Cleaves the glycosidic bonds of gellan backbone and releases tetrasaccharide units of glucuronyl-glucosyl-rhamnosyl-glucose with unsaturated glucuronic acid at the non-reducing terminal. The enzyme is highly specific to the heteropolysaccharide gellan.
Primary structure analysis of a purified thermostable gellan lyase produced by Bulgarian geothermal spring inhabitant Geobacillus stearothermophilus 98.Atanassova M., Rodriguez-Alonso P., Garabal J.I., Derekova A., Terziiska A., Mandeva R., Kambourova M.Eur. J. Biochem. 0:0-0(2008)
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