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[Purification and properties of an esterase excreted during sporulation of Bacillus subtilis].

After growth in Difco Nutrient Broth, several proteolytic enzymes are excreted by B. subtilis, Marburg strain, namely a metalloprotease and a seryl protease. We report here the purification and some biochemical properties of a third extracellular hydrolytic enzyme for which we propose the term of esterase. As the serylprotease, the esterase is a seryl enzyme endowed with both proteolytic and esterolytic activities. Nevertheless the esterase differs from serylprotease in many aspects. In particular, it is an acidic enzyme with a low proteolytic activity and a high esterolytic activity. Its specificity toward synthetic substrates is restricted. The enzyme is active only on esters of amino acids and particularly on those of tyrosine. With Bz Tyr O Et as substrate the esterase displays a maximum of activity between pH 7.2 and 8.1 with a Km of 1.3.10-minus 3 M at 30 degrees C. At the end of this work, two questions remain unanswered: 1) the origin of the multiplicity of the bands revealed by polyacrylamide electrophoresis in the purest fraction; 2) the nature of the physiological substrate of the enzyme.