FOOD SCIENCE

• Bioengineering • Previous Articles     Next Articles

Purification and Characterization of α-1,4-Amylase in Body Wall of Sea Cucumber

ZHANG Jie, ZHANG Yongqin*, LUO Caihua, LIU Zhengdong, CHENG Yuanfen, LU Feifei, ZHANG Tong   

  1. College of Chemical Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266042, China
  • Online:2015-03-15 Published:2015-03-17

Abstract:

α-1,4-Amylase was extracted and isolated from the body wall of sea cucumber by homogenization, salting out
with ammonium sulfate, dialysis, DEAE-52 anion exchange chromatography and Sephacryl S-300 gel chromatography
sequentially. The results showed that the purified enzyme had three subunit chains according to the SDS-PAGE, with
molecular weight of 420 kD; the optimum pH and temperature were 9.0 and 80 ℃; and the residual activity remained at least
38% after inactivation at 90 ℃ for 30 min. Therefore, this enzyme is a thermostable alkaline amylase. This amylase could be
strongly activated by K+, Fe3+ or Mn2+ and inhibited by Cu2+ or Ca2+.

Key words: sea cucumber, autolysis, amylase, isolation, purification, thermostability

CLC Number: