Abstract
A moderately halophilic bacterium, Bacillus sp., isolated from rotting wood on the seashore in Nauru, produced an extracellular nuclease when cultivated aerobically in media containing 1 to 2 M NaCl. The enzyme was purified from the culture filtrate to an electrophoretically homogeneous state by ethanol precipitation, DEAE-Sephadex A-50 column chromatography, and Sephadex G-200 gel filtration. The enzyme consisted of two charge isomers and showed both RNase and DNase activities. Molecular weight was estimated to be 138,000 by Sephadex G-200 gel filtration. The enzyme had marked halophilic properties, showing maximal activities in the presence of 1.4 to 3.2 M NaCl or 2.3 to 3.2 M KCl. The enzyme hydrolyzed thymidine-5′-monophosphate-p-nitrophenyl ester at a rate that increased with NaCl concentration up to 4.8 M. In the presence of both Mg2+ and Ca2+, activity was greatly enhanced. The activity was lost by dialysis against water and low-salt buffer, but it was protected when 10 mM Ca2+ was added to the dialysis buffer. When the inactivated enzyme was dialyzed against 3.5 M NaCl buffer as much as 68% of the initial activity could be restored. The enzyme exhibited maximal activity at pH 8.5 and at 50°C on DNA and at 60°C on RNA and attacked RNA and DNA exonucleolytically and successively, producing 5′-mononucleotides.
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