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Regulation of β-1,3-glucanase by carbon starvation in the mycoparasite Trichoderma harzianum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2000

Ofir RAMOT
Affiliation:
Otto Warburg Center for Agricultural Biotechnology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, PO Box 12, Rehovot 76100 Israel
Rachel COHEN-KUPIEC
Affiliation:
Otto Warburg Center for Agricultural Biotechnology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, PO Box 12, Rehovot 76100 Israel
Ilan CHET
Affiliation:
Otto Warburg Center for Agricultural Biotechnology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, PO Box 12, Rehovot 76100 Israel
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Abstract

The β-1,3-glucanase system of the mycoparasitic T. harzianum, isolate T-Y, was found to be composed of at least five different enzymes. Their migration distance in acrylamide gels corresponded to peptides with molecular masses of 30–200 kDa, and they were named accordingly. The largest enzyme – Gβ-1,3–200, was the most abundant when T-Y was grown with no carbon source. Its secretion was almost eliminated when T-Y was grown on media containing a high concentration of carbon sources such as N- acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) or malic acid. Several isolates of T. harzianum were found to have a β-1,3-glucanase secretion system, controlled by catabolite repression. Each isolate exhibited a different β-1,3-glucanase profile. Gβ-1,3–200 was isolated and purified: its molecular mass was approximately 75 kDa, and its activity was of the exo-type, specific to β-1,3-glucan linkages. Four short peptides resulting from proteolysis of this enzyme were sequenced, and their sequences were most homologous to LAM1.3, a previously isolated β-1,3-glucanase.

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Research Article
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© The British Mycological Society 2000

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