• Mycobiology
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.209-213
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• 2003

Aspergillus flavus K-03 isolated from poultry forming soil in Korea was studied for its ability to produce extracellular proteases on basal medium containing 2%(w/v) chicken feathers. The fungus was observed to be a potent producer of such enzymes. Keratinolytic enzyme secretion was the best at 15 days of incubation period at pH 9 and temperature $40^{\circ}C$. No relationship existed between the enzyme yield and increase of biomass. Enzyme production was suppressed by exogenous sugars in descending order arabinose>maltose>mannose>fructose. But glucose did not influence the enzyme activity. The keratinolytic enzyme released by the fungus demonstrated the ability to decompose keratin substrates as chicken feather when exogenous glucose was present. The keratinolytic activity was inhibited by $HgCl_2$ and serine-protease inhibitors such as phenymethylsulfonyl fluoride(100%), chymostain(88%), crystalline soybean trypsin inhibtor(80%), antipain(45%) and aprotinin(40%), and was not by cystein-protease and aspartyl-protease inhibitors. The enzyme activity is only partially inhibited by metallo-protease inhibitor. Thus, the enzyme secreted by A. flavus K-03 belongs to the alkaline serine-type protease.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제16권12호
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• pp.1337-1343
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• 2007

The aim of this study was to isolate chicken feather-degrading bacteria with high keratinolytic activity and to investigate cultural conditions affecting keratinolytic enzyme production by a selected isolate. A chicken feather-degrading bacterial strain CH3 was isolated from poultry wastes. Isolate CH3 degraded whole chicken feather completely within 3 days. On the basis of phenotypical and 16S rDNA studies, isolate CH3 was identified as Bacillus thuringiensis CH3. This strain is the first B. thuringiensis described as a feather degrader. The bacterium grew with an optimum at pH 8.0 and $37^{\circ}C$, where maximum keratinolytic activity was also observed. The composition of optimal medium for keratinolytic enzyme production was feather 0.1%, sucrose 0.7%, casein 0.3%, $K_2HPO_4$ 0.03%, $KH_2PO_4$ 0.04%, $MgCl_2$ 0.01% and NaCl 0.05%, respectively. The keratinolytic enzyme had a pH and temperature optima 9.0 and $45^{\circ}C$, respectively. The keratinolytic activity was inhibited ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride, and metal ions like $Hg^{2+},\;Cu^{2+}\;and\;Zn^{2+}$. The enzyme activated by $Fe^{2+}$, dithiothreitol and 2-mercaptoethanol.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.224-229
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• 2003

경기도 일대의 가금류 공장부근 토양로부터 keratinolytic protease 생산성이 우수한 균주 KP-364를 선별하여 본 효소를 정제하고 일반적인 특성을 조사하였다. 본 효소는 ulkafiltration, ammonium sulfate fiactionation, DEAE-cellulose ion-exchange chromatography, Sephadex G-150 gel filtration 등을 통하여 정제되었으며 회수율은 25.2%이었다 SDS-PAGE와 gel filtration으로. 단일성과 분자량을 추정한 결과 전기영동 상에 단일 band를 나타내었으며 분자량은 약 36,000 dalton이였으며 1개의 subunit로_구성되어 있었다. 효소반응의 최적조건을 검토한 결과 최적 pH는 6.5, pH 3.0에서 10.0까지 90%이상의 활성을 나타냈으며 반응 최적 온도는 $37^{\circ}C$이였고 $60^{\circ}C$에서 1시간동안 80%이상의 활성을 유지하였다. 정제된 효소의 활성은$ FeSo_4$, KCI, $Li_2$$SO_4$를 첨가하였을 때 증가하였으며 $Ag_2$$SO_4$, $CuCl_2$, $HgCl_2$에 의해 저해되었다. 또한 EDTA, EGTA에 의해 저해되는 것으로 보아 metalloprotease의 일종이라고 판단되며 $Li^{ +}$를 cofactor로 함유하고 있는 것으로 조사되었다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.472-476
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• 2005

The present study was untaken to assess the capacity of Bacillus pumilis KHS-1 to grow on chicken flour and to prepare feather digest as fertilizer. To increase keratinolytic activity, the addition of cysteine (5.0 mM) showed the highest keratinolytic activity (245 unit) among the reducing agents tested. The production of soluble protein (feather digests) paralleled the tendency to the production of keratinolytic protease. In the growth curve of B. pumilis KHS-1 at $30^{\circ}C$ in the feather medium with 5 mM cysteine, the maximum keratinolytic activity of B. pumilis was about 161 units/ml after 84 h of incubation. The maximum enzyme activities were observed at the late logarithmic growth phase, and remained thereafter with little changes. Using 27-day plant growth assays on carrot and Chinese cabbage, feather digests and reference fertilizer were compared. In terms of the length and the weight of the above-ground vegetations, feather digests showed the same effect as that of the fertilizer. Therefore, our investigation shows that the feather digests can be used in agriculture.

• 한국가금학회지
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.343-350
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• 2009

본 연구는 박테리아에 의한 우모분의 이용 가능성을 조사 하기 위해 우모 keratin 분해 활성이 높은 균주를 분리한 후 keratinolytic protease 활성이 가장 우수한 효소 생산을 위한 최적 배양 조건을 조사하였다. SE-103 균주로 형태학적 생화학적 특성을 조사한 결과Bacillus sp.로 확인되어 Bacillus sp. SE-103으로 명명하였다. 최적 배지 조성은 glucose 3.0%, urea 0.4%, $NaNO_3$ 0.2%, KCl 0.15%였으며, 배양 조건은 초기 pH 6.0, 배양 온도 $35^{\circ}C$, 24시간 진탕 배양하였을 때, 효소 생산이 가장 우수하게 나타났다.

• Mycobiology
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.219-225
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• 2007

A keratinolytic enzyme secreted by Aspergillus flavus K-03 cultured in feather meal basal medium (FMBM) containing 2% (w/v) chicken feather was purified and characterized. Keratinolytic enzyme secretion was the maximal at day 16 of the incubation period at pH 8 and $28^{\circ}C$. No relationship was detected between enzyme yield and increase of fungal biomass. The fraction obtained at 80% ammonium sulfate saturation showed 2.39-fold purification and was further purified by gel filtration in Sephadex G-100 followed by ion exchange chromatography on DEAE-Sephadex A-50, yielding an active protein peak showing 11.53-fold purification. Sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) and zymograms indicated that the purified keratinase is a monomeric enzyme with 31 kDa molecular weight. The extracellular keratinase of A. flavus was active in a board range of pH ($7{\sim}10$) and temperature ($30^{\circ}C{\sim}70^{\circ}C$) profiles with the optimal for keratinase activity at pH 8 and $45^{\circ}C$. The keratinase activity was totally inhibited by protease inhibitors such as phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride (PMSF), iodoacetic acid, and ethylenediaminetetraacetate (EDTA) while no reduction of activity by the addition of dithiothreitol (DTT) was observed. N-terminal amino acid sequences were up to 80% homologous with the fungal subtilisins produced by Fusarium culmorum. Therefore, on the basis of these characteristics, the keratinase of A. flavus K-03 is determined to be subtilisins-like.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.7-14
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• 2006

가금류의 feather은 전 세계적으로 발생되지 않는 지역이 없을 만큼 광범위하게 발생되어지는 폐기물로써, 현재까지 많은 연구자들에 의하여 그 이용성에 대한 연구가 활발하게 이루지고 있다. 그러나 disulfide 결합, 수소결합 및 이온결합에 의하여 매우 강한 결합력을 가지는 feather 구성 단백질의 화학적인 성질 때문에 분해하여 사용하기에 많은 어려움이 있다. 가금류 폐기물을 이용한 사료의 제조과정에서 가열 및 가압 등의 과정을 거치면서 아미노산의 손실이 발생하고 낮은 소화율 등이 문제로 야기되어지고 있다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위한 노력으로 미생물이 생산하는 keratinolytic protease를 이용하고자 산업적으로 이용 가능성을 가지는 균주를 분리하였다. 토양 시료로부터 Bacillus sp. SMMJ-2, FL-3, NO-4 및 RM-12 4종의 keratinolytic protease 생성균을 분리하였다. 이 균주들은 5.0% skim milk agar plate에서 높은 protease 활성을 나타내었으며, 2.0% whole chicken feather agar plate에서도 많은 점질성의 물질을 생산하였다. Keratinolytic protease 생산을 위하여 배지4($0.7%\;K_{2}HPO_{4},\;0.2%\;KH_{2}PO_{4},\;0.1%$ fructose, 1.2% soybean meal, $0.01%\;Na_{2}CO_3$, pH 7.0)에서 Bacillus sp. SMMJ-2에 의한 keratinolytic protease의 생산을 조사한 결과, 배양 3일에 가장 높은 keratinolytic protease 활성을 나타내었다. 그러나, Basal medium(0.05% NaCl, $0.03%\;Na_{2}HPO_{4},\;0.04%\;NaH_{2}PO_{4},\;0.5%$ whole chicken feather, pH 7.0)에 유일한 탄소 및 질소원으로 whole chicken feather를 첨가하고 배양한 결과, $30^{\circ}C$에서 일주일 이상 배양하였을 때 feather은 모두 분해되었으나 깃대는 분리하지 못하였고 배지 4에 질소원으로 1.2% whole chicken feather를 첨가하였을 때 40시간 이내에 깃대를 포함한 feather를 모두 분해하였다. Bacillus sp. SMMJ-2에 의한 keratinolytic protease의 생산은 접종 후 9시간이 지나면서 생산되기 시작하여 24시간 동안 배양하였을 때 최대 활성의 86%를 나타내는 것으로 조사되었다. Bacillus sp. SMMJ-2에 의하여 생산되어지는 keratinolytic protease 활성은 $30^{\circ}C$, 180 rpm으로 3일간 배양했을 때 106 units/ml/min 이였으며, protease 활성은 540 units/ml/min을 나타내었다. 온도와 pH에 대한 효소의 안정성은 $50\%$ acetone을 이용하여 분리한 효소로 조사한 결과, $30{\sim}50^{\circ}C$까지는 80% 이상의 잔존효소활성을 나타내었고, $60^{\circ}C$ 이상에는 20분간 열처리로 효소가 거의 실활 되었다. 효소의 pH 안정성은 pH $6.0{\sim}12.0$에서는 비교적 안정한 것으로 조사되었다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제23권8호
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• pp.1133-1139
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• 2013

Enzymatic decomposition of gelatin layers on used X-ray films and repeated utilization of the enzyme for potential application in silver recovery were investigated using keratinolytic serine proteases from Purpureocillium lilacinum LPS # 876. At pH 9.0, the enzymatic reaction was enhanced by the increase of enzyme concentration or by the increase of the temperature up to $60^{\circ}C$. Under the conditions of 6.9 U/ml, $60^{\circ}C$, and pH 9.0, hydrolysis of the gelatin layers and the resulting release of silver particles were achieved within 6 min. The protective effect of polyols against thermal denaturation was investigated. The presence of glycerol and propylene glycol increased enzyme stability. When the reusability of the enzyme for gelatin hydrolysis was tested, it could be seen that it could be effectively reused for more cycles when glycerol was added, compared with the enzyme without protective agents. The results of these repeated treatments suggested that a continuous process of recycling silver from used X-ray is feasible. Keeping in mind that recycling is (at the present time) needed and imperative, it can be remarked that, in this research, three wastes were successfully used: hair waste in order to produce serine proteases; glycerol in order to enhance enzyme thermal stability; and used X-ray films in order to recover silver and PET films.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.818-825
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• 2012

Keratinases are exciting keratin-degrading enzymes; however, there have been relatively few studies on their immobilization. A keratinolytic protease from Chryseobacterium sp. kr6 was purified and its partial sequence determined using mass spectrometry. No significant homology to other microbial peptides in the NCBI database was observed. Certain parameters for immobilization of the purified keratinase on chitosan beads were investigated. The production of the chitosan beads was optimized using factorial design and surface response techniques. The optimum chitosan bead production for protease immobilization was a 20 g/l chitosan solution in acetic acid [1.5% (v/v)], glutaraldehyde ranging from 34 g to 56 g/l, and an activation time between 6 and 10 h. Under these conditions, above 80% of the enzyme was immobilized on the support. The behavior of the keratinase loading on the chitosan beads surface was well described using the Langmuir model. The maximum capacity of the support ($q_m$) and dissociation constant ($K_d$) were estimated as 58.8 U/g and 0.245 U/ml, respectively. The thermal stability of the immobilized enzyme was also improved around 2-fold, when compared with that of the free enzyme, after 30 min at $65^{\circ}C$. In addition, the activity of the immobilized enzyme remained at 63.4% after it was reused five times. Thus, the immobilized enzyme exhibited an improved thermal stability and remained active after several uses.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제40권4호
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• pp.303-309
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• 2012

Keratinases are of particular interest because of their action on insoluble keratins and generally on a broad range of protein substrates. Alkalophilic and neutrophilic actinomycete strains isolated from different soil samples, rich in keratinaceous substances were screened for keratinolytic activity. An alkalophilic isolate, TBG-S13A5, was found to possess good keratinolytic activity and was able to utilize feather as the sole carbon and nitrogen source. TBG-S13A5 exhibited an off-white aerial mass color with a rectus-flexibilis type of spore chain. The morphological, microscopical and biochemical characters were comparable with that of Streptomyces albidoflavus. Fatty acid methyl ester profiling (FAME) and 16S rDNA sequence analysis confirmed its identity as a strain of S. albidoflavus. Under submerged fermentation conditions, maximum protease production was recorded on the $5^{th}$ day of incubation at $30^{\circ}C$, using basal broth of pH 9.0 with 0.25% (w/v) white chicken feather. This strain could affect feather degradation when the initial pH was 8 and above and maximum protease production was recorded when the initial pH was around 10.5. The effectiveness of the crude enzyme in destaining and leather dehairing were also demonstrated.