Cattle manure compost metagenome as a source of industrially important enzymes. undefined

Compost is an aerobic self-heating environment that houses biological degraders capable of degrading wood, starch, cellulose, lignin, lipids, peptides and other carbohydrates. It has cycle of thermophilic heating and cooling phases due to oxidation of the organic matter into inorganic matter until the maturation where it will be used as a fertilizer. Compost attracts attention as it is readily accessible hotspot for thermophilic microorganisms and its enzymes. The enzymes such as amylases, cellulases, proteases and lipases are being sought in industries and are being replaced with its mesophilic counterparts. Metagenome of manure compost was isolated and sequenced. It revealed abundances of Actinobacteria, proteobacteria, fermicutes lineages