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SUBMITTER: Cai CG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2170470 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of Zhejiang University. Science. B 20080101 1
A new feather-degrading bacterium was isolated from a local feather waste site and identified as Bacillus subtilis based on morphological, physiochemical, and phylogenetic characteristics. Screening for mutants with elevated keratinolytic activity using N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine mutagenesis resulted in a mutant strain KD-N2 producing keratinolytic activity about 2.5 times that of the wild-type strain. The mutant strain produced inducible keratinase in different substrates of feathers, ...[more]