I do a research about microencapsulation Bacillus sp with sodium alginate matrix. after 4 weeks, my beads decreasing size be smaller than early and my bacillus still live (from viability test).
so, my question is bacillus sp on beads can consusm sodium alginate for their growth?
Mochammad Mirza Saputra
Yes, Bacillus spp. can degrade alginate beads, if they possess and express the genes coding for specific enzymes able to degrade alginate glycosidic bonds.
I suggest reading these four scientific papers.
Here are the four web links.
Marine Drugs | Free Full-Text | Purification and Characterization of a Novel Alginate Lyase from the Marine Bacterium Bacillus sp. Alg07 (mdpi.com)
Characterization of an Alginate Lyase in Bacillus subtilis WB600 (mdpi.com)
Bacterial alginate lyase: Characterization of alginate lyase-producing bacteria and purification of the enzyme - ScienceDirect
Isolation of a novel alginate lyase‐producing Bacillus litoralis strain and its potential to ferment Sargassum horneri for biofertilizer - Wang - 2016 - MicrobiologyOpen - Wiley Online Library
You can probe the genome of your Bacillus species of interest using a methodology described in the following scientific paper.
Here is the web link.
A novel Bacillus sp. isolated from rotten seaweed: Identification and characterization alginate lyase its produced | Biodiversitas Journal of Biological Diversity (smujo.id)
Good luck!
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