Isolation, identification, and characterization of a feather-degrading bacterium.
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...This can be exemplified from the literature where keratinase is mainly produced during the late exponential or stationary phase of microbial growth (Williams et al. 1990; Cheng et al. 1995; Sangali and Brandelli 2000; Vidal et al. 2000; Kim et al. 2001; Ramnani and Gupta 2004; Thys et al. 2004),…...
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...As far as physical parameters for production are concerned, they are species-specific and thus vary with respect to the organism (Table 1) (Williams et al. 1990; Friedrich and Antranikian 1996; El-Naghy et al. 1998; Sangali and Brandelli 2000;Vidal et al. 2000; Rissen andAntranikian 2001; Rozs et…...
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...Most of the organisms are capable of using keratin as the sole source of carbon and nitrogen (Williams et al. 1990; El-Naghy et al. 1998; Lin et al. 1999; Szabo et al. 2000; Gousterova et al. 2005)....
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...The cultures were sampled daily for cell numbers by determining CFU on ball-milled-feather agar plates, and soluble sulfhydryl concentrations were determined by the method of Ellman (4), as modified by Shih et al....
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...These treatment processes require significant energy and also destroy certain amino acids (10-12, 17)....
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...Feather waste, generated in large quantities as a byproduct of commercial poultry processing, is nearly pure keratin protein (7)....
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