Harnessing Fungal Lipase from Oil Contaminated Soil Fungi A Strategy Towards Waste to Wealth Conversion
Debosmita Sikdar* , Ivy Kanungoa , Monim Ul Islam
Abstract
Globally, there is an increasing demand towards more eco-friendly, sustainable, and economic measures to deal with the growing problems of environmental issues. The aim of the work lies in selecting new techniques involving greener and cleaner procedures to utilize so called waste for deriving valuable products. The soil present in the oil mill areas have huge population of various microbes’, especially of fungal origin. These microbes being rich in lipase content due to their oil source origin, if cultured in laboratory and fermented and bio molecules extracted will give rise to production of lipase enzymes.Thus in this we isolated fungal colonies from this oil rich soil, cultured in laboratory, fermented them under various conditions to extract fungal enzyme i.e. lipase and then used it for further applications. Lipases are highly versatile and industrially important enzymes. Deriving the lipases from waste soil is the main attraction of this work and is a venture strategizing the “best from waste” approach.
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Globally, there is an increasing demand towards more eco-friendly, sustainable, and economic measures to deal with the growing problems of environmental issues. The aim of the work lies in selecting new techniques involving greener and cleaner procedures to utilize so called waste for deriving valuable products. The soil present in the oil mill areas have huge population of various microbes’, especially of fungal origin. These microbes being rich in lipase content due to their oil source origin, if cultured in laboratory and fermented and bio molecules extracted will give rise to production of lipase enzymes.Thus in this we isolated fungal colonies from this oil rich soil, cultured in laboratory, fermented them under various conditions to extract fungal enzyme i.e. lipase and then used it for further applications. Lipases are highly versatile and industrially important enzymes. Deriving the lipases from waste soil is the main attraction of this work and is a venture strategizing the “best from waste” approach.