“…1) is present in many animal tissues, bacteria, plants, and in the serum of certain rodents, but not in mankind. L-Asparaginase is produced by a large number of microorganisms that include E. coli (Derst et al, 1994;Mercado & Arenas, 1999), Erwinia cartovora (Maladkar et al, 1993;Aghaiypour et al, 2001), Enterobacter aerogenes (Mukherjee et al, 2000), Corynebacterium glutamicum (Juan et al, 1990), Candida utilis (Kil et al, 1995), Staphylococcus aureus (Muley et al, 1998), Thermus thermophilus (Prista & Kyridio, 2001), and Pisum sativum (Siechiechowcicz & Ireland, 1989). L-Asparaginase catalyzes the hydrolysis of L-asparagine into L-aspartate and ammonia.…”