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Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology
Volume 2011, Article ID 702179, 12 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/702179
Research Article

Production of a Solvent, Detergent, and Thermotolerant Lipase by a Newly Isolated Acinetobacter sp. in Submerged and Solid-State Fermentations

Anahita Khoramnia,1 Afshin Ebrahimpour,1 Boon Kee Beh,1 and Oi Ming Lai1,2

1Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, 43400 Serdang, Malaysia
2Institute of Bioscience, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, 43400 Serdang, Malaysia

Received 13 April 2011; Revised 3 July 2011; Accepted 3 July 2011

Academic Editor: Alain Filloux

Copyright © 2011 Anahita Khoramnia et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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