Plant Tissue Cult. & Biotech. 26(2): 243-253, 2016 (December)

Isolation and Characterization of Indigenous Lipase Producing Bacteria from Lipid-rich Environment

Lovely Aktar, Farhana Islam Khan¹, Tahmina Islam, Shawon Mitra and Mihir Lal Saha*

Department of Botany, University of Dhaka, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh

Key words: Bacteria, Enzyme, Lipase, Lipid

Abastract

To isolate and characterize lipase producing bacteria from lipid-rich environment and screen the best lipolytic indigenous bacteria a study was made. For the isolation of bacteria, oil based wastewater and soil were collected from ten different sampling sites. Four different media were used for study the aerobic heterotrophic bacterial count. The highest bacterial count (1.56

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