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ArticleEnzyme research2018

Extracellular Pectinase from a Novel Bacterium

Karabi Roy, Sujan Dey, Md Kamal Uddin, Rasel Barua, Md Towhid Hossain

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Article in Enzyme research, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 51 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Karabi RoyDepartment of Microbiology, University of Chittagong, Chittagong 4331, Bangladesh.ORCID 0000-0002-6860-6979
Sujan DeyDepartment of Microbiology, University of Chittagong, Chittagong 4331, Bangladesh.ORCID 0000-0002-9541-2459
Md Kamal UddinDepartment of Microbiology, University of Chittagong, Chittagong 4331, Bangladesh.ORCID 0000-0003-2831-9884
Rasel BaruaDepartment of Microbiology, University of Chittagong, Chittagong 4331, Bangladesh.
Md Towhid HossainDepartment of Microbiology, University of Chittagong, Chittagong 4331, Bangladesh.
University of Chittagong · BD

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pectinase is one of the important enzymes of industrial sectors. Presently, most of the pectinases are of plant origin but there are only a few reports on bacterial pectinases. The aim of the present study was to isolate a novel and potential pectinase producing bacterium as well as optimization of its various parameters for maximum enzyme production. A total of forty bacterial isolates were isolated from vegetable dump waste soil using standard plate count methods. Primary screening was done by hydrolysis of pectin. Pectinase activity was determined by measuring the increase in reducing sugar formed by the enzymatic hydrolysis of pectin. Among the bacterial isolates, the isolate K6 exhibited higher pectinase activity in broth medium and was selected for further studies. The selected bacterial isolate K6 was identified as

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