Chiku Kazuhiro, Dohi Hirofumi, Saito Akihiro, EBISE Hiroshi, KOUZAI Yusuke, SHINOYAMA Hirofumi, NISHIDA Yoshihiro, ANDO Akikazu
Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry 2009年5月 公益社団法人 日本農芸化学会
We have purified and characterized an oligoxylosyl transfer enzyme (OxtA) from <I>Bacillus</I> sp. strain KT12. In the present study, a N-terminally His-tagged recombinant form of the enzyme, OxtA(H)<SUP>E</SUP>, was overproduced in <I>Escherichia coli</I> and applied to the reaction with xylan and hydroquinone to produce 4-hydroxyphenyl &beta;-<small>D</small>-oligoxylosides, &beta;-(Xyl)<SUB>n</SUB>-HQ (<I>n</I>=1&ndash;4), by one step reaction. The obtained &beta;-(Xyl)<SUB>n</SUB>-HQ inhibited mushroom tyrosinase, which catalyzes the oxidation of <small>L</small>-DOPA to <small>L</small>-DOPA quinine, and the IC<SUB>50</SUB> values of &beta;-Xyl-HQ, &beta;-(Xyl)<SUB>2</SUB>-HQ, &beta;-(Xyl)<SUB>3</SUB>-HQ, and &beta;-(Xyl)<SUB>4</SUB>-HQ were 3.0, 0.74, 0.48, and 0.18 m<small>M</small> respectively. &beta;-(Xyl)<SUB>4</SUB>-HQ showed 35-fold more potent inhibitory activity than &beta;-arbutin (4-hydroxyphenyl &beta;-<small>D</small>-glucopyranoside), of which the IC<SUB>50</SUB> value was measured to be 6.3 m<small>M</small>. Kinetic analysis revealed that &beta;-(Xyl)<SUB>2</SUB>-HQ, &beta;-(Xyl)<SUB>3</SUB>-HQ, and &beta;-(Xyl)<SUB>4</SUB>-HQ competitively inhibited the enzyme, and the corresponding <I>K</I><SUB>i</SUB> values were calculated to be 0.20, 0.29, and 0.057 m<small>M</small> respectively.