GENE FOR ENZYME HAVING BOTH ALKALINE PULLULANASE AND ALKALINE ALPHA-AMYLASE ACTIVITIES

Abstract: The present invention provides a DNA fragment encoding alkaline pullulanase exhibiting alkaline alpha -amylase activity, alkaline alpha -amylase possessing both an amino acid sequence described in Sequence No. 3 and a DNA fragment encoding the amylase, alkaline pullulanase possessing both an amino acid sequence described in Sequence No. 4 and a DNA fragment encoding the pullulanase, recombinant DNAs containing these DNA fragments, and transformed microorganisms harboring the recombinant DNAs. The technique of the present invention enables mass production of alkaline pullulanase exhibiting alkaline alpha -amylase activity.

Description: Description Gene for Enzyme Having Both Alkaline PuUulanase and Alkaline Alpha-Amylase Activities Technical Field: The present invention relates to the gene encoding an enzyme that exhibits both alkaline puUulanase activity and alkaline α-amylase activity (alkaline amylopullulanase), to alkaline α-amylase and alkaline puUulanase obtainable from expression of a fragment of the gene encoding the intact alkaline amylopullulanase, to the gene or fragments thereof encoding these enzymatic activities, and to recombinant DNAs and transformants bearing the gene and fragments thereof. Background Art: Alpha-amylase has long been used in a variety of fields. For example, it has been used for the saccharification of grains and potatoes in the fermentation industry, as starch paste removers in the textile industry, as digestives in the pharmaceutical industry, and for the manufacture of thick malt sugar syrups in the food industry. Alpha-amylase is an enzyme which acts on starch-related polysaccharides such as amylose or amylopectin, cutting solely the α-1,4-glucoside bond of the polysaccharide molecule. Crystalline samples or electrophoretically uniform samples of α-amylase have been obtained from a number of different sources including bacteria, fungi, plant seeds, and animal digestive glands. PuUulanase is an enzyme which hydrolyzes solely the α-1,6-glucoside bond present in starch, glycogen, amylopectin, and pullulan. PuUulanase was first found in a certain strain of Aeroiacter aerogenes (Bender, H. and Wallenfels, K. , Biochem. J., 334, 79 (1961)), and thereafter, was also found in many other microorganisms including genera Bacillus, Streptococcus and Clostr±dium. PuUulanase has become of interest in the starch-making industry because of its ability to produce, from starch, maltooligosaccharides such as glucose, maltose, maltotriose, maltopentaose, and maltohexaose when it is used in combination with endo-type amylase and exo-type amylase. In order to simplify the process of the manufacture of saccharides in which two or more enzymes are used, as described above, puUulanase which also acts on the α-1,4- glucoside bond, in other words, puUulanase exhibiting α- amylase activity, is greatly desired. Bacillus sύbtil±s TU strain is known to produce a pullulanase-amylase complex enzyme (Takasaki, Y., Agric. Biol. Chem., 51, 9 (1987), Japanese Patent Publication (kokoku) No. 1-18717). In addition, enzymes exhibiting the above two distinct enzymatic activities or so-called amylopullulanases have been reported for a number of bacteria including Bacillus circulans (Japanese Patent Application Laid-open (kokai ) No. 64-60376), Bacillus sp. (Saha, B.C., et al., Enzyme Microb. Techno!., 11, 760 (1989)), Thermoanaerobium brockii (Coleman, R.D. et al., J. Bacteriol., 169, 4302 (1987)), rhermoanaerσiiuzπ sp. (Plant, A.R., et al., Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol., 26, 427 (1987)), Clostridium thermohydrosulfuricum (Saha, B.C., et al., Biochem. J., 252, 343 (1988)), Clostridium thermosulfurogenes (Spreinat, A. et al., Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol. , 33, 511 (1990)), TΛerπ-us aguaticus (Plant, A.R., et al., Enzyme Microb. Technol. , 8, 668 (1986)), Tiieπnus sp. (Nakamura, N et al., Starch/ Starke, 41, 112 (1989)), rΛermoanaeroJbacterium sacciiarolyticum (Saha, B.C., et al., Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 56, 881 (1990)), and Pyrococcuε furioεuε and TΛerzπococcus litoralis (Brown, S.H. and Kelley, R.M. , Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 59, 2614 (1993)). The present inventors have recently discovered that the efficacy of dish-washing detergents and detergents for clothes can be greatly improved, particularly on starch soils, when α-amylase and puUulanase are both incorporated into the detergents (Japanese Patent Application Laid-open (kokai ) No. 2-132193). However, most of the α-amylases and pullulanases previously found in the natural world exhibit maximal and stable enzymatic activities in the neutral to acidic pH ranges, but scarcely work in an alkaline solution of pH 9-10. There exist very few enzymes exhibiting maximal activities in the alkaline pH range (alkaline pullulanases), and only two reports of such enzymes have been published (Nakamura, N. and Horikoshi, K. , Biochim. Bophys. Acta, 397, 188 (1975), Japanese Patent Publication (kokoku) No. 53- 27786 and Ara et al. Japanese Patent Publication (kokoku) No. 6-32613. Furthermore, an enzyme that has both alkaline α-amylase and alkaline puUulanase activities had not been reported until the present inventors discovered that an alkalophilic Bacillus sp. KSM-AP1378 (FERM BP-3048, deposited July 24, 1989 in Fermentation Research Institute, Agency of Industrial Science and Technology of 1-3, Higashi 1-chome, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, 305 Japan) having its optimum pH for growth in the alkaline range produces a novel alkaline amylopullulanase (formerly designated puUulanase Y) that has both alkaline puUulanase and alkaline α-amylase activities. They elucidated that this enzyme is useful as an additive in detergent compositions for automatic dishwashers and in detergent compositions for clothes (Japanese Patent Application Laid-open (kokai ) No. 3-290498). Although this enzyme is constituted by a single enzyme molecule, it exhibits both alkaline α-amylase activity and alkaline puUulanase activity. Exploitation of this enzyme has proved very advantageous in culturing the bacteria and in purification of the enzyme, compared to the case in which the two enzymes are independently produced by two different bacteria. The present inventors have attempted to improve productivity of the alkaline amylopullulanase (formerly designated puUulanase Y) producing bacterium. Bacillus sp. KSM-AP1378, through optimization of culturing methods. Nevertheless, it is still desired to improve further the enzyme productivity of the bacterium so as to advantageously produce the alkaline amylopullulanase on an industrial scale. It is noted that production of the enzyme can be further enhanced using genetic engineering and the activity of the enzyme itself can be improved by altering the gene encoding the enzyme using a protein engineering approach. Applying these approaches requires the gene encoding alkaline amylopullulanase. Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide the gene encoding alkaline amylopullulanase, recombinant DNA comprising the gene, and a transformant harboring the recombinant DNA. The DNA encoding the alkaline amylopullulanase gene may be further used to produce probes to be used in the isolation of additional, homologous alkaline amylopullulanase genes from other microorganisms. Thus, an additional object of the present invention is to provide a means of screening for and isolating additional alkaline amylopullulanase enzymes. Disclosure of the Invention The present inventors isolated a DNA fragment encoding alkaline amylopullulanase from the chromosomal DNA of an alkalophilic Bacillus strain using shotgun cloning and PCR. When they transformed a microorganism with this DNA fragment ligated to a suitable vector, it was confirmed that the resultant recombinant microorganism produced alkaline amylopullulanase. Moreover, it was found that the amino acid sequence of the alkaline amylopullulanase encoded by the DNA fragment is completely different from those of previously known amylases and pullulanases, and that this enzyme has the feature that the amino terminal moiety of the enzyme molecule is alkaline α-amylase, and the carboxy terminal moiety of the enzyme molecule is alkaline puUulanase. The present invention was accomplished based on this finding. Accordingly, the present invention provides a DNA fragment encoding alkaline amylopullulanase. The present invention also provides alkaline α-amylase having the amino acid sequence described in sequence No. 3 provided hereinbelow, as well as a DNA fragment encoding the alkaline α-amylase. The present invention also provides alkaline puUulanase having the amino acid sequence described in sequence No. 4 provided hereinbelow, as well as a DNA fragment encoding the alkaline puUulanase. The present invention also provides recombinant DNA comprising a DNA fragment encoding the above-described alkaline amylopullulanase, alkaline α-amylase, or alkaline puUulanase. The present invention also provides a transformed microorganism harboring recombinant DNA comprising a DNA fragment encoding the above-described alkaline amylopullulanase, alkaline α-amylase, or alkaline puUulanase. The present invention further provides a method for producing alkaline amylopullulanase, alkaline α-amylase, or alkaline puUulanase, characterized by culturing the above- described transformed microorganism and collecting any one of the expressed enzymes. Brief Description of the Drawings Fig. 1 shows a restriction enzyme map of the alkaline amylopullulanase gene from Bacillus sp. KSM-AP1378 and positions of the primers. Fig. 2 is a scheme of subcloning of the alkaline amylopullulanase gene from Bacillus sp. KSM-AP1378. Fig. 3 is a graph showing the pH profiles of α-amylase activity and puUulanase activity of alkaline amylopullulanase. Fig. 4 shows the result of Southern hybridization analysis of PstI digestion products of the chromosomal DNA of a strain KSM-AP1378 from Bacillus sp. KSM-AP1378 using fragment A as a probe. On the left-hand side of the Southern filter, the positions of a size marker for lambda DNA-Hiπdlll digestion products (Boehringer Mannheim) which simultaneously underwent electrophoresis are indicated together with the sizes of the respective DNA fragments. Fig. 5 shows the result of Southern hybridization analysis of XJbal digestion products of the chromosomal DNA of a strain KSM-AP1378 from Bacillus sp. KSM-AP1378 using fragment C as a probe. On the left-hand side of the Southern filter, the positions of a size marker for lambda DNA-Hindlll digestion products (Boehringer Mannheim) which simultaneously underwent electrophoresis are indicated together with the sizes of the respective DNA fragments. Fig. 6 shows nucleotide sequences of primers used for PCR. Primers 1, 3, 5 and B were used as complementary sequences. Fig. 7 shows the result of Southern hybridization analysis of EcoRI digestion products of the chromosomal DNA of a strain KSM-AP1378 from Bacillus sp. KSM-AP1378 using fragment D as a probe. On the left-hand side of the Southern filter, the positions of a size marker for lambda DNA-Hindlll digestion products (Boehringer Mannheim) which simultaneously underwent electrophoresis are indicated together with the sizes of the respective DNA fragments. Fig. 8 shows the result of Southern hybridization analysis of XJbal digestion products of the chromosomal DNA of a strain KSM-AP1378 from Bacillus sp. KSM-AP1378 using fragment E as a probe. On the left-hand side of the Southern filter, the positions of a size marker for lambda DNA-Hxndlll digestion products (Boehringer Mannheim) which simultaneously underwent electrophoresis are indicated together with the sizes of the respective DNA fragments. Detailed Description of the Preferred Embodiments In the present invention, a useful microorganism which serves as an alkaline amylopullulanase gene donor may be, for example, Bacillus sp. KSM-AP1378, which is an alkalophilic Bacillus . This strain was isolated from the soil in the vicinity of the city of Tochigi in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan by the present inventors and identified as a strain producing significant amounts of alkaline amylopullulanase. This strain has ,been deposited at the Fermentation Research Institute under BP-3048. In order to obtain chromosomal DNA from a donor microorganism, methods proposed by Marmur, J. (J. Mol. Biol.. 3, 208 (1961)) and by Saito, H. and Miura, K. (Biochi . Biophys. Acta. 72, 619 (1963)) may be used. Other similar methods may also be used. DNA fragments comprising the alkaline amylopullulanase gene are prepared by cleaving the thus-obtained chromosomal DNA using restriction enzymes. Restriction enzymes which may be used are not particularly limited so long as they do not damage the gene. The alkaline amylopullulanase gene may also be obtained by PCR. For example, the gene may be obtained by synthesizing primers having sequences corresponding to those on the upstream side of the 5'- terminus and on the downstream side of the 3'-terminus of the essential region based on the nucleotide sequence described in Sequence No. 2, and conducting PCR using, as a template, the chromosomal DNA of an alkaline amylopullulanase-producing microorganism. Alternatively, an intact gene may be obtained by either method of first obtaining an alkaline puUulanase gene fragment from an alkaline amylopullulanase-producing microorganism using any procedure, followed by PCR which amplifies an alkaline α- amylase gene fragment existing on the upstream side of the former fragment, or conversely, via a method of first obtaining an alkaline α-amylase gene, followed by PCR which amplifies an alkaline puUulanase gene fragment existing on the downstream side of the gene. The thus-prepared genetic fragment is then subjected to cloning. Host/vector systems which may be used are not particularly limited, so far as host bacterial strains express the alkaline amylopullulanase gene of the present invention, that the recombinant DNA can be replicated in the host bacteria, and that the recombinant DNA can stably harbor the integrated gene. For example, members of the EK system in which the host is E. coli K-12, and those of the BS system in which the host is Bacillus subtilis Marburg may be used. Use of the EK system which encompasses many kinds of vectors and is extensively studied genetically provides good results and thus is preferred. Specific examples of host bacteria include strains HB101, C600, and JM109 of the EK system, and strains BD170, Mill, and ISW1214 of the BS system. Specific examples of vectors include pBR322 and pUC18 of the EK system, and pUBHO and pHY300PLK of the BS system. A recombinant plasmid DNA is created by cleaving a vector with a restriction enzyme followed by ligation with the above-mentioned chromosomal or PCR-amplified DNA fragment. The ligation may be achieved, for example, through the use of a DNA ligase. Methods for transforming host bacterial strains using recombinant DNA are not particularly limited. For example, a calcium chloride method (Mandel, M. and Higa, A., J. Mol. Biol. , 53, 159 (1970)) may be used in the case of hosts of the EK system, and a protoplast method (Chang, C. and Cohen, S.N., Mol. Gen. Genet. , 168, 111 (1978)) may be used in the case of hosts of the BS system. Selection of recombinant microorganisms are performed as follows. First, microorganisms which have been transformed with DNA containing a vector-derived DNA fragment are selected using, as an index, a character such as antibiotics resistance coded on the vector DNA which is not inactivated by insertion of exogenous chromosomal or PCR-amplified DNA fragments. For example, in a specific case in which pBR322 of EK system is used as a vector, and a BamHI fragment of chromosomal DNA is inserted into the BamHI cleavage site of pBR322, the tetracycline resistant gene is inactivated, so a primary selection may be conducted using, as an index, ampicillin resistance without having a BamHI cleavage site in the gene. Subsequently, the selected microorganisms are transferred onto agar plates containing starch or pullulan using, for example, a replica method and are then cultured to form colonies. Colonies are detected that decompose starch, that form halos on the starch- containing agar plate, and that also form halos on the pullulan-containing agar plate. The recombinant DNA harbored by the thus-obtained recombinant microorganism can be extracted using standard procedures for preparing plasmids or phage DNAs (Maniatis, T. et al . , Molecular Cloning, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York (1982)). By cleaving the extracted recombinant DNA using a variety of restriction enzymes and analyzing cleavage patterns by electrophoresis, it is confirmed that the recombinant DNA is a ligated product of the vector DNA and a DNA fragment containing the alkaline amylopullulanase gene. Fragments encoding the alkaline puUulanase activity, parts of the alkaline amylopullulanase of the present invention, are contained in a DNA fragment of about 9.4 kb, as shown in the restriction enzyme map of Fig. 1, and are present in the segment of about 6.2 kb shown by the cross- hatched bar. The fragment having a size of about 6.2 kb and containing the alkaline amylopullulanase gene has a nucleotide sequence shown by Sequence No. 2. In this sequence, the 5' terminus and 3' terminus correspond to the left-hand side and the right-hand side, respectively, of the fragment of about 6.2 kb. In this sequence is observed an open reading frame (ORF) starting translation at the 145th ATG and coding for a sequence formed of 1938 amino acid residues described in Sequence No. 1. Fifteen bases (15 b) upstream of the ORF, there exists a sequence GAAAGGGG which is highly complementary to the 3' terminal sequence of the 16S ribosomal RNA of Bacillus; εubtilis (McLaughlin, J.R. et al., J. Biol. Chem., 256, 11283 (1981)). On a further upstream side extending from the 35th nucleotide, there exists a sequence TTTACA 20 b TAAATT which has high homology with the consensus sequence of a σ -type promoter (Gitt, M.A. et al, J. Biol. Chem., 260, 7178 (1985)). On the downstream side of the translation termination codon TAA at the 5959th nucleotide, there exists an inverted repeated sequence (nucleotide Nos. 5961-6015) which is presumably a transcription terminator. In addition, the amino acid sequence of the 14 residues on the amino terminus side in alkaline amylopullulanase obtained through purifying a culture of Bacillus sp. KSM-AP1378 coincides with the sequence extending from the first amino acid (amino acids 1-14 in Sequence No. 2) deduced from the nucleotide sequence in the present DNA fragment. When the nucleotide sequence of the gene of the present invention and a putative amino acid sequence were compared with those of α-amylase and puUulanase known hitherto, it was confirmed that the present gene is a novel one possessing a unique nucleotide sequence, with the amino acid sequence encoded by the gene being different from that of either α-amylase or puUulanase. Moreover, the gene of the present invention is characterized in that it encodes an enzyme possessing two active centers, one for alkaline α-amylase and the other for alkaline puUulanase, in a single peptide chain of the protein. There is each of four sequences (regions I-IV; Nakajima, R. et al, Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol. , 23, 355 (1986)) observed uniquely for the active center of amylase, amino acids 430-613, and for puUulanase, amino acids 1364- 1549. Specifically, in the amino acid sequence of Sequence No. 2, region I of alkaline α-amylase = 430-435, region II of alkaline α-amylase = 514-522, region III of alkaline α- amylase = 547-550, region IV of alkaline α-amylase = 608- 613, region I of alkaline puUulanase = 1364-1369, region II of alkaline puUulanase = 1428-1436, region III of alkaline puUulanase = 1461-1464, region IV of alkaline puUulanase = 1544-1549. Moreover, between the structural genes presumably encoding alkaline α-amylase and alkaline puUulanase, respectively, an intervening sequence formed of 33 amino acids appears twice (in the amino acid of Sequence No. 2, 802-834 and 912-944). Therefore, by using this characteristic feature, it is also possible to express the alkaline α-amylase moiety and the alkaline puUulanase moiety in an independent manner. For example, if a gene encoding the amino acids stretching from the initiation codon to directly before the intervening sequence is inserted into a plasmid vector DNA and is introduced into a suitable host bacterium, it is possible to produce alkaline α-amylase alone (Sequence No. 3). Likewise, if a gene containing the amino acids stretching directly after the intervening sequence to the 1906th amino acid is inserted into a plasmid vector DNA and is introduced into a suitable host bacterium, it is possible to produce alkaline puUulanase alone (Sequence No. 4) . An example of a preferred recombinant DNA containing the entire region of the alkaline amylopullulanase gene is plasmid pAPlOl (Fig. 2). This plasmid has a size of 13.4 kb and is of a fragment containing the 6.2 kb alkaline amylopullulanase gene and part of pHY300PLK and pUC18. An example of a preferred recombinant microorganism harboring the recombinant DNA is an E. coli HB101(pAP101) strain. This strain is a product obtained by transforming E. coli HB101 strain with a recombinant plasmid, pAPlOl, using a standard transformation method. When this strain is cultured using a medium routinely employed for culturing E. coli, it produces alkaline amylopullulanase. The optimum reaction pHs of the thus-produced enzyme are pH 8-9 for the α-amylase activity and pH 9-10 for the puUulanase activity. This agrees well with the activity-pH relationship profiles determined for alkaline amylopullulanase produced by the gene donor bacterium Bacilluε sp. KSM-AP1378 (Fig. 3). The DNA fragments of the present invention are not necessarily limited only to those encoding the amino acid sequences shown in the below-described sequence listing so far as they encode a protein having the enzymatic activity of interest, and they encompass DNA fragments encoding an amino acid sequence in which one or more amino acids are substituted, added, deleted, inverted, or inserted. An example of such DNA is one encoding an amino acid sequence equivalent to the amino acid sequence described in Sequence No. 1 from which 32 amino acids on the N-terminal side have been deleted. Thus an alkaline amylopullulanase of Sequence No. 1 wherein between 1 to 32 amino acids have been deleted from the amino terminus is encompassed by the present invention. When the thus-obtained transformants are cultured using known methods, alkaline α-amylase, alkaline puUulanase, or alkaline amylopullulanase can be produced. That is, if a transformant containing a domain encoding only alkaline α- amylase is used, alkaline α-amylase is obtained; if a transformant containing a domain encoding only alkaline puUulanase is used, alkaline puUulanase is obtained; and if a transformant containing a domain coding for the entire alkaline amylopullulanase is used, alkaline amylopullulanase is obtained. The DNA fragments of the present invention may be further used as probes for the isolation of homologous alkaline amylopullulanase genes from other organisms. Examples The present invention will next be described in more detail by way of examples, which should not be construed as limiting the invention thereto. Concentrations in the Examples are all on a basis of % by weight. Example 1 - Isolation of chromosomal DNA: Bacilluε sp. KSM-AP1378 which produces alkaline amylopullulanase was inoculated into 5 ml of medium A (Table 1) and subjected to shaking culture at 30°C for 24 hours. One ml of the culture was inoculated in 100 ml of the same medium, followed by shaking culture at 30°C for a further 12 hours. Subsequently, cells were centrifugally collected and about 1 mg of chromosomal DNA was obtained in accordance with a method proposed by Saito and Miura (Saito, H. and Miura K. , Biochim Biophys. Acta, 72, 619 (1963)). Table 1 Composition of medium A Pullulan 1.0% Tryptone 0.2% Yeast extract 0.1% KH 2 P0 4 0.03% (NH 4 ) 2 S0 4 0.1% MgS0 4 •7H 2 0 0.02% CaCl 2 •2H 2 0 0.02% FeS0 4 •7H 2 0 0.001% MnCl 2 **4H 2 0 0.0001% Na 2 C0 3 0.5% (separately sterilized) pH: 10 Example 2 - Isolation of DNA fragment encoding alkaline puUulanase: The chromosomal DNA (10 μg) obtained in Example 1 was cleaved using a restriction enzyme PstI, after which a vector plasmid pBR322 (1 μg, Boehringer Mannheim) which had been cleaved likewise with PstI was added and a ligation reaction was caused using T4 DNA ligase, thereby producing a mixture of recombinant plasmids. A suspension of E. coli which had undergone transformation with the recombinant plasmid mixture was spread onto an LB agar plate medium (1.0% tryptone (Difco), 0.5% yeast extract (Difco), 1.0% NaCI, and 1.5% agar (Wako Pure Chemical)) containing 15 μg/ml of tetracycline and cultured at 37°C for 12 hours. On the colonies of transformed cells which emerged, 0.8% agar containing 0.2% pullulan, 0.8% red pullulan (Kanno, M. and Tomiura, E., Agric. Biol. Chem., 49, 1529 (1985)), 1 mg/ml of lysozyme, and a glycine-NaCl-NaOH buffer (pH 9.0) was overlaid and reaction was caused at 37 β C for 5 hours. As a result, a single strain was obtained which formed a transparent halo around a colony of the strain due to decomposition of red pullulan. This strain was isolated as a recombinant microorganism capable of producing alkaline puUulanase. Example 3 - Restriction map of plasmid with alkaline puUulanase DNA: The recombinant microorganism obtained in Example 2 was inoculated into 5 ml of an LB medium (1.0% tryptone (Difco), 0.5% yeast extract (Difco), 1.0% NaCI) containing 15 μg/ml of tetracycline and cultured at 37°C overnight. Thereafter, the culture was transferred into 500 ml of an LB medium, followed by shaking culture for 24 hours. Cells were centrifugally collected from the culture, and about 500 mg of a recombinant plasmid was obtained using a standard method (Maniatis, T. et al., Molecular Cloning, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (1982)). From a restriction enzyme map of the resultant recombinant plasmid, it was found that the plasmid contained a PstI fragment (fragment A) of about 6.3 kb, as shown in Fig. 1. This plasmid was named pPUlOO. The E. coli HBlOl strain transformed with the plasmid pPUlOO was named HBlOl(pPUlOO) . Example 4 - Measurement of alkaline puUulanase activity: One ml of a culture of strain HBlOl(pPUl00) which had been cultured overnight using 5 ml of an LB medium (containing tetracycline) was inoculated into 100 ml of an LB medium (containing tetracycline), followed by shaking culture at 37°C for 24 hours. Subsequently, the cells collected through centrifugal separation were suspended in Tris-HCl buffer (pH 8.0) and the cells were disrupted by sonication. The cell debris was removed by centrifugal separation, and the supernatant was used as a cell-free extract. Similarly, a control cell-free extract was prepared using strain HBlOl(pBR322) . PuUulanase activity of these extracts was measured. The puUulanase activity was measured by first causing a reaction in a reaction mixture containing 40 mM glycine - NaCI - NaOH buffer (pH 10) and pullulan (final concentration = 0.25%) at 40°C for 30 minutes, and the resultant reducing sugar was quantitatively determined by the 3,5-dinitrosalicylic acid (DNS) method (Miller, G.L., et al., Anal. Biochem. , 2, 127 (I960)). The amount of enzyme which produces a quantity per minute of reducing sugar equivalent to 1 μmol of glucose is taken as 1 unit. As a result, puUulanase activity was detected in a cell-free extract of strain HBlOl(pPUlOO) . Further, when the optimum working pH of the produced puUulanase was measured, it was found that the puUulanase was in fact an alkaline puUulanase having the optimum working pH of pH 9.5. For the measurement of enzymatic activity, the following buffers (each at 40 mM) were used: pH 3.5-5.5: Acetate buffer pH 5.5-8.5: Tris-maleic acid buffer pH 8.5-10.5: Glycine-NaCl-NaOH buffer pH 10.5-11.0: Na 2 C0 3 -NaHC0 3 buffer Example 5 - Southern hybridization of alkaline amylopullulanase gene with PstI digested chromosomal DNAs of Bacilluε sp. KSM-AP1378: About 5 μg of pPUlOO was cleaved with a restriction enzyme PstI and was then subjected to electrophoresis on an agarose gel. From the gel, about 0.5 μg of a PstI fragment having a size of about 6.3 kb was isolated using a Geneclean kit (Biolol Inc.). The PstI fragment was labelled using a DNA labelling & detection kit (Boehringer Mannheim) to prepare a probe DNA. Independently, chromosomal DNAs (3 μg each) derived from Bacillus sp. KSM-AP1378 cleaved with PstI were subjected to electrophoresis on an agarose gel, and the DNA bands were transferred onto a nylon membrane (Amersham) using a method proposed by Southern (Southern, E.M. , J. Mol. Biol. , 98, 503 (1975)). Hybridization with the probe DNA was investigated using a DNA labelling & detection kit. As a result, in PstI cleavage products of chromosomal DNAs derived from the KSM-AP1378 strain, presence of a DNA fragment having a size of about 6.3 kb that hybridized with the probe DNA was detected as shown in Fig. 4. Thus, the PstI fragment having a size of about 6.3 kb contained in plasmid pPUlOO was confirmed to be originated from the chromosomal DNA of Bacillus sp. KSM-AP1378. Example 6 - Construction of plasmid containing DNA fragment encoding alkaline puUulanase: A recombinant plasmid pHYPUL was created by inserting, between the PstI site and the BamHI site of plasmid pHY300PLK, a fragment having a size of about 3.5 kb (fragment B, Fig. 1) and obtained by cleaving a PstI fragment having a size of about 6.3 kb contained in plasmid pPUlOO with BamHI. E. coli HBlOl was transformed with the thus-created recombinant plasmid, and puUulanase activity was measured through a method similar to that of Example 4. As a result, a puUulanase activity having an optimum working pH in the pH range from 9 to 10 was observed. Thus, the essential domain of alkaline puUulanase was elucidated to be a stretch of about 3.5 kb from the PstI site to the BamHI site. Example 7 - Sequencing of DNA fragments encoding alkaline puUulanase: Using the fragment B obtained in Example 6, a commercially available deletion kit (Kilosequence Deletion kit, Takara Shuzo), and two suitable restriction enzymes, recombinant plasmid DNAs containing resultant reduced fragments were created, and the nucleotide sequences of the inserted fragments were determined. Nucleotide sequence was determined using a DNA sequencer (Model 370A, Applied Biosystems) and Taq-Dydeoxy Cycle Sequencing kit (Applied Biosystems) in accordance with a method using a fluorescent primer (Smith, L.M. , et al., Nature, 321, 674 (1986)). By overlapping nucleotide sequences having sizes of about 300- 450 bp from respective DNA samples, the 3038 bp sequence on the PstI site side of fragment B was determined. As a result, the open reading frame (ORF) of the alkaline puUulanase gene was found to continue to the upstream side of the PstI site, which is a terminus of the obtained fragment having a size of about 6.3 kb. Restriction Mapping of the Alkaline Amylopullulanase Gene Example 8: Using a fragment of about 6.3 kb as shown in Fig. 1, a Pstl-Xial 1.5 kb fragment (fragment C) was created, and labelled in a manner similar to that described in Example 5 to prepare a probe DNA (probe 1). Separately, chromosomal DNAs derived from Bacilluε sp. KSM-AP1378 which had been cleaved with Xial (3 μg each) were subjected to electrophoresis on an agarose gel, and the resultant DNA bands were transferred onto a nylon membrane (Amersham) in a manner similar to that described in Example 5, followed by hybridization with the probe. As a result, probe 1 was found to hybridize with an Xial fragment having a size of about 2.3 kb, and from this, it was deduced that there exists an Xial site about 0.8 kb upstream of a 6.3 kb fragment Pεtl-Pεtl on the chromosomal DNA derived from the KSM-AP1378 strain (Fig. 1). The stretch from the PstI site to the Xial site having a length of about 0.8 kb was amplified using primers 1 and 2 (Figs. 1 and 6) each having 24 nucleotides and synthesized based on the nucleotide sequence determined in Example 7, circular DNAs (which were obtained through intramolecular ligation of chromosomal DNA of KSM-AP1378 cleaved with Xial) which served as templates, and a PCR kit (Applied Biosystems) in accordance with an inverse PCR method (Triglia, T. et al . , Nucleic Acids Res. , 16, 81 (1988); one cycle = 94°C x 1 min. + 55°C x 1 min. + 72"C x 3 min., 30 cycles). The sequence of the 0.8 kb fragment (fragment D) which had undergone the above amplification was determined in a manner similar to that described in Example 7. As a result, it was found that the ORF of alkaline puUulanase which continued from fragment C further extended to the upstream of fragment D (Fig. 1). Example 9: The fragment having a size of about 0.8 kb and stretching from Xial to PstI obtained in Example 8 was labelled in a manner similar to that described in Example 5 to prepare a probe DNA (probe 2). Separately, chromosomal DNAs derived from Bacillus sp. KSM-AP1378 which had been cleaved with EcoRI (3 μg each) were subjected to electrophoresis on an agarose gel, and the resultant DNA bands were transferred onto a nylon membrane (Amersham) in a manner similar to that described in Example 5, followed by hybridization with probe 2. From the size of a hybridized EcoRI fragment (3.6 kb, Fig. 7), it was deduced that there exists an EcoRI site 1.2 kb upstream of fragment D obtained in Example 8. The stretch from the Xial site to 1.2 kb upstream of this site was amplified using primers 3 and 4 (Figs. 1 and 6) having 24 nucleotides and synthesized based on the nucleotide sequence determined in Example 8 and circular DNAs (which were obtained through intramolecular ligation of chromosomal DNA of strain KSM-AP1378 cleaved with EcoRI) which served as templates in accordance with an inverse PCR method in a manner similar to that described in Example 8 (fragment E) . The sequence of the 1.2 kb fragment which had undergone the above amplification was determined in a manner similar to that described in Example 7. As a result, it was found that the ORF of alkaline puUulanase which continued from fragment D further extended to the upstream of fragment E. Example 10: The fragment E obtained in Example 9 was labelled in a manner similar to that described in Example 5 to prepare a probe DNA (probe 3) . In a manner similar to Examples 8 and 9, hybridization analysis was performed on Xial cleavage products of the chromosomal DNA derived from strain KSM- AP1378 (Fig. 8). As a result, as shown in Fig. 1, it was deduced that there exists an Xial site 1.1 kb upstream of the EcoRI site of fragment D in the chromosomal DNA derived from strain KSM-AP1378. The stretch from the EcoRI site to 1.1 kb upstream of this site was amplified using primers 5 and 6 (Figs. 1 and 6) each having 24 nucleotides and synthesized based on the nucleotide sequence determined in Example 9 and circular DNAs (which were obtained through intramolecular ligation of chromosomal DNA of strain KSM- AP1378 cleaved with Xial) which served as templates in accordance with an inverse PCR method in a manner similar to that described in Example 8. The sequence of the 1.1 kb fragment (fragment F) which had undergone the above amplification was determined in a manner similar to that described in Example 7. As a result, it was confirmed that the 5' region of the ORF of alkaline puUulanase gene which continued from fragment E existed in this fragment. The complete nucleotide sequence of the present gene and a deduced amino acid sequence are described in Sequence No. 2. Based on the fact that the putative sequence of Nos. 1 through 14 amino acids coincided with the sequence of amino terminus actually determined on Bacilluε sp. KSM-AP1378 using alkaline amylopullulanase, it was presumed that the present gene encoded alkaline amylopullulanase. Example 11: A 3.5 kb fragment (fragment G) containing an alkaline α-amylase domain of the alkaline amylopullulanase gene was amplified using primers A and B (Figs. 1 and 6) each having 25 nucleotides and synthesized based on the nucleotide sequence determined in Examples 7 and 10, the chromosomal DNA of strain KSM-AP1378 as a template, and a PCR kit (Applied Biosystems) in accordance with a PCR method (one cycle = 94°C x 1 min. + 55°C x 1 min. + 72°C x 3 min., 30 cycles) . The resultant DNA fragment was inserted into the Smal site of a pUC18 plasmid vector, and then subjected to transformation using commercially available E. coli HBlOl competent cells. The obtained transformants were replicated onto an LB medium containing 0.4% blue starch (Starch azure, Sigma) and 50 μg/ml of ampicillin, followed by culturing at 37 β C for 12 hours. A single strain which decomposed blue starch and thus formed a halo around its colony was isolated. In a manner similar to that described in Example 3, a plasmid (pAMYlOO) was prepared from this strain. Example 12 - Recombinant production of alkaline amylopullulanase: A recombinant plasmid mixture was prepared by ligating, using a T4 ligase, a 7.7 kb fragment obtained by cleaving a plasmid pHYPUL (Example 3) containing an alkaline puUulanase domain of the alkaline amylopullulanase and pAMYlOO (Example 11) containing the alkaline α-amylase domain of the same gene. E. coli HBlOl was transformed with the recombinant plasmid mixture, and each of transformants which emerged was replicated onto an LB medium containing 0.4% blue starch and 50 μg/ml of ampicillin and also onto another LB medium containing 0.8% red pullulan (Kanno, M. and Tomiura, E. , Agric. Biol. Chem. , 49, 1529 (1985)) and 50 μg/ml of ampicillin, followed by culturing for growth at 37 β C for 12 hours. A strain which formed a halo around its colony on both plates was isolated as a recombinant E. coli capable of producing the alkaline amylopullulanase. Example 13: Using the recombinant E. coli obtained in Example 12, about 500 μg of a recombinant plasmid was prepared in a manner similar to that described in Example 3. From a restriction enzyme map of the resultant recombinant plasmid, it was found that the plasmid contained a DNA fragment (fragment H) of about 7.0 kb as shown in Fig. 1. This plasmid was named pAPlOl (Fig. 2). E. coli HBlOl transformed with the plasmid pAPlOl was named HBlOl(pAPlOl) . Example 14: A cell-free extract was prepared using E. coli HBlOl(pAPlOl) in a manner similar to that described in Example 4. A control cell-free extract was also prepared using the HB101(pBR322) strain. α-Amylase and puUulanase activities of these extracts were measured. The α-amylase activity was measured by causing a reaction, at 50°C for 15 minutes, in a reaction mixture containing 50 mM glycine - NaCI - NaOH buffer (pH 10) and soluble starch, and the resultant reducing sugar was quantitatively determined by the DNS method. The puUulanase activity was measured in a manner similar to that described in Example 4. In both cases, the amount of enzyme which produced a quantity per minute of reducing sugar equivalent to 1 μmol of glucose was taken as 1 unit. As a result, α-amylase and puUulanase activities were detected in a cell-free extract of strain HBlOl(pAPlOl) . When the optimum working pHs of α-amylase and puUulanase were measured as described in Example 4, it was found that the maximum α-amylase activity and the maximum puUulanase activity were observed in pH ranges from 8 to 9 and from 9 to 10, respectively. Example 15 - Characterization of alkaline amylopullulanase: To 50 mg of an alkaline amylopullulanase enzyme (210 kDa; Japanese Patent Publication (kokoku) No. 6-32613) purified from a culture of Bacilluε sp. KSM-AP1378, 0.1 mg of papain (Sigma, 5 U/mg) was added and hydrolysis was allowed to proceed at 30 β C for 2 minutes. Subsequently, the reaction was stopped by the addition of 10 μg of antipain (Furuka) . The resulting decomposition product was fractionated using a DEAE 5PW column (7.5 mm x 7.5 cm; Tosoh) to obtain protein fragments with 114 kDa and 102 kDa. Measurement of enzymatic activities of these two protein fragments revealed that the 102 kDa protein fragment possessed only alkaline puUulanase activity and the 114 kDa protein fragment possessed only alkaline α-amylase activity. The N-terminus of the amino acid sequence of the 102 kDa protein fragment possessing only puUulanase activity was determined to have the sequence Thr-Val-Pro-Leu-Ala-Leu-Val- Ser-Gly-Glu-Val-Leu-Ser-Asp-Lys-Leu, which agreed perfectly with 1014th-1029th amino acids deduced from the nucleotide sequence described in Sequence No. 2. Similarly, the N- terminus of the amino acid sequence of the 114 kDa protein fragment possessing only α-amylase activity was determined to have the sequence Glu-Thr-Gly-Asp-Lys-Arg-Ile- Glu-Phe-Ser-Tyr-Glu-Arg-Pro, which agreed perfectly with lst-14th amino acids deduced from the nucleotide sequence described in Sequence No. 2. These results also proved that the present gene encodes an alkaline amylopullulanase protein having different active centers, i.e., active centers for puUulanase activity and for α-amylase activity. Example 16: The recombinant plasmid pAPlOl was introduced in B . εubtiliε ISW1214 and the transformed cells were grown at 31 "C for 60 hours, with shaking, in LB medium containing 15 μg/ml of tetraglycine. The alkaline amylopullulanase was found to be excreted at a level of 60 units per liter, in terms of the alkaline puUulanase activity. The expressed enzymes had pH optima of around 8-9 for the amylase activity and at 9.5 for the puUulanase activity, values close to the pH optima for the respective enzymatic activities of the alkaline amylopullulanase of Bacilluε sp. KSM-AP1378. The molecular mass of the expressed amylopullulanase protein was approximately 200-210 kDa by sodium dodecyl sulfate gel electrophoresis, a value close to the enzyme of strain KSM- AP1378. Reference Example 1: A Bacilluε sp. KSM-AP1378 strain which produces alkaline amylopullulanase was inoculated into 10 ml of medium A (Table 1) and subjected to shaking culture at 30°C for 2 days. Ten (10) ml of the culture was inoculated in 1 liter of the same medium, followed by shaking culture at 30°C for a further 3 days. Subsequently, cells were centrifugally processed to obtain a crude enzymatic liquid containing alkaline amylopullulanase. This crude enzymatic liquid was purified through various treatments including adsorption onto DEAE cellulose, affinity chromatography on a column of Sepharose-α-cyclodextrin, and gel filtration on a column of Sephacryl S-200 to obtain an electrophoretically homogeneous sample of the enzyme. Using a protein sequencer 476A (Applied Biosystems), the N-terminus of the amino acid sequence of this enzyme was determined to have the sequence Glu-Thr-Gly-Asp-Lys-Arg-Ile-Glu-Phe-Ser-Tyr-Glu-Arg-Pro. Reference Example 2: The optimum pHs for the α-amylase activity and puUulanase activity of alkaline amylopullulanase obtained in Reference example 1 were determined using a method described in Examples 4 and 14. As a result, the optimum pH for α-amylase activity was observed in the vicinity of pH 8.5, and that for puUulanase activity was observed in the vicinity of pH 9.5. Industrial Applicability: According to the present invention, it is possible to obtain a gene coding for alkaline amylopullulanase exhibiting the maximum activity in an alkaline pH range as well as a microorganism harboring such gene. Use of the present invention facilitates mass production of alkaline amylopullulanase. Alkaline amylopullulanase is characteristic in that it has different active centers, one for α-amylase and one for puUulanase, in a single protein of the enzyme. Sequence Listing Information for Sequence No. 1: (i) Sequence Characteristics: (A) Length: 1938 amino acids (B) Type: amino acid (D) Topology: linear (ii) Molecule Type: peptide (xi) Sequence Description: Sequence No. 1: Met Lys Lys Arg Phe Gin Arg Gly Met Ala Gly Leu Leu Ser lie Leu -30 -25 -20 Leu He Val Ser Met Phe Ala Gly Tyr Leu Pro Ala Arg Ala Ala Ala -15 -10 -5 Glu Thr Gly Asp Lys Arg He Glu Phe Ser Tyr Glu Arg Pro Asp Gly 1 5 10 15 Asn Tyr Glu Gly Trp Asn Leu Trp Val Trp Gly Thr Gly Val Lys Asp 20 25 30 Asp Gin He Asp Phe Thr Glu Phe Lys Glu Gly Lys Ala Tyr Ala Asp 35 40 45 He Ala Val Ser Asp Asn Ala Asp Lys Val Gly Phe He He Arg Lys 50 55 ' 60 Gly Asp Trp Glu Glu Lys Asp Phe Asp Gly Asp Arg Ser He Thr He 65 70 75 80 Asn Lys He Asp Asn He Thr Lys Val His Val Thr Ser Gin Gin Glu 85 90 95 Lys Phe Gly Gin He Pro Asp Gly Ser Pro Pro Val Val Ala Asp Gly 100 105 110 Asn Ala Asp Phe Phe Phe Arg Asp Lys Glu Leu Tyr Ala Ala Gly Glu 115 120 125 Met Asp Lys Val Glu Lys Val Glu Leu Ser He Leu Gly Glu Lys Tyr 130 135 140 tilu Met Asn Gly Glu Pro Glu Lys Glu Arg Phe Thr Tyr Thr Leu Ser 145 150 155 160 Asp Leu Pro Thr Gly Glu His Glu Tyr Thr Tyr Leu Val Thr Val Asp 165 170 175 Gly Gin Thr Glu Glu Val Thr Asp Pro Tyr Asn Thr Val Asp Gly Arg 180 185 190 Ser Val Val Glu Tyr Val Thr Ser Asp Val Gin Val Ser Ala Ser Phe 195 200 205 He Pro Ala Lys Val Asp Tyr Asn Gin Asn Ala Val Val Lys Val Asp 210 215 220 He Glu Ser Glu Thr Glu Thr Lys He Arg Glu Met Ser He Asn Leu 225 230 235 240 Ser Glu He Gly Gly Lys Glu Lys Ala Thr He Asp Pro Ala Leu Asn 245 250 255 Glu Leu Thr Val Ala Val Lys Gin Gly Val Thr Ala Gly Val Lys Asn 260 265 270 Leu Pro He Thr Ala He Asp Glu Phe Gly Asn Arg His Glu Gly Ser 275 280 285 Ala Thr Leu Glu Val Gin Ala Arg Thr He Thr Gly Glu Lys Ala Asp 290 295 300 Phe Asp Trp Asp Gin Ser Val Val Tyr Phe Met Leu Thr Asp Arg Phe 305 310 315 320 Phe Asp Gly Asp Ser Ser Asn Asn Asp Pro His Gly He Gly Tyr Asp 325 330 335 Thr Ser Lys Ser Gly Thr Tyr Gin Gly Gly Asp Phe Lys Gly He Thr 340 345 350 Gin Arg Leu Asp Tyr Leu Asp Glu Leu Gly He Asn Thr He Trp He 355 360 365 Ser Pro Val Val Asp Asn He Lys Phe Asp Val Arg His Ser Glu Gly 370 375 380 Pro Asp Thr Pro Tyr Tyr Ala Tyr His Gly Tyr Trp Ala Asp Asn Phe 385 390 395 400 Gly Glu Leu Asn Pro His Phe Gly Ser Met Ala Asp Phe His Glu Met 405 410 415 He Asp Ala Ala His Glu Arg Gly He Lys He Met Val Asp Val Val 420 425 430 Leu Asn His Thr Gly Tyr Gly Leu Lys Pro Gly Asp Ser Ser Ser Val 435 440 445 Ala Asn Phe Pro Thr Asp Glu Asp Arg Ala Arg Phe Asp Gly Met Leu 450 455 460 Arg Asp Gly Gly Ser Gly Glu Val Arg Gly Glu Leu Ala Gly Leu Pro 465 470 475 480 Asp Phe Leu Thr Glu Asn Pro Asp Val Arg Glu Gin Val Val Gin Trp 485 490 495 Gin Thr Asp Trp He Glu Lys Ser Arg Thr Ala Lys Gly Asn Thr He 500 505 510 Asp Tyr Phe Arg Val Asp Thr Val Lys His Val Glu Asp Thr Thr Trp 515 520 525 Met Ala Phe Lys Asn Ala Leu Thr Lys Ala Met Pro Glu His Lys Leu 530 535 540 He Gly Glu Ala Trp Gly Ala Asn Val Asn Asp Asp Leu Gly Tyr Leu 545 550 555 560 Asn Ser Gly Met Met Asp Ser Leu Leu Asp Phe Asp Phe Lys Asn Tyr 565 570 575 Ala Arg Asp Phe Ala Asn Gly Gin Leu Asp Ala Val Gin Gin Lys Leu 580 585 590 Glu Ala Arg Asn Ser Lys Leu Asn Asn Thr Ala Thr Leu Gly Gin Phe 595 600 605 Leu bly _er His Asp Glu Asp Arg Phe Tyr Glu Val Val Glu Gly Asp 610 615 620 Leu Gly Lys Tyr Gin Val Ala Ala Ser Leu Gin Leu Thr Ala Lys Gly 625 630 635 640 Gin Pro Val He Tyr Tyr Gly Glu Glu Leu Gly Leu Pro Gly Lys Asn 645 650 655 Asp Tyr Pro Tyr Tyr Thr Asn Arg Gin Asn Met Pro Trp Asp Asp Val 660 665 670 Asp Gly Asn Glu He Leu Glu His Tyr Gin Lys Leu Leu Ala Phe Arg 675 680 685 Asn Asp Asn Pro Asn Thr Phe Ala Lys Gly Asp Arg Lys Lys Val Ala 690 695 700 Gly Ser Asp Ser Glu Gly Tyr Leu Leu Phe Ser Arg Thr Tyr Gly Glu 705 710 715 720 Asn-Ser Val Tyr Val Gly Leu Asn Thr Glu Ala Ala Ala Lys Asp Val 725 730 735 Thr Leu Asn Phe Gly Ser Ser Glu Ala Val Val Thr Asp Arg Tyr Ser 740 745 750 Gly Gin Glu Tyr Gin Ala Asn Glu Glu Gly Gin Val Thr Phe Ser He 755 760 765 Pro Ala Met Glu Asp Gly Gly Thr Val Leu Leu Glu Val Glu Asn Gly 770 775 780 Ala Val Pro Pro Val Glu Glu Glu Pro Thr Glu Pro Gly Glu He Glu 785 790 795 800 Glu Asn Thr Leu Arg He His Tyr Gin Arg Thr Asp Asn Ser Tyr Glu 805 810 815 Asn Leu Gly Leu Trp Leu Trp Gly Asp Val Ala Ala Pro Ser Glu Asn 820 825 830 Trp Pro Ser Gly Gly Thr Pro Phe Gin Ala Gly Asn Val Thr Asp Tyr 835 840 845 Gly Ala Tyr Val Asp Val Glu Leu Ala Glu Asp Ala Gin Asn He Gly 850 855 860 Phe Leu Val Leu Asn Thr Thr Asn Gly Asp Lys Asp Gly Gly Asp Lys 865 870 875 880 Ala Val Glu Leu Phe Ser Pro Asp Leu Asn Glu He Trp He Lys Gin 885 890 895 Gly Ser Asp Glu Val Phe Leu Tyr Glu Pro Val Asp Leu Pro Ala Asn 900 905 910 Thr Val Arg He His Tyr Glu Arg Thr Asn Ala Asp Tyr Glu Gly Trp 915 920 925 Gly Leu Trp Asn Trp Glu Asp Val Glu Ser Pro Ser Asp Gly Trp Pro 930 935 940 Asn Gly Ala Ala Asp Ala Ala Gly He Gly Lys Tyr Gly Ala Tyr Tyr 945 950 955 960 Asp He Lys Leu Lys Glu Asp Ala Asn Lys He Gly Phe Leu Phe Val 965 970 975 Asn Lys Gin Ser Gly Gly Gin Thr Gly Asp Met Thr Phe Asp Met Leu 980 985 990 Lys Gin Tyr Asn Gin Leu Phe Val Lys Glu Gly Glu Asp Lys Val Tyr 995 1000 1005 Thr Asn Pro Tyr Gly Thr Val Pro Leu Ala Leu Val Ser Gly Glu Val 1010 1015 1020 Leu Ser Asp Lys Leu He Ser Leu Thr Phe Thr Arg Thr Glu Gly Leu 1025 1030 1035 1040 Asp Leu Glu Glu Leu Lys Glu Gin Leu Glu He Lys Asp Val Asp Gly 1045 1050 1055 Asn Asp Val Ser Phe Thr Asp Val Thr He Glu Gly Glu Lys Thr Val 1060 1065 1070 His Val His Gly Glu Phe Asp Leu Glu Lys He Pro Phe Ser Val Thr 1075 1080 1085 Tyr Leu Asp Arg Thr He Ser Val Lys Ser Gly Trp Lys Leu He Asp 1090 1095 1100 Glu Met Tyr Ala Tyr Asp Gly Lys Leu Gly Ala Glu Leu His Glu Asp 1105 1110 1115 1120 Gly Thr Ala Thr Leu Lys Val Trp Ser Pro Lys Ala Asp Asn Val Ser 1125 1130 1135 Val Val Leu Tyr Asp Lys Val Asp Gin Asn Glu Val Val Asp Thr He 1140 1145 1150 Glu Met Val Lys Gly Asp Arg Gly Val Trp Ser Val Lys Leu Thr Lys 1155 1160 1165 Asp Asn Thr Gly Leu Asp Ser Leu Lys Gly Tyr Tyr Tyr His Tyr Glu 1170 1175 1180 He Thr His Gly Asp Val Thr Asn Leu Ala Leu Asp Pro Tyr Ala Lys 1185 1190 1195 1200 Ser Met Ala Ala Trp Asn Asn Glu Ala Gly Asp Lys Val Gly Lys Ala 1205 1210 1215 Ala He Val Asp He Gly Ser He Gly Pro Glu Leu Asp Tyr Ala Asp 1220 1225 1230 He Pro Gly Phe Glu Lys Arg Glu Asp Thr He He Tyr Glu Val His ' 1235 1240 1245 Val Arg Asp Phe Thr Ser Asp Pro Asn He Gly Glu Asp Leu Lys Ala 1250 1255 1260 Gin Phe Gly Thr Phe Ala Ser Phe Val Glu Lys Leu Asp Tyr He Gin 1265 1270 1275 1280 Glu Leu Gly Val Thr His He Gin Leu Leu Pro Val Met Ser Tyr Tyr 1285 1290 1295 Phe Ser Asn Glu Phe Glu Ser Gly Glu Arg Met Leu Glu Tyr Ala Ser 1300 1305 1310 Thr Gly Thr Asn Tyr Asn Trp Gly Tyr Asp Pro His Asn Tyr Phe Ser 1315 1320 1325 Leu Ser Gly Met Tyr Ser Glu Asn Pro Glu Asp Pro Glu Leu Arg He 1330 1335 1340 Lys Glu Phe Lys Asn Leu He Asn Glu He His Lys Arg Asp Met Gly 1345 1350 1355 1360 Val Val Leu Asp Val Val Phe Asn His Thr Ala Gin Val His He Phe 1365 1370 1375 Glu Asp Leu Val Pro Asn Tyr Tyr His Phe Met Asp Ala Asp Gly Thr 1380 1385 1390 Pro Arg Thr Ser Phe Gly Gly Gly Arg Leu Gly Thr Thr His Glu Met 1395 1400 1405 Ser Arg Arg Val Leu Val Asp Ser He Lys His Trp Val Asp Glu Tyr 1410 1415 1420 Lys Val Asp Gly Phe Arg Phe Asp Met Met Gly Asp His Asp Ala Glu 1425 1430 1435 1440 Ser He Gin He Ala Phe Asp Glu Ala Lys Lys Leu Asn Pro Asn He 1445 1450 1455 Val Met He Gly Glu Gly Trp Val Thr Phe Ala Gly Asp Glu Gly Glu 1460 1465 1470 Pro Val Gin Ala Ala Asp Gin Gin Trp Met Gin Tyr Thr Glu Ala Val 1475 1480 1485 Gly Ser Phe Ser Asp Glu Phe Arg Asn Glu Leu Lys Ser Gly Phe Gly 1490 1495 1500 Ser Glu Gly Gin Pro Arg Phe He Thr Gly Gly Ala Val Asn Val Gin 1505 1510 1515 1520 Gin He Phe Asp Asn He Lys Ala Gin Pro His Asn Phe Met Ala Asp 1525 1530 1535 Gin Pro Gly Asp Val Val Gin Tyr He Glu Ala His Asp Asn Leu Thr 1540 1545 1550 Leu Tyr Asp Val He Ala Gin Ser He Lys Lys Asp Pro Glu He Ala 1555 1560 1565 Glu Asn Asp Leu Glu He His Lys Arg He Arg Val Gly Asn Ala Met 1570 1575 1580 Val Leu Thr Ser Gin Gly Thr Ala Phe Leu His Ala Gly Gin Glu Phe 1585 1590 1595 1600 Gly Arg Thr Lys Gin Trp Arg Ala Pro Ala Thr Glu Ala Pro Tyr Lys 1605 1610 1615 Ser Thr Tyr Met Thr Asp Ala Asp Gly Asn Pro Phe Val Tyr Pro Tyr 1620 1625 1630 Phe He His Asp Ser Tyr Asp Ser Ser Asp He He Asn Arg Phe Asp 1635 1640 1645 Trp Glu Lys Ala Thr Asp Ala Glu Lys Tyr Pro Val Asn Asn Val Thr 1650 1655 1660 Arg Asp Tyr Thr Ala Gly Leu He Glu Leu Arg Arg Ser Ser Asp Ala 1665 1670 1675 1680 Phe Arg Leu Gly Ser Arg Glu Leu Val Asp Ser Asn Val Thr Met Val 1685 1690 1695 Asp Ala Pro Glu He Lys Glu Gin Asp Leu Val Val Ala Tyr Arg Ser 1700 1705 1710 Val Ser Thr Ala Gly Val Glu Tyr Tyr Thr Phe Val Asn Ala Asp Thr 1715 1720 1725 Ser Ser Arg Thr Leu Thr Leu Gly Gin Asp Leu Thr Glu Gly Val Val 1730 1735 1740 Val Val Asp Ala Glu Glu Ala Asn Val Ala Gly Val Ala Glu Pro Ala 1745 1750 1755 1760 Gly Phe Glu Leu Thr Ala Glu Gly He Thr Leu Glu Pro Leu Thr Thr 1765 1770 1775 Val Val Val Arg Val Gly Glu Gin Glu Gly Thr Asp Pro Gly Asp Gly 1780 1785 1790 Asp Gly Asp Gly Asn Thr Pro Pro Pro Gly Asp Gly Asp Gly Asp Gly 1795 1800 1805 Asn Thr Pro Pro Pro Gly Asp Gly Asp Gly Asp Gly Asn Thr Pro Pro 1810 1815 1820 Pro Gly Asn Gly Asn Gly Asn Asn Pro Gly Thr Pro Pro Gly Lys Gly 1825 1830 1835 1840 Gly Glu Asn Pro Gly Lys Gly Lys Asn Asp Lys Thr Pro Pro Gly Lys 1845 1850 1855 Gly Gly Asp Asn Pro Gly Lys Gly Asn Lys Leu Pro Leu Thr Ala Thr 1860 1865 1870 Gly Thr Leu Asn Tyr He Leu Phe Gly Ala He Met Leu Val Leu Gly 1875 1880 1885 Thr Leu Leu Tyr Leu Gly Val Arg Arg Lys Ala Gly Leu Lys Glu Lys 1890 1895 1900 Thr Leu 1905 Information for Sequence No. 2: (i) Sequence Characteristics: (A) Length: 6142 base pairs (B) Type: nucleic acid (C) Strandedness: double (D) Topology: linear (ii) Molecule Type: DNA (genomic) (vi) Original Source: (A) Organism: bacillus sp. (B) Strain: KSM-AP1378 (xi) Sequence Description: Sequence No. 2: TCTA GATGTGCAAT TTTGCGCAAA 24 CGATTTCACA TTTACATAAA CAATCTTGGC ATCAATTAAA TTATTTATTG TGCAACTTTG 84 TGCAAACGCT TCCACATTTT AGCAAGAAAT GCAAATCATT GTATGGAAAG GGGCAGGGAT 144 ATG AAG AAA AGG TTT CAA AGG GGT ATG GCT GGT TTA CTT TCT ATT TTA 192 Met Lys Lys Arg Phe Gin Arg Gly Met Ala Gly Leu Leu Ser He Leu -30 -25 -20 CTT ATT GTT TCC ATG TTT GCA GGC TAT CTA CCG GCA AGA GCA GCG GCC 240 Leu He Val Ser Met Phe Ala Gly Tyr Leu Pro Ala Arg Ala Ala Ala -15 -10 -5 GAA ACG GGA GAC AAG CGG ATA GAA TTC AGT TAT GAA CGG CCA GAT GGA 288 Glu Thr Gly Asp Lys Arg He Glu Phe Ser Tyr Glu Arg Pro Asp Gly 1 5 10 15 AAT TAT GAA GGC TGG AAT TTA TGG GTC TGG GGA ACT GGT GTG AAG GAT 336 Asn Tyr Glu Gly Trp Asn Leu Trp Val Trp Gly Thr Gly Val Lys Asp 20 25 30 GAC CAG ATA GAC TTT ACA GAA TTC AAG GAA GGC AAG GCA TAT GCC GAC 384 Asp Gin He Asp Phe Thr Glu Phe Lys Glu Gly Lys Ala Tyr Ala Asp 35 40 45 ATA GCA GTA AGC GAT AAT GCG GAT AAA GTC GGT TTC ATT ATC CGT AAA 432 He Ala Val Ser Asp Asn Ala Asp Lys Val Gly Phe He He Arg Lys 50 55 60 GGG GAT TGG GAA GAA AAG GAC TTT GAT GGG GAC AGG TCG ATT ACG ATC 480 Gly Asp Trp Glu Glu Lys Asp Phe Asp Gly Asp Arg Ser He Thr He 65 70 75 80 AAT AAG ATC GAT AAC ATC ACC AAA GTG CAT GTA ACA AGC CAG CAG GAA 528 Asn Lys He Asp Asn He Thr Lys Val His Val Thr Ser Gin Gin Glu 85 90 95 AAA TTC GGG CAA ATT CCT GAC GGC AGC CCA CCT GTT GTT GCG GAC GGG 576 Lys Phe Gly Gin He Pro Asp Gly Ser Pro Pro Val Val Ala Asp Gly 100 105 110 AAT GCT GAC TTC TTT TTC CGT GAT AAA GAA CTG TAC GCA GCA GGA GAA 624 Asn Ala Asp Phe Phe Phe Arg Asp Lys Glu Leu Tyr Ala Ala Gly Glu 115 120 125 ATG GAT AAG GTT GAG AAA GTC GAA CTG TCC ATT TTA GGC GAA AAA TAC 672 Met Asp Lys Val Glu Lys Val Glu Leu Ser He Leu Gly Glu Lys Tyr 130 135 140 GAG ATG AAT GGT GAG CCG GAA AAG GAG CGT TTT ACA TAT ACA TTA AGC 720 Glu Met Asn Gly Glu Pro Glu Lys Glu Arg Phe Thr Tyr Thr Leu Ser 145 150 155 160 GAT CTT CCT ACA GGC GAG CAT GAA TAT ACT TAT TTG GTG ACA GTG GAT 768 Asp Leu Pro Thr Gly Glu His Glu Tyr Thr Tyr Leu Val Thr Val Asp 165 170 175 GGA CAG ACA GAG GAA GTT ACC GAT CCA TAT AAC ACG GTG GAT GGA AGG 816 Gly Gin Thr Glu Glu Val Thr Asp Pro Tyr Asn Thr Val Asp Gly Arg 180 185 190 TCT GTT GTG GAG TAT GTG ACA TCC GAT GTG CAA GTA TCG GCT TCA TTT 864 Ser Val Val Glu Tyr Val Thr Ser Asp Val Gin Val Ser Ala Ser Phe 195 200 205 ATA CCC GCA AAG GTT GAT TAT AAC CAG AAC GCT GTG GTG AAG GTA GAC 912 He Pro Ala Lys Val Asp Tyr Asn Gin Asn Ala Val Val Lys Val Asp 210 215 220 ATC GAA TCA GAA ACG GAG ACA AAA ATC CGT GAG ATG TCT ATC AAT CTT 960 He Glu Ser Glu Thr Glu Thr Lys He Arg Glu Met Ser He Asn Leu 225 230 235 240 TCA GAA ATC GGC GGC AAA GAG AAA GCA ACC ATT GAT CCT GCG CTG AAT 1008 Ser Glu He Gly Gly Lys Glu Lys Ala Thr He Asp Pro Ala Leu Asn 245 250 255 GAA TTG ACA GTT GCG GTC AAG CAA GGT GTG ACG GCA GGT GTG AAA AAC 1056 Glu Leu Thr Val Ala Val Lys Gin Gly Val Thr Ala Gly Val Lys Asn 260 265 270 TTG CCT ATC ACT GCG ATT GAT GAA TTC GGA AAT CGC CAT GAG GGA TCT 1104 Leu Pro He Thr Ala He Asp Glu Phe Gly Asn Arg His Glu Gly Ser 275 280 285 GCT ACC TTA GAA GTT CAG GCG CGT ACT ATT ACA GGT GAA AAA GCA GAT 1152 Ala Thr Leu Glu Val Gin Ala Arg Thr He Thr Gly Glu Lys Ala Asp 290 295 300 TTC GAC TGG GAT CAG TCT GTG GTT TAT TTT ATG CTG ACA GAT CGA TTC 1200 Phe Asp Trp Asp Gin Ser Val Val Tyr Phe Met Leu Thr Asp Arg Phe 305 310 315 320 TTT GAT GGG GAT TCA TCG AAC AAT GAC CCT CAT GGT ATT GGC TAT GAC 1248 Phe Asp Gly Asp Ser Ser Asn Asn Asp Pro His Gly He Gly Tyr Asp 325 330 335 ACA AGC AAG TCT GGT ACA TAC CAA GGC GGA GAT TTT AAG GGG ATC ACG 1296 Thr Ser Lys Ser Gly Thr Tyr Gin Gly Gly Asp Phe Lys Gly He Thr 340 345 350 CAA AGG CTT GAT TAC TTG GAC GAG CTT GGA ATC AAT ACG ATC TGG ATC 1344 Gin Arg Leu Asp Tyr Leu Asp Glu Leu Gly He Asn Thr He Trp He 355 360 365 AGT CCG GTT GTC GAT AAT ATC AAA TTT GAT GTT CGA CAC AGT GAA GGA 1392 Ser Pro Val Val Asp Asn He Lys Phe Asp Val Arg His Ser Glu Gly 370 375 380 CCT GAT ACA CCA TAT TAT GCT TAC CAC GGC TAT TGG GCG GAT AAT TTC 1440 Pro Asp Thr Pro Tyr Tyr Ala Tyr His Gly Tyr Trp Ala Asp Asn Phe 385 390 395 400 GGG GAA TTG AAC CCG CAT TTC GGT TCC ATG GCG GAT TTC CAT GAA ATG 1488 Gly Glu Leu Asn Pro His Phe Gly Ser Met Ala Asp Phe His Glu Met 405 410 415 ATT GAT GCG GCA CAT GAA CGC GGC ATT AAA ATC ATG GTT GAT GTG GTG 1536 He Asp Ala Ala His Glu Arg Gly He Lys He Met Val Asp Val Val 420 425 430 TTG AAT CAC ACT GGT TAT GGA TTG AAA CCA GGT GAC AGC AGC AGT GTG 1584 Leu Asn His Thr Gly Tyr Gly Leu Lys Pro Gly Asp Ser Ser Ser Val 435 440 445 GCG AAC TTC CCG ACA GAT GAG GAC CGA GCT CGC TTT GAC GGA ATG CTT 1632 Ala Asn Phe Pro Thr Asp Glu Asp Arg Ala Arg Phe Asp Gly Met Leu 450 455 460 CGT GAT GGC GGA TCT GGT GAA GTT CGA GGC GAG CTT GCT GGC CTT CCA 1680 Arg Asp Gly Gly Ser Gly Glu Val Arg Gly Glu Leu Ala Gly Leu Pro 465 470 475 480 GAT TTT CTG ACG GAA AAC CCG GAT GTC CGT GAA CAG GTG GTG CAA TGG 1728 Asp Phe Leu Thr Glu Asn Pro Asp Val Arg Glu Gin Val Val Gin Trp 485 490 495 CAG ACG GAC TGG ATC GAA AAG TCC AGG ACG GCA AAG GGC AAC ACC ATC 1776 Gin Thr Asp Trp He Glu Lys Ser Arg Thr Ala Lys Gly Asn Thr He 500 505 510 GAT TAT TTC CGT GTC GAC ACC GTC AAG CAT GTG GAA GAC ACC ACT TGG 1824 Asp Tyr Phe Arg Val Asp Thr Val Lys His Val Glu Asp Thr Thr Trp 515 520 525 ATG GCG TTT AAA AAT GCT TTG ACA AAA GCG ATG CCG GAA CAC AAG CTG 1872 Met Ala Phe Lys Asn Ala Leu Thr Lys Ala Met Pro Glu His Lys Leu 530 535 540 ATT GGG GAA GCA TGG GGA GCA AAT GTC AAT GAC GAC CTA GGT TAT CTG 1920 He Gly Glu Ala Trp Gly Ala Asn Val Asn Asp Asp Leu Gly Tyr Leu 545 550 555 560 AAC AGC GGA ATG ATG GAT TCT TTA CTG GAT TTT GAT TTC AAA AAT TAT 1968 Asn Ser Gly Met Met Asp Ser Leu Leu Asp Phe Asp Phe Lys Asn Tyr 565 570 575 GCC CGT GAC TTT GCA AAC GGA CAG CTG GAT GCG GTT CAG CAA AAA CTT 2016 Ala Arg Asp Phe Ala Asn Gly Gin Leu Asp Ala Val Gin Gin Lys Leu 580 585 590 GAG GCG CGT AAC AGC AAG TTG AAC AAT ACT GCA ACA CTT GGT CAA TTT 2064 Glu Ala Arg Asn Ser Lys Leu Asn Asn Thr Ala Thr Leu Gly Gin Phe 595 600 605 TTA GGA AGC CAT GAC GAA GAC CGC TTC TAT GAG GTG GTG GAA GGA GAC 2112 Leu Gly Ser His Asp Glu Asp Arg Phe Tyr Glu Val Val Glu Gly Asp 610 615 620 CTT GGC AAG TAT CAA GTT GCT GCA TCC CTT CAA CTG ACG GCA AAG GGT 2160 Leu Gly Lys Tyr Gin Val Ala Ala Ser Leu Gin Leu Thr Ala Lys Gly 625 630 635 640 CAG CCT GTT ATC TAT TAC GGA GAA GAG CTG GGC TTG CCT GGT AAG AAC 2208 Gin Pro Val He Tyr Tyr Gly Glu Glu Leu Gly Leu Pro Gly Lys Asn 645 650 655 GAT TAT CCG TAT TAT ACG AAC CGC CAG AAC ATG CCT TGG GAT GAT GTG 2256 Asp Tyr Pro Tyr Tyr Thr Asn Arg Gin Asn Met Pro Trp Asp Asp Val 660 665 670 GAT GGT AAT GAA ATT CTA GAG CAT TAT CAA AAA TTA CTG GCA TTC CGT 2304 Asp Gly Asn Glu He Leu Glu His Tyr Gin Lys Leu Leu Ala Phe Arg 675 680 685 AAT GAT AAT CCG AAC ACA TTT GCT AAA GGA GAC CGC AAA AAG GTA GCG 2352 Asn Asp Asn Pro Asn Thr Phe Ala Lys Gly Asp Arg Lys Lys Val Ala 690 695 700 GGA TCT GAC AGT GAA GGA TAT CTT TTA TTT TCA CGG ACG TAC GGG GAA 2400 Gly Ser Asp Ser Glu Gly Tyr Leu Leu Phe Ser Arg Thr Tyr Gly Glu 705 710 715 720 AAT TCC GTT TAT GTA GGT TTG AAT ACG GAA GCT GCT GCG AAA GAC GTA 2448 Asn Ser Val Tyr Val Gly Leu Asn Thr Glu Ala Ala Ala Lys Asp Val 725 730 735 ACC TTG AAC TTC GGT TCT TCA GAA GCA GTG GTG ACG GAC CGC TAT TCC 2496 Thr Leu Asn Phe Gly Ser Ser Glu Ala Val Val Thr Asp Arg Tyr Ser 740 745 750 GGT CAG GAG TAC CAA GCA AAT GAA GAA GGC CAA GTG ACG TTC TCT ATT 2544 Gly Gin Glu Tyr Gin Ala Asn Glu Glu Gly Gin Val Thr Phe Ser He 755 760 765 CCG GCG ATG GAA GAC GGG GGA ACG GTC CTG CTT GAA GTG GAA AAT GGA 2592 Pro Ala Met Glu Asp Gly Gly Thr Val Leu Leu Glu Val Glu Asn Gly 770 775 780 GCA GTG CCA CCT GTG GAG GAA GAA CCA ACT GAG CCA GGT GAA ATC GAA 2640 Ala Val Pro Pro Val Glu Glu Glu Pro Thr Glu Pro Gly Glu He Glu 785 790 795 800 GAA AAC ACG CTT CGG ATT CAC TAC CAG CGC ACA GAC AAC AGC TAC GAA 2688 Glu Asn Thr Leu Arg He His Tyr Gin Arg Thr Asp Asn Ser Tyr Glu 805 810 815 AAC CTT GGT CTA TGG TTA TGG GGA GAC GTC GCG GCA CCA TCT GAA AAC 2736 Asn Leu Gly Leu Trp Leu Trp Gly Asp Val Ala Ala Pro Ser Glu Asn 820 825 830 TGG CCA TCA GGC GGC ACA CCG TTC CAA GCA GGT AAT GTA ACA GAC TAT 2784 Trp Pro Ser Gly Gly Thr Pro Phe Gin Ala Gly Asn Val Thr Asp Tyr 835 840 845 GGT GCA TAT GTC GAT GTG GAA TTG GCA GAA GAT GCT CAA AAT ATT GGA 2832 Gly Ala Tyr Val Asp Val Glu Leu Ala Glu Asp Ala Gin Asn He Gly 850 855 860 TTC CTT GTT TTG AAC ACC ACA AAC GGT GAC AAG GAC GGC GGC GAC AAA 2880 Phe Leu Val Leu Asn Thr Thr Asn Gly Asp Lys Asp Gly Gly Asp Lys 865 870 . 875 880 GCA GTA GAA TTG TTC AGT CCG GAT TTA AAT GAG ATT TGG ATC AAA CAA 2928 Ala Val Glu Leu Phe Ser Pro Asp Leu Asn Glu He Trp He Lys Gin 885 890 895 GGC TCT GAT GAA GTA TTT TTA TAT GAA CCG GTG GAC CTT CCG GCA AAT 2976 Gly Ser Asp Glu Val Phe Leu Tyr Glu Pro Val Asp Leu Pro Ala Asn 900 905 910 ACG GTC CGC ATT CAT TAT GAA AGA ACC AAT GCC GAC TAT GAA GGC TGG 3024 Thr Val Arg He His Tyr Glu Arg Thr Asn Ala Asp Tyr Glu Gly Trp 915 920 925 GGG TTA TGG AAC TGG GAG GAT GTC GAG TCC CCA TCT GAC GGG TGG CCG 3072 Gly Leu Trp Asn Trp Glu Asp Val Glu Ser Pro Ser Asp Gly Trp Pro 930 935 940 AAC GGT GCC GCA GAT GCT GCA GGT ATC GGT AAA TAC GGT GCT TAC TAC 3120 Asn Gly Ala Ala Asp Ala Ala Gly He Gly Lys Tyr Gly Ala Tyr Tyr 945 950 955 . 960 GAC ATC AAG CTG AAA GAA GAT GCT AAT AAA ATT GGT TTC CTT TTT GTG 3168 Asp He Lys Leu Lys Glu Asp Ala Asn Lys He Gly Phe Leu Phe Val 965 970 975 AAC AAA CAA TCT GGT GGC CAA ACG GGA GAT ATG ACG TTT GAT ATG CTG 3216 Asn Lys Gin Ser Gly Gly Gin Thr Gly Asp Met Thr Phe Asp Met Leu 980 985 990 AAA CAA TAC AAC CAA CTT TTT GTA AAA GAG GGC GAG GAC AAG GTC TAC 3264 Lys Gin Tyr Asn Gin Leu Phe Val Lys Glu Gly Glu Asp Lys Val Tyr 995 1000 1005 ACC AAT CCT TAC GGG ACC GTG CCA TTG GCG CTT GTG TCT GGA GAG GTA 3312 Thr Asn Pro Tyr Gly Thr Val Pro Leu Ala Leu Val Ser Gly Glu Val 1010 1015 1020 TTG TCA GAC AAG TTG ATC AGT CTT ACT TTT ACC AGG ACA GAA GGA TTG 3360 Leu Ser Asp Lys Leu He Ser Leu Thr Phe Thr Arg Thr Glu Gly Leu 1025 1030 1035 1040 GAT TTG GAG GAA TTG AAA GAA CAG CTA GAA ATC AAG GAT GTG GAC GGG 3408 Asp Leu Glu Glu Leu Lys Glu Gin Leu Glu He Lys Asp Val Asp Gly 1045 1050 1055 AAC GAT GTT TCG TTT ACA GAT GTG ACA ATT GAA GGC GAG AAA ACG GTC 3456 Asn Asp Val Ser Phe Thr Asp Val Thr He Glu Gly Glu Lys Thr Val 1060 1065 1070 CAT GTC CAC GGC GAG TTT GAC TTG GAG AAA ATC CCG TTC TCT GTG ACC 3504 His Val His Gly Glu Phe Asp Leu Glu Lys He Pro Phe Ser Val Thr 1075 1080 1085 TAT CTG GAC CGC ACC ATT TCT GTA AAA TCA GGC TGG AAA CTG ATC GAC 3552 Tyr Leu Asp Arg Thr He Ser Val Lys Ser Gly Trp Lys Leu He Asp 1090 1095 1100 GAA ATG TAT GCC TAT GAT GGA AAG CTT GGG GCA GAA TTG CAT GAA GAC 3600 Glu Met Tyr Ala Tyr Asp Gly Lys Leu Gly Ala Glu Leu His Glu Asp 1105 1110 1115 1120 GGG ACG GCT ACT TTG AAA GTA TGG TCG CCA AAA GCG GAC AAT GTG TCT 3648 Gly Thr Ala Thr Leu Lys Val Trp Ser Pro Lys Ala Asp Asn Val Ser 1125 1130 1135 GTT GTA CTT TAT GAC AAA GTT GAC CAG AAC GAG GTT GTA GAC ACC ATT 3696 Val Val Leu Tyr Asp Lys Val Asp Gin Asn Glu Val Val Asp Thr He 1140 1145 1150 GAA ATG GTA AAA GGG GAC CGC GGT GTC TGG TCT GTA AAG CTA ACT AAG 3744 Glu Met Val Lys Gly Asp Arg Gly Val Trp Ser Val Lys Leu Thr Lys 1155 1160 1165 GAT AAT ACA GGC CTT GAT AGT TTG AAA GGT TAC TAT TAC CAC TAT GAA 3792 Asp Asn Thr Gly Leu Asp Ser Leu Lys Gly Tyr Tyr Tyr His Tyr Glu 1170 1175 1180 ATC ACG CAT GGT GAC GTA ACG AAT CTT GCT CTA GAT CCG TAT GCC AAA 3840 He Thr His Gly Asp Val Thr Asn Leu Ala Leu Asp Pro Tyr Ala Lys 1185 1190 1195 1200 TCA ATG GCG GCG TGG AAT AAC GAA GCG GGG GAC AAG GTA GGA AAA GCG 3888 Ser Met Ala Ala Trp Asn Asn Glu Ala Gly Asp Lys Val Gly Lys Ala 1205 1210 1215 GCG ATC GTG GAC ATC GGC TCC ATT GGG CCT GAG CTT GAT TAT GCC GAC 3936 Ala He Val Asp He Gly Ser He Gly Pro Glu Leu Asp Tyr Ala Asp 1220 1225 1230 ATC CCT GGC TTT GAA AAG CGC GAA GAC ACC ATC ATC TAC GAG GTG CAT 3984 He Pro Gly Phe Glu Lys Arg Glu Asp Thr He He Tyr Glu Val His 1235 1240 1245 GTA CGT GAC TTC ACT TCC GAC CCG AAT ATC GGT GAG GAC CTG AAG GCA 4032 Val Arg Asp Phe Thr Ser Asp Pro Asn He Gly Glu Asp Leu Lys Ala 1250 1255 1260 ' CAG TTC GGT ACA TTT GCT TCT TTC GTG GAA AAG CTG GAT TAC ATT CAA 4080 Gin Phe Gly Thr Phe Ala Ser Phe Val Glu Lys Leu Asp Tyr He Gin 1265 1270 1275 1280 GAG TTA GGT GTC ACT CAC ATT CAA TTG TTG CCT GTG ATG AGC TAT TAT 4128 Glu Leu Gly Val Thr His He Gin Leu Leu Pro Val Met Ser Tyr Tyr 1285 1290 1295 TTC AGC AAT GAA TTT GAG TCT GGG GAG CGC ATG CTG GAG TAT GCT TCA 4176 Phe Ser Asn Glu Phe Glu Ser Gly Glu Arg Met Leu Glu Tyr Ala Ser 1300 1305 1310 ACG GGG ACG AAT TAC AAT TGG GGC TAT GAC CCG CAC AAT TAC TTC TCC 4224 Thr Gly Thr Asn Tyr Asn Trp Gly Tyr Asp Pro His Asn Tyr Phe Ser 1315 1320 1325 TTA TCC GGC ATG TAC TCC GAA AAC CCT GAG GAC CCG GAA CTG AGA ATC 4272 Leu Ser Gly Met Tyr Ser Glu Asn Pro Glu Asp Pro Glu Leu Arg He 1330 1335 1340 AAA GAA TTC AAG AAT CTG ATC AAC GAG ATT CAT AAG CGC GAC ATG GGT 4320 Lys Glu Phe Lys Asn Leu He Asn Glu He His Lys Arg Asp Met Gly 1345 1350 1355 1360 GTG GTA CTT GAT GTG GTG TTT AAC CAC ACC GCA CAG GTT CAC ATT TTC 4368 Val Val Leu Asp Val Val Phe Asn His Thr Ala Gin Val His He Phe 1365 1370 1375 GAG GAC CTT GTA CCA AAC TAC TAT CAC TTC ATG GAT GCG GAC GGA ACC 4416 Glu Asp Leu Val Pro Asn Tyr Tyr His Phe Met Asp Ala Asp Gly Thr 1380 1385 1390 CCA AGA ACT AGC TTT GGC GGT GGA CGT CTT GGA ACG ACA CAT GAA ATG 4464 Pro Arg Thr Ser Phe Gly Gly Gly Arg Leu Gly Thr Thr His Glu Met 1395 1400 1405 TCC CGC CGT GTG CTC GTA GAT TCC ATC AAG CAT TGG GTG GAT GAA TAT 4512 Ser Arg Arg Val Leu Val Asp Ser He Lys His Trp Val Asp Glu Tyr 1410 1415 1420 AAG GTG GAC GGA TTC CGT TTT GAC ATG ATG GGT GAC CAT GAT GCA GAG 4560 Lys Val Asp Gly Phe Arg Phe Asp Met Met Gly Asp His Asp Ala Glu 1425 1430 1435 1440 AGT ATT CAG ATT GCT TTT GAC GAA GCC AAA AAA TTG AAC CCG AAT ATC 4608 Ser He Gin He Ala Phe Asp Glu Ala Lys Lys Leu Asn Pro Asn He 1445 1450 1455 GTC ATG ATC GGG GAA GGC TGG GTA ACA TTT GCT GGT GAC GAG GGC GAG 4656 Val Met He Gly Glu Gly Trp Val Thr Phe Ala Gly Asp Glu Gly Glu 1460 1465 1470 CCG GTC CAG GCG GCC GAT CAA CAA TGG ATG CAA TAT ACC GAA GCA GTG 4704 Pro Val Gin Ala Ala Asp Gin Gin Trp Met Gin Tyr Thr Glu Ala Val 1475 1480 1485 GGT AGC TTC TCG GAT GAA TTC CGC AAC GAG CTG AAA TCC GGT TTC GGA 4752 Gly Ser Phe Ser Asp Glu Phe Arg Asn Glu Leu Lys Ser Gly Phe Gly 1490' 1495 1500 AGC GAA GGA CAG CCA CGT TTC ATC ACA GGT GGC GCG GTC AAT GTG CAA 4800 Ser Glu Gly Gin Pro Arg Phe He Thr Gly Gly Ala Val Asn Val Gin 1505 1510 1515 1520 CAA ATT TTC GAT AAC ATC AAA GCA CAG CCT CAT AAC TTT ATG GCC GAT 4848 Gin He Phe Asp Asn He Lys Ala Gin Pro His Asn Phe Met Ala Asp 1525 1530 1535 CAA CCA GGC GAT GTG GTC CAA TAC ATC GAG GCC CAT GAC AAC CTG ACG 4896 Gin Pro Gly Asp Val Val Gin Tyr He Glu Ala His Asp Asn Leu Thr 1540 1545 1550 TTA TAC GAT GTC ATC GCA CAA TCT ATC AAA AAA GAT CCG GAA ATC GCG 4944 Leu Tyr Asp Val He Ala Gin Ser He Lys Lys Asp Pro Glu He Ala 1555 1560 1565 GAA AAC GAT TTA GAG ATT CAT AAG CGT ATT CGC GTG GGT AAT GCC ATG 4992 Glu Asn Asp Leu Glu He His Lys Arg He Arg Val Gly Asn Ala Met 1570 1575 1580 GTC TTG ACG TCT CAA GGT ACG GCA TTC TTA CAC GCA GGA CAG GAA TTT 5040 Val Leu Thr Ser Gin Gly Thr Ala Phe Leu His Ala Gly Gin Glu Phe 1585 1590 1595 1600 GGT CGT ACA AAG CAA TGG AGA GCA CCT GCA ACG GAG GCA CCG TAC AAG 5088 Gly Arg Thr Lys Gin Trp Arg Ala Pro Ala Thr Glu Ala Pro Tyr Lys 1605 1610 1615 TCT ACG TAT ATG ACA GAT GCT GAT GGC AAT CCG TTC GTG TAT CCA TAT 5136 Ser Thr Tyr Met Thr Asp Ala Asp Gly Asn Pro Phe Val Tyr Pro Tyr 1620 1625 1630 TTC ATC CAC GAT TCC TAT GAT TCC TCG GAT ATC ATC AAT CGT TTT GAT 5184 Phe He His Asp Ser Tyr Asp Ser Ser Asp He He Asn Arg Phe Asp 1635 164C 1645 TGG GAA AAA GCG ACA GAT GCC GAG AAA TAC CCT GTC AAC AAT GTG ACA 5232 Trp Glu Lys Ala Thr Asp Ala Glu Lys Tyr Pro Val Asn Asn Val Thr 1650 1655 1660 CGT GAC TAC ACG GCA GGC TTG ATC GAG CTG CGT CGT TCA TCT GAT GCT 5280 Arg Asp Tyr Thr Ala Gly Leu He Glu Leu Arg Arg Ser Ser Asp Ala 1665 1670 1675 1680 TTC CGT TTA GGT TCT CGT GAA TTG GTC GAT TCC AAT GTG ACA ATG GTT 5328 Phe Arg Leu Gly Ser Arg Glu Leu Val Asp Ser Asn Val Thr Met Val 1685 1690 1695 GAT GCC CCG GAA ATC AAG GAG CAG GAT CTC GTT GTT GCC TAC CGC AGT 5376 Asp Ala Pro Glu He Lys Glu Gin Asp Leu Val Val Ala Tyr Arg Ser 1700 1705 1710 GTT TCG ACT GCC GGT GTG GAG TAT TAC ACA TTC GTG AAT GCG GAC ACT 5424 Val Ser Thr Ala Gly Val Glu Tyr Tyr Thr Phe Val Asn Ala Asp Thr 1715 1720 1725 TCC AGT AGA ACA TTG ACC TTA GGG CAG GAT TTG ACA GAG GGC GTA GTG 5472 Ser Ser Arg Thr Leu Thr Leu Gly Gin Asp Leu Thr Glu Gly Val Val 1730 1735 1740 GTG GTC GAT GCA GAA GAG GCT AAT GTA GCC GGT GTA GCT GAG CCT GCT 5520 Val Val Asp Ala Glu Glu Ala Asn Val Ala Gly Val Ala Glu Pro Ala 1745 1750 1755 1760 GGT TTC GAA TTG ACG GCA GAA GGC ATC ACA CTT GAG CCA TTG ACT ACG 5568 Gly Phe Glu Leu Thr Ala Glu Gly He Thr Leu Glu Pro Leu Thr Thr 1765 1770 1775 GTT GTC GTC CGT GTA GGC GAG CAG GAA GGG ACA GAC CCG GGT GAT GGG 5616 Val Val Val Arg Val Gly Glu Gin Glu Gly Thr Asp Pro Gly Asp Gly 1780 1785 1790 GAC GGC GAT GGC AAT ACG CCG CCA CCA GGC GAC GGC GAT GGC GAT GGA 5664 Asp Gly Asp Gly Asn Thr Pro Pro Pro Gly Asp Gly Asp Gly Asp Gly 1795 1800 1805 AAC ACG CCA CCA CCA GGG GAT GGG GAT GGC GAT GGA AAC ACG CCT CCT 5712 Asn Thr Pro Pro Pro GlyAsp Gly Asp Gly Asp Gly Asn Thr Pro Pro 1810 1815 1820 CCA GGC AAC GGT AAT GGC AAT AAT CCA GGA ACA CCA CCA GGA AAG GGT 5760 Pro Gly Asn Gly Asn Gly Asn Asn Pro Gly Thr Pro Pro Gly Lys Gly 1825 1830 1835 1840 GGA GAA AAC CCT GGT AAA GGC AAA AAC GAC AAA ACA CCG CCT GGC AAA 5808 Gly Glu Asn Pro Gly Lys Gly Lys Asn Asp Lys Thr Pro Pro Gly Lys 1845 1850 1855 GGT GGG GAC AAT CCA GGT AAG GGG AAC AAG CTA CCA CTT ACC GCA ACC 5856 Gly Gly Asp Asn Pro Gly Lys Gly Asn Lys Leu Pro Leu Thr Ala Thr 1860 1865 1870 GGA ACA CTT AAT TAC ATC CTG TTT GGT GCA ATA ATG TTG GTT CTT GGG 5904 Gly Thr Leu Asn Tyr He Leu Phe Gly Ala He Met Leu Val Leu Gly 1875 1880 1885 ACG CTG CTG TAT CTA GGG GTC AGA AGA AAA GCA GGA TTG AAA GAA AAA 5952 Thr Leu Leu Tyr Leu Gly Val Arg Arg Lys Ala Gly Leu Lys Glu Lys 1890 1895 1900 ACC TTA TAA AAACAACGGA AAAGTGTGGC AGGGGAATAT CCCGCCACAC 6001 Thr Leu 1905 TTTTTCGTTA TTATAAGGCA TTATTTGCTT GTAGATTAAG GATTCGCTAT 6051 AGGTTATTTT GTGTAACGTA CATTACTTTT CCGTTGGGCC ATATTTATTT 6101 TCCATACCGC TCATTTTTCT TTTCCATTGG GACCACATTT A 6142 Information for Sequence No. 3: (i) Sequence Characteristics: (A) Length: 801 amino acids (B) Type: amino acid (D ) Topology: linear ( ii ) Molecule Type: peptide ( xi ) Sequence Description: Sequence No . 3 : Met Lys Lys Arg Phe Gin Arg Gly Met Ala Gly Leu Leu Ser He Leu -30 -25 -20 Leu He Val Ser Met Phe Ala Gly Tyr Leu Pro Ala Arg Ala Ala Ala -15 -10 -5 Glu Thr Gly Asp Lys Arg He Glu Phe Ser Tyr Glu Arg Pro Asp Gly 1 5 10 15 Asn Tyr Glu Gly Trp Asn Leu Trp Val Trp Gly Thr Gly Val Lys Asp 20 25 30 Asp Gin He Asp Phe Thr Glu Phe Lys Glu Gly Lys Ala Tyr Ala Asp 35 40 45 He Ala Val Ser Asp Asn Ala Asp Lys Val Gly Phe He He Arg Lys 50 55 60 Gly Asp Trp Glu Glu Lys Asp Phe Asp Gly Asp Arg Ser He Thr He 65 70 75 80 Asn Lys He Asp Asn He Thr Lys Val His Val Thr Ser Gin Gin Glu 85 90 95 Lys Phe Gly Gin He Pro Asp Gly Ser Pro Pro Val Val Ala Asp Gly 100 105 110 Asn Ala Asp Phe Phe Phe Arg Asp Lys Glu Leu Tyr Ala Ala Gly Glu 115 120 125 Met Asp Lys Val Glu Lys Val Glu Leu Ser He Leu Gly Glu Lys Tyr 130 135 140 Glu Met Asn Gly Glu Pro Glu Lys Glu Arg Phe Thr Tyr Thr Leu Ser 145 150 155 160 Asp Leu Pro Thr Gly Glu His Glu Tyr Thr Tyr Leu Val Thr Val Asp 165 170 175 Gly Gin Thr Glu Glu Val Thr Asp Pro Tyr Asn Thr Val Asp Gly Arg 180 185 190 Ser Val Val Glu Tyr Val Thr Ser Asp Val Gin Val Ser Ala Ser Phe 195 200 205 He Pro Ala Lys Val Asp Tyr Asn Gin Asn Ala Val Val Lys Val Asp 210 215 220 He Glu Ser Glu Thr Glu Thr Lys He Arg Glu Met Ser He Asn Leu 225 230 235 240 Ser Glu He Gly Gly Lys Glu Lys Ala Thr He Asp Pro Ala Leu Asn 245 250 255 Glu Leu Thr Val Ala Val Lys Gin Gly Val Thr Ala Gly Val Lys Asn 260 265 270 Leu Pro He Thr Ala He Asp Glu Phe Gly Asn Arg His Glu Gly Ser 275 280 285 Ala Thr Leu Glu Val Gin Ala Arg Thr He Thr Gly Glu Lys Ala Asp 290 295 300 Phe Asp Trp Asp Gin Ser Val Val Tyr Phe Met Leu Thr Asp Arg Phe 305 310 315 320 Phe Asp Gly Asp Ser Ser Asn Asn Asp Pro His Gly He Gly Tyr Asp 325 330 335 Thr Ser Lys Ser Gly Thr yr Gin Gly Gly Asp Phe Lys Gly He Thr 340 345 350 Gin Arg Leu Asp Tyr Leu Asp Glu Leu Gly He Asn Thr He Trp He 355 360 365 Ser Pro Val Val Asp Asn He Lys Phe Asp Val Arg His Ser Glu Gly 370 375 380 Pro Asp Thr Pro Tyr Tyr Ala Tyr His Gly Tyr Trp Ala Asp Asn Phe 385 390 395 400 Gly Glu Leu Asn Pro His Phe Gly Ser Met Ala Asp Phe His Glu Met 405 410 415 He Asp Ala Ala His Glu Arg Gly He Lys He Met Val Asp Val Val 420 425 430 Leu Asn His Thr Gly Tyr Gly Leu Lys Pro Gly Asp Ser Ser Ser Val 435 440 445 Ala Asn Phe Pro Thr Asp Glu Asp Arg Ala Arg Phe Asp Gly Met Leu 450 455 460 Arg Asp Gly Gly Ser Gly Glu Val Arg Gly Glu Leu Ala Gly Leu Pro 465 470 475 480 Asp Phe Leu Thr Glu Asn Pro Asp Val Arg Glu Gin Val Val Gin Trp 485 490 495 Gin Thr Asp Trp He Glu Lys Ser Arg Thr Ala Lys Gly Asn Thr He 500 505 510 Asp Tyr Phe Arg Val Asp Thr Val Lys His Val Glu Asp Thr Thr Trp 515 520 525 Met Ala Phe Lys Asn Ala Leu Thr Lys Ala Met Pro Glu His Lys Leu 530 535 540 He Gly Glu Ala Trp Gly Ala Asn Val Asn Asp Asp Leu Gly Tyr Leu 545 550 555 560 Asn Ser Gly Met Met Asp Ser Leu Leu Asp Phe Asp Phe Lys Asn Tyr 565 570 575 Ala Arg Asp Phe Ala Asn Gly Gin Leu Asp Ala Val Gin Gin Lys Leu 580 585 590 Glu Ala Arg Asn Ser Lys Leu Asn Asn Thr Ala Thr Leu Gly Gin Phe 595 600 605 Leu Gly Ser His Asp Glu Asp Arg Phe Tyr Glu Val Val Glu Gly Asp 610 615 620 Leu Gly Lys Tyr Gin Val Ala Ala Ser Leu Gin Leu Thr Ala Lys Gly 625 630 635 640 Gin Pro Val He Tyr Tyr Gly Glu Glu Leu Gly Leu Pro Gly Lys Asn 645 650 655 Asp Tyr Pro Tyr Tyr Thr Asn Arg Gin Asn Met Pro Trp Asp Asp Val 660 665 ' 670 Asp Gly Asn Glu He Leu Glu His Tyr Gin Lys Leu Leu Ala Phe Arg 675 680 685 Asn Asp Asn Pro Asn Thr Phe Ala Lys Gly Asp Arg Lys Lys Val Ala 690 695 700 Gly Ser Asp Ser Glu Gly Tyr Leu Leu Phe Ser Arg Thr Tyr Gly Glu 705 710 715 720 Asn Ser Val Tyr Val Gly Leu Asn Thr Glu Ala Ala Ala Lys Asp Val 725 730 735 Thr Leu Asn Phe Gly Ser Ser Glu Ala Val Val Thr Asp Arg Tyr Ser 740 745 750 Gly Gin Glu Tyr Gin Ala Asn Glu Glu Gly Gin Val Thr Phe Ser He 755 760 765 Pro Ala Met Glu Asp Gly Gly Thr Val Leu Leu Glu Val Glu Asn Gly 770 775 780 Ala Val Pro Pro Val Glu Glu Glu Pro Thr Glu Pro Gly Glu He Glu 785 790 795 800 Glu Information for Sequence No. 4: (i) Sequence Characteristics: (A) Length: 893 amino acids (B) Type: amino acid (D) Topology: linear (ii) Molecule Type: peptide (xi) Sequence Description: Sequence No. 4: Thr Val Pro Leu Ala Leu Val Ser Gly Glu Val Leu Ser Asp Lys Leu 1 5 10 15 He Ser Leu Thr Phe Thr Arg Thr Glu Gly Leu Asp Leu Glu Glu Leu 20 25 30 Lys Glu Gin Leu Glu He Lys Asp Val Asp Gly Asn Asp Val Ser Phe 35 40 45 Thr Asp Val Thr He Glu Gly Glu Lys Thr Val His Val His Gly Glu 50 55 60 Phe Asp Leu Glu Lys He Pro Phe Ser Val Thr Tyr Leu Asp Arg Thr 65 70 75 80 He Ser Val Lys Ser Gly Trp Lys Leu He Asp Glu Met Tyr Ala Tyr 85 90 95 Asp Gly Lys Leu Gly Ala Glu Leu His Glu Asp Gly Thr Ala Thr Leu 100 105 110 Lys Val Trp Ser Pro Lys Ala Asp Asn Val Ser Val Val Leu Tyr Asp 115 120 125 Lys Val Asp Gin Asn Glu Val Val Asp Thr He Glu Met Val Lys Gly 130 135 140 Asp Arg Gly Val Trp Ser Val Lys Leu Thr Lys Asp Asn Thr Gly Leu 145 150 155 160 Asp Ser Leu Lys Gly Tyr Tyr Tyr His Tyr Glu He Thr His Gly Asp 165 170 175 Val Thr Asn Leu Ala Leu Asp Pro Tyr Ala Lys Ser Met Ala Ala Trp 180 185 190 Asn Asn Glu Ala Gly Asp Lys Val Gly Lys Ala Ala He Val Asp He 195 200 205 Gly Ser He Gly Pro Glu Leu Asp Tyr Ala Asp He Pro Gly Phe Glu 210 215 220 Lys Arg Glu Asp Thr He He Tyr Glu Val His Val Arg Asp Phe Thr 225 230 235 240 Ser Asp Pro Asn He Gly Glu Asp Leu Lys Ala Gin Phe Gly Thr Phe 245 250 255 Ala Ser Phe Val Glu Lys Leu Asp Tyr He Gin Glu Leu Gly Val Thr 260 265 270 His He Gin Leu Leu Pro Val Met Ser Tyr Tyr Phe Ser Asn Glu Phe 275 280 285 Glu Ser Gly Glu Arg Met Leu Glu Tyr Ala Ser Thr Gly Thr Asn Tyr 290 295 300 Asn Trp Gly Tyr Asp Pro His Asn Tyr Phe Ser Leu Ser Gly Met Tyr 305 310 315 320 Ser Glu Asn Pro Glu Asp Pro Glu Leu Arg He Lys Glu Phe Lys Asn 325 330 335 Leu He Asn Glu He His Lys Arg Asp Met Gly Val Val Leu Asp Val 340 345 350 Val Phe Asn His Thr Ala Gin Val His He Phe Glu Asp Leu Val Pro 355 360 365 Asn Tyr Tyr His Phe Met Asp Ala Asp Gly Thr Pro Arg Thr Ser Phe 370 375 380 Gly Gly Gly Arg Leu Gly Thr Thr His Glu Met Ser Arg Arg Val Leu 385 390 395 400 Val Asp Ser He Lys His Trp Val Asp Glu Tyr Lys Val Asp Gly Phe 405 410 415 Arg Phe Asp Met Met Gly Asp His Asp Ala Glu Ser He Gin He Ala 420 425 430 Phe Asp Glu Ala Lys Lys Leu Asn Pro Asn He Val Met He Gly Glu 435 440 445 Gly Trp Val Thr Phe Ala Gly Asp Glu Gly Glu Pro Val Gin Ala Ala 450 455 460 Asp Gin Gin Trp Met Gin Tyr Thr Glu Ala Val Gly Ser Phe Ser Asp 465 470 475 480 Glu Phe Arg Asn Glu Leu Lys Ser Gly Phe Gly Ser Glu Gly Gin Pro 485 490 495 Arg Phe He Thr Gly Gly Ala Val Asn Val Gin Gin He Phe Asp Asn 500 505 510 He Lys Ala Gin Pro His Asn Phe Met Ala Asp Gin Pro Gly Asp Val 515 520 525 Val Gin Tyr He Glu Ala His Asp Asn Leu Thr Leu Tyr Asp Val He 530 535 540 Ala Gin Ser He Lys Lys Asp Pro Glu He Ala Glu Asn Asp Leu Glu 545 550 555 560 He His Lys Arg He Arg Val Gly Asn Ala Met Val Leu Thr Ser Gin 565 570 575 Gly Thr Ala Phe Leu His Ala Gly Gin Glu Phe Gly Arg Thr Lys Gin 580 585 590 Trp Arg Ala Pro Ala Thr Glu Ala Pro Tyr Lys Ser Thr Tyr Met Thr 595 600 605 Asp Ala Asp Gly Asn Pro Phe Val Tyr Pro Tyr Phe He His Asp Ser 610 615 620 Tyr Asp Ser Ser Asp He He Asn Arg Phe Asp Trp Glu Lys Ala Thr 625 630 635 640 Asp Ala Glu Lys Tyr Pro Val Asn Asn Val Thr Arg Asp Tyr Thr Ala 645 650 655 Gly Leu He Glu Leu Arg Arg Ser Ser Asp Ala Phe Arg Leu Gly Ser 660 665 670 Arg Glu Leu Val Asp Ser Asn Val Thr Met Val Asp Ala Pro Glu He 675 680 685 Lys Glu Gin Asp Leu Val Val Ala Tyr Arg Ser Val Ser Thr Ala Gly 690 695 700 Val Glu Tyr Tyr Thr Phe Val Asn Ala Asp Thr Ser Ser Arg Thr Leu 705 710 715 720 Thr Leu Gly Gin Asp Leu Thr Glu Gly Val Val Val Val Asp Ala Glu 725 730 735 Glu Ala Asn Val Ala Gly Val Ala Glu Pro Ala Gly Phe Glu Leu Thr 740 745 750 Ala Glu Gly He Thr Leu Glu Pro Leu Thr Thr Val Val Val Arg Val 755 760 765 Gly Glu Gin Glu Gly Thr Asp Pro Gly Asp Gly Asp Gly Asp Gly Asn 770 775 780 Thr Pro Pro Pro Gly Asp Gly Asp Gly Asp Gly Asn Thr Pro Pro Pro 785 790 795 800 Gly Asp Gly Asp Gly Asp Gly Asn Thr Pro Pro Pro Gly Asn Gly Asn 805 810 815 Gly Asn Asn Pro Gly Thr Pro Pro Gly Lys Gly Gly Glu Asn Pro Gly 820 825 830 Lys Gly Lys Asn Asp Lys Thr Pro Pro Gly Lys Gly Gly Asp Asn Pro 835 840 845 Gly Lys Gly Asn Lys Leu Pro Leu Thr Ala Thr Gly Thr Leu Asn Tyr 850 855 860 He Leu Phe Gly Ala He Met Leu Val Leu Gly Thr Leu Leu Tyr Leu 865 870 875 880 Gly Val Arg Arg Lys Ala Gly Leu Lys Glu Lys Thr Leu 885 890

Claims: Claims 1. A DNA fragment encoding an amylopullulanase which exhibits both alkaline puUulanase and alkaline α-amylase activities. 2. A DNA fragment as defined in Claim 1, which encodes the amino acid sequence of Sequence No. 1. 3. A DNA fragment encoding a protein exhibiting alkaline α-amylase activity and alkaline puUulanase activity and possessing an amino acid sequence described in Sequence No. 1 which has been modified in a manner in which one or more amino acids are substituted, added, deleted, inverted, or inserted. 4. Alkaline α-amylase having an amino acid sequence of Sequence No. 3. 5. A DNA fragment encoding alkaline α-amylase having an amino acid sequence of Sequence No. 3. 6. A DNA fragment encoding a protein exhibiting alkaline α-amylase activity and possessing an amino acid sequence described in Sequence No. 3 which has been modified in a manner in which one or more amino acids are substituted, added, deleted, inverted, or inserted. 7. An alkaline puUulanase having an amino acid sequence of Sequence No. 4. 8. A DNA fragment encoding alkaline puUulanase having an amino acid sequence of Sequence No. 4. 9. A DNA fragment encoding a protein exhibiting alkaline puUulanase activity and possessing an amino acid sequence described in Sequence No. 4 which has been modified in a manner in which one or more amino acids are substituted, added, deleted, inverted, or inserted. 10. A DNA fragment as defined in any one of Claims 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, or 9, which further comprises a nucleotide sequence capable of regulating expression of a gene. 11. A recombinant DNA containing a DNA fragment described in any one of Claims 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, or 10. 12. A transformed microorganism which contains a recombinant DNA of Claim 11. 13. A method for producing alkaline amylopullulanase, alkaline α-amylase, or alkaline puUulanase, comprising culturing the transformed microorganism of Claim 12 and isolating the alkaline amylopullulanase, alkaline α-amylase or alkaline puUulanase produced by the microorganism. 14. A DNA fragment which hybridizes to a DNA sequence which is complementary to Sequence No. 2. 15. A protein encoded by the DNA fragment of Claim 14. 16. A DNA fragment which hybridizes to a cDNA sequence which is complementary to Sequence No. 2, wherein said fragment encodes a protein having alkaline puUulanase activity and/or alkaline α-amylase activity. 17. A protein encoded by the DNA fragment of Claim 16.

Inventors: ARA KATSUTOSHI, HATADA YUJI, IGARASHI KAZUAKI, ITO SUSUMU, KAWAI SHUJI, OZAKI KATSUYA, ARA, KATSUTOSHI, HATADA, YUJI, IGARASHI, KAZUAKI, ITO, SUSUMU, KAWAI, SHUJI, OZAKI, KATSUYA
Applicants: ARA KATSUTOSHI, HATADA YUJI, IGARASHI KAZUAKI, ITO SUSUMU, KAO CORP, KAWAI SHUJI, OZAKI KATSUYA, ARA, KATSUTOSHI, HATADA, YUJI, IGARASHI, KAZUAKI, ITO, SUSUMU, KAO CORPORATION, KAWAI, SHUJI, OZAKI, KATSUYA
Application year: 1996
Main classification: C12N15
IPC codes: C12N1, C12N9, C12N15, C12R1