Characteristics of Protease Production by Cephalosporium sp

AUTOR(ES)

Kimura, Tetsu

RESUMO

We investigated protease formation by Cephalosporium sp. strain KM388, which produced trypsin inhibitor in the same cultures, in medium containing polypeptone, meat extract, and glucose (natural medium) and in medium containing NaNO3, glucose, and yeast extract (semisynthetic medium). In natural medium, protease was secreted into the culture broth after cessation of growth caused by consumption of the polypeptone, the growth-limiting substrate. Enzyme formation in the stationary growth phase was due to de novo and so-called preferential synthesis, because cycloheximide immediately inhibited enzyme formation. In semisynthetic medium, protease was produced in parallel with mycelial growth, but production was repressed by the addition of polypeptone to the medium; protease production began after the added polypeptone was consumed. On the other hand, if glucose was eliminated from natural medium, the lag period of initiation of enzyme production was reduced until the late exponential phase. The addition of phosphate up to a concentration of 1.0% to natural medium also shortened the lag period and damped the pH change of the broth during cultivation.

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