Exogenous Production of Cold-Active Cellulase From Psychrophilic Actinobacteria With Increased Cellulose Hydrolysis Efficiency

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Exogenous Production of Cold-Active Cellulase From Psychrophilic Actinobacteria With Increased Cellulose Hydrolysis Efficiency

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Actinobacteria form the largest phylum consisting of diverse, ecologically unique and biologically active members. The actinobacteria are omnipresent and occur in various habitats such as cold environment, aquatic, desert and terrestrial ecosystems. Though the studies are available on actinobacteria at various habitats very few reports are available on cold tolerant/loving actinobacteria in the Southern Ocean part of the Antarctic Ocean. In this context, the present work was designed to isolate and characterize the actinobacteria in the Polar Front region of the Southern Ocean waters and species of Nocardiopsis and Streptomyces were identified. Among those, the psychrophilic actinobacterium, Nocardiopsis dassonvillei PSY13 was found to have good cellulolytic activity and it was further studied for the production and characterization of cold-active cellulase enzyme. The latter was found to have a specific activity of 6.36 U/mg and a molar mass of 48 kDa with a 22.9-fold purification and 5% recovery at an optimum pH of 7.5 and a temperature of 10 ºC. Given the importance of psychrophilic actinobacteria N. dassonvillei PSY13 can be further exploited for its benefits, meaning that the Southern Ocean harbours biotechnologically important microorganisms that can be further explored for versatile biotechnological and industrial applications.

General Biochemistry

Molecular Biology

Cold-active enzyme

Cellulase

Psychrophiles

Cellulose hydrolysis

Actinobacteria

Southern Ocean.

Antarctica in the South Pole is less studied compared to other habitats with reference to microbes. Temperatures in these cold environments ranged from − 1°C to 4°C, which is expected to be severe [1]. In general, the extreme conditions lower the diversity of organisms. Hence, this environment remains less explored but can offer vast options to the researchers to study and explore the microbial diversity and ecological functions. Archer et al. [2] have explored the Antarctic environment to find out the presence of actinobacteria and to describe their distribution pattern. Most of the studies have reported on Antarctic ice, benthic region and glacier waters. However, studies on the community of bacterioplanktons in the Southern Ocean, particularly, actinobacteria are infrequent compared to the ice and soil reports [3]. Goodfellow and Haynes [4] have already described several specific isolation strategies to enumerate the actinobacterial population from different habitual environments. The Antarctic environment requires a significant emphasis on the elucidation of actinobacteria towards their distribution and ecological evaluation. The isolation media to be used need to have minimal nutrients with required vitamins and amino acids to promote the growth and multiplication of these organisms.

Interestingly, the microbes from the cold environment are provided with special mechanisms, which favour their survival at extreme conditions. These special mechanisms aid in the production of novel molecules such as cold-active enzymes having biotechnological applications as they possess higher catalytic activities. D'Amico et al. [5] have reported that the enzymes of the cold adapted organisms are highly active than their mesophilic counterparts. These enzymes show ten times higher activities than the enzymes obtained from the terrestrial microorganisms [6]. As a consequence of these features, microbes have been commonly used for many eco-biotechnology viewpoints [7]. Plants mostly consist of cellulosic carbohydrates and are recognized to be the earth’s most reproducible source of energy. Cellulosic components are significantly involved in the global carbon cycle. Cold-active cellulases are responsible for more than 80% of the cellulose recycling in the cryosphere [8].

Medie et al. [9] explained the three types of cellulases such as endogluconase, exogluconase and glucosidase, which are are involved in the catalytic breakdown of the cellulose complex. Hayashi et al. [10] have reported the novel cold-active cellulase from Acremonium alcalophilum, which was active at 40 °C. The enzymes derived from the cold environment had 20 to 40 °C as the optimum temperatures for higher activities [11]. Cellulases are secreted by different types of micro-organisms. Psychrophiles are the right candidates for the production of enzymes that are active at low temperatures. Such psychrophilic enzymes are active in the presence of alkaline conditions and detergents and therefore have the characteristics to be used in the preparations of laundry additives. In addition, these enzymes can also be used for bioremediation of biomass derived from domestic and agricultural practices [12]. In particular, psychrophilic cellulases have been shown to have higher degradation efficiencies for lignocellulosic biomass and may have enormous potential in the bioenergy sector [13, 14]. Nevertheless, cellulose is usually converted into bioethanol at relatively high temperatures (50–60 ° C) and may, therefore, raise consumption and production costs [15]. Alternatively, cold-active cellulases can be used in the biofuel industry to reduce energy consumption as they have been proven to convert cellulose as ethanol at low temperatures. In addition, cold-active cells can also be used in various sectors, such as pulping in the paper industry, biopolishing in textiles and silage in food and feed formulations [12, 14]. Given the importance, the study was intended to identify the potential for cold-active cellulase of actinobacteria isolated from the Southern Ocean's Polar Front region.

2.1 Sample collection

Water samples were obtained from the SOE-7 expedition (SOE-2012-13). The samples were obtained at the Polar Frontal region (PF1: Lat − 53.14; Long 47.82, PF2: Lat − 56.76; Long 57.72) of the Southern Ocean, using Conductivity/ Temperature/ Depth (CTD), a profile (SEABIRD 911 plus, USA) sampler. Seawater was filtered using a membrane filter (0.22 µm), was stored in 20% glycerol suspension and used for the isolation of actinobacteria.

2.2 Isolation and identification of actinobacteria

A 100 µl of the sample was spread on various media such as Starch Casein Nitrate Agar (SCNA), International Streptomyces Project-2 (ISP2), and Antarctic Minimal Medium (AMM), Actinomycete Isolation Agar (AIA) and Arginine-Vitamin Agar (AV), added with Mycostatin (50 µg/mL) and cycloheximide (50 µg/mL). Later, the plates were kept for incubation at 10°C and at 20°C, for the recovery of psychrophilic and psychrotolerant actinobacteria in 60 days [16]. Morphologically distinct actinobacterial strains were subcultured on AV agar and subjected to further analyses. The morphological, physiological and chemotaxonomical characteristics were assessed for the identification of the selected actinobacterial strains [17, 18], the obtained results were verified using [19] and justified at the genus level. In addition, the taxonomic position of the strains was studied by sequencing the 16S rRNA gene. Genomic DNA was extracted [20] and amplified using the high G + C gram-positive primers (27F-5’-AGAGTTTGATCCTGGCTCAG-3’, 1492R-5’-TACGGCTACCTTGTTACGACTT-3’); the PCR conditions were followed as per the method [21]. The amplified product was purified using the Qiagen PCR purification kit, followed by sequencing (Applied Biosystems-3100, Macrogen Inc.-Republic of Korea). Two-way sequencing was done and assembled in an EZ-Taxon server and the closest neighbour details were obtained in BLAST. N-J (Neighbour-joining) algorithm was used to construct the phylogenetic tree to delineate the lineage of the actinobacteria. The 1000 replicate bootstrapping was used to evaluate the phylogenetic tree topology.

2.3 Cardinal temperature determination

The selected actinobacterial strains were tested for cardinal temperatures to justify the optimum temperature for growth so as to differentiate the psychrophiles from psychrotolerants. The strains isolated at 10 and 20°C were grown separately in AV liquid medium at various temperatures (0, 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25°C for psychrophiles and 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30°C for psychrotolerants, respectively) for 25 days to ascertain their optimal temperature requirements. After incubation, aliquots were plated on AV agar medium and were incubated for 25 days at their respective temperatures to assess the viability of the actinobacteria [22]. The experiments were conducted as triplicates and the mean values were reported.

2.4 Cold-active cellulase screening

Fresh cultures of the actinobacterial strains were cross streaked on basal mineral salt medium (BSM) (composed of CMC sodium salt 2.0, NaNO₃ 2.0, K₂HPO₄ 1.0, MgSO₄ 0.5, KCl 0.5, peptone 0.2 and agar 18 (g/L)) and kept at 10°C for 25 days. Then, the cellulolytic activities of the strains were detected by flooding with 1% iodine solution (1% iodine in 2% KOI) and were kept for 10 min under room temperature; then, de-stained with 1MNaCl to visualize the zones of clearance around the actinobacterial colonies. Strains found with potential cellulolytic activities were used for further enzyme production.

2.5 Production and purification of cold-active cellulase enzyme

Actinobacterial spores aseptically collected and suspended in sterile distilled water were used as inoculum for the cold-active cellulase enzyme production. 10 mL of the spore suspension (5.6×10⁷ spores/mL) was inoculated in 500 mL of BSM containing 2 % CMC (pH 7.0) for submerged fermentation and the flask was incubated at 10°C for 25 days by providing with intermittent shaking. After production, the flasks were spun in a centrifuge at 10,000 rpm for 15 min at 4°C. Cell free solutions were added with ammonium sulphate (saturated up to 70 %) and kept overnight at 4°C to precipitate the enzyme. The precipitate obtained by centrifugation (9,000 rpm for 10 min at 4°C) was suspended in 10 mM Tris-HCl buffer (pH 8.0) and kept overnight for dialysis. Then, the dialysate was loaded on a Sephadex column G-50 (2.5 × 50 cm) preequilibrated with 50 mM Tris-HCl buffer (pH 7.5) and the bound enzyme was eluted using the same buffer at 0.2 mL/min flow rate. Fractions with cellulase activity were pooled and precipitated using ammonium sulphate and dialyzed with 10 mM Tris-HCl buffer (pH 7.0). Then, the dialysate was loaded on a Fast Flow Q-Sepharose column (1.6 × 10 cm, GE Healthcare), preequilibrated with 50 mM Tris-HCl buffer (pH 9.0). Elution was done using linear gradient NaCl (0.1–0.5 M) at 0.3 mL/min flow rate. Fractions showing higher cellulase activities were pooled and used for SDS-PAGE analysis.

2.6 Enzyme assay and protein determination

Dinitro salicylic acid (DNS) method was employed to test the cellulose hydrolytic activity of the cold-active cellulase on carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) as a substrate and glucose was used as the standard [23]. Enzyme activity was estimated by observing the reducing sugars liberated from the CMC prepared in Tris-HCl buffer (50 mM) at pH 8.0. The reaction was performed by incubating the solution at 25°C for 10 min and terminated by adding the DNS solution. The enzyme treated sample was boiled, cooled and the optical density was measured at 540 nm. The protein concentration of the purified enzyme was determined according to the method of [24] by using a microplate reader. Bovine Serum Albumin (BSA) was used as the standard to generate the standard curve. The absorbance of the reaction mixture was read at 595 nm. The test was carried out in triplicates and the mean values were calculated.

2.6.1 Molecular weight determination using SDS-PAGE

The purity and the molar mass of the enzyme were estimated using SDS-PAGE (12% gel). The purified enzyme sample was added with Laemmli sample buffer and boiled for 5 min and then, loaded onto 12% gel. A 6.5–97.4 kDa protein ladder from Genaxy Scientific was used as the molecular weight marker. After electrophoresis, the gel was stained with Coomassie Brilliant Blue (CBB) R-250 (0.25 %) and the molecular weight was determined using the Total lab imaging software.

2.7 Determination of optimal pH and temperature for activity and stability of the cold-active cellulase

Determination of optimal pH and temperature for enzyme activity and stability was carried out as per the standard protocol, using CMC (1%) as the substrate. Different buffer systems were used for different pH values such as pH 3.0 to 6.0 (citrate buffer-10mM), pH 6.0 to 7.5 (sodium phosphate buffer-10mM), pH 7.5 to 9.0 (Tris-HCl-10mM), and pH 9.0 to 11.0 (glycine-NaOH-10mM). After incubation at 10°C for 60 min, the reducing sugar products were estimated by the standard DNS method. The enzyme was incubated for 60 min at 10°C as stated above for assessing the stability of the enzyme at different pH levels. The effects of temperature on enzyme activity and stability were determined using 1% CMC (10 mM Tris-HCl, pH 8.0) as the substrate. The purified enzyme was added to CMC and was incubated at different temperatures ranging from 0 to 80°C for 60 min, and finally, DNS solution was added to stop the reaction and the residual activity was recorded as stated above. Upon determining the optimal temperature, the purified cellulase was incubated on a CMC agar plate at 10°C for one hour to justify the enzyme activity.

2.8 Statistical analysis

All experimental data were subjected to one-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). Dunnett’s multiple comparison (GraphPad Prism v7.0) was also used to determine the difference among means at the level of 0.05.

3.1 Isolation and recovery of the actinobacteria from Polar Frontal waters

Isolation showed a higher psychrophilic actinobacterial population density (0.3×10² CFU mL^− 1) in the PF1 sample followed by lower psychrophilic actinobacterial population density (0.2×10² CFU mL^− 1) in the PF2 sample in the AV agar medium. Whereas, the psychrotolerant actinobacterial forms were found to be same (0.6×10² CFU mL^− 1) at the PF1 and PF2 samples in the AV agar medium. The other media were unable to capture actinobacteria when the AV medium was able to report higher population density (Fig. 1A). In the AV medium, the microbial population density was increased because trace vitamins and nutrients were supplied through minimal media. In addition, the AV medium consisted of essential vitamins and glycerol that could have had a significant impact on actinobacterial growth. In addition, media-containing starch (SCNA and AMM) was also found to support actinobacterial growth. The other AIA media consisted of a source of nitrogen (sodium caseinate or asparagine) that might have stimulated the growth of actinobacteria. Pearce et al. [25] research have suggested that the supplementation of nutrients in the isolation media would help to increase the bacterial population. ISP2 showed no growth among the five isolation media used, yet it was reported to improve actinobacteria growth in other aquatic and terrestrial counterparts [26].

3.2 Identification of actinobacterial strains

Actinobacterial strains have been identified by conventional and molecular methods. Morphological analysis showed that the cold loving strains had white, olive green and white yellow aerial mycelia. The cold tolerant strains produced white and gray aerial mycelia. Micromorphological observations showed spiral, rectiflexible, long and branched, spiral and rectiflexible spore chains in the actinobacterial strains. Chemo-taxonomical analysis of actinobacterial strains has shown that meso-DAP is found to be present in the PSY13, PSY15 and PSY21 strains of the nine actinobacterial strains. However, their cell walls did not have any detectable sugars. The cell walls of these strains were therefore known as a type III cell wall. In addition, the strains' spore chains are elongated, segmented and long. In summarizing these results, the strains were found to be the closest to the Nocardiopsis genus and thus confirmed as Nocardiopsis candidate species. _LL-DAP and glycine are found in the cell walls of the remaining six strains. Nevertheless, their cell walls had no signature sugars, so they were listed as a type I cell wall. The six strains were shown to be Streptomyces ' closest neighbor with all these findings and were assumed to belong to the Streptomyces genus. Additionally, the strain colonies were mostly powdery and elongated, and the strains displayed the typical morphological characteristics of the actinobacteria. Therefore, the actinobacteria's main characteristics are focused on their spore morphology and the form of spore chain which varies from species to species. Apart from these characteristics, the use of the carbon source is also considered to be a key distinguishing feature of the actinobacteria genus. The PSY and PST 16S genes have been sequenced and deposited in the NCBI GenBank repository (Accession Nos: KY120275, KY120276, KY120277, KY120278, KY120279, KY120280, KY120281, KY120282, KY120283, KY120279). The phylogenetic association of the nine strains is shown in Table 1. All nine strains are phylogenetically classified into actinobacteria and phylogenetic neighbors of PSY13, PSY15, PSY21, PSY25, PST1, PST2, PST3, PST4 and PST5 were found to be Nocardiopsis dassonvillei, N. prasina, N. alba, S. albus, S. albidoflavus, S. exfoliates, S. pactum, S. griseorubens and S. althioticus, respectively (Fig. 2) (Supplementary file 1).

Table 1

Phylogenetic placements of the psychrophilic and psychrotolerant actinobacteria of the Polar Frontal waters of the Antarctica.
Strain No.	Accession No.	Sequence Length (bp)	Closest Phylogenetic Neighbor	Accession No.	Identity (%)
Psychrophilic actinobacteria
PSY13	KY120275	1466	Nocardiopsis dassonvillei	NR 029314	99.7
PSY15	KY120276	1443	Nocardiopsis prasina	NR 044906	99.6
PSY21	KY120277	1437	Nocardiopsis alba	NR 026340	98.6
PSY25	KY120278	1483	Streptomyces albus	NR 112341	99.9
Psychrotolerant actinobacteria
PST1	KY120279	1376	Streptomyces albidoflavus	NR 116634	100
PST2	KY120280	1451	Streptomyces exfoliatus	NR 041229	99.9
PST3	KY120281	1470	Streptomyces pactum	NR 041134	99.9
PST4	KY120282	1466	Streptomyces griseorubens	NR 041066	99.9
PST5	KY120283	1450	Streptomyces althioticus	NR 115392	99.9
PST1	KY120279	1376	Streptomyces albidoflavus	NR 116634	100

Molecular analysis confirmed that actinobacterial strains have stronger correlations with Streptomyces and Nocardiopsis sp. Previous reports suggested that Streptomyces was disproportionately present in the waters of the Southern Ocean waters. Streptomyces was also found to be dominant in the Southern Ocean waters, as in the other environmental counterparts [27]. Studies of Lavin et al. [28] have also reported the presence of Streptomyces in the Fildes Peninsula soils of King George Island, Antarctica. Streptomyces are normally present in the oceanic habitats [29] and are found to be the important member among the actinobacteria, which are prevalent in the cryo environment with 80% recoverability [30]. Streptomyces fildesensis sp. nov. and Streptomyces hypolithicus sp. nov. have been recovered successfully from Antarctica and have been described as new species [31, 32].

Streptomyces are shown to have higher bioactivity as they dominate the environment despite increasing salinity and lowering temperatures under extreme conditions [33]. The present study recorded around 67% of the contribution of Streptomyces to help discover novel candidate organisms from intense marine habitats for their bioactive ability. Nocardiopsis has also been documented in this study in addition to Streptomyces, which are of immense interest for their bioactive potential and ecological functions. It is noticed that the genus Nocardiopsis is omnipresent, irrespective of the climate. N. dassonvillei, N. prasina and N. alba have been reported in the present study. N. dassonvillei was previously known as N. antarctica and was later reclassified as N. dassonvillei with the aid of advanced molecular techniques.

3.3 Effect of temperature on the growth of psychrophilic and psychrotolerant actinobacteria

The strains PSY13, PSY15, PSY21 and PSY25 were observed to grow well at an optimum temperature of 10°C and are therefore classified as psychrophiles (Fig. 1B). The strains PST1, PST2, PST3, PST4 and PST5 were observed to grow well at an optimum temperature of 20°C and are therefore classified as psychrotolerants. This temperature reliant classification would significantly help discriminate the organisms and design experiments to explore their bioactive potentials. Cavicchioli, [34] has reported the cardinal temperature of the cold loving organisms (psychrophiles) with 5°C as the minimum and 20°C as the maximum and 10°C as the optimum. However, the cardinal temperatures of the cold tolerant organisms (psychrotolerants) were determined with 10°C as the minimum and 25°C as the maximum and 20°C as the optimum.

3.4 Cellulolytic activity

In the cellulolytic screening test, the psychrophilic strain PSY13 was found to possess a higher cellulolytic activity than the other strains (Fig. 1D). The cellulose hydrolytic zone measured around 10 cm (Fig. 1E) and thus, justifying the cold-active cellulase potential of the psychrophilic actinobacterial strain in less than an hour. The cold-active cellulase production was justified by the supporting data reported by Buchon et al. [35], who have also proposed that temperature was highly influencing the cold adapted microorganisms for the production of cold-active enzymes. As these enzymes have a high biotechnological value, the focus on amylases, esterases, agarases and proteases are increasing and thus, will pave a way to utilize these novel enzymes in various industrial applications [36]. Particularly, cellulases posing cold-active capabilities and obtained from the microbes of Antarctic environments have vast industrial applications viz. food, brewery, feed, paper pulp and so on. In addition, the cellulases are having high values as they are abundantly utilized in the production of biofuels in the refining industry [37].

3.5 Purification and molecular weight determination of cold-active cellulase

The cold-active enzyme was recovered from the N. dassonvillei PSY13 culture supernatant and was purified as per the steps given in Table 2. The enzyme from the culture supernatant was processed through ammonium sulphate recovery and gel filtration chromatography using Sephadex G-50 followed by ion exchange chromatography (Q-Sepharose Fast Flow column). The active fraction (0.4M) was collected from the Q-Sepharose FF fractionation (Fig. 3A) and was concentrated; 5% recovery was achieved with 22.9-fold purification with a specific activity of 6.36 U/mg. The cellulase purification fold can vary depending on the methods and matrix used for purification. Islam and Roy [38] has purified the cellulase from Bacillus sp. and reported that it has 9.7-fold purification in the CM-cellulose fractionation, which is comparatively low than the present study. Another study has reported 39.1-fold purification attained by the Sephadex G-75 column purification for the cellulase produced by B. vallismortis [39], which is relatively higher than the present study. Pachauri et al. [40] has also worked on fungal cellulase and reported that he has obtained 14.82-fold purification with 25.8% yield. As mentioned in the previous statement, the purification fold and the specific activity of the enzymes depends greatly on the matrix / resin used in the purification process and thus helps to unfold the novel enzyme activity [41]. The enzyme was further spotted on CMC agar plate and incubated at 10 ºC and a strong cellulolytic activity was witnessed (Fig. 1E). The purified cold-active cellulase enzyme was observed with a mass of 48 kDa as a distinct band in the SDS-PAGE analysis (Fig. 3B). The mass of the cellulase enzyme was higher than the others (29.7 kDa and 36.6 kDa) and in most of the cases, the cellulase will be having the mass ranging between 20 and 60 kDa [42].

Table 2

Summary of the purification of the cold-active cellulase enzyme produced by *N. dassonvillei* PSY13.
Purification step	Volume (ml)	Protein (mg/mL)	Activity (U/mL)	Total activity (U)	Total protein (mg)	Specific activity (U/mg)	Yield (%)
(NH₄)₂SO₄ (70%)	15	3.2	6.791	101.865	48	2.12	15
Sephadex G-50	11	1.7	4.76	52.36	18.7	2.80	11
Q-Sepharose FF	5	0.09	0.572	2.86	0.45	6.36	5

3.6 Optimal pH and temperature ranges for better stability and activity of the enzyme

Optimal pH for cellulase activity was studied and a higher activity (> 90%) was recorded at pH 7.5 followed by pH 8.0 (80%) and pH 9.0 (70%), respectively. The enzyme was stable and active between pH 6.5 to pH 9.0 (Fig. 4A). Beyond this range, the enzyme was not stable and the activity was reduced. This was in agreement with the previous report, which showed a relatively higher activity at pH 7.5 [43]. More recently, Shajahan et al. [44] have reported the cellulase produced by B. licheniformis. NCIM 5556 was stable and active between pH 4.5 to 9.5, and the enzyme was highly active at pH 6.5. However, cellulase produced by the psychrotolerant yeast had a different optimal pH of 6.4 and thus, reported to be highly stable and active in that range [45].

The purified cellulase enzyme was found to be stable between 0 ºC to 30 ºC and the optimal working temperature was recorded as 10 ºC with nearly 80% of the relative activity (Fig. 4B). However, the relative activity of the cold-active cellulase enzyme was maintained > 70% between the range of 10 to 40 ºC. Beyond 40 ºC, the enzyme’s relative activity reduced gradually due to the instability of the enzyme in the hightemperature range. The higher catalytic nature of the cold-active enzymes (< 25 ºC) makes them novel biological catalysts. Li et al. [46] have reported the maximum activity of cellulase obtained at 10.4 ºC and in the present study, cold-active cellulase exhibited a strong cellulolytic activity at 10 ºC. In general, most of the cold-active enzymes have been reported to have the temperature optimum of 20 to 40 ºC. However, enzymes having higher catalytic activities (80%) at 10 ºC are considered novel [47]. Such lowtemperature dependency of enzymes makes them useful in various beverage and food industries where the process is performed under low temperatures. Therefore, the cold-active enzymes are holding more than 80% of the market share.

Actinobacterial strains were isolated from the Southern Ocean's Polar Frontal Waters. Nocardiopsis and Streptomyces were identified, among all the strains studied, the psychrophilic strain N. dassonvillei PSY13 showed a higher hydrolysing activity and their cold-active cellulase found to have specific activity of 6.36 U/mg and a molar mass of 48 kDa with 7.5 and 10 ºC as the optimum pH and temperature respectively.

Acknowledgements

The Science and Engineering Research Board - Department of Science and Technology (DST-SERB), National Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme (N-PDF) (Grant number PDF/2016/003905) and the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) (Grant number BT/PR5426/AAQ/3/599/2012), Government of India, have supported the work. The authors thank for funding’s by the Researchers Supporting Project Number (RSP-2021/293) King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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Exogenous Production of Cold-Active Cellulase From Psychrophilic Actinobacteria With Increased Cellulose Hydrolysis Efficiency

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1. Introduction

2. Materials And Methods

2.1 Sample collection

2.2 Isolation and identification of actinobacteria

2.3 Cardinal temperature determination

2.4 Cold-active cellulase screening

2.5 Production and purification of cold-active cellulase enzyme

2.6 Enzyme assay and protein determination

2.6.1 Molecular weight determination using SDS-PAGE

2.7 Determination of optimal pH and temperature for activity and stability of the cold-active cellulase

2.8 Statistical analysis

3. Results And Discussion

3.1 Isolation and recovery of the actinobacteria from Polar Frontal waters

3.2 Identification of actinobacterial strains

3.3 Effect of temperature on the growth of psychrophilic and psychrotolerant actinobacteria

3.4 Cellulolytic activity

3.5 Purification and molecular weight determination of cold-active cellulase

3.6 Optimal pH and temperature ranges for better stability and activity of the enzyme

4. Conclusion

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