Isolation and Identification of Thermostable Lactase-Producing Bacillus coagulans T242

Abstract:

Lactase from the thermophilic bacteria has the good characteristics of heat-stability, high production and low pollution, and can effectively solve people’s problem of “lactose intolerance”. In the present work, a thermostable lactase-producing strain was isolated from the fermenting sample in fermenting tank of a spice factory in Chinese city of Dalian. Base on morphological observation, physiological and biochemical tests and molecular identification, the thermostable lactase-producing strain T242 was identified as Bacillus coagulans. Moreover, investigation revealed that lactase from Bacillus coagulans T242 is an intracellular lactase hydrolyzing lactose into glucose and galactose inside of the bacterial cell, and the optimum approach for releasing lactase was the treatment with lysozyme followed by high concentration of NaCl.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 634-638)
• Pages: 1253-1258
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.634-638.1253
• Online since: January 2013
• Authors: Fang Qian, Shu Juan Jiang, Tao Liu, Guang Qing Mu
• Keywords: Bacillus coagulans, Identification, Isolation, Lactase

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