Biodegradation of keratin waste: Theory and practical aspects
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...Introduction 1995; Korniłłowicz-Kowalska and Bohacz, 2011)....
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...…show that some Bacillus species of bacteria, actinomycetes and some fungi can effectively degrade keratinous substrates (Fakhfakh et al., 2011; Korniłłowicz-Kowalska and Bohacz, 2011; Williams and Shih, 1989; Lin et al., 1995, 1999; Nagal and Jain, 2010) which they use as sources of C, N, S…...
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...An excellent review by Korniłłowicz-Kowalska and Bohacz (2011) pointed out that the Bacillus licheniformis strains were prominent among the keratinolytic bacteria while among the actinomycetes and fungi, the genus Streptomyces and Chrysosporium respectively, were frequently observed....
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...…focus only on bacterial keratinases (Brandelli 2008; Daroit and Brandelli 2014; Sahni et al. 2015) or include only very limited information about fungal keratinases (Brandelli et al. 2010; Gupta and Ramnani 2006; Gupta et al. 2013; Korniłłowicz-Kowalska and Bohacz 2011; Onifade et al. 1998)....
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...…that there is an overall support to the picture of keratin decomposition given by previous review authors (Brandelli 2008; Brandelli et al. 2010; Daroit and Brandelli 2014; Gupta and Ramnani 2006; Gupta et al. 2013; Korniłłowicz-Kowalska and Bohacz 2011; Onifade et al. 1998; Sahni et al. 2015)....
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...consist of cystine/cysteine and serine constituted about 20–30% [44]....
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...Kornillowicz-Kowalska observed keratin degradation by using a mixture containing 16 strains of different keratinophilic fungi [44]....
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...Similarly, species of the genus Chrysosporium and Dermatophytes represented as keratinolytic fungi in the literature [44]....
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...About 50% of the sulfur content can be converted to sulfite products mainly depending upon the genus of fungi [44]....
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...Certain bacteria from Bacillus genus and fungi such as keratinophilic fungi, Actinomycetes can completely disintegrate the keratin [44]....
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