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  • Title: Isolation and characterization of a feather-degrading enzyme from Bacillus pseudofirmus FA30-01.
    Author: Kojima M, Kanai M, Tominaga M, Kitazume S, Inoue A, Horikoshi K.
    Journal: Extremophiles; 2006 Jun; 10(3):229-35. PubMed ID: 16489414.
    Abstract:
    We isolated the feather-degrading Bacillus pseudofirmus FA30-01 from the soil sample of poultry farm. The isolate completely degraded feather pieces after liquid culture at 30 degrees C (pH 10.5) for 3 days. Strain FA30-01 is a Gram-positive, spore-forming, rod-shaped bacterium and was identified with B. pseudofirmus based on 16S rDNA analysis. The keratinase enzyme produced by strain FA30-01 was refined using ammonium sulfate precipitation, negative-ion DEAE Toyopearl exchange chromatography, and hydroxyapatite chromatography. The refinement level was 14.5-fold. The molecular weight of this enzyme was 27.5 kDa and it had an isoelectric point of 5.9. The enzyme exhibited activity at pH 5.1-11.5 and 30-80 degrees C with azokeratin as a substrate, although the optimum pH and temperature for keratinase activity were pH 8.8-10.3 and 60 degrees C, respectively. This enzyme is one of the serine-type proteases. Subtilisin ALP I and this enzyme had 90% homology in the N-terminal amino acid sequence. Since this enzyme differed from ALP I in molecular weight, heat resistance and isoelectric point, they are suggested to be different enzymes.
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