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<Journal>
<Journal-Info>
<name>International Journal of Pharma and Bio Sciences</name>
<website>ijpbs.net</website>
<email>editorijpbs@rediffmail.com (or) editorofijpbs@yahoo.com (or) prasmol@rediffmail.com</email>
</Journal-Info>
<article>
<article-id pub-id-type='other'>10.22376/ijpbs.2019.10.1.p1-12</article-id>
<issue_number>Volume 4 Issue 4</issue_number>
<issue_period>2013 (October - December)</issue_period>
<title>KINETICS STUDY FOR HEAT TOLERANCE OF LDPE DEGRADING STRAINS </title>
<abstract>Some microorganisms are sensitive to heat. They do not survive if subjected to higher temperature for longer duration. In this research, two bacterial isolates were screened and identified as  lessThan i greaterThan Bacillus amyloliquefaciens lessThan /i greaterThan  BSM-1 and  lessThan i greaterThan Bacillus amyloliquefaciens lessThan /i greaterThan  BSM-2 which are able to degrade the low density polymers. The thermal inactivation study was done for both isolates at four different temperature and survival curves were obtained for a specific temperature. The thermal death constants values are indicating that BSM-2 was more heat resistant than the BSM-1. This may be due to the synthesis of heat shock protein by BSM-2. Thus isolate BSM-2 was showed more heat tolerance and survived in higher temperature for maximum time and able to degrade the high percentage of polymers.</abstract>
<authors>MERINA PAUL DAS  AND SANTOSH KUMAR</authors>
<keywords>LDPE degrading bacteria, Heat tolerance, Thermal death constant, Heat shock protein.</keywords>
<pages>386-391</pages>
</article>
</Journal>
