Studies on ricinus lipase enzyme isolated from castor seeds

Abstract

Healthy and bold seeds of castor variety "Aruna" were collected. The de-hulled castor kernels were separated from seed coat and finely grounded in an electric grinder. The powdered kernels were passed through 60 mesh sieve and defatted using n-hexane in a soxhlet extractor. After complete extraction of oil seed meal was made free from solvent at low temperature. The defatted seed meal was pulverized and again passed through 60-mesh sieve to get final product .The RICINUS LIPASE source thus, obtained was stored in a screw capped glass vial and kept in a desiccator. As and when required portions from this preparation were used in further enzymatic studies.