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Keratin degradation reflects a starvation survival strategy in Fervidobacterium islandicum AW-1
Jae‐Yoon Sung, Ji-Yeon Kim, Hyeon‐Su Jin…·Dong‐Woo Lee
This study shows Fervidobacterium islandicum uses keratin degradation as a starvation survival strategy through proteases, redox reactions, and metabolic reprogramming.