Brotowali plant (Tinospora crispa L.) is a traditional Indonesian medicinal plant which has many benefits including for diabetes drugs. Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a metabolic abnormality caused by an increase in blood sugar levels. The purpose of this study was to determine the activity of α-amylase inhibitors of Brotowali (T. crispa L.) ethanol extract of plants. Extraction is done by maceration followed by evaporation. The extract obtained was tested for α-amylase inhibitor activity. The α-amylase inhibition test is based on the breakdown of starch substrates into maltose and glucose which is then determined by spectrophotometer after administration of DNS. Tests are carried out on controls and samples. As a substrate is 0.5% starch solution in 100 ml of sterile aquades. The reaction mixture was incubated 25 ° C for 10 minutes. The reaction is stopped by adding 2 ml of 3,5-dinitrosalicylic acid (DNS). All the mixed solutions are then heated to 100 ° C for 5 minutes and allowed to cool. The change in color of the solution is then measured for its absorbance at a wavelength of 540 nm. As a comparison used a control test that did not use extract samples. The results of α-amylase inhibitor activity test showed that ethanol extract with a concentration of 1000 μg / mL had the highest inhibitory activity value of 95.06% compared to extract concentration of 500 μg / mL, 250 μg / mL, 125 μg / mL and 62.5 μg / mL. The results of testing the effect of substrate concentration showed that 0.5% starch concentration had the highest inhibitory value of 9.52% compared to 2%, 1% and 0.25% concentrations

The waste of cellulose in the agro-industry can be reduced by decomposing the cellulose polymer into glucose. This process was carried out by cellulase enzyme (EC 3.2.1.4) produced by cellulolytic bacteria. Bacteria required food as nutrition to survived their life, can be obtained through growth medium or enzyme production medium. Carbon, nitrogen and calcium belong to the essential nutrients contained in growth medium and enzyme production medium. The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of the addition of carbon, nitrogen and calcium source and the time of incubation on the production of cellulase enzyme from Seratia marcescens KE-B6 bacteria. This research used Completely Randomized Design (RAL) of Factorial Pattern with two factors. The first factor is the type of medium, the first medium is the standard medium (M1) and the second medium is enriched with carbon, nitrogen and calcium sources (M2), the second factor is the incubation time with 5 repetitions. The enzyme production is measured by the reducing sugar method. The data obtained were analyzed using Anova. The results showed that the addition of carbon, nitrogen, and calcium sources and incubation time did not affect the production of cellulase enzyme by Serratia marcescens KE-B6.

Inulinolytic yeast is a yeast that produces inulinase enzyme (E.C.3.2.1.7). Inulinase has an important role to hydrolyze inulin into simpler molecules that are widely used in industry. Previous research has obtained K4 inulinolytic yeast from cherry fruit (Muntingia calabura L.) which has not been identified yet. This study aims to molecularly identify and phylogenetic analysis of K4 inulinolytic yeast isolated from cherry fruit (M. calabura L.) based on the Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) sequence. Research stages consist of DNA isolation, amplification of the ITS rDNA sequence, electrophoresis of PCR product, analysis of sequence data, and phylogenetic analysis using MEGA X. The results showed that yeast DNA was successfully obtained with a concentration of 807.1 ng/µL and had a purity value of 2.12. Amplification of the ITS rDNA sequence produced amplicon with length ±250 bp. Molecular identification based on homology analysis with database of The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and phylogenetic analysis indicated that K4 isolate was the most closely related to Diutina rugosa isolate S217 (MF797783).