January 2019

Studies on some physicochemical properties of Rhodanese synthesized by Bacillus cereus isolated from the effluents of iron and steel smelting industry

The study purified and investigated the physicochemical properties of rhodanese (a cyanide detoxifying enzyme) synthesized by Bacillus cereus. This was with a view to producing an industrially important enzyme. The bacterial strain was identified as B. cereus by sequencing of its 16SrRNA gene. B. cereus rhodanese was purified with a fold of 3.53, yield of 36.80% and specific activity of 25.30 µmol/min/mg protein....

Author(s): Babamotemi Oluwasola Itakorode, Raphael Emuebie Okonji, Odunayo Adedeji, Nkem Torimiro, Chinwe Onwudiegwu and Ademakinwa Oluwaseyi