A fungal isolate with capability to grow in keratinous substrate as only source of carbon and nitrogen was identified as Aspergillus niger using the sequencing of the ITS region of the rDNA. This strain produced a slightly acid keratinase and an acid protease during cultivation in feather meal. The peak of keratinolytic activity occurred in 48 h and the maximum proteolytic activity in 96 h. The...

Extracellular protease and lipase production by psychrotrophic strains of Pseudomonas fluorescens is repressed by iron and regulated by temperature. The regulation of protease and lipase has been investigated in P. fluorescens B52. Whereas lipase production is increased below the optimum growth temperature ('low-temperature regulation'), protease production was relatively constant and only decr...

The number and approximate molecular weights of extracellular alkaline proteases produced by Vibrio alginolyticus were determined by gelatin-PAGE. Three major bands of protease activity with apparent molecular weights of approximately 28 000, 22 500 and 19 500 (proteases 1, 2 and 3, respectively) and two minor bands of protease activity with apparent molecular weights of approximately 15 500 an...

The study is concerned with the isolation and screening of Aspergillus niger strains for the biosynthesis of acid protease using solid state fermentation. Thirteen A. niger strains capable of producing proteases were isolated from the soil. Of all the isolates, Aspergillus niger IHG9 was found to be the best producer of protease. Different agricultural by-products were evaluated as fermentation...

Article info: Received: 7 September 2015 Accepted: 19 October 2015 ABSTRACT Proteases are ubiquitous in occurrence and are found in all living organisms. These are essential for cell growth and differentiation. The extracellular proteases are of a high commercial value and find multiple applications in various industrial sectors. The present study describes the screening of protease producing b...

A new antagonistic bacterial strain PGPR2 was isolated from the mungbean rhizosphere and documented for the production of hydrolytic enzymes with antifungal activity. Based on the phylogenetic analysis of the 16S rRNA gene sequence and phenotyping, this strain was identified as Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Maximum protease activity (235 U/mL) was obtained at 24 h of fermentation. The protease was pu...

An alkaliphilic and salttolerant actinomycete, Streptomyces clavuligerus strain Mit-1, was isolated from Mithapur, the western coast of India. The organism was Gram-positive, having filamentous, long thread like structure. The sporulation started after two days of growth and the optimum level of alkaline protease (130 U/ ml) was produced during the early stationary phase. The strain could grow ...

An alkalophilic bacterium, Bacillus cereus produced an extracellular alkaline protease, which was found to be active at high temperature and pH range, suitable for commercial laundry detergents. B. cereus protease was partitioned in different aqueous two-phase systems such as PEG/dextran, PEG/potassium phosphate, PEG/sodium citrate, PEG/magnesium sulphate and PEG/sodium dihydrogen phosphate and...