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Cellodextrin utilization and beta-glucosidase production by Bacteroides polypragmatus.

C R MacKenzie·G B Patel
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Bacteroides polypragmatus, a mesophilic obligate anaerobe, was shown to simultaneously ferment glucose and cellobiose giving ethanol as a major metabolic end-product. A mixture of higher cellodextrins was also utilized. The bacterium produced a beta-glucosidase with a pI value of 4.2 and a molecular weight of approximately 100,000 daltons. The enzyme was intracellular and functioned optimally at pH 7. The Km values obtained with p-nitrophenyl-beta-D-glucoside and cellobiose as substrates were 0.73 mM and 100 mM, respectively. The enzyme was quite stable at elevated temperatures; in the presence of 10% glycerol (v/v), it had a half-life of 4 h at 55 degrees C. It was also stable during long-term storage at either 4 degrees C or -20 degrees C, provided that 10% (v/v) glycerol was added to preparations maintained at -20 degrees C.

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C R MacKenzie, G B Patel. 1986. Cellodextrin utilization and beta-glucosidase production by Bacteroides polypragmatus.. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00413033

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