By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Life Science Weekly -- New research on Enzymes and Coenzymes is the subject of a report. According to news originating from Amritsar, India, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Proteases are one of the largest groups of hydrolytic enzymes constituting about 60% of total worldwide sales of industrial enzymes due to their wide applications in detergent, leather, textile, food and pharmaceutical industry. Microbial proteases have been preferred over animal and plant proteases because of their fundamental features and ease in production.”
Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Guru Nanak Dev University, “Bacillus infantis SKS1, an alkaline protease producing bacteria has been isolated from garden soil of north India and identified using morphological, biochemical and molecular methods. 16S rDNA sequence amplified using universal primers has 99% sequence identity with corresponding gene sequence of Bacillus infantis strain FM 34 and Bacillus sp. Beige. The bacterial culture and its 16S rDNA gene sequence have been deposited to Microbial Culture Collection (Pune, India) with accession number MCC 3035 and GenBank with accession number KR092197 respectively. The partially purified extract of Bacillus infantis SKS1 was thermostable and active in presence of Mg2+, acetyl acetone and laundry detergents implicating its application in industry. Production of these enzymes using this strain was maximized by optimization of various parameters including temperature, pH, media components and other growth conditions. Our results show that fructose and dextrose serve as the best carbon sources for production of these enzymes, highlighting the use of this strain for enzyme production utilizing relatively inexpensive substrates like beet molasses and corn steep liquor. Additionally, this strain showed maximum production of enzymes at 40?C similar to bacterial species used for commercial production of alkaline proteases.”
According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Characterization of alkaline proteases from this strain of Bacillus infantis and optimization of parameters for its production would help in understanding its industrial application and large-scale production.”
For more information on this research see: Characterization of thermostable alkaline proteases from Bacillus infantis SKS1 isolated from garden soil. Plos One , 2017;12(11):e0188724. (Public Library of Science - www.plos.org; Plos One - www.plosone.org)
The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from S.K. Saggu, Dept. of Biotechnology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Punjab, India.
The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0188724. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.
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CITATION: (2018-01-02), Reports Summarize Enzymes and Coenzymes Findings from Guru Nanak Dev University (Characterization of thermostable alkaline proteases from Bacillus infantis SKS1 isolated from garden soil), Life Science Weekly, 154, ISSN: 1552-2474, BUTTER® ID: 014912812
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