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EXTREMOPHILES
Volume 21, Issue 2, Pages 319-329Publisher
SPRINGER JAPAN KK
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-016-0904-0
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Coldactive enzymes; Polygalacturonases; Fruit juice clarification
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- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CONICET) [PIP 112-201101-00662]
- Agencia Nacional de Promocion Cientifica y Tecnologica [PICT 2014-1655]
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One hundred and three yeasts isolated from soil samples from King George Island and Tierra del Fuego province were screened in relation with their capability to produce pectinolytic enzymes. Although all the yeasts showed well-developed colonies at 20 degrees C, only eight showed a clear halo around the colony, indicative of pectin degradation. A secondary screening demonstrated that only four yeasts were capable to produce pectinases at low temperatures (8 degrees C). It could be seen that the selected yeasts were able to grow and produce high levels of polygalacturonase activity when submerged fermentations were performed using pectin-containing fruit wastes as substrates. None of the strains produced neither lyase nor rhamnogalacturonan hydrolase activities. Regarding pectin esterase activity, it was only produced in lower amounts by G. pullulans 8E (0.022 U ml(-1)). A TLC analysis of the substrate cleavage pattern of the pectinolytic systems was consistent with an endo-type activity. The clarification of apple juice was only accomplished by G. pullulans pectinolytic system, with a clarification of 80% (% T-650) using 4U/ml of enzyme at 20 degrees C. As far as we concern this work describes for the first time the production of pectinases by the coldadapted yeasts species Cystofilobasidium infirmominiatum, Cryptococcus adeliensis and G.pullulans.
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