FOOD SCIENCE ›› 2010, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (17): 302-306.doi: 10.7506/spkx1002-6630-201017068

• Bioengineering • Previous Articles     Next Articles

Optimization of Yeast Cell Disruption and Screening of Strains with High Peptidase Activity

LI Yong-xia,ZENG Hai-ying,QIN Li-kang*   

  1. College of Life Science, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China
  • Received:2010-06-30 Online:2010-09-15 Published:2010-12-29
  • Contact: QIN Li-kang E-mail:likangqin@126.com

Abstract:

To construct a method for determining total peptidase activity in yeast cells, a L9(34) orthogonal array design generated based on single-factor experiments was employed to optimize conditions for yeast cell disruption. In the optimization, the effects of 4 conditions for yeast cell disruption on total free amino acid amount in reaction system were dealt with. Snailase dose of 10 mg/mL, ultrasonic power of 500 W, ultrasonic treatment time of 8 min and ultrasonic operation interval of 5 s were found optimum. Under these optimum conditions, 61 yeast strains originated from unique Guizhou-style fermented soybean products were subjected to total peptidase activity determination, and 4 of them, namely WCF-5, XWF-1, XWF-7 and YZJ-4, were found have higher pepetidase activity.

Key words: yeast, disruption, total peptidases, fermented soybean products

CLC Number: