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- Title
Diverse thermophilic Bacillus species with multiple biotechnological activities are associated within the Egyptian soil and compost samples.
- Authors
Zalma, SA; El-Sharoud, WM
- Abstract
Thermophilic strains of Bacillus can express enzymes of higher thermal stability, which allows carrying out industrial fermentations under higher temperatures. This lowers the contamination potential, accelerates mixing rates and facilitates the recovery of fermentation end products. The present study was thus designed to isolate and characterize thermophilic Bacillus cultures from soil and compost samples. Forty-two thermophilic Bacillus isolates could be identified employing morphological, physiological and the 16S rRNA gene sequencing analyses. The isolates showed a high degree of biological diversity involving 13 Bacillus species and 1 subspecies but were dominated by Bacillus licheniformis. Phylogenetic analysis of B. licheniformis isolates based on the DNA sequencing of gyrA and rpoB genes presented them in two main genetic groups. Isolates of five thermophilic species including B. licheniformis, Bacillus altitudinis, Bacillus paralicheniformis, Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus thermoamylovorans showed multiple activities to degrade all of cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin. Those multifunctional thermophilic Bacillus isolates can be harnessed in the degradation of plant wastes for the production of biofuels and compost.
- Subjects
SOIL sampling; BACILLUS licheniformis; DNA sequencing; SPECIES; BACILLUS subtilis
- Publication
Science Progress, 2021, Vol 104, p1
- ISSN
0036-8504
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/00368504211055277