%0 Journal Article %T Optimization of nutrition factors on chitinase production from a newly isolated Chitiolyticbacter meiyuanensis SYBC-H1 %A Hao %A Zhikui %A Cai %A Yujie %A Liao %A Xiangru %A Zhang %A Xiaoli %A Fang %A Zhiyou %A Zhang %A Dabing %J Brazilian Journal of Microbiology %D 2012 %I Sociedade Brasileira de Microbiologia %R 10.1590/S1517-83822012000100019 %X the present study reports statistical medial optimization for chitinase production by a novel bacterial strain isolated from soil recently, which the name chitinolyticbacter meiyuanensis sybc-h1 is proposed. a sequential statistical methodology comprising of plackett-burman and response surface methodology (rsm) was applied to enhance the fermentative production of chitinase, in which inulin was firstly used as an effective carbon source. as a result, maximum chitinase activity of 5.17 u/ml was obtained in the optimized medium, which was 15.5-fold higher than that in the basal medium. the triplicate verification experiments were performed under the optimized nutrients levels which indicated that it well agreed with the predicted value. %K chitinase %K medium optimization %K response surface method %K inulin %K chitinolyticbacter meiyuanensis sybc-h1. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1517-83822012000100019&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en