<![CDATA[Lipases are valuable biocatalysts because they act under extremely mild conditions, are stable in organic solvents, show broad substrate specificity and exhibit high stereoselectivity. Lipases play important role in various industries such as detergent, cosmetics, flavor, pharmacy and synthesis of organic compounds. The increasing of lipases requirements in industries is goading research to get new lipases resources commited. One of potential lipase resource is Azospirillum sp.JG3 bacteria from Microbiology Laboratory of Biology Faculty University of Jenderal Soedirman. The specific targets of this research are to get crude extract of lipase and investigate its biochemical characteristics. The method used were rejuvenation of Azospirillum sp.JG3 bacteria, inoculum production, determination of optimum production time and bacterium growth phase, extraction and production of lipase to get crude extract, and characterization the biochemical properties of lipase crude extract. The research resulted that crude extract of lipase from Azospirillum sp.JG3 had optimum temperature at 40 °C and optimum pH at pH 7. The lipase was a metalloenzyme with Ca2+ as its cofactor. The lipase was stable in three organic solvents tested, (chloroform, n-hexane and ether).]]>
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