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Characterization of digestive enzymes in Hermetia illucens (Diptera: Stratmyidae) larva reveals its biochemical basis as a garbage scavenger
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The black soldier fly (BSF), Hermetia illucens, is known as a beneficial insect and feeds on organic materials derived from animals and human, resulting in reduction of food waste and conversion of organic materials. Despite of a lot of study about the BSF, there is a less information about composition of digestive enzyme of the BSF larva. Experimentally, there is no evidence about characterization of digestive enzyme of the BSF. We investigated biochemical property of digestive enzyme released from the salivary and gut of the BSF. Through digestive enzyme assay, we found that the BSF has amylase, lipase and protease activity in gut extracts, resulting in that the BSF belong to polyphagous insect group. In the BSF gut, trypsin-like protease activity showed one peak at various temperature and pH condition. This result means the BSF has probably a similar form of trypsin-like enzymes. On study of comparison of enzyme activity between the BSF and the housefly using the apiZYM kit, the BSF had more strongly digestive enzyme activity than one of the housefly about leucine arylamidase, alpha-galactosidase, beta-galactosidase, alpha-mannosidase and alpha-fucosidase. This finding supports that the BSF can ingest raw waste far more efficiently than any other known species of fly as reported previously.
