PRODUCTION OF SOME EXTRACELLULAR ENZYMES BY A LIGNIN PEROXIDASE-PRODUCING BROWN-ROT FUNGUS, POLYPORUS-OSTREIFORMIS, AND ITS COMPARATIVE ABILITIES FOR LIGNIN DEGRADATION AND DYE DECOLORIZATION
S. Dey et al., PRODUCTION OF SOME EXTRACELLULAR ENZYMES BY A LIGNIN PEROXIDASE-PRODUCING BROWN-ROT FUNGUS, POLYPORUS-OSTREIFORMIS, AND ITS COMPARATIVE ABILITIES FOR LIGNIN DEGRADATION AND DYE DECOLORIZATION, Applied and environmental microbiology, 60(11), 1994, pp. 4216-4218
Polyporus ostreiformis produced Mn peroxidase, acid protease, cx-amyla
se, and lignin peroxidase, with maximum activities of 40, 8,300, and 4
,200 U liter(-1) and 50 nkat liter(-1), respectively, in nitrogen-limi
ted liquid media. The fungus removed only 18.6% lignin from rice straw
in 3 weeks but effected 99% decolorization of Congo red dye in 9 days
.