Affiliation:
1. Division of Biological Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R6, Canada
Abstract
Schizophyllum commune
produced an esterase which released ferulic acid from starch-free wheat bran and from a soluble ferulic acid-sugar ester that was isolated from wheat bran. The preferred growth substrate for the production of ferulic acid esterase was cellulose. Growth on xylan-containing substrates (oat spelt xylan and starch-free wheat bran) resulted in activity levels that were significantly lower than those observed in cultures grown on cellulose. Similar observations were made for endoglucanase,
p
-nitrophenyllactopyranosidase, xylanase, and acetyl xylan esterase. Of the enzymes studied, only arabinofuranosidase was produced at maximum levels during growth on xylan-containing materials. Ferulic acid esterase that had been partially purified by DEAE chromatography released significant amounts of ferulic acid from wheat bran only in the presence of a xylanase-rich fraction, indicating that the esterase may not be able to readily attack high-molecular-weight substrates. The esterase acted efficiently, without xylanase addition, on a soluble sugar-ferulic acid substrate.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Ecology,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology,Food Science,Biotechnology
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