Microbial amidases: Characterization, advances and biotechnological applications.

The amidases (EC 3.5.1.

MTCC 13131: An Amide-Hydrolyzing Thermophilic Bacterium Isolated from a Hot Spring of Manikaran.

Unlabelled: MTCC 13131, an amide hydrolyzing bacteria was isolated from a hot spring in Himachal Pradesh and identified through 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis. The amidase derived from this bacterium exhibited hydrolyzing catalytic ability against aliphatic and aromatic amides. The isolate was characterized for morphological and biochemical properties.