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Alkaline pectate lyases are favorable for the textile industry. Here, we report the gene cloning and expression of a low-temperature-active alkaline pectate lyase (PL D) from Xanthomonas campestris ACCC 10048. Deduced PL D consists of a putative 27-residue signal peptide and a catalytic domain of 320 residues belonging to family PF09492. Recombinant PL D (r-PL D) produced in Escherichia coli was purified to electrophoretic homogeneity with a single step of Ni2+–NTA affinity chromatography and showed an apparent molecular weight of ~38 kDa. The pH and temperature optima of r-PL D were found to be 9.0 °C and 30 °C, respectively. Compared with its microbial counterparts, r-PL D had higher activity over a wide pH range (>45 % of the maximum activity at pH 3.0–12.0) and at lower temperatures (>35 % of activity even at 0 °C). The K m and V max values of r-PL D for polygalacturonic acid were 4.9 g l−1 and 30.1 μmol min−1 mg−1, respectively. Compared with the commercial compound pectinase from Novozymes, r-PL D showed similar efficacy in reducing the intrinsic viscosity of polygalacturonic acid (35.1 % vs. 36.5 %) and in bioscouring of jute (10.25 % vs. 10.82 %). Thus, r-PL D is a valuable additive candidate for the textile industry.
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This research was supported by the National Science and Technology Support Program (2011BADB02) and the National “948” Project (2011-G7-4) and the China Modern Agriculture Research System (CARS-42).
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Yuan, P., Meng, K., Wang, Y. et al. A Low-Temperature-Active Alkaline Pectate Lyase from Xanthomonas campestris ACCC 10048 with High Activity over a Wide pH Range. Appl Biochem Biotechnol 168, 1489–1500 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12010-012-9872-8
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