence is Ala-Glu-Ala-Gly-Gly-Pro-Gly-Gly-Asn-Gln-Lys-Ile-Gly -Lys-Tyr. This sequence is identical to that of elastase of P. aeruginosa. The fragment of encoding mature sub A is cloned and its sequence is determined, which has a high homology with the gene of elastase. These results indicate that PAC is a novel collagenolytic metalloprotease composed of three kinds of subunits, of which elastase is the major one.     

几种鹤性别的分子生物学鉴定

以RAAV01和RAAV02两条随机核苷酸加聚体为引物,通过随机扩增片段多态DNA的方法,在白头鹤,白枕鹤,丹顶鹤等3种4对不同个体中,发现一条约300bp的雌性个性特异带,并应用这一方法成功地鉴别了未知性别的丹顶鹤个体,同时参照已知动物CHD基因序列的设计合成CHD基因引物,采用PCR方法在丹顶鹤雌性个体中扩增出一条206bp的片段,序列分析表明,该序列与已知其他鸟类CHD－W,CHD－Z基因的编码区和内含子区都有较高的同源性。