Biochemical and molecular characterization of a serine keratinase from Brevibacillus brevis US575 with promising keratin-biodegradation and hide-dehairing activities.

Dehairing is one of the highly polluting operations in the leather industry. The conventional lime-sulfide process used for dehairing produces large amounts of sulfide, which poses serious toxicity and disposal problems. This operation also involves hair destruction, a process that leads to increase...

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Main Authors: Nadia Zaraî Jaouadi, Hatem Rekik, Abdelmalek Badis, Sahar Trabelsi, Mouna Belhoul, Amina Benkiar Yahiaoui, Houda Ben Aicha, Abdessatar Toumi, Samir Bejar, Bassem Jaouadi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3795758?pdf=render