Combinatorial fragment exchange was utilised to recombine key structural and functional low homology regions of bacilli subtilisins to generate new active hybrid proteases with altered substrate profiles. Up to six different regions comprising mostly of loop residues from the commercially important subtilisin Savinase were exchanged with the structurally equivalent regions of six other subtilis...

The genus Colletotrichum contains a large number of phytopathogenic fungi that produce enormous economic losses around the world. The effect of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) has not been studied yet in these organisms. Inter-Kingdom HGT into fungal genomes has been reported in the past but knowledge about the HGT between plants and fungi is particularly limited. We describe a gene in the genom...

The gene encoding subtilisin-like protease T. kodakaraensis subtilisin was cloned from a hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus kodakaraensis KOD1. T. kodakaraensis subtilisin is a member of the subtilisin family and composed of 422 amino acid residues with a molecular weight of 43,783. It consists of a putative presequence, prosequence, and catalytic domain. Like bacterial subtilisins, T. kod...

Chymotrypsin, trypsin, and Novo and Carlsberg subtilisins undergo a reversible, time-dependent inhibition by phenylarsonates. The inhibition of these enzymes by p-nitro-, p-tolyl-, p-aminophenyl-, and phenylarsonate was studied in detail, as a function of pH and inhibitor concentration, by a variety of approaches. KI values were determined for the inhibition of chymotrypsin and the subtilisins ...

Singlet-singlet energy transfer from the tryptophan residues to an active-site-serine-bound 5-dimethylaminonaphthalene-1-sulphonyl group was investigated in four subtilisins. The transfer distances for subtilisin Novo and mesentericopeptidase are 1.93 +/- 0.20 nm (19.3 +/- 2.0 A) and 1.81 +/- 0.20 nm (18.1 +/- 2.0 A) respectively. The positions of the indole groups in the three-dimensional stru...

Evidence is presented for the complete amino acid sequence of subtilisin Carlsberg. The protein consists of a single peptide chain of 274 residues. Comparison with subtilisin BPN’ shows 84 amino acid differences and 1 additional residue in BPN’. The 84 differences can be accounted for on the basis of single or double nucleotide replacements. Within the subtilisins, there are a number of distinc...