system operated by Chromeleon software version 7 (Dionex Corp., Sunnyvale, CA,
USA). The injection volume was 10 μM and a Dionex Carbopac PA200 column
(Thermo Scientific) with a guard column was used for all the samples
separations. Solvent A was ultrapure water, solvent B was 1 M sodium hydroxide,
and solvent C was 1 M sodium acetate prepared from anhydrous Bio Ultra-grade
solid (Sigma). The following gradient was used: 0 – 5 min, 10 % B and 3.5
% solvent C; 5 – 12 min, 10% B and a linear gradient from 3.5–30%
C; 12 –12.1 min, 50 % B, 50 % C; 12.1 – 13 min, exponential
gradient (curve setting 9) of B and C back to initial conditions; 13 – 17
min, initial conditions 34 (link).
To determine the mode of action of the enzyme, 3 μM of the
recombinant enzyme was incubated with 0.25 mg.mL−1polysaccharide at 37 °C in a 0.5 mL reaction mixture containing 50 mM
HEPES-NaOH buffer (pH 7.0) with 1 mM CaCl2. The reaction was stopped
at different time points by adding 100 μL of 95 °C water and
heating to 95 °C for 10 min to a 100 μL aliquot of the reaction
mixture. The reaction mixture was then diluted two times prior to product
analysis by HPAEC-PAD.