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Capacity of hyperthermophilic Crenarchaeota for decomposition of refractory proteins (α- and β-keratins)

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Anaerobic thermophilic archaea of the genera Thermogladius and Desulfurococcus capable of α- and β-keratin decomposition were isolated from hot springs of Kamchatka and Kunashir Island. For two of them (strains 2355k and 3008g), the presence of high-molecular mass, cell-bound endopeptidases active against nonhydrolyzed and partially hydrolyzed proteins at high values of temperature and pH was shown. Capacity for β-keratin decomposition was also found in collection strains (type strains of Desulfurococcus amylolyticus subsp. amylolyticus, D. mucosus subsp. mobilis, and D. fermentans).

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    S. Kh. Bidzhieva, K. S. Derbikova, I. V. Kublanov & E. A. Bonch-Osmolovskaya

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Original Russian Text © S.Kh. Bidzhieva, K.S. Derbikova, I.V. Kublanov, E.A. Bonch-Osmolovskaya, 2014, published in Mikrobiologiya, 2014, Vol. 83, No. 6, pp. 743–751.

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Bidzhieva, S.K., Derbikova, K.S., Kublanov, I.V. et al. Capacity of hyperthermophilic Crenarchaeota for decomposition of refractory proteins (α- and β-keratins). Microbiology 83, 880–887 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0026261714060034

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