147 results about "Beta-glucosidase" patented technology

The present invention provides transgenic plants expressing one or more cell wall degrading enzymes that can degrade lignocellulose to fermentable sugars. These fermentable sugars can further be fermented to ethanol or other products. The enzymes are directed to the plastids or the apoplasts or the transgenic plant for storage. When the transgenic plants are harvested, the plants are ground to release the enzymes which then are used to degrade the lignocellulose of plant material to produce the fermentable sugars. The transgenic plants express the flowering locus c gene so that flowering is delayed and the plant biomass is increased.

The invention discloses an aspergillusniger strain for producing beta-glucuroide. Aspergillusniger T2 is preserved in the China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center (CGMCC) on 26th September, 2008 with the preservation number of CGMCC No.2715. The aspergillusniger T2 strain is the aspergillusniger strain which is obtained by performing mutagenesis with ultraviolet rays and nitrous acid and screening by using a Congo red-carboxymethylcellulose (CMC) double-layer flat plate, has high enzymatic activity and is used for producing the beta-glucuroide. The aspergillusniger T2 strain is applied to the production of the beta-glucuroide. The beta-glucuroide produced by performing liquid state fermentation on corn cob, yeast powder and the like serving as raw materials and the aspergillusniger T2 strain serving as the strain has the characteristics of enzymatic activity, simple production method and the like.

The invention discloses a carrier for immobilization as well as a preparation method thereof and immobilized beta-glucosaccharase. The carrier for the immobilization comprises magnetic nano particles, a carboxyl-rich composite material and transitional metal ions, wherein the carboxyl-rich composite material wraps the surface of the magnetic nano particles to form a carboxyl-rich shell, carboxyl on the surface is complexed with the transitional metal ions, and the transitional metal ions are combined with to-be-immobilized enzyme through a metal ion coordination bond. The preparation method comprises the following steps of (1) preparing the magnetic nano particles; (2) carrying out hydroxyl functional modification for the particles; (3) carrying out epoxy functional modification for the particles; (4) carrying out carboxyl functional modification for the particles; (5) complexing the particles with the transitional metal ions. The functional carrier is combined with beta-glucosaccharase through the metal coordination bond to obtain immobilized beta-glucosaccharase. The biological enzyme is firm in combination, high in enzyme activity, strong in operation stability and suitable for the mass production.

The invention relates to a preparation method for magnetic nanoparticle fixed Beta-glucosaccharase, which comprises the steps that (1) precipitation reaction occurs between chloride solution of Fe<2+> and Fe<3+> and NaOH solution to prepare Fe3O4 particles; (2) chitosan is dissolved in acetum to form homogeneous transparent colloidal solution, and Fe3O4 particles are mixed with the homogeneous transparent colloidal solution, and the mixture is beaten, thus getting magnetic nanoparticles; (3) the magnetic nanoparticles are added to Beta-glucosaccharase solution, thus getting chitosan magnetic nanoparticle immobilized enzyme through absorption and cross linkage of glutaric dialdehyde solution; (4) citric acid buffer solution is added to immobilized Beta-glucosaccharase and free Beta-glucosaccharase solution, respectively, and reaction occurs after the temperature is adjusted; and the enzyme activity is examined. The method is quick, simple, convenient and is low in cost. The product got has the characteristics of uniform shape, large specific area, high coefficient of recovery of enzyme activity and so on.

The invention relates to a method for performing steam explosion of wood fiber raw materials, directional enzymatic dissociation and alcoholic fermentation. The method is characterized in that steam explosion, directional enzymolysis of xylan, solid-liquid separation, extensive enzymolysis of cellulose, anaerobic alcoholic fermentation of xylose and anaerobic alcoholic fermentation of glucose areadopted. The new secondary enzymolysis technology is adopted and beta-glucosidase and little cellulose are introduced in xylanase so as to obviously improve the xylan directional enzymolysis and separation effect of raw materials. Therefore, the invention provides a new method for the effective separation of xylose and glucose in the wood fiber raw materials and the efficient alcoholic fermentation and significantly reduces the production cost for the fermentation of the ethanol in wood fiber raw materials.

Disclosed herein are methods for diagnosing or treating pregnancy related hypertensive disorders that include the use of a polypeptide or a nucleic acid encoding a polypeptide selected from the following: follistatin related protein, interleukin 8, inhibin A, VEGF-C, angiogenin, beta fertilin, hypothetical protein, leukocyte associated Ig-like receptor secreted protein, erythroid differentiation protein, adipogenesis inhibitory factor, corticotropin releasing factor binding protein, alpha-1 anti-chymotrypsin, insulin-like growth factor binding protein-5, CD33L, cytokine receptor like factor 1, platelet derived endothelial growth factor, lysyl hydroxylase isoform 2, stanniocalcin precursor, secreted frizzled related protein, galectin-3, alpha defensin, ADAM-TS3, cholecystokinin precursor, interferon stimulated T-cell alpha chemoattractant precursor, azurocidin, sperminine oxidase, UDP glycosyltransferase 2 family polypeptide B28, neurotrophic tyrosine kinase receptor 2, neutral endopeptidase, CDC28 protein kinase regulatory subunit 2, beta glucosidase, lanosterol synthase, calcium/calmodulin-dependent serine protein kinase, estrogen receptor-alternatively spliced transcript H, chemokine (CX3C motif) receptor 1, tyrosinase-related protein 1, hydoxy-delta-5-steroid dehyrogenase, dihydropyramidinase-like-4, and cytochrome P450-family 11.

The invention provides a synchronous saccharification and ethanol fermentation method with lignocelluloses treated by a steam explosion method as raw material. The method comprises the following steps of taking the lignocelluloses treated by the steam explosion method as raw material and directly as a substrate without detoxification, adding mixed enzyme comprising cellulase and beta-glucosaccharase, simultaneously inoculating (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) Y5 with CGMCC (China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center) NO. 2660, adding a nitrogen source, and carrying out ethanol fermentation production. According to the method, the step of detoxification by washing the lignocelluloses (such as maize straw) pre-treated by steam explosion is omitted, and the final fermented product of ethanol of high concentration is obtained. For example, the concentration for steam explosion of the maize straw is 30%, synchronous saccharification and fermentation time is 96 hours, and the ethanol concentration of a reactor of 100ml, a reactor of 3000ml and a fermentation tank of 5L respectively reaches 50g/L, 47.8g/L and 47.5g/L. The production technology is greatly simplified, the equipment investment is lowered, water consumption is reduced, and the production cost is lowered.

It is an object of the present invention to obtain fenugreek seeds having reduced bitter taste without causing significant changes in non-bitter components contained in fenugreek seeds.

The present invention relates to a method for producing fenugreek seeds having reduced bitter taste, comprising allowing β-glucosidase to act on an eluate in which the components of fenugreek seeds have been eluted and then allowing the fenugreek seeds to absorb the eluate and β-glucosidase, and a food containing such fenugreek seeds.

The invention discloses a recombinant vector and recombinant bacterium of Trichoderma reesei beta-glucosaccharase gene BGL1, and expression of the Trichoderma reesei beta-glucosaccharase gene BGL1 in the recombinant bacterium. The recombinant vector containing the Trichoderma reesei beta-glucosaccharase gene BGL1 is constructed by the following steps: (1) carrying out PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) amplification on the Trichoderma reesei beta-glucosaccharase gene BGL1, and connecting to a TA vector; and (2) constructing the Trichoderma reesei beta-glucosaccharase gene to a pichia pastoris expression vector. The recombinant bacterium disclosed by the invention can effectively express the target protein Trichoderma reesei beta-glucosaccharase BGL1. The invention overcomes the defect that a great deal of beta-glucosaccharase can not be purified from Trichoderma reesei in the prior art. Lots of waste lignocellulose exists in the natural world. The method provided by the invention can increase the yield of beta-glucosaccharase, and has very important meanings in enhancing degradation efficiency of cellulose, efficiently producing energy from waste cellulose and solving the problem of energy crisis at present.

The invention relates to a novel beta glucosidase/xylosidase difunctional cellulose degradation enzyme RuGBGX2 as well as a coding gene and application thereof. The coding sequence of amino acid of the RuGBGX2 contains 18-755th sites of an SEQ ID NO 2 sequence. The RuGBGX2 is sourced from the rumen microorganism of yak from China, a novel coding gene of the beta glucosidase/xylosidase difunctional cellulose degradation enzyme RuGBGX2 is obtained by function screening and sequencing analysis on a rumen metagenome cosmid library and a subclone library. The beta glucosidase/xylosidase difunctional cellulose degradation enzyme provided by the invention can be widely applied to the degradation of cellulose and the fields such as cellulose biotransformation, chemical industry, spinning, foods, bioenergy, feed additives, medical industry and the like. By utilizing the difunctional enzyme RuGBGX2 to degrade wood fiber, the varieties of added enzymes can be reduced, and an enzymolysis process can be simplified.

The invention relates to a method for preparing gardenia blue pigment by utilizing immobilized yeast cells. The method comprises the following steps of: a) inoculating a yeast strain for producing beta-glucuroide to a culture medium, fermenting to obtain a bacterial liquid, centrifuging the bacterial liquid, embedding a substratum bacterial liquid by using a sodium alginate solution to form a sodium alginate-saccharomycete suspension, and dripping the sodium alginate-saccharomycete suspension into a calcium chloride solution dropwise to form the immobilized yeast cells; b) stirring and mixing a geniposide solution, an amino acid solution and the immobilized yeast cells to obtain a gardenia blue solution; and c) adding the gardenia blue solution into a column which consists of macroporous alkalescent styrene anion exchange resin, eluting by using an ethanol solution, collecting eluent, concentrating the eluent, and spray-drying a concentrated solution to obtain gardenia blue powder. According to the method, a saccharomycete fermentation liquid is immobilized directly without treatment, so that the problems of difficulty in separation of yeast and products, high possibility of loss and the like by the conventional method for performing fermentation by free yeast are solved, and the purity of the gardenia blue is improved.

The invention belongs to the field of biotechnology, and particularly relates to a beta-glucosaccharase which can decompose lactose and has high activity under both high-temperature and low-temperature conditions, and a gene engineering bacterium capable of efficiently expressing secretion-type beta-glucosaccharase. The invention discloses a beta-glucosaccharase having an amino acid sequence disclosed as SEQ ID NO:2, and constructs a gene engineering bacterium capable of efficiently secreting the beta-glucosaccharase. The gene engineering bacterium is collected in Common Microorganism Center of Committee for Culture Collection of Microorganisms, and the collection number is CGMCC No.4891. The beta-glucosaccharase produced by the method disclosed by the invention has high activity of galactosidase, and can be applied to dairy industry; and meanwhile, the beta-glucosaccharase has stable activity within wide pH value range and temperature range.

The invention relates to a beta-glucosidase and an application thereof, wherein the beta-glucosidase comprises: a, enzyme with the sequence of SEQ ID NO:1; and b, enzyme which is derived from the enzyme in step a through substituting, deleting or adding one or a plurality of amino acids and has the activity of the enzyme in the step a. The selected beta-glucosidase provided by the invention has the deoxyglucose and hygromycin resistance and transglycosylation, under the transglycosylation, cellobiose and other oligosaccharides can generate sophorose and other inductors, and enter cells through a constitution permease system on a cell membrane, and the synthesis of cellulose in the cells is initiated. Consequently, the beta-glucosidase can be used for the production of catalytically synthesizing the sophorose to induce the cellulose, and thereby having a greater commercial value.

The invention provides a gene of coded beta-glucosaccharase, which is called Unbgl1B and is obtained by constructing Metagenome DNA library of uncultured microorganisms of alkality contaminated soil and by the detecting and screening method of the activity of the beta-glucosaccharase of clone library, so as to be one of the following nucleotide sequences: 1) DNA sequences and partial sequence thereof in sequence 1 of a sequence table; 2) DNA sequences having more than 80% of homoeology compared with the DNA sequences defined by the sequence 1 of the sequence table. The DNA in the sequence 1 of a sequence table is DNA sequences of a pGEM-3Zf(+) part of a cloning vector and DNA of exogenetic uncultured microorganisms cloned on the vector, and the exogenetic DNA segment consists of 838 basic groups; the GC content of the gene is 54.3%. The gene is used for producing the beta-glucosaccharase, so as to dissociate cellobiose into single glucose molecule.

The invention discloses a novel glucose-resistant beta-glucosidase gene and an application thereof. The novel glucose-resistant beta-glucosidase gene has a nucleotide sequence shown in SEQ ID NO.1, and has an amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO.2. The invention also discloses a preparation method of the novel glucose-resistant beta-glucosidase gene and a recombinant plasmid pET32a-Bgl2238 containing the novel glucose-resistant beta-glucosidase gene; the invention further discloses a recombinant beta-glucosidase and a preparation method thereof; the recombinant beta-glucosidase gene is over-expressed in an escherichia coli prokaryotic expression system, the recombinant beta-glucosidase is subjected to high-efficiency solution expression in an escherichia coli expression system. The invention also discloses an application of the recombinant beta-glucosidase in hydrolysis of polydatin in polygonum cuspidatum; the recombinant beta-glucosidase obtained by the method is indicated to haverelatively high catalytic activity and glucose tolerance activity and have great industrialized production and application prospects.

The invention discloses a beta-glucosaccharase gene, wherein the nucleotide sequence of the beta-glucosaccharase gene is shown as the SEQ ID NO.1. The invention further discloses recombinant beta-glucosaccharase, wherein the amino acid sequence of the recombinant beta-glucosaccharase is shown as the SEQ ID NO.2. The invention also discloses a screening method of the recombinant beta-glucosaccharase. The screening method comprises the following steps: extraction of microbial metagenomic DNA from the mildewed sugarcane leaves; establishment of a metagenomic library; screening of the beta-glucosaccharase gene from the metagenomic library, wherein the nucleotide sequence of the beta-glucosaccharase gene is shown as the SEQ ID NO.1; and cloning and expression for the obtained beta-glucosaccharase gene, thus the recombinant beta-glucosaccharase is obtained, wherein the amino acid sequence of the recombinant beta-glucosaccharase is shown as the SEQ ID NO.2. The recombinant beta-glucosaccharase has extremely high activity and is not sensitive to hydrolysis products under the alkaline condition.

The invention discloses a beta-glucosaccharase and application thereof. The beta-glucosaccharase PpCel3E is separated from a cellulase producing bacterium extracellular crude enzyme solution for the first time. The amino acid sequence of the beta-glucosaccharase is disclosed as SEQ ID NO.1. The nucleotide sequence of the expression gene of the beta-glucosaccharase is disclosed as SEQ ID NO.2. The beta-glucosaccharase PpCel3E has unique actions on inducing cellulase or hemicellulase synthesis and enhancing saccharification and hydrolysis efficiency of cellulase producing fungus extracellular cellulase.

The invention discloses a preparation method of beta-glucosaccharase. The method includes the following steps: selecting Aspergillus niger as parent strain through screening, inoculating the Aspergillus niger, the inoculum size of which is 106-108cfu/g, to bran, rice bran and ammonia chloride, wherein in a solid culture medium prepared from the bran, the rice bran and the ammonia chloride according to the weight percentage of 90-100 percent: 0-10 percent:1-3 percent, the initial water content of the culture medium is 65-75 percent, and the pH is 5.5-6.5, culturing for 48-80h at the temperature of 25-30 DEG C and detecting the activity of beta-glucosaccharase to reach 300-430U/g. The method adopts solid fermentation, uses cheap and rich subsidiary agricultural products as fermentation substrate, simultaneously optimizes the culture medium and culture conditions and achieves high yield of the beta-glucosaccharase under solid fermentation conditions, thus providing scientific basis to the industrialization development of the beta-glucosaccharase.

The invention provides a method for preparing a saffron crocus extract for cigarette from immobilized beta-glucosidase. The method comprises the following steps: (1) taking dry saffron crocus flowers, adding water and performing microwave extraction, thereby acquiring a saffron crocus extracting solution; (2) with sodium alga acid as a carrier, embedding, thereby acquiring sodium alga acid immobilized enzyme; (3) treating the saffron crocus extracting solution with immobilized beta-glucosidase; (4) filtering the extracting solution after enzyme treatment, concentrating the filtered saffron crocus extracting solution at reduced pressure and collecting a concentrated solution, thereby acquiring the saffron crocus extract for cigarette. According to the invention, the saffron crocus extract is treated with immobilized beta-glucosidase, the fragrance precusor substance in saffron crocus is hydrolyzed and the potential aroma constituent in saffron crocus is released, so that the extracting yield of the aromatic substance in saffron crocus is greatly increased, the production cost is lowered and the special cigarette perfume material with richer fragrance and higher quality can be acquired.

The invention relates to a hyperthermophilic glycosidase mutant and an application thereof in preparation of ginsenoside CK, and belongs to the technical field of biotechnology engineering. An amino acid sequence of the hyperthermophilic glycosidase mutant is as shown in SEQ ID NO:2; and the hyperthermophilic glycosidase mutant is applied to preparation of rare ginsenoside CK. The hyperthermophilic glycosidase mutant has high heat resistance and stability; relatively high catalytic activity can still be kept after heat preservation at 70-80 DEG C for over 300 hours, and thus hyperthermophilic glycosidase mutant has the advantages of low storage and transportation cost, and low requirement standards on a cooling system of a reactor when applied to production; the kinetic reaction is accelerated; meanwhile, the hyperthermophilic glycosidase mutant has beta-glucosaccharase activity; glucosides of main protopanaxadiol type saponins C3 site and C20 site can be hydrolyzed on the basis that the saponin structure is not destroyed; and the hyperthermophilic glycosidase mutant is efficient, specific, few in byproducts, high in yield and the like, so that the Fpglula can be applied to industrial production of a rare ginsenoside Compound K.

The invention discloses a beta-xylosidase mutant and a use thereof. The beta-xylosidase mutant has an amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO:1. The mutant enzyme has high xylose and glucose tolerance compared with non-mutated beta-xylosidase, and has wide use in degradation of xylo-oligosaccharide.