| polyester-degrading thermophilic actinomycetes isolated from different environment in taiwan. | thermophilic actinomycetes strains were isolated from various environment in taiwan and screened for degradation of poly(ethylene succinate) (pes), poly(epsilon-caprolactone) (pcl) and/or poly(beta-hydroxybutyrate) (phb) by the clear-zone method. out of 341 strains of thermophilic actinomycetes, 105 isolates were phb-degraders (30.8%), 198 isolates were pcl-decomposers (58.1%), and 99 isolates could degrade pes (29.0%). furthermore, 77 isolates could degrade both phb and pcl (22.6%), 35 isolates ... | 2007 | 17653512 |
| actinomadura miaoliensis sp. nov., a thermotolerant polyester-degrading actinomycete. | an actinomycete, strain bc 44t-5(t), with the ability to degrade poly(d-3-hydroxybutyrate) was isolated from a soil sample collected from miaoli county, taiwan. the isolate displayed substrate mycelia and short spore chains were borne on the aerial mycelia. spores were non-motile, round, 1 mum in diameter and spiny. the aerial spore mass was blue. strain bc 44t-5(t) had meso-diaminopimelic acid as the diagnostic diamino acid of the cell-wall peptidoglycan. whole-cell sugars of the novel strain w ... | 2009 | 19244432 |