- Title
- Multifarious activities of cellulose degrading bacteria from Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) faeces
- Creator
- Singh, Surender; Thavamani, Palanisami; Megharaj, Mallavarapu; Naidu, Ravi
- Relation
- Journal of animal science and technology Vol. 57, Issue 23
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40781-015-0056-2
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- Cellulose degrading bacteria from koala faeces were isolated using caboxymethylcellulose-Congo red agar, screened in vitro for different hydrolytic enzyme activities and phylogenetically characterized using molecular tools. Bacillus sp. and Pseudomonas sp. were the most prominent bacteria from koala faeces. The isolates demonstrated good xylanase, amylase, lipase, protease, tannase and lignin peroxidase activities apart from endoglucanase activity. Furthermore many isolates grew in the presence of phenanthrene, indicating their probable application for bioremediation. Potential isolates can be exploited further for industrial enzyme production or in bioremediation of contaminated sites.
- Subject
- Koala; cellulase; enzymes; biofuel; phenanthrene
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1334502
- Identifier
- uon:27309
- Identifier
- ISSN:2055-0391
- Rights
- © 2015 Singh et al. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http:// creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
- Language
- eng
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