Effects of nitrogen ion irradiation on endoglucanase activity and gene mutation of Bacillus subtilis Bac01

Jie Lü, Peihong Mao, Xiang Jin, Long Yu, Hanjie Ying

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Abstract

Bacillus subtilis Bac01 was mutated by 15 keV N+ ions of 1.5×1016 cm-2. The mutant strain Bac11 with high yield of endoglucanase was isolated using carboxymethylcellulose sodium and congo red indicative plates. It exhibited higher endoglucanase activitiy (381.89IU) than the original strain Bac01 (93.33IU). Two 1,500 bp endoglucanase gene fragments were obtained with PCR amplification from B. subtilis Bac01 and mutant strain Bac11. BLAST comparison result indicated that 10 nucleotides mutated. Bioinformatics methods were used to analyze the two predicted amino acid sequences, and it was found that 5 amino acid residues changed, being all in the cellulose-binding domain of endoglucanase.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)271-276
Number of pages6
JournalNuclear Science and Techniques/Hewuli
Volume20
Issue number5
StatePublished - 20 Oct 2009

Keywords

  • Activity
  • Bacillus subtilis
  • Endo-1,4-β-D-glucanase
  • Gene mutation
  • Ion irradiation

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