alpha-amylase e.c.3.2.1.1. (1,4 glucan, 4 glucanohydrolase) can be obtained from salivary glands, pancreas and microorganisms such as pseudomonas and asperigllus, as well as muscles and ovarian tubes.1.2 alpha-amylase from bacillus subtilis #1024(a tcc 465)* was purified with a highest degree of purity in our laboratory (31.59 u/mg). the extracellular alpha-amylase was subjected to different pu...

conclusions based on this similarity and our bioinformatics evaluations, this mentioned alpha-amylase gene can be expressed in s. cerevisiae as extracellular enzyme. results the presence of alpha-amylase gene in recombinant bacteria was certificated by colony-pcr method. after extraction of recombinant vector from e. coli, the competent s. cerevisiae cells were transformed using polyethylene gl...

The present review describes the structural features of alpha-amylase, beta-amylase and glucoamylase that are the best known amylolytic enzymes. Although they show similar function, i.e. catalysis of hydrolysis of alpha-glucosidic bonds in starch and related saccharides, they are quite different. alpha-Amylase is the alpha --> alpha retaining glycosidase (it uses the retaining mechanism), and b...

Of alpha-amylases and other starch-digesting enzymes from bacteria and plants.ess was supplemented with bacterial and fungal amylases or scalded flour. Immunochemical characteristics of alpha-amylase sensitization.Alpha-amylase production and its activity was compared in two different. Bacterial amylases are resistant to high temperatures, they can active in wide pH.fungal amylascs lowest, liqu...

OBJECTIVES To describe the levels of exposure to fungal alpha-amylase in British bakeries and flour mills, and to describe the relation between exposure to alpha-amylase and sensitisation to fungal alpha-amylase. METHODS 495 personal flour dust samples were taken in seven British bakeries and flour mills and analysed for alpha-amylase with an immunoassay. Workers at the sites were asked to fi...

Wheat (Triticum aestivum) RNA was used to program synthesis of the alpha-amylase protein by Xenopus laevis oocytes. A 41,500-dalton protein was made which was identified as alpha-amylase by immunoprecipitation with rabbit anti-alpha-amylase antiserum raised against the purified wheat protein and by its co-migration with authentic alpha-amylase on sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gels. Synt...

alpha-Amylase is a starch cleaving enzyme often used in the baking industry as a flour additive. It is usually of fungal origin, produced by Aspergillus oryzae. One previous report has shown IgE antibodies and positive skin prick test against alpha-amylase in asthmatic bakers. This paper describes four alpha-amylase sensitised index cases with occupational asthma or rhinitis and the results of ...

bilberry [vaccinium myrtillus linn. (ericaceae)] fruit (vmf) has been traditionally used for treatment of bladder stones, biliary disorders, scurvy, coughs, and lung tuberculosis. vmf may have some pharmaceutical properties owing to these uses, but in vivo and in vitro studies are limited for clarification of medicinal activity and its antidiabetic and antioxidant properties are not investigate...

Protein activation of urinary alpha-amylase (EC 3.2.1.1) activity was observed during an evaluation of the Du Pont aca procedure for the determination of urinary alpha-amylase. This activation effect became constant for urinary albumin concentrations exceeding 1.50 g/liter. It is recommended that urinary alpha-amylase be analyzed with sufficient albumin added to maximize this effect. The aca al...

In response to a phytohormone, gibberellic acid, the aleurone layers of barley seeds synthesize and secrete alpha-amylases, which are coded by a set of stable mRNAs. When aleurone layers are subjected to heat shock treatment, the synthesis of alpha-amylase is suppressed while heat shock proteins are induced. The suppression of alpha-amylase synthesis is not the result of translational control a...