Chitin degradation proteins produced by the marine bacterium Vibrio harveyi growing on different forms of chitin

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 408-413

  Svitil, Amy L ^a   Ní Chadhain, Sinéad M ^a   Moore, Jessica A ^a   Kirchman, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; CHITIN; CHITINASE; DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RESTRICTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; VIBRIO HARVEYI;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CEPHALOPODA; CHIONOECETES OPILIO; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); UNCULTURED MARINE BACTERIUM; VIBRIO HARVEYI;

EID: 0030981929     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.2.408-413.1997     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Bassler, B. L., C. Yu, Y. C. Lee, and S. Roseman. 1991. Chitin utilization by marine bacteria: degradation and catabolism of chitin oligosaccharides by Vibrio furnissii. J. Biol. Chem. 266:24276-24286.
2. Fuchs, R. L., S. A. McPherson, and D. J. Drahos. 1986. Cloning of a Serratia marcescens gene encoding chitinase. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 51:504-509.
3. Gooday, G. W. 1990. The ecology of chitin degradation. Adv. Microb. Ecol. 11:387-430.
4. Harman, G. E., C. K. Hayes, M. Lorito, R. M. Broadway, A. Di Pietro, C. Peterbauer, and A. Tronsmo. 1993. Chitinolytic enzymes of Trichoderma harzianum: purification of chitobiosidase and endochitinase. Phytopathology 83:313-318.
5. Harpster, M. H., and P. Dunsmuir. 1989. Nucleotide sequence of the chitinase B gene of Serratia marcescens. Nucleic Acids Res. 17:5395.
6. Hummel, K. M., A. R. Penheiter, A. C. Gathman, and W. W. Lilly. 1996. Anomalous estimation of protease molecular weights using gelatin-containing SDS-PAGE. Anal. Biochem. 233:140-142.
7. Jannatipour, M., R. W. Soto-Gil, L. C. Childers, and J. W. Zyskind. 1987. Translocation of Vibrio harveyi N,N′-diacetylchitobiase to the outer membrane of Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 169:3785-3791.
8. Jones, J. D. G., K. L. Grady, T. V. Suslow, and J. R. Bedbrook. 1986. Isolation and characterization of genes encoding two chitinase enzymes from Serratia marcescens. EMBO J. 5:467-173.
9. Miyashita, K., T. Fujii, and Y. Sawada. 1991. Molecular cloning and characterization of chitinase genes from Streptomyces lividans 66. J. Gen. Microbiol. 137:2065-2072.
10. Molano, J., A. Durán, and E. Cabib. 1977. A rapid and sensitive assay for chitinase using tritiated chitin. Anal. Biochem. 83:648-656.
11. Montgomery, M. T., and D. L. Kirchman. 1993. Role of chitin-binding proteins in the specific attachment of the marine bacterium Vibrio harveyi to chitin. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 59:373-379.
12. Montgomery, M. T., and D. L. Kirchman, 1994. Induction of chitin-binding proteins during the specific attachment of the marine bacterium Vibrio harveyi to chitin. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 60:4284-4288.
13. Muzzarelli, R. A. A. 1977. Chitin, p. 155-181. Pergamon Press, Oxford, United Kingdom.
14. Radwin, H. H., H. J. Plattner, U. Menge, and H. Diekmann. 1994. The 92 kDa chitinase from Streptomyces olivaceoviridis contains a lysine-C endoproteinase at its N-terminus. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 120:31-36.
15. Roberts, R. L., and E. Cabib. 1982. Serratia marcescens chitinase: one-step purification and use for the determination of chitin. Anal. Biochem. 127: 402-412.
16. Roff, J. C., J. T. Kroetsch, and A. J. Clarke. 1994. A radiochemical method for secondary production in planktonic crustacea based on rate of chitin synthesis. J. Plankton Res. 16:961-976.
17. Romaguera, A., U. Menge, R. Breves, and H. Diekmann. 1992. Chitinases of Streptomyces olivaceoviridis and significance of processing for multiplicity. J. Bacteriol. 174:3450-3454.
18. Schnellmann, J., A. Zeltins, H. Blaak, and H. Schrempf. 1994. The novel lectin-like protein CHB1 is encoded by a chitin-inducible Streptomyces olivaceoviridis gene and binds specifically to crystalline α-chitin of fungi and other organisms. Mol. Microbiol. 13:807-819.
19. Sedgwick, S. C., T. M. Nguyen, J. M. Ellis, H. Crowne, and G. E. Morris. 1991. Rapid mapping by transposon mulagenesis of epitopes on the muscular dystrophy protein, dystrophin. Nucleic Acids Res. 19:5889-5894.
20. Shigemasa, Y., K. Saito, H. Sashiwa, and H. Saimoto. 1994. Enzymatic degradation of chitins and partially deacetylated chitins. Int. J. Biol. Macromol. 16:43-49.
21. Soto-Gil, R. W. 1988. Chitobiase and chitinase from Vibrio harveyi. Ph.D. dissertation. University of California, San Diego, and San Diego State University, San Diego, Calif.
22. Trudel, J., and A. Asselin. 1989. Detection of chitinase activity after polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Anal. Biochem. 178:362-366.
23. Tsujibo, H., H. Orikoshi, H. Tanno, K. Fujimoto, K. Miyamoto, L. Imada, Y. Okami, and Y. Inamori. 1993. Cloning, sequence, and expression of a chitinase gene from a marine bacterium. Alteromonas sp. strain O-7. J. Bacteriol. 175:176-181.
24. Watanabe, T., W. Oyanagi, K. Suzuki, and H. Tanaka. 1990. Chitinase system of Bacillus circulans WL-12 and importance of chitinase A1 in chitin degradation. J. Bacteriol. 172:4017-4022.