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Collagenolytic Activity of Hide Bacteria and Leather Decay
Author(s) -
Woods D. R.,
Rawlings D. E.,
Cooper D. R.,
Galloway A. C.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
journal of applied bacteriology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.889
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1365-2672
pISSN - 0021-8847
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2672.1973.tb04104.x
Subject(s) - bacteria , food science , raw material , curing (chemistry) , bacterial colony , chemistry , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , materials science , composite material , ecology , genetics
. The numbers and collagenolytic activities of hide bacteria were determined before and after curing and were compared with leather decay gradings obtained from the finished leather. A correlation between the collagenolytic activity and bacterial numbers of both raw hide and leather decay populations was obtained. No correlation between collagenolysis or bacterial numbers and leather decay was observed with cured hide bacteria. Bacterial action during the raw hide stage was primarily responsible for hide decay. There was no significant difference ( t 0·05) between the collagenolytic activities of bacterial populations obtained from neck and tail samples from hides of the same batch.