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The production of inexpensive chitinolytic enzymes is an element in the utilization of shellfish processing wastes. In this study, shrimp and crab shell powder prepared by treating shrimp and crab processing wastes with boiling and crushing was used as a substrate for the isolation of an antifungal chitinase-producing microorganism. Bacillus cereus YQ 308, a strain isolated from the soil samples, excreted one chitinase when cultured in a medium containing 2% (wt/vol) shrimp and crab shell powder as major carbon source. The chitinase, purified by sequential chromatography, had an Mr of 48 kDa and pI of 5.2. The purified chitinase (2 mg/ml) inhibited the hyphal extension of the fungi Fusarium oxysporum and Pythium ultimum. RID=”” ID=”” <E5>Correspondence to: </E5>S.-L. Wang; <E5>email:</E5> sabulo@mail.dyu.edu.tw
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Received: 27 August 2002 / Accepted: 25 September 2002
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Chang, WT., Chen, CS. & Wang, SL. An Antifungal Chitinase Produced by Bacillus cereus with Shrimp and Crab Shell Powder as a Carbon Source. Curr Microbiol 47, 0102–0108 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00284-002-3955-7
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00284-002-3955-7