Laccase production by the white-rot fungus Termitomyces clypeatus

✍ Scribed by Shilpi Bose; Sharmishtha Mazumder; Mina Mukherjee

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 155 KB
• Volume: 47
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0233-111X
• DOI: 10.1002/jobm.200610206

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Laccase was detected in the culture filtrate of white‐rot fungus Termitomyces clypeatus. The enzyme was found at the late phase of submerged growth in a medium containing glucose or cellulose as the carbon source. The present study indicates that laccase produced by T. clypeatus is an intracellular enzyme, released in the medium due to cell lysis at the end of the growing phase. Laccase produced by T. clypeatus is different from the extracellular polyphenol oxidase of T. albuminosus, also produced at the late phase of growth. This is the first report of laccase production by a Termitomyces sp. (© 2007 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)