Isolation of cellulolytic bacteria and production of cellulase using different substrates

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Year 2016 Vol 5 Issue 2
Document Type : ORIGINAL ARTICLE
¹Madhuri N ²Vaishnavi Iyengar C.R. ³Meghana K ⁴Usha Rani R ⁵Varshitha N ⁶Hemavathy E*
¹Department of Biotechnology, Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni College for Women, Bengaluru- 560012, Karnataka, India
²Department of Biotechnology, Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni College for Women, Bengaluru- 560012, Karnataka, India
³Department of Biotechnology, Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni College for Women, Bengaluru- 560012, Karnataka, India
⁴Department of Biotechnology, Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni College for Women, Bengaluru- 560012, Karnataka, India
⁵Department of Biotechnology, Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni College for Women, Bengaluru- 560012, Karnataka, India
⁶Department of Biotechnology, Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni College for Women, Bengaluru- 560012, Karnataka, India
Abstract
Cellulase is an enzyme system that catalyzes the hydrolysis of cellulose into reducing sugars.
Cellulases are important industrial enzymes and have wide range of applications in industries such as food, brewery, wine, paper and pulp, textile, feed, detergent, in agriculture and in the production of bioethanol.
In this work, bacteria were isolated from cow dung and screened for the production of cellulase.

Keywords
Cellulase Cow dung Bacillus sp. Solid state fermentation Optimization Partial purification
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