in the present work, a new branch of biotechnological advantage of the latex of an endemic perennial plant, euphorbia microsciadia has been introduced. a novel cysteine protease, designated as microsciadin, was purified from the latex of euphorbia microsciadia by a combination of sequential usage of sp-sepharose fast flow column in two different phs and a final gel filtration chromatography. mi...

actinomycetes are an uncommon agent of human infections and its pathogenic factors are not known. the present study reports a rare case isolation of an actinomycete from a woman pleural fluid; the strain was identified by 16s rrna gene sequence analysis. this strain was tested to produce an extracellular protease that hydrolysis gelatin, casein and hemoglobin on agar mediums. the purification o...

the goal of this research was to isolate and identify the thermostable alkaline protease producing bacteria among several native iranian microorganisms. at the end of screening program, a bacillus subtilis bp-36 strain producing thermophilic alkaline protease was isolated from a hot spring in ardebil province. the target enzyme was purified using a one-step aqueous two-phase systems (atps) prot...

The purpose of this study is to improve the thermo-stabilty of alkaline protease produced by Bacillus sp. using rice bran during solid state fermentation. After partial purification of alkaline protease, various parameters namely effect of temperature and metal ions on enzyme activity was investigated. The suitable temperature for alkaline protease activity was observed at 50°C. Among various m...

The inducible extracellular alkaline protease of Neurospora crassa was demonstrated to be a glycoprotein containing D-galactose residues by use of the enzyme-lectin conjugate horseradish peroxidase-Ricinus communis-agglutinin-120. The carbohydrate moiety of the protease appears to be a poor antigen since an antiserum made to the native enzyme recognizes epitopes determined only by the polypepti...

A total number of  5520 female and  480 male breeders (Arbor Acres plus) at 42wks of age  were used in a 10-week-trial to investigate the effect of an enzyme complex on  the quality  and quantity of egg production as well as hatchability of broiler breeders fed a corn-soybean meal diet. There were two dietary treatment groups: a control group fed on a corn-soybean based diet, and the multi-enzy...

Alkaline protease from a mutant of Bacillus licheniformis Bl8 was purified from the culture supernatant by employing the methods such as ammonium sulphate precipitation, DEAE cellulose chromatography followed by Gel filtration using Sephadex G-100. The yield of the enzyme after purification was found to be 10%. Protease was found to be homogenous when examined by SDS-PAGE and the enzyme showed ...

The protease produced by Mucor pusillus was recovered from a wheat bran medium by treatment with ammonium sulfate, ethyl alcohol, gel filtration and ion-exchange chromatography. The yield of the enzyme was 55%. The overall increase in the specific activity of the protease was 34-fold. The purified protease was most active at pH 3.8 and 5.6 against hemoglobin and casein, respectively. Optimal hy...

After our previous purificational and optimisational studies on alkaline protease from a mutant of B. licheniformis Bl8, Characterisation of the purified enzyme was done from the culture supernatant by employing various parameters. The optimum pH and temperature for the activity of alkaline protease was previously found to be 10 and 50 0 C and stable in the pH range 5.0-12.0. The thermo stabili...