Extracellular proline aminopeptidase production by Streptomyces lavendulae ATCC14162 under solid-state fermentation

Abstract

This study presents extracellular Pro line aminopeptidase (PAP) production by Streptomyces lavendulae ATCC 14162 under solid state fermentation (SSF). After optimization of few significant parameters (particle size of selected substrate, inoculums size, initial moisture level and incubation time), maximum PAP production was found to be 83.07 IU/gds. This is the first report on extracellular PAP production using SSF by a Streptomyces culture.