AN OVERVIEW OF SOME REPORTED SOIL ENZYME PRODUCING MICROORGANISMS
*Suneetha Vuppu and Bishwambhar Mishra
School of Bio Sciences and Technology, VIT University, Vellore- 632 014, Tamil Nadu, INDIA
*Author for Correspondence
ABSTRACT
Soil Microorganisms as potential source of novel and or improved products of commercial importance have gained utmost prominence in Microbial technology and bioprocess engineering. The mail target of enzyme technology is the microorganism itself, which have the capacity to produce commercially important enzymes on industrial scale, as enzymes occupy the center theme in all biological processes. Microbial enzymes are generally cheaper to be produced and are obtained in high yields. Their contents are more predictable and reliable supply of products of constant composition is more easily available from microorganisms as their growth rate is comparatively fast and enzymes with identical substrate profile produced by different microorganisms vary significantly in the optimal conditions for their reactions like temperature, pH, substrate concentration etc. This gives flexibility in their utilities. Soil is a natural lab for screening of microbial enzymes Like Pectinase, keratinase, Xylanases and Lipases. Soil Enzymes are the biocatalysts which mediate all the synthetic and degradative reactions in living organisms. They increase the rate of slow and imperceptible reactions without undergoing any net change and are remarkable because of their extraordinary specificity, inducible nature, and catalytic power and soil enzymes.
Key Words: Microbial technology, Pectinases, Keratinases, Xylanases, Inducible nature, Catalytic power