Abstract
β-amylase-rich preparation produced by the soil fungal strain Penicillium citrinum AS-9 was completely purified within the succeeding steps; ultrafiltration, acetone fractionation and gel filtration on Sephadex G-150 column. Acetone fractionation recovered the highest β-amylase activity and the 85% acetone fraction exhibited 3.5-fold activity that of the crude enzyme. The column affected 8.6-fold purification for β-amylase, which produced maltose as the major product of starch hydrolysis. The pure enzyme showed a Km value of 17.5 mM and Vmax of 17.5 Umg-1 protein, applying Woolf plot and exhibited its maximum velocity at pH 7.1 and 50°C. In absence of substrate, thermal treatments of the enzyme solution at pH 5.2 and 5.5 had the most adverse effects on the enzyme activity. CaCl2 (1mM) activated the enzyme, while each of Ca2+, Fe3+, cysteine, cystine, I2 and p-chloromercuribenzoate (PCMB) had different inhibitory effects. Maltose as the enzyme product at final concentration of 80 mM strongly inhibited the enzyme.
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