Statistical optimization for production of chitin deacetylase from Rhodococcus erythropolis HG05

A strain producing chitin deacetylase (CDA) was isolated and identified as Rhodococcus erythropolis by morphological characteristics and 16S rDNA analysis, named as R. erythropolis HG05. By Plackett–Burman and central composite design, CDA production from R. erythropolis HG05 was increased from 58.00 U/mL to 238.89 U/mL. With the crude enzyme from R. erythropolis HG05, the hydrolysate components from colloid chitin were chito-oligosaccharides with polymerization number larger than hexaose.