Abstract
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) cause high mortality throughout the world. Existing fibrinolytic agents are highly expensive and have many side effects. Microbial fibrinolytic enzymes are very much considered as novel therapeutic candidate for the treatment of CVDs. Reports on fibrinolytic enzyme from
Xanthomonas
sp. is lacking. This study reports fibrinolytic enzymes from
Xanthomonas oryzae
IND3 as it shows hyperactivity on fibrin-agarose plates. This organism utilized various agro-industrial wastes for enzymes production. Among all, cow dung enhanced more enzyme production, hence it was used as the low-cost substrate for statistical optimization of fibrinolytic protease in Solid state fermentation. Response surface methodology was employed to optimize the factors and enhanced yield by 4-fold. The interactions among the variables, viz, sucrose, yeast extract, and pH of the medium were investigated using Central Composite Design (CCD). The predicted fibrinolytic enzyme activity was 2340 U/g, and the observed fibrinolytic enzyme activity was 2294 ± 12.8 U/g. The fibrinolytic enzyme degraded blood clot
in vitro
completely. This study is the first report on statistical optimization of fibrinolytic enzyme production in SSF from
Xanthomonas
sp. The crude extract has immense activity on proteinaceous wastes. The production of fibrinolytic protease using the low-cost substrate could reduce the production cost of enzyme.