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  • Title: A novel protein glutaminase from Bacteroides helcogenes-characterization and comparison.
    Author: Horstmann G, Ewert J, Stressler T, Fischer L.
    Journal: Appl Microbiol Biotechnol; 2020 Jan; 104(1):187-199. PubMed ID: 31773205.
    Abstract:
    Deamidation is a promising tool to improve solubility and other functional properties of food proteins. One possibility of protein deamidation is the use of a protein glutaminase (PG; EC 3.5.1.44), an enzyme that catalyzes the deamidation of internal glutamine residues in proteins to glutamic acid residues. The PG from Chryseobacterium proteolyticum is the only one described in literature to date and is commercially available (Amano Enzyme Inc., Japan; PGA). Based on a similarity search, we discovered a predicted, uncharacterized protein from Bacteroides helcogenes and this protein was verified as a PG. After recombinant production and purification, the novel PG (BH-PG) was biochemically characterized and compared with PGA. Some advantageous characteristics for potential application of BH-PG compared with PGA were the higher temperature stability (residual activity after 24 h of incubation at 50 °C was 87% for BH-PG and 2% for PGA), an optimum pH value at acidic conditions (pH 5.5) and less product inhibition by ammonia that is released during the deamidation of proteins (residual activity after adding 40 mM ammonia was 77% for BH-PG and 27% for PGA). Finally, the applicability of BH-PG and PGA was compared by gluten deamidation experiments. Consequently, the final solubility of the nearly insoluble food protein gluten was 94% after BH-PG treatment, whereas the solubility was around 66% when using PGA.
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