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Current Trends in <strong>Biotechnology</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Pharmacy</strong><br />

Vol. 6 (2) 145-165 April 2012, ISSN 0973-8916 (Print), 2230-7303 (Online)<br />

intracellular in the SmF <strong>and</strong> LSF processes<br />

during the first 48 h <strong>of</strong> fermentation.<br />

Subsequently, a larger portion <strong>of</strong> the enzyme is<br />

excreted in the SmF <strong>and</strong> LSF processes <strong>and</strong> the<br />

ratio <strong>of</strong> intracellular to extracellular tannase is<br />

about 1:6 in SmF <strong>and</strong> 1: 1 in LSF at the peak<br />

enzyme titre levels at 144 h (1).<br />

The results obtained in three different<br />

fermentation conditions for extracellular tannase<br />

production by P. Variotii shows a significant<br />

difference in tannase yield between fermentation<br />

processes. Maximum (167 ± 3.6 U/ml) tannase<br />

production was obtained by SSF at a relatively<br />

short incubation time (60 h) followed by SmF (123<br />

± 3.6 U/ml) at 72 h <strong>and</strong> LSF (102 ± 4.2 U/ml) at<br />

96 h, respectively. In another report <strong>of</strong> Rana <strong>and</strong><br />

Bhat, (88) tannase-producing efficiency <strong>of</strong> LSF<br />

<strong>and</strong> SSF vis-à-vis SmF was investigated in a<br />

strain <strong>of</strong> Aspergillus niger, besides finding out if<br />

there was a change in the activity pattern <strong>of</strong><br />

tannase in these fermentation processes. The<br />

studies on the physicochemical properties were<br />

confined to intracellular tannase as only this form<br />

<strong>of</strong> enzyme was produced by A. niger in all three<br />

fermentation processes. In LSF <strong>and</strong> SmF, the<br />

maximum production <strong>of</strong> tannase was observed<br />

by 120 h, whereas in SSF its activity peaked at<br />

96 h <strong>of</strong> growth (88).<br />

Purification <strong>and</strong> Immobilization Techniques<br />

Purification : Battestin et al. (60) reported<br />

fractional precipitation <strong>of</strong> tannase with 80%<br />

ammonium sulphate saturation that removed<br />

some <strong>of</strong> the non-enzymatic proteins at lower<br />

concentration with about 34% recovery. Further<br />

the elution pr<strong>of</strong>ile <strong>of</strong> the tannase obtained from<br />

the diethylaminoethyl (DEAE)-sepharose column<br />

showed five protein peaks, but tannase activity<br />

was reported only in two peaks with 10-fold<br />

purification <strong>and</strong> 3% yield. In another approach,<br />

Bhardwaj et al. (95) reported a two-step<br />

purification procedure for a fungal tannase. In<br />

the first step, contaminating proteins precipitated<br />

from broth supernatants by ammonium sulphate<br />

at 60% (w/v) saturation, were pelleted by<br />

Dinesh Prasad et al<br />

152<br />

centrifugation, discarded <strong>and</strong> tannase<br />

precipitated from the supernatant at 80%<br />

saturation. While in the second, it was purified<br />

by column chromatography using a DEAEcellulose<br />

column to homogeneity. Mahapatra et<br />

al. (96) partially purified the tannase by acetone<br />

precipitation <strong>and</strong> further by gel filtration<br />

chromatography (GFC) using Sephadex G-100<br />

column. High performance liquid<br />

chromatography (HPLC using GF-250 column)<br />

analysis showed a single major peak with the<br />

elution time <strong>of</strong> 6.8 min. Aqueous two phase<br />

separation (ATPS) is yet another useful technique<br />

for purification <strong>of</strong> enzymes (97). Tannase from<br />

A. heteromorphus was partially purified using<br />

ultrafiltration (30 kDa membrane) <strong>and</strong> ATPS but<br />

the recovery was not very significant in case <strong>of</strong><br />

ATPS (98).<br />

Two extracellular tannin acyl hydrolases<br />

(TAH I <strong>and</strong> TAH II) produced by Verticillium sp.<br />

were purified to homogeneity (7.9 <strong>and</strong> 10.5 fold<br />

with a yield <strong>of</strong> 1.6 <strong>and</strong> 0.9%, respectively) by<br />

Kasieczka-Burnecka et al. (65). Tannase from<br />

P. variable IARI 2031 was purified by a two-step<br />

purification strategy comprising <strong>of</strong> ultrafiltration<br />

using 100 kDa molecular weight cut-<strong>of</strong>f<br />

membrane <strong>and</strong> gel-filtration using sephadex G-<br />

200. Also HPLC analysis <strong>of</strong> the purified tannase<br />

showed that the enzyme eluted as a single peak<br />

with retention time at 6.31 min (99). A similar<br />

strategy <strong>of</strong> ultrafiltration for partial purification <strong>and</strong><br />

concentration <strong>of</strong> A. niger LCF 8 tannase was<br />

reported by using a 200 kDa cut <strong>of</strong>f membrane.<br />

Permeate obtained was again filtered through<br />

100 kDa cut <strong>of</strong>f membrane to eliminate impurities<br />

<strong>of</strong> lower molecular masse that resulted in 80%<br />

recovery with a 14.9 purification fold (85).<br />

Mahendran et al. (23) attempted to purify<br />

tannase from Paecilomyces variotii. The dark<br />

brown extracellular extract was treated with 1%<br />

(w/v) activated carbon that removed more than<br />

50% <strong>of</strong> the coloured impurities. Further fractional<br />

precipitation with 50% saturation <strong>of</strong> ammonium<br />

sulphate removed some <strong>of</strong> the non-enzymatic

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