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ENZYME AND MICROBIAL TECHNOLOGY
Volume 39, Issue 5, Pages 1042-1050Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.enzmictec.2006.02.005
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Rhizopus homothallicus; thermophilic and thermotolerant fungi; solid state fermentation; submerged fermentation; lipase; purification
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Extracellular lipases were obtained from solid (SSF) and submerged (SmF) thermotolerant Rhizopus homothallicus fungus cell cultures and purified to homogeneity. The two enzymes are monomers having a molecular mass of 29.5 kDa and an identical protein structure, since the N-terminal sequences and peptide maps were identical. However, some of their properties are different, namely the specific activity on trioctanoin (8600 U/mg with SmF and 10,700 U/mg with SSF), the temperature at which maximum activity occurs (30 degrees C with SmF and 40 degrees C with SSF) and the thermal stability (half-lives at 50 degrees C of 0.44 h with SmF and 0.72 h with SSF). These differences between the kinetic properties suggest that when they were tested, one or both fungal lipases might still have been associated with non-proteic compounds originating from the culture medium. (c) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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