A Study on Aquatic Proteases and Their Probiotic Significance

Exploring the Probiotic and Industrial Potential of Aquatic Proteases in P. acidilactici

Abstract

P. acidilactici strains are commonly dispersed in plant material for fermentation, including silage, cereal mashes and pickles, potato mashes, barley malt, dried leaves, and hay. It is usually used in cheese and yoghurts as a helpful microbe, and is believed to maintain a healthy microflora balance in the digestive system. Pediococci cells are circular and arranged in tetrads, but the liquid colonies often reveal pairs. Like cocci of lactic acid, Pediocoocus splits between two planes of symmetry. They are facultative anaerobes non-motile, and non-sporulating. Standard gut ecology has 10:1 anaerobic to aerobic bacterial ratio and P. acidilactici has the advantage of being an anaerobic facultative bacteria. The present paper identifies enzyme groups that are of probiotic and industrial significance.