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. 1981 Nov 1;199(2):409–417. doi: 10.1042/bj1990409

The action on cellulose and its derivatives of a purified 1,4-beta-glucanase from Trichoderma koningii.

G Halliwell, R Vincent
PMCID: PMC1163384  PMID: 7200359

Abstract

The specific properties have been examined of the 1,4-beta-glucanase component of Trichoderma koningii that participates in an early and effective stage of random breakdown of native cellulose to short fibres. The enzyme was purified and freed from associated components of the cellulase complex (particularly beta-glucosidase) that interfere with, and complicate interpretation of, the action of such enzymes. Purification increased the specific activity 25-fold over culture filtrates; the enzyme hydrolysed CM-cellulose faster than the purified beta-glucosidase from the same organism hydrolysed any of its substrates (cellobiose or cellodextrins). The specificity of the glucanase was directed towards soluble derivatives of cellulose, CM-cellulose and cellodextrins, and not to insoluble cellulose or alpha-linked polymers. The approximate Km was 2.5 mg of CM-cellulose . ml-1 at 37 degrees C at the optimum pH, 5.5, where enzymic activity was maximal with 6--7 mg of CM-cellulose . ml-1 and inhibited by higher concentrations. The temperature optimum was 60 degrees C. The glucanase attacked larger cellodextrins (cellohexaose to cellotetraose, in that order) much more readily than smaller dextrins (cellobiose and cellotriose) and released a mixture of products, glucose up to cellopentaose, which was quantitatively determined after chromatography on charcoal. Similar examination of hydrolysates of the reduced cellodextrins showed clearly the high specificity of the enzyme for the central bond of its natural substrates (the cellodextrins), whatever their chain length, and indicated the nature of the enzyme as an endoglucanase. Outer bonds shared a weaker, but similar, susceptibility to enzymic cleavage. Transferase activity was absent and no larger dextrins than the initial substrate were formed.

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