Microbial life can be found over a wide range of extreme conditions like high salinity, pH, temperature, pressure, light intensity, oxygen and nutrients. Halotolerant or halophilic microorganisms, are able to live in saline environments, offer potential applications in various fields of Biotechnology. The halotolerant or halophilic microorganisms are important for maintenance of soil condition ...

Cellulose degrading bacteria from koala faeces were isolated using caboxymethylcellulose-Congo red agar, screened in vitro for different hydrolytic enzyme activities and phylogenetically characterized using molecular tools. Bacillus sp. and Pseudomonas sp. were the most prominent bacteria from koala faeces. The isolates demonstrated good xylanase, amylase, lipase, protease, tannase and lignin p...

Tannase from Aspergillus ficuum was immobilized by two different techniques for comparison of kinetic and thermodynamic parameters. either entrapped in calcium alginate beads or covalently-immobilized onto magnetic diatomaceous earth nanoparticles. When on nanoparticles, tannase exhibited lower activation energy (15.1 kJ/mol) than when (31.3 kJ/mol). Surprisingly, the thermal treatment had a po...