PRJNA488994
Enrichment of microbial consortia with efficient keratinolytic activity
The aim of this study was to screen and identify microbial communities able to perform an efficient degradation of mixed a-keratin materials. A soil-born microbial consortium was enriched, using a-keratin as the sole carbon source, in sequential batch cultivations at 24 °C. Characteristics and compositional changes of bacterial consortia over time were investigated with keratinolytic activity assays and 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing.