감자 생전분의 분해력이 강한 $alpha$-amylase를 생산하는 Bacillus circulans F-2를 선발하고, 이 균주가 생산하는 $alpha$-amylase를 정제하였으며, 정제효소의 polyacrylamide disc gel electrophoresis, SDS-polyacrylamide disc gel electrophoresis 및 soluble starch에 eo한 분해산물을 검사하고 그 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 1 조효소액을 corn starch흡착, 유안분획, Bio-Gel P-100에 의한 gel filtration 및 DE-32 column chromatography에 의하여 specific activity 50.0 u/mg protein(원 비활성의 약 23배), 수율 25. 5%의 정제효소를 얻었다. 2. 정제효소에 대하여 polyacrylamide disc gel electrophoresis를 실시한 결과 $alpha$-amylase activity를 가지는 아주 인접된 2ro의 Band가 나타났으나, SDS-polyacrylamide disc gel electrophoresis의 결과, polyacrylamide disc gel electrophoresis에서 나타난 2개의 Band는 charge가 약간 다른 charge isomer의 $alpha$-amylase임을 시준하는 single band가 나타났다. 3. Polyacrylamide의 농도에 따른 2개 Band의 log mobility의 plot는 charge isomer를 가리키는 평행선을 나타내었다. 4. 두 효소단백질 Band의 작용 pattern을 알기 위하여 2개의 Band를 각각 분리하여 추출하고 soluble starch에 작용시켜 생성된 oligosaccharide의 pattern을 paper chromatography로 확인한 바 2개의 효소단백질 Band는 동일한 작용 pattern을 나타내었다. 5. Soluble starch로부터 생성되는 유일한 초기 가수분해산물은 maltohexaose이었다.
1. $alpha$-amylase from B. circulans F-2 was purified with specific activity 55.0 u/mg. protein (about 23 times of the original specific activity) and the yield of 25.5%, by means of corn starch absorption, salting out with ammonium sulfate (80% saturation), gel filtration on Bio-Gel P-100 and DE-32 column chromatography. 2 The purified enzyme showed two closely migrated protin bands on polyacrylamide disc gel electrophoresis, both of which have amylase activity judging from the activity staining of the gel. On SDS-polyacrylamide disc gel electrophoresis, however, the purified enzyme showed a single band suggesting that those two bands are the charge isomers of an amlyase having the slightly different charge. 3. Plot of log mobility of two bands versus polyacrylamide gel concentration according to Hedrick and Smith gave the parallel lines indicating them to be charge isomers. 4. To confirm the action pattern of two enzyme protein bands, each band was separated and was eluted from the gel and eluates were incubated with soluble starch. Oligosaccharide pattern produced by each eluate was examined by paper chromatography. The eluates of two bands showed the same action pattern. 5. The maltohexaose was the only hydrolysis product of soluble starch in the early stage of hydrolysis.
