Purification and properties of cellulase fromMicrococcus roseus

✍ Scribed by A. Sarkar; S. N. Upadhyay

• Book ID: 104723848
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 159 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1573-0972
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00327966

✦ Synopsis

The extracellular carboxymethyl cellulase (CMCase) was purified 17-fold from Micrococcus roseus, a symbiotic organism of higher termites. Purified CMCase had an M r of 45 kDa and was optimally active at pH 8.0 and 40°C. Carbohydrate was associated with it and cellobiose was a competitive inhibitor of its activity.