Volume : II, Issue : VII, July - 2013

Synthesis and Screening of Melanin from Bacterial Strain EP83

Edwin A. Pithawala, N. K. Jain

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Production of melanin is one of the most universal, but at the same time it is in explicable alterations of living organisms to the capricious environments of the Earth. Melanin producing organism (EP83) was isolated from a soil sample of Gujarat University Campus, Gujarat using Tyrosine media. Much less is known about melanogenic synthesis in microorganisms. The presence of melanins in representatives of almost every large taxon suggests an evolutionary importance of melanogenesis. Isolate EP83 is known to produce 4.3 µg melanin/ ml in 3 days with a required condition of pH range 6.0 to 8.5, optimum temperature 28-48? C, in aerobic condition. The pigment produced is extracellular and water soluble and confirmed as melanin with spectroscopic analysis (280 nm peak). This melanin is known to have large number of implication in terms of human requirements and therefore, this study proved that EP83 can be used for the industrial yield and production of melanin.

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Edwin A. Pithawala, N. K. Jain Synthesis and Screening of Melanin from Bacterial Strain EP83 International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol : 2, Issue : 7 July 2013

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