| Literature DB >> 1368101 |
J Pen1, L Molendijk, W J Quax, P C Sijmons, A J van Ooyen, P J van den Elzen, K Rietveld, A Hoekema.
Abstract
As a first example of the feasibility of producing industrial bulk enzymes in plants, we have expressed Bacillus licheniformis alpha-amylase in transgenic tobacco, and applied the seeds directly in starch liquification. The enzyme was properly secreted into the intercellular space, and maximum expression levels of about 0.3% of total soluble protein were obtained. No apparent effect of the presence of the enzyme on plant phenotype was observed. The molecular weight of the enzyme produced in tobacco was around 64 kD. The difference, compared to 55.2 kD for the bacterial enzyme, was found to result from complex-type carbohydrate chains attached to the protein. Application studies on the liquefaction of starch were done with transgenic seeds containing the recombinant alpha-amylase. The resulting hydrolysis products were virtually identical with those obtained from degradation with alpha-amylase from Bacillus licheniformis.Entities:
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Year: 1992 PMID： 1368101 DOI： 10.1038/nbt0392-292
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biotechnology (N Y) ISSN： 0733-222X