Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10278715 | Journal of Food Engineering | 2005 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
The potential of coconut flesh as a raw material for the production of extracellular laccase by the white-rot fungus Trametes hirsuta was investigated. A maximum laccase activity of 333,280Â nkat/L was produced, which was increased by almost 3-fold (920,895Â nkat/L) when copper sulphate (2Â mM) was added into the culture medium. The degrading ability of the extracellular liquid produced under the above-mentioned conditions was also tested. For this, decolourization of the textile dye Lissamine Green B was carried out both in vitro and in vivo. The former led to a decolourization percentage between 42% and 66% in 12Â h depending on the culture age, whereas the latter showed a percentage higher than 96% in 2.5Â h.
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Authors
Susana RodrÃguez Couto, Ma Ángeles Sanromán,