Isolation and identification of marine strains of Stenotrophomona maltophilia with high chitinolytic activity

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Roger Salas-Ovilla¹  Didiana Gálvez-López¹  Alfredo Vázquez-Ovando¹  Miguel Salvador-Figueroa¹  Raymundo Rosas-Quijano¹ 

[1] Instituto de Biociencias, Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas

关键词: Chitinolytic strains;    Seawater;    Chitinases;    Specific activity;    Shrimp residues;   

DOI  :  10.7717/peerj.6102

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Inra

【 摘 要 】

Chitin is the second most abundant organic compound in nature and represents a rich carbon and nitrogen source that is primarily transformed by bacterial communities. Bacteria capable of gradually hydrolyzing chitin into N-acetylglucosamine monomers can have applications in the transformation of residues from shrimp and other crustaceans. The objective of the present study was to isolate, characterize and identify microorganisms with high chitinolytic activity. These microorganisms were isolated and characterized based on macro- and microscopic morphological traits. Strains were selected on colloidal chitin agar medium primarily based on a hydrolysis halo larger than 2 mm and a growing phase no longer than 6 days. Secondary selection consisted of semi-quantitative evaluation of chitinolytic activity with a drop dilution assay. From the above, ten strains were selected. Then, strain-specific activity was evaluated. The B4 strain showed the highest specific activity, which was 6,677.07 U/mg protein. Molecular identification indicated that the isolated strains belong to the species Stenotrophomonas maltophilia.

【 授权许可】

CC BY