摘要:
An object of the present invention is to provide a glucosamine-containing glucan, a modified product and a conjugate thereof. The glucosamine-containing glucan of the present invention is a glucosamine-containing glucan wherein the glucan has a plurality of non-reducing ends and at least one glucosamine residue is bound via an ±-1,4-bond to each of two or more non-reducing ends of the branched ±-1,4-glucan, but no glucosamine residue is present at a position other than the non-reducing ends of the branched ±-1,4-glucan, wherein the degree of polymerization of the glucan is 15 or more and 4 x 10 5 or less. Theglucosamine-containingglucan of the present invention can be provided by allowing an ±-glucan phosphorylase to act on an aqueous solution comprising a branched ±-1,4-glucan and glucosamine-1-phosphate.
摘要:
It is intended to provide a heat-stable sucrose phosphorylase (SP) obtained by modifying natural SP and a method of preparing this heat-stable SP. Namely, a heat-stable SP which has an amino acid residue differing from the one in natural sucrose phosphorylase at least one position selected from the group consisting of: the positions corresponding respectively to the 14-, 29- and 44-positions in the motif sequence 1; the positions corresponding respectively to the 7-, 19-, 23- and 34-positions in the motif sequence 2; and the position corresponding to the 19-position in the motif sequence 3, and, after heating in a 20 mM Tris buffer solution (pH 7.0) at 55°C for 20 minutes, shows an enzymatic activity amounting to 20% or more of the enzymatic activity of the unheated heat-stable SP at 37°C.
摘要:
A first method for producing glucan comprises the step of allowing a reaction solution containing sucrose, a primer, inorganic phosphate or glucose-1-phosphate, sucrose phosphorylase, and glucan phosphorylase to react to produce glucans. The maximum value of the sucrose-phosphate ratio of the reaction solution from the start of the reaction to the end of the reaction is no more than about 17. A second method for producing glucan comprises the step of allowing a reaction solution containing sucrose, a primer, inorganic phosphate or glucose-1-phosphate, sucrose phosphorylase, and glucan phosphorylase to react to produce glucans. The reaction is conducted at a temperature of about 40 C to about 70 C.