A simple and sensitive method based on the use of colloidal chitin stained with Remazol
Brilliant Blue R®(RBB) is proposed to evaluate chitinase activity. If this colloidal-stained …

The endochitinase gene chiA74 from Bacillus thuringiensis serovar kenyae strain LBIT-82
was cloned in Escherichia coli DH5αF′. A sequence of 676 amino acids was deduced …

Une enzyme chitinolytique de Bacillus thuringiensis spp. aizawai as a été purifiée et sa
masse moléculaire fut estimée à 66 kDa par électrophorèse sur gel de polyacrylamide avec …

Lysinibacillus sphaericus strains belonging the antigenic group H5a5b produce spores with
larvicidal activity against larvae of Culex mosquitoes. C7, a new isolated strain, which …

Postharvest fungi significantly reduce the storage life of papaya fruit. Among the fungal cell
wall components, chitin is an important biomolecule that could serve as a biomarker. This …

The ability to produce extracellular chitosanase (EC 3.2. 1.132) was found by plate assays in
18 (23%) out of 77 crystalliferous strains of Bacillus thuringiensis. The best chitosanase …

Worldwide, papaya is a highly consumed fruit; however, they are very susceptible to the
attack of the fungus Colletotrichum gloeosporioides. The fungal cell wall has mostly chitin …

Six subspecies of Bacillus thuringiensis Berliner (Bt) were grown in minimal medium with
chitin as the sole carbon source for 6 days to obtain Bt cell-free fermented broths, which …

The strain Bt-NGRA of Bacillus thuringiensis, isolated from a highly transformer oil
contaminated soil, has the ability to produce high levels of extracellular caseinase …

Chitinases belong to a diverse family of enzymes among many other hydrolytic enzymes of
the pitcher fluid of Nepenthes sp. There are no existing studies on identification of chitinases …