Abstract
The extracellular protease of Euglena gracilis z was purified to a single protein. It was an endopeptidase as found by the Nunokawa's method, and showed optimum pH for the proteinase, esterase and amidase activities at 7.3, 7.0 and 6.3, respectively. It had a molecular weight of 41, 000 and isoelectric point of 8.3. The bleached mutant of E. gracilis produced higher activity of extracellular protease than the wild strain, and supplementation of peptone to the growth medium augmented the enzyme production in both green and bleached cells. The Euglena extracellular protease was markedly inhibited by diisopropylfluorophosphate and Streptomyces subtilicin inhibitor, and to lesser extents by EDTA and p-chloromercuribenzoate. The enzyme was potentiated by some sulfhydryl compounds, activated greatly by Fe2+ and stabilized by Ca2+ and K+.
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