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Separation of outer and cytoplasmic membranes of Fibrobacter succinogenes and membrane and glycogen granule locations of glycanases and cellobiase.

Department of Microbiology, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

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The outer membrane (OM) of Fibrobacter succinogenes was isolated by a combination of salt, sucrose, and water washes from whole cells grown on either glucose or cellulose. The cytoplasmic membrane (CM) was isolated from OM-depleted cells after disruption with a French press. The OM and membrane vesicles isolated from the extracellular culture fluid of cellulose-grown cells had a higher density, much lower succinate dehydrogenase activity, and sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis protein profiles different from those of the CM. The OM from both glucose- and cellulose-grown cells and the extracellular membrane vesicles from cellulose-grown cultures exhibited higher endoglucanase, xylanase, and acetylesterase activities than the CM and other cell fractions. Endoglucanase 2 was absent from the isolated OM fractions of glucose- and cellulose-grown cells and from the extracellular membrane vesicles of cellulose-grown cells but was present in the CM and intracellular glycogen granule fractions, while endoglucanase 3 was enriched in the OM. Cellobiosidase was located primarily in the periplasm as previously reported, while cellobiase was mainly present in the glycogen granule fraction of glucose-grown cells and in a nongranular glycogen and CM complex in cellulose-grown cells. The cellobiase was not eluted from glycogen granules by cellobiose, maltose, and maltotriose nor from either the granules or the cell membranes by nondenaturing detergents but was eluted from both glycogen granules and cell membranes by high concentrations of salts. The eluted cellobiase rebound almost quantitatively when diluted and mixed with purified glycogen granules but exhibited a low affinity for Avicel cellulose. Thus, we have documented a method for isolation of OM from F. succinogenes, identified the OM origin of the extracellular membrane vesicles, and located glycanases and cellobiase in membrane and glycogen fractions.

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