• 1. Department of Basic Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China;
  • 2. Labortory of Pathogen Biology and Immunology, Experimental Teaching Center of Basic Medicine, Chongqing University of Medical Sciences, Chongqing 400016, China;
  • 3. Department of Pathogen Biology and Immunology, Chongqing Three Gorges Medical College, Chongqing 404120, China;
YANGZhibang, Email: dryangfm365@sina.com
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In this research a strain of isolated Pseudomonas alcaligenes which causes degradation of dexamethasone was acclimated further and its proteins of every position in the bacterium were separated by the osmotic shock method. The separated intracellular proteins which had the highest enzyme activity were extracted by the salting out with ammonium sulfate and were purified with the cation exchange chromatography and gel chromatography. The purified proteins which was active to cause degradation of dexamethasone had been detected were cut with enzyme and were analyzed with mass spectrometry. The results showed that the degradation rate to dexamethasone by acclimated Pseudomonas alcaligenes were increased from 23.63% to 52.84%. The degrading enzymes were located mainly in the intracellular of the bacteria and its molecular weight was about 41 kD. The specific activity of the purified degrading enzymes were achieved to 1.02 U·mg-1. Its 5-peptide amino acid sequences were consistent with some sequences of the isovaleryl-CoA dehydrogenase. The protein enzyme may be a new kind degrading enzyme of steroidal compounds. Our experimental results provided new strategies for cleanup of dexamethasone in water environment with microbial bioremediation technique.

Citation: ZHULili, YANGZhibang, YANGQian, SHIZhongquan, DENGXichuan. Extraction, Purification and Identification of a Dexamethasone-degrading Enzymes Generated by Pseudomonas Alcaligenes. Journal of Biomedical Engineering, 2015, 32(5): 1044-1049. doi: 10.7507/1001-5515.20150185 Copy

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