413206

Optimization Of Culture Conditions For Maximizing L-glutaminase Production From The Marine Fungus Aspergillus flavus

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Last updated: 09 Mar 2025

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Abstract

Marine fungi have the capacity to extreme environments and   live in a highly competitive ecological position make them suppliers of novel metabolites as L-glutaminase   which is medically useful in the pharmaceutical industry, as an antioxidant and anticancer and antileukemia. This study aimed to isolate and identified some marine fungi and screened for L-glutaminase production and select the most producing marine fungus to optimize the culture conditions for maximizing production of L-glutamenase. The results showed five isolated fungal species; Aspergillus flavus, A. niger, A. terreus, Penicillium digitatum, P. italicum which were identified microscopically according to references books on mycology. The Screening for L-glutaminase production from the isolated fungi utilizing solid and liquid media exhibited that A. flavus out of the isolated fungi, recorded the highest diameter of pink zone (72.3 mm) with using solid medium and highest L-glutaminase activity (11.489U/ml) and highest mycelial dry weight using liquid medium. The optimization culture conditions   of   A. flavus for maximizing L-glutaminase production, showed that the highest L-glutaminase activity and mycelial dry weight were recorded at 30°C for 5 days of incubation, pH6, L-glutamine and fructose as nitrogen and carbon sources. Molecular identification of A. flavus was investigated for confirming the morphomicroscopical identification, Phylogenetic tree based on ITS sequences of rDNA of the isolated fungus closely related to strains accessed from the GenBank. It showed similarity 99.31 -99.83% and 98 - 100% coverage with the strains of A. flavus in GenBank with accession no. NR_111041.

DOI

10.21608/djs.2025.356533.1207

Keywords

Marine fungi, L-glutaminase, A. flavus, Optimization of Culture Conditions, Molecular identification

Authors

First Name

Omyma

Last Name

Awadalla

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Botany and Microbiology department, Faculty of Science, Tanta University

Email

dr_omyma@yahoo.com

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Orcid

0009-0004-6622-8259

First Name

Maha

Last Name

Azab

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Botany and Microbiology department, Faculty of Science, Tanta University

Email

maha.azzb@yahoo.com

City

Tanta

Orcid

-

First Name

Hagar

Last Name

Hussien

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Botany and Microbiology department, Faculty of Science, Tanta University

Email

hager9793@gmail.com

City

Tanta

Orcid

0009-0003-5439-9491

First Name

Abd El-Raheem

Last Name

El-Shanshoury

MiddleName

R.

Affiliation

Botany and Microbiology department, Faculty of Science, Tanta University

Email

abdelreheam.elshanshoury@science.tanta.edu.eg

City

Tanta

Orcid

0000-0001-6642-7574

Volume

50

Article Issue

1

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53707

Issue Date

2025-02-01

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2025-01-29

Publish Date

2025-02-01

Page Start

27

Page End

44

Print ISSN

1012-5965

Online ISSN

2735-5306

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413,206

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1,686

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Publication Title

Delta Journal of Science

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https://djs.journals.ekb.eg/

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Optimization Of Culture Conditions For Maximizing L-glutaminase Production From The Marine Fungus Aspergillus flavus

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09 Mar 2025