Biotecnologia: avaliação da atividade amilolítica de Bacillus amyloliquefaciens

Abstract

Biotechnology is the branch of science that uses molecules, viruses, microorganisms, cells, animals, plants or part of them in technological processes to generate benefits for humans and the environment. In this context, enzymes are natural biocatalysts and extremely important to vital processes, since they perform essential functions in the biochemical reactions of cellular metabolism. They are present and active in living organisms having specific reaction characteristics in compliance with the substrates, in order to generate the main products and by-products of the metabolic routes. Knowing the human needs for a world population of about 7.7 billion people and the functional utility of enzymes, on the one hand there is a huge demand for the consumption of various products from the agricultural sector, processed and processed, such as food and drinks ; industry in the textile sector; medicines, medicines and cosmetics from the chemical-pharmaceutical sector; production of paper and cellulose, in which enzymes, mainly amylases, have been widely used in production processes, to make manufacturing costs viable and economically favor world demand. Thus, according to the experiments carried out in this work, the use of the bacterium Bacillus amyloliquefaciens, for the production of amylases, altered is a viable alternative, considering that the results obtained in the efficiency of the degradation of the starch substrate by these amylases were greater than 90%.