“…The enzyme is produced in the presence of tannic acid by various filamentous fungi, principally Aspergillus and Penicillium species Barthomeuf et al, 1994), by bacteria (Deschamps et al, 1983;Kumar et al, 1999;Mondal and Pati 2000) and by yeast (Aoki et al, 1976a(Aoki et al, , 1967bDeschamps, 1989) and is utilized in a number of industrial applications, including the manufacture of instant tea (Boadi and Neufeld, 2001), fruit juices and beer (Cantarelli et al, 1989) and wine and gallic acid (Lekha and Lonsane, 1997). Unfortunately, although biotechnologically useful, these tannases do not satisfy all requirements for optimal versatility in industrial processes.…”