ARTICLE; AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY Bacillus safensis LAU 13: a new source of keratinase and its multi-functional biocatalytic applications
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...The extracellular keratinases have been successfully isolated from several microbes by using several fermentation techniques and by optimizing conditions, such as pH, temperature, and type of nitrogen and carbon source and the choice of microbe (Govinden and Puchooa, 2012; Lateef et al., 2015)....
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...Recently, we reported the synthesis of AgNPs using crude keratinase [18] produced by a feather-degrading Bacillus safensis LAU 13 isolated from a feather dump site [19, 20], and extracellular laccase of Lentinus edodes [21]....
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...strain of Bacillus safensis with potent keratinolytic activities (KA) [16] in a study for the biotechnological management of feather wastes and creation of novel products....
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...safensis LAU 13 (GenBank accession No KJ461434) produced highest keratinolytic activity [16]....
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...dump site [38] was inoculated into sterile peptone water and incubated for 24 h at 37 ◦C....
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...safensis from poultry feather dump site with first reports of potent feather degradation, keratinolytic, dehairing, blood destaining, and nanobiotechnological applications [9], [13], [38], and also documented the first review on the biology and potential biotechnological applications of the bacterium [39]....
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...Vibrio and Xanthomonas....
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...Vibrio and Xanthomonas.[26] There are previous reports on the isolation of keratinaseproducing strains of B....
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...The optimum temperatures of keratinases have been reported to range from 30 to 80 C.[7,9,11,26] These properties indicated that this enzyme could be a very relevant tool in various biotechnological processes....
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...It has been previously reported that alkalinity usually accompanies keratinolysis,[26,55] as observed in this study....
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...bonds, cysteine bridges and hydrophobic interactions.[5] The development of enzymatic and/or microbiological methods for the hydrolysis of feathers into soluble proteins and amino acids could be extremely attractive as a cheap and easy method for production of valuable products....
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