Research Article

Production, Purification, and Characterization of Polygalacturonase from Mucor circinelloides ITCC 6025

Table 3

Purification of polygalacturonase produced extracellularly by Mucor circinelloides.

StepVolume (mL)Total Activity (IU)Total Protein (mg)Specific Activity (IU/mg)Fold Purification % Yield

Crude 1000 624 261 2.391 1 100
Ethanol (60%) 75 39.6 7.8 5.077 2.12 6.35
Sephacryl S-100 42 21.33 0.672 31.74 13.3 3.4