Abstract
Rhizopus (Rh.) delemar were cultivated under the various conditions and the productivity of three lipases (A, B, and C) were examined. There seemed to be no remarkable change of A-lipase production so far as examined, however, the productions of B- and C-lipases were changed with correlation depending on the composition of the medium. B-lipase was increasingly produced as much as C-lipase production decreased by the presence of phospholipid in a culture medium. The property of C-lipase was so changed by the incubation with phospholipid as to agree with that of B-lipase. Besides the above, the property of B-lipase was changed by its purification to that of C-lipase.
From these results, it seems that B-lipase protein is the same as that of C-lipase and a phospholipid is related to the intercoversion from C-lipase to B-lipase.
