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During screening ofPenicillium species for extracellular glucose oxidase production, a strain ofPenicillium variabile (P16) was selected which released high activities of enzyme into the culture medium. Maximum activity (5.49 U/ml) was after 96 h cultivation in shake-flask culture.
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M. Petruccioli is with the Dipartimento di Biologia, Difesa e Biotecnologie Agro-Alimentari, University of Basilicata, Via N. Sauro 85, 1-85100 Potenza, Italy. M. Ceccarelli and F. Federici are with the Dipartimento Agrobiologia e Agrochimica, University of Tuscia, Via S.C. de Lellis, 1-01100 Viterbo, Italy.
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Petruccioli, M., Ceccarelli, M. & Federici, F. Screening ofPenicillium species for the production of extracellular glucose oxidase. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 9, 77–79 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00656522
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