Purification, Characterization, and Application of Alkaline Protease Enzyme from a Locally Isolated Bacillus cereus Strain

Among the microbial enzymes protease and amylase are the most valuable enzymes which have been has diversified applications and used extensively because of their capabilities in the degradation of organic wastes, application in biofuels, agricultural, pharmaceuticals, chemical and biotechnological industries. The aim of the current research work was the purification, characterization and application of alkaline proteases extracted from Bacillus cereus AUST-7. Various concentrations of ammonium sulphate were applied for enzyme precipitation. Sephadex-G 100 was used in FPLC system for separation of protease from other proteins. SDS-PAGE was used to measure the molecular weight of required alkaline protease. Relative activities were determined against different pH, temperature, and incubation period to measure the enzymes activity. Stability of pH, temperature and various metal ions and inhibiter were also studied. Purified enzymes were applied on the goat skin to explore the dehairing efficacy. A 6.5 purification fold and 1163.50 U/mg of specific activity were obtained at 70% saturation and 35. 91 purification fold and 8902 U/mg of specific activity were observed after FPLC separation. The 35 kDa molecular size of protease enzyme was exhibited on the SDS-PAGE. The purified enzyme was stable at pH 10, temperature 55 °C and 35 min of incubation period. The purified enzyme was found to be stable at pH 8–11, thermo-stability at 50 °C and phenyl methyl sulphonyl fluoride (PMSF) and di-isopropyl fluorophosphates (DFP) inhibited the enzyme activity. The enzyme has good potential as dehairing agent in leather industries.

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