A marine bacterium which produces extracelluar agarase was isolated from sea water. Isolated strain was identified as Pseudomonas sp. by the morphological and biochemical properties (1). HindIII restriction fragment of 3.2 kb from Pseudomonas genomic DNA was cloned into pUC19 to obtain recombinant plasmid pJA1 which enables E. coli JM83 to produce agarase. Most of agarase produced in E. coli was secreted into the culture medium. The enzyme (pJA1) showed the highest agarase activity during the stationary phase (20 hrs) of E. coli. The optimum temperature and pH were 40$circ$C and 7.8, respectively. Restriction gene map anlaysis revealed that it has different restriction pattern with three kind of agarase gene reported.
Keywords: Agarose gene, Pseudomonas, E. coli
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