Profile: Indo Gulf Company specializes in fine chemicals, feed additives and life sciences. We are an ISO 9001:2000, WHO and GMP certified company. Our bacteriological media ingredients include peptone bacteriological, soy peptone, tryptose, casein peptone, tryptone, lactalbumin hydrolyzate, meat peptone, liver hydrolyzate, proteose peptone, sodium caseinate and malt extract powder. We offer enzymes such as alpha-acetolactate decarboxylase, amyloglucosidase, beta-glucanase, catalase, dextran, glucoamylase, glucose oxidase and hemicellulase. Alpha-acetolactate decarboxylase is used to avoid the formation of the unpleasant tasting alpha-diacetyl from alpha-acetolactate during fermentation. It causes direct decarboxylation of alpha-acetolactate to acetoin, thus avoiding the need for maturation period. The enzyme can similarly be used in the fermentation of alcohol. Laccase is a copper-containing enzyme, 1,4-benzenediol oxidase, found in higher plants and microorganisms. These are multicopper oxidases of wide specificity that carry out one-electron oxidation of phenolic and related compounds & reduce O2 to water. The enzymes are polymeric and generally contain one each of type 1, 2 & 3 copper centers per subunit, where the type 2 & 3 are close together forming a trinuclear copper cluster.