Recent developments in industrial biotechnology have resulted in the exploitation of new and undiscovered microorganisms and the devising of improved methods for enzyme production, which have led to increased yields of the enzyme, thus making a viable industrial process feasible. This review tracks the developments in the field of acidic and neutral protease production with regard to the producers, methods of production and their improvement, the product and its applications.
Jasmin, C; Sreeja, C; Rajeev K Sukumaran; Elyas, K K; Sarita, G. B; Chandrasekaran, M(Springer, 2010)
An alkaline protease gene (Eap) was isolated for the first time from a marine fungus, Engyodontium album. Eap consists of an open reading frame of 1,161 bp encoding a prepropeptide consisting of 387 amino acids with a ...
Sumantha, A; Deepa, P; Sandhya, C; Szakacs, G; Soccol, C R; Pandey, A(Instituto de Tecnologia do Paraná, 2006)
Rice bran was used as the substrate for screening nine strains of Rhizopus sp. for neutral protease production by solid-state fermentation. The best producer, Rhizopus microsporus NRRL 3671, was used for optimizing the ...
Raji, R; Dhar, K S; Nampoothiri, K M; Pandey, A(Institute of Food Technologists, 2012)
The aim of the present study was to evaluate the efficiency of amino peptidase (AP) from Streptomyces gedanensis to produce protein hydrolysates (PHs) with better antioxidant, nutritional, and functional properties and to ...
