Council of Scientific and Industrial Research

Meenakshi Vilas Rele

Snehal Vijay More

Vithal Venkatrao Jogdand

Vasanti Vishnu Deshpande

Natesan Samivelu

James Kanagaraj

Ramachandra Boopathy Naidu

Panchatcharam Manikandan

Ryali Seeta Laxman

Dilly Ashok Kumar

Ramalingam Samayavaram

Bommaraju Seeta Rama Rao

Puvanakrishnan Rengarajulu

Mala Balachandra Rao

Mandayam C Srinivasan

Snehal M Bansod

The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of alkaline protease using a fungal culture of the order entomophthorales and to the use of the said protease in the pretanning processes of leather manufacture.

Process for the preparation of alkaline protease

Where is provided a process for preparing extracellular endoxylanase that is stable and active at high alkaline pH. The process includes growing a Ccphalosporium strain on xylan rich natural media supplemented with nitrogen-rich nutrients at high alkaline pH either by submerged or semisolid fermentation. The Cephalosporium strain has been isolated from humus rich soil collected from Ganeshkind, Pune, India and growing at high alkaline pH in a range of from 5 to 10. The strain produces an extrcelluar-cellulase-free xylanase stable and active at high alkaline pH ranging from 5 to 10.

Strain of Cephalosporium having ATCC accession no. 74297, a process of

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