Thermodynamic and kinetic characteristics of an a-amylase from Bacillus licheniformis SKB4

Authors

  • Saptadip Samanta
  • Arpan Das
  • Suman Kumar Haider
  • Arijit Jana
  • Sanjay Kar
  • Pradeep Kumar Das Mohapatra
  • Bikash Ranjan Pad
  • Keshab Chandra Mondal

Abstract

An amylolytic bacterial strain, Bacillus licheniformis SKB4 produced maximum amylase at pH 6.5 at 42 °C, and at late stationary phase (24 h) of growth. Starch and peptone were found the best supporting carbon and nitrogen source with C:N ratio of 1:2 for amylase production. The purified enzyme was non-responsive to most of the metal ions except K+ and Mg++ (1.0 mM). The enzyme was stable and active at pH 6.5. The enzyme showed optimum temperature at 90 °C with 10 min of half life (t½) at 100 °C. The Q10 of the enzyme was 1.0. The thermodynamic principles like activation energy, free energy for substrate binding and transition state of the enzyme were found 31.53, 5.53 and -17.4 KJ/Mol of starch, respectively. The kinetic constant like Vmax, Km, K catand catalytic efficiency (Kcat/Km)for starch were found to be 1.04 μmol mg-1 min-1, 6.2 mg ml-1,2 × 103 S-1 and 3.22 × 102 ml mg-1 S-1,respectively. All these findings suggested that this amylase has unique characteristics for starch hydrolysis in respect to thermostability and kinetic properties.

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Published

2014-01-01

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Samanta, S., Das, A., Haider, S. K., Jana, A., Kar, S., Mohapatra, P. K. D., Pad, B. R. and Mondal, K. C. (2014) “Thermodynamic and kinetic characteristics of an a-amylase from Bacillus licheniformis SKB4”, Acta Biologica Szegediensis, 58(2), pp. 147–156. Available at: https://abs.bibl.u-szeged.hu/index.php/abs/article/view/2831 (Accessed: 7 December 2024).

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