English Journal

Cloning and sequence analysis of the heat-stable acrylamidase from a newly isolated thermophilic bacterium, Geobacillus thermoglucosidasius AUT-01.

Cha M, Chambliss GH.SourceDepartment of Bacteriology and Department of Food Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1550 Linden Dr., Microbial Sciences Building, Madison, WI, 53706, USA, mcha@uwalumni.com.
Biodegradation.Biodegradation.2013 Feb;24(1):57-67. doi: 10.1007/s10532-012-9557-6. Epub 2012 May 26.
A thermophilic bacterium capable of degrading acrylamide, AUT-01, was isolated from soil collected from a hot spring area in Montana, USA. The thermophilic strain grew with 0.2 % glucose as the sole carbon source and 1.4 mM acrylamide as the sole nitrogen source. The isolate AUT-01 was identified
PMID 22639115

Functional characterization of the galactan utilization system of Geobacillus stearothermophilus.

Tabachnikov O, Shoham Y.SourceDepartment of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
The FEBS journal.FEBS J.2013 Feb;280(3):950-64. doi: 10.1111/febs.12089. Epub 2013 Jan 7.
Type I galactan is a pectic polysaccharide composed of β-1,4 linked units of d-galactose and is part of the main plant cell wall polysaccharides, which are the most abundant sources of renewable carbon in the biosphere. The thermophilic bacterium Geobacillus stearothermophilus T-6 possesses an ext
PMID 23216604

Japanese Journal

Crystal Structures of Glycoside Hydrolase Family 51 α-L-Arabinofuranosidase from Thermotoga maritima

IM Do-Hyun,KIMURA Kei-ichi,HAYASAKA Fumitaka,TANAKA Tomonari,NOGUCHI Masato,KOBAYASHI Atsushi,SHODA Shin-ichiro,MIYAZAKI Kentaro,WAKAGI Takayoshi,FUSHINOBU Shinya
Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry 76(2), 423-428, 2012-02-23
… Subsite −1 of Tm-AFase is similar to that of α-L-arabinofuranosidase from Geobacillus stearothermophilus, but the substrate binding pocket of Tm-AFase is narrower and more hydrophobic. …
NAID 10030400456