Valencia 오렌지로부터 추출한 펙틴에스테라제(pectinesterase, PE) 중에서 가열처리하지 않은 PE 조효소를 CM-Sephadex C-50, Phenyl Sepharose CL-4B와 CM-Biogel A의 chromatography를 차례로 수행하여 내열성이 약한 TLPE(thermolabile pectinesterase)와 내열성이 강한 TSPE(thermostable pectinesterase)를 분리 정제하였다. PE 중에서 가열처리한 PE 조효소에서는 위와 같은 정제과정으로 TSPE 만을 분리하였다. TLPE는 비활성 1,005 units/mg이고 35배로 정제된 것을 13.6% 회수할 수 있었으며, 반면에 가열하지 않고 분리한 TSPE는 비활성 3,115 units/mg이고 100.5배로 정제된 것을 1.5% 얻을 수 있었으나 가열하여 분리한 TSPE는 비활성 1,803 units/mg이고 가열처리한 조효소가 140배로 정제된 것을 15.4% 얻을 수 있었다.
Pectinesterase(PE) has been definitively established as the causative agent for clarification of citrus juice and gelation of frozen concentrates. This enzyme is present in multiple forms in citrus fruit. Although representing a minor fraction of the total PE activity, thermostable pectinesterase(TSPE) accounts for the severe time/temperature processing treatment required to inactivate PE. This study was undertaken to separate and purify thermolabile pectinesterase(TLPE) and TSPE from the crude PE extracts of Valencia orange rag-pulp powder. The approach taken was to carry out the three kind of chromatographies of CM-Sephadex C-50, Phenyl Sepharose CL-4B and CM-Biogel A to the unheated crude PE or the heated crude PE. All of them used could increase the purity of PEs and, specially, Phenyl Sepharose CL-4B chromatography could separate crude PE as the mixture of PEs into two forms of TLPE and TSPE. The purified TLPE had specific activity of 1,005 units/mg, yield of 13.6% and purification of 35 fold, while the TSPE separated from the unheated crude PE showed specific activity of 3,115 units/mg, yield of 1.5% and purification of 100.5 fold, and another TSPE from the heated crude PE was found to be specific activity of 1,803 units/mg, yield of 15.4% and purification of 140 fold.
