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Abstract Rehan Adel Abd El Monssef: Biological Treatment of Microbial Pigments on Some Egyption Antiquities. Unpublished Ph. D. thesis, Department of Agric. Microbiology, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, 2016. Ninety six fungal isolates, seven bacterial isolates and two actinomycete isolates were obtained from the surface of the biodeteriorated paper and parchment. Only two species and three species belonged to Aspergillus and Penicillium genera respectively isolated from biodetriorated paper and parchment produced extracellular pigment. All microorganisms have the ability to secrete the specific enzyme for each material. Studying of the factors effect on growth dry weight and pigment production of pigmented fungi showed that all tested fungi have a different response to different carbon source and its concentrations, nitrogen source and its concentrations, minerals concentrations, pH, incubation temperature, light source and relative humidity. from tested of different fungicides our result shows the suitable concentrations of cinnamon oil and silver nanoparticles were 100 and 50 ppm respectively to use in further experiment as bio control agent to inhibit the fungal growth with save application on ancient paper and parchment sample. from all isolates only Trichoderma harzianum which isolated from ancient paper produced laccase enzyme, Laccases are enzymes belonging to the group of oxidases. Laccases catalyze the oxidation of a variety of phenolic compounds, diamines and aromatic amines. The maximum production of laccase enzyme by T.harzianum was observed at35 ○ Cand pH 5 after 6 days. The highest activity of laccase achieved at 35 ○ C and pH 5 during the reaction. FTIR analysis revealed that the structure of extracted fungal pigments has aromatic ring and phenols group. Crude laccase was capable to decolorize different pigment structures. The enzyme showed great decolorization efficiency toward the extracted yellow pigment produced from Asp. terrus and Asp. ochareceous treated by 200µl of partially purified enzyme.Laccase enzyme was used to decolorization pigment which secreted from deteriorated pigmented fungi on paper and parchment during 30 days by using a pieces of paper and parchment inoculated by spore suspension. The results indicated that a high removal effect of fungal pigment on paper (71.21%) was recorded comparing to parchment samples (32.39%). By FTIR analysis indicated that the ageing processing and infected fungi of paper leading to decrease of their absorbance. More differentiated region of stretching vibration of C-H group is situated by Aspergillus ochareceous. No clearing changes were observed on the spectra of parchment before or after ageing. Aspergillus ochareceous and Aspergillus terrus occurred more differentiated samples. Infected samples had bonded O-H streatching bond. The EDAX analysis indicated that the percentage of carbon and oxygen weight are higher components than other treatments and the fungal infection change the minerals content of deteriorated sample. Key words: Paper, parchment, microbial biodeterioration, microbial pigment, laccase enzyme, decolorization, fungi, bioremoval. |