Abstract
The extracellular xylanase from Bacillus stearothermophilus T-6 is a thermostable alkaline tolerant enzyme that was found to bleach pulp optimally at pH 9 and 65°C, and was successfully used in a large-scale biobleaching mill trial. In an attempt to obtain a heavy atom derivative suitable for complete X-ray analysis, xylanase T-6 was labeled biosynthetically with seleno-methionine, resulting in a ‘built-in’ array of atoms with specific X-ray anomalous scattering signal. Optimization of growth conditions resulted in over 0.8 g of homogenous seleno-methionine xylanase T-6 per liter culture. The seleno-methionine enzyme was shown to be fully active and produced single crystals suitable for complete multiple wavelength anomalous diffraction (MAD) structural analysis.
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