ASU project in the field of biotechnology received support from the Innovation Promotion Fund
The project aims to develop a technology for the production of milk-clotting enzymes from the biomass of higher basidiomycetes. Due to the deficiency of natural rennet, as well as its high cost, enzymes that are close in their action to rennet are widely practiced. Therefore, studies related to the production of rennet substitutes are an urgent problem in modern biotechnology. Replacing the generally recognized but expensive rennet with fungal proteases of a narrow specific action seems to be an economically profitable and promising task for cheesemaking. The research will use culture fluid, mycelial biomass, and fruiting bodies of higher basidiomycetes.
The Start-1 program aims to create new and supporting existing small innovative enterprises that develop and master the production of new products. The amount of the grant is 3 million rubles. Thanks to grant support, the researchers plan to conduct experimental tests of a milk-clotting enzyme preparation and, in the future, to launch its industrial production.