Research Article

A Novel Promising Strain of Trichoderma evansii (WF-3) for Extracellular α-Galactosidase Production by Utilizing Different Carbon Sources under Optimized Culture Conditions

Table 3

Effect of pH, incubation temperature, and substrate concentration on the level of total protein ( g/mL) secreted by T. evansii (WF-3) in the culture filtrate.

Culture parametersCulture media with different carbon sourcesTotal protein ( g/mL) at 5th day of incubationTotal protein ( g/mL) at 6th day of incubation

pH3.5GG + GAL160.80 ± 15.07173.36 ± 16.28
SM87.93 ± 7.970.35 ± 6.8
WS + GAL103.02 ± 9.886.68 ± 8.6
4.5GG + GAL105.52 ± 9.9173.36 ± 15.89
SM250.00 ± 24.9133.17 ± 12.75
WS + GAL246.23 ± 22.8244.97 ± 23.9
5.5GG + GAL204.77 ± 19.7139.45 ± 12.98
SM62.81 ± 4.7116.83 ± 15.43
WS + GAL245.16 ± 24.09247.53 ± 23.69
6.5GG + GAL223.61 ± 21.05134.42 ± 11.78
SM265.07 ± 25.08164.57 ± 15.07
WS + GAL360.55 ± 34.3559.05 ± 55.98
7.4GG + GAL283.91 ± 25.8638.53 ± 3.2
SM114.32 ± 10.7661.55 ± 5.9
WS + GAL370.60 ± 35.68209.79 ± 20.03

Substrate conc. (mg/mL)6GG + GAL432.16 ± 42.14203.52 ± 19.56
SM104.27 ± 9.4576.63 ± 6.8
WS + GAL305.27 ± 29.6782.91 ± 8.0
10GG + GAL476.13 ± 46.43180.90 ± 16.68
SM361.80 ± 34.09457.28 ± 43.04
WS + GAL146.98 ± 12.86237.44 ± 22.14
14GG + GAL305.28 ± 28.0580.40 ± 7.8
SM193.46 ± 17.0695.47 ± 8.8
WS + GAL87.93 ± 7.638.94 ± 3.3

Incubation temperature (°C)28GG + GAL192.16 ± 18.03582.91 ± 54.24
SM361.80 ± 35.64798.24 ± 70.43
WS + GAL146.98 ± 13.43282.66 ± 23.87
40GG + GAL99.24 ± 9.3193.49 ± 18.54
SM31.40 ± 2.834.53 ± 3.3
WS + GAL70.35 ± 6.482.35 ± 8.0

GG: guar gum, GG + GAL: guar gum + galactose, GG + SUC: guar gum + sucrose, SM: soya bean meal, SM + GAL: soya bean meal + galactose, SM + SUC: soya bean meal + sucrose, WS: wheat straw, WS + GAL: wheat straw + galactose, and WS + SUC: wheat straw + sucrose. The culture conditions were the same as described in Section 2. The experiments have been conducted three times and the values are shown as mean ± SD.