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- Title
Culture medium for isolating chitinolytic bacteria from seawater and plankton.
- Authors
Claudiana Souza; E. Burbano-Rosero; Bianca Almeida; Gislaine Martins; Lílian Albertini; Irma Rivera
- Abstract
Abstract Chitin degradation is a key step in the cycling of nutrients in marine ecosystems and chitinolytic bacteria are the primary agents of this process. Chitinases, produced by bacteria, have potential applications in agriculture, medicine and in a wide range of biotechnological processes. We utilized a simple, rapid and cost-effective method of colloidal chitin preparation and a culture medium, in which colloidal chitin is the sole carbon source for the purpose of counting and isolating chitinolytic bacteria from seawater and plankton. This culture medium could be useful to isolate bacteria with the ability to produce extracellular chitinases for biotechnological applications.
- Subjects
BACTERIAL cultures; MARINE bacteria; PLANKTON culture; MARINE ecology; CHITIN; PLANT nutrients; CHITINASE; AQUATIC ecology; PLANT growing media
- Publication
World Journal of Microbiology & Biotechnology, 2009, Vol 25, Issue 11, p2079
- ISSN
0959-3993
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11274-009-0098-z