Although the production of proteolytic enzymes by different strains of Aspergillus oryzae has been investigated in submerged culture (5, 15), in static liquid culture (3, 11), and on solid substratum (8-10), there appear to be few reports pertaining to the comparative evaluation of these different methods on the elaboration of proteinases by specific strains of A. oryzae. K. Mogi (13) compared ...

A pot experiment was conducted with the single and combined doses of fungicides, plant extracts antagonist for management nine rice pathogens. total 13 treatments including controls or without inocula pathogen were tested. Amongst all only T6 (Bavistin + Azadirachta indica Trichoderma harzianum) showed highest percentage seed germination seedling vigor index seeds inoculated Alternaria alternat...

We have reported on high enzyme production by submerged culture of Aspergillus kawachii using barley with the husk (whole barley). To elucidate the mechanism underlying this high enzyme production, we performed a detailed analysis. Aspergillus oryzae RIB40 was submerged-cultured using whole barley and milled whole barley. Enzyme production was analyzed in terms of changes in medium components a...

Background Proteases are enzymes used in diversified process and industrial products, where the most important is the food sector and the detergent fabrication. The microbial obtention way is the most relevant, and the filamentous fungi are the main synthesis agents in industrial scale. [1]. The genres Conidiobolus, Verticillium, Penicillium e Aspergillus are reported as proteases producers. Th...

To characterize aspartyl aminopeptidase from Aspergillus oryzae, the recombinant enzyme was expressed in Escherichia coli. The enzyme cleaves N-terminal acidic amino acids. About 30% activity was retained in 20% NaCl. Digestion of defatted soybean by the enzyme resulted in an increase in the glutamic acid content, suggesting that the enzyme is potentially responsible for the release of glutamic...

Asperfuran is a novel antifungal dihydrobenzofuran derivative produced by a strain of Aspergillus oryzae. Asperfuran weakly inhibited chitin synthase from Coprinus cinereus. This inhibition could be abolished by the addition of egg lecithin. In the agar diffusion assay asperfuran induced morphological changes in Mucor miehei at very low concentrations (20 ng/disc) while growth was only partly i...

The amino acid sequence of the mheA gene of Aspergillus oryzae encodes a putative metallothionein-like protein 1. The size of the mheA transcript was 497 nt and the mheA promoter was induced by glucose, consistent with results of analysis by Northern hybridization and with the pdcA promoter, respectively.

β-Galactosidase from Aspergillus oryzae offers a high yield for the synthesis of oligosaccharides derived from lactulose (OsLu) by transgalactosylation. Oligosaccharides with degree of polymerization (DP) ≥ 3 have shown to possess higher in vitro bifidogenic effect than di- and tetrasaccharides. Thus, in this work, an optimization of reaction conditions affecting the specific selectivity of A. ...