Abstract
Chondroitinase ABC can be used to prepare chondroitin sulfate (CS) oligosaccharides efficiently and environmentally. It also promotes nerve recovery through enzymatic degradation of glycosaminoglycan chains in damaged nerve tissue. In this study, two new chondroitin sulfate ABC lyases were expressed and characterized from Edwardsiella tarda LMG2793, with molecular weight of 116.8 kDa and 115.9 kDa, respectively. Two lyases ChABC I and ChABC II belonged to the polysaccharide lyase (PL) family 8. ChABC I and ChABC II showed enzyme activity towards chondroitin sulfate A (CS-A), CS-B, CS-C and CS-D, but had no activity towards hyaluronan (HA). The optimal temperature for ChABC I to exhibit the highest activity against CS-A was 40 °C and the optimal pH was 7.0. ChABC II showed the highest activity to CS-A at optimal temperature of 40 °C and pH of 9.0. ChABC I and ChABC II were stable at 37 °C and remained about 90 % of activity after incubation at 37 °C for 3 h. Many metal ions had no effect on the activity of ChABC I and ChABC II. These properties were beneficial to their further basic research and application. ChABC I was an endo-type enzyme while ChABC II was an exo-type enzyme. A group of amino acids were selected for further study by evaluating the sequence homology with other CS degradation lyases. Mutagenesis studies speculated that the catalytic residues in ChABC I were His522, Tyr529 and Arg581. The catalytic residues of ChABC II were His498, Tyr505 and Arg558. This work will contribute to the structural and functional characterization of biomedically relevant CS and promote the application of CS lyase in further basic research and therapeutics.
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