What is it about?
Our newly identified marine bacteria was found to carry a unique agarase that can breakdown agar even at high temperature. The rate of the enzyme reaction is also fast when compared to popular agarases.
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Why is it important?
Agar, at 10 g/L, can be dissolved in water-based solutions only when the temperature reaches 65+ degrees Celsius. It will then remain as a liquid until it cools down to lower than 45. Usually, agarases have very low activity when the temperature goes higher than 40. Hence, the ability of this new agarase to work at high temperature makes it usable for the breakdown of agar in liquid.
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This page is a summary of: Identification and characterization of a thermostable endolytic β-agarase Aga2 from a newly isolated marine agarolytic bacteria Cellulophaga omnivescoria W5C, New Biotechnology, January 2018, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.nbt.2017.09.006.
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