Isolation, Screening, and Optimization of the Fermentation Conditions of Highly Cellulolytic Bacteria from the Hindgut of Holotrichia parallela Larvae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)
2012
Sheng, Ping | Huang, Shengwei | Wang, Qi | Wang, Ailing | Zhang, Hongyu
From the hindgut contents of Holotrichia parallela, 93 cellulolytic bacterial isolates were isolated after enrichment in carboxymethyl cellulose medium. Among these isolates, a novel bacterium, designated HP207, with the highest endoglucanase productivity was selected for further study. This bacterium was identified as Pseudomonas sp. based on the results of the 16S ribosomal DNA analysis, morphological characteristics, and biochemical properties. The production of the endoglucanase was optimized by varying various physical culture conditions using a submerged fermentation method. Under the optimized fermentation conditions, the maximum endoglucanase activity of 1.432 U mL−1 in bacterial cultures was obtained, higher than those of the most widely studied bacteria and fungi, which are the attractive candidates for the commercial producer of cellulase. And the crude endoglucanase enzyme was also highly thermostable; approximately 55 % of the original activity was maintained after pretreatment at 70 °C for 1 h. Thus, from the present study, the bacterium can be added up to the database of cellulolytic bacteria.
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