Muhammad Irshad, Zahid Anwar, Muhammad Ramzan, Zahed Mahmood, Haq Nawaz
Department of Biochemistry, NSMC, University of Gujrat, Gujrat, Pakistan.
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan.
Institute of Animal Nutrition & Feed Technology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan.
DOI: 10.4236/abb.2013.410124   PDF    HTML     3,519 Downloads   5,782 Views   Citations

Abstract

In the present study, solid state fermentation was carried out using orange peel waste to produce β-glucosidase from Trichoderma viride. A locally isolated fungal strain T. viride was cultured in the solid state medium of orange peel (50% w/w moisture) under optimized fermentation conditions and maximum activity of 515 ± 12.4 U/mL was recorded after 4^th day of incubation at pH 5.5 and 30℃. Indigenously produced β-glucosidase was subjected to the ammonium sulfate precipitation and Sephadex-G-100 gel filtration chromatography. In comparison to the crude extract β-glucosidase was 5.1-fold purified with specific activity of 758 U/mg. The enzyme was shown to have a relative molecular weight of 62 kDa as evidenced by sodium dodecyl sulphate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The purified β-glucosidase displayed 6 and 60℃ as an optimum pH and temperature respectively. 

Keywords

Orange Peel Waste; β-Glucosidase; T. viride; Purification; SDS-PAGE; Characterization

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