Isolation of fungi producing protease enzymes from the gut of earthworm Metaphire posthuma
Keywords:
Earthworm, Metaphire posthuman, Protease, Mold, Earthworm gutAbstract
The earthworm (M. posthuma) has importance to soil ecosystem quality, it engulfs death plant and animal and secretes casting into soil mass. The aim of this research was to study the fungi producing protease efficiency isolated from M. posthuma gut. The result indicated that isolate E31, isolate E39 and isolate E41 could produce protease enzyme in skim milk agar by estimating the C/G ratio in isolate E31, isolate E39 and isolate E41 as 1.17, 1.50 and 1.08 respectively. Fungi isolate E31 showed the morphology as genus Mucor and isolate E39 and E41 showed as genus Penicillium. The result could apply for extracting cellulase enzyme for testing biological property to pathogen both in human and animal.
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