An overview of Bacillus proteases: from production to application

FJ Contesini, RR Melo, HH Sato - Critical reviews in biotechnology, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Proteases have a broad range of applications in industrial processes and products and are
representative of most worldwide enzyme sales. The genus Bacillus is probably the most …

Pathways of nitrogen utilization by soil microorganisms–a review

D Geisseler, WR Horwath, RG Joergensen… - Soil Biology and …, 2010 - Elsevier
Microorganisms are able to utilize nitrogen (N) from a wide range of organic and mineral
compounds. In this paper, we review the current knowledge about the regulation of the …

Microbial proteases: ubiquitous enzymes with innumerable uses

P Solanki, C Putatunda, A Kumar, R Bhatia, A Walia - 3 Biotech, 2021 - Springer
Proteases are ubiquitous enzymes, having significant physiological roles in both synthesis
and degradation. The use of microbial proteases in food fermentation is an age-old process …

Developments in the use of Bacillus species for industrial production

M Schallmey, A Singh, OP Ward - Canadian journal of …, 2004 - cdnsciencepub.com
Bacillus species continue to be dominant bacterial workhorses in microbial fermentations.
Bacillus subtilis (natto) is the key microbial participant in the ongoing production of the soya …

[HTML][HTML] Bacillus subtilis as cell factory for pharmaceutical proteins: a biotechnological approach to optimize the host organism

L Westers, H Westers, WJ Quax - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular Cell …, 2004 - Elsevier
Bacillus subtilis is a rod-shaped, Gram-positive soil bacterium that secretes numerous
enzymes to degrade a variety of substrates, enabling the bacterium to survive in a …

Advances in utilization of renewable substrates for biosurfactant production

RS Makkar, SS Cameotra, IM Banat - AMB express, 2011 - Springer
Biosurfactants are amphiphilic molecules that have both hydrophilic and hydrophobic
moieties which partition preferentially at the interfaces such as liquid/liquid, gas/liquid or …

Statistical media optimization and alkaline protease production from Bacillus mojavensis in a bioreactor

QK Beg, V Sahai, R Gupta - Process Biochemistry, 2003 - Elsevier
Alkaline protease production in Bacillus mojavensis was improved up to 4.2-fold in a 14 l
bioreactor during validation of a predicted statistical model. The final enzyme yield in the …

Comparative evaluation of neutral protease production by Aspergillus oryzae in submerged and solid-state fermentation

C Sandhya, A Sumantha, G Szakacs, A Pandey - Process biochemistry, 2005 - Elsevier
A comparative study was carried out on the production of neutral protease using agro-
industrial residues as substrate in solid-state fermentation (SSF) and submerged …

[PDF][PDF] Microbial keratinases: enzymes with promising biotechnological applications

B Vidmar, M Vodovnik - Food technology and biotechnology, 2018 - hrcak.srce.hr
Sažetak Keratin is a complex and structurally stable protein found in human and animal hard
tissues, such as feathers, wool, hair, hoof and nails. Some of these, like feathers and wool …

Detergent proteases

KH Maurer - Current opinion in Biotechnology, 2004 - Elsevier
Over the past 20 years, the development of subtilisins as typical detergent proteases has
employed all the tools of enzyme technology, resulting in a constant flow of new and …