Author： Sangali Sidnei Brandelli Adriano
Publisher： Humana Press, Inc
ISSN： 0273-2289
Source： Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Vol.87, Iss.1, 2000-02, pp. : 17-24
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Abstract
Feather waste, generated in large quantities as a byproduct of commercial poultry processing, is almost pure keratin, which is not easily degradable by common proteolytic enzymes. Feather-degrading bacteria were isolated from a Brazilian poultry industrial waste. Among these isolates, a strain identified as kr2 was the best feather-degrading organism when grown on basal medium containing 10 g/L of native feather as a source of energy, carbon, and nitrogen. The isolate was characterized according to morphological characteristics and biochemical tests belonging to the
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