PMID:11398405
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Baty, AM 3rd, Diwu, Z , Dunham, G , Eastburn, CC , Geesey, GG , Goodman, AE , Suci, PA and Techkarnjanaruk, S (2001) Characterization of extracellular chitinolytic activity in biofilms. Meth. Enzymol. 336:279-301 |
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| Abstract |
Extracellular enzymes produced by bacterial biofilms tend to become an integral, permanent part of the biofilm/substratum system. Thus, characterizing extracellular enzyme activity is an essential component of understanding biofilm ecology. Methods have been presented for characterizing three aspects of extracellular enzyme activity in biofilms: promoter activity of the structural gene, local catalytic activity, and kinetics of collective substrate degradation. The abundance of intracellular transcript derived from a structural gene is only indirectly related to the magnitude of catalytic activity of the corresponding enzyme. This relationship may be particularly tenuous in the case of extracellular enzymes, which must be transported out of the cell in order to become active. Fluorogenic substrates that allow direct detection of an increasingly greater variety of enzyme activities are becoming available. There are technical problems, originating from surface roughness and intrinsic fluorescence, associated with microscopic examination of biofilms on natural materials. Thin films provide one option for acquiring data about biofilms colonizing relevant materials. |
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Bacteria/enzymology; Biodegradation, Environmental; Biofilms; Chitin/chemistry; Chitin/metabolism; Chitinase/metabolism; Crystallography, X-Ray; Extracellular Space/enzymology; Fluorescent Dyes/chemical synthesis; Gammaproteobacteria/enzymology; Gammaproteobacteria/genetics; Glucuronates/chemical synthesis; Molecular Weight; Spectrometry, X-Ray Emission; Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared; Surface Properties; Transcription, Genetic |
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