Abstract:
Dehairing of skins and hides in an alkaline medium pH of about 12.5, such as by lime treatment, is accelerated by inclusion of certain alkali resistant proteolytic enzymes. Preferred embodiments are the proteases from Bacillus alcalophilus, and from the Bacillus sp. strains NCIB 10313, 10317, 10147.
Abstract:
A PROCESS OF PRODUCING AMYLOGLUCOSIDASE FREE OF ANY DETECTABLE AMOUNTS OF TRANSGLUCOSIDASE WHEREIN A STRAIN OF ASPERGILLUS NIGER V. TIEGHEM SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CBS NO. 262.65, CBS NO. 263.65 AND CBS NO. 103.66 OR A NATURAL OR ARTIFICAL MUTANT OR VARIANT THEREOF IS SUBJECTED TO SUBMERGED GROWTH IN A NUTRIENT MEDIUM.
Abstract:
The invention relates to enzyme preparations containing novel proteolytic enzymes produced by cultivation of novel species of the genus Bacillus and showing useful activity at high alkalinities. The invention also relates to production of the novel proteolytic enzymes by cultivation of the novel species of the genus Bacillus in a nutrient medium having a pH-value within the range of 7 to 12. Finally the invention relates to a process of isolating the novel species referred to by effecting the isolation on nutrient media having a pH-value within the range of 9 to 11. The novel enzymes are particularly useful in detergent and dehairing compositions.
Abstract:
A method of making proteolytic enzyme preparations having maximum activity at high alkalinity by submerged aerobic cultivation of strains of Bacillus alcalophilus in a nutrient medium containing assimilable carbon and nitrogen sources, while maintaining the pH-value of the nutrient medium between 7.5 and 11.