amylase

[becky17]

does anyone know where fungal and bacterial amylase can be found? thanks xx

[Airmid]

Becky,

I'm not quite sure what you exactly want to know, but I'll give it a try anyway.

Amylase is an enzyme that is used to break down starch into sugar. It can be found in humans (your saliva is quite full of it!) but also in bacteria and fungi.

Not all bacteria have amylase, it depends on their diet. But if they have it, it usually can be found where it's needed, so that can be anywhere in the bacterial cell. Some bacteria are very clever and digest the starch before they even eat it. They transport their amylase outside their cell and let it do it's work there. After that, they take up the sugar and process that further inside their cell. I'm not quite sure about fungi, but I suppose it works exactly the same way.

 

Does that help?

Airmid.

[RyanJ]

becky17, do you mean where you can buy it from?

 

Cheers,

 

Ryan Jones