Described are stable, durable granules with active agents, which have consistently low internal water activity, and methods for making such granules. The granules are particularly suitable for inclusion in steam treatment processes, including pelleting and tableting processes and steam processing of feed, without appreciable loss of active agent activity. The granules can be manufactured using humid processing air without compromising the stability of the active agents

This invention relates to the development of products that are alternatives to antibiotics with medically important human therapeutic uses for livestock meat and protein production efficiency. These products will be used to replace antibiotics used to rapidly increase lean muscle mass with specific feed regimens. The present invention is for the identification of non-human antibiotic products to be used with different feed regimens for livestock growth and meat promotion that include prebiotic supplements and keystone species probiotics that produce the desired growth promotion phenotypic effects. The present invention includes the identification of enterotypes that can be used as targets for recapitulation by compounds that are screened to produce the desired phenotype.

Disclosed is a lipid composition including, per 100% of its weight:—from 40% to 99.9% by weight of a component including, per 100% of its weight, from 90% to 100% by weight of beeswax and up to 10% by weight of at least one other lipid excipient,—from 0.1% to 60% by weight of at least one lipophilic surfactant.

Described herein are engineered cells, enzymes, methods of use, and bee bread incorporating engineered cells and enzymes as described herein. In certain aspects, described herein are a bacterium containing therein one or more stably-expressing expression vectors for exogenous expression of one or more recombinant carboxylesterase enzymes or oxalate decarboxylase enzymes, thereby providing the engineered cell an exogenous pathway for hydrolyzing ester bonds or removing a carboxyl group. Engineered cells and recombinant enzymes as described herein can be incorporated into bee bread to be fed to a member of the Apidae family of bees or of the Apis or Bombus genus. In additional aspects, such bacteria can also be selected and amplified from the milieu of the hive microorganisms and in some cases they can be molecularly bred to enhance their metabolic capabilities without genetic engineering.

Described herein are engineered cells, enzymes, methods of use, and bee bread incorporating engineered cells and enzymes as described herein. In certain aspects, described herein are a bacterium containing therein one or more stably-expressing expression vectors for exogenous expression of one or more recombinant carboxylesterase enzymes or oxalate decarboxylase enzymes, thereby providing the engineered cell an exogenous pathway for hydrolyzing ester bonds or removing a carboxyl group. Engineered cells and recombinant enzymes as described herein can be incorporated into bee bread to be fed to a member of the Apidae family of bees or of the Apis or Bombus genus. In additional aspects, such bacteria can also be selected and amplified from the milieu of the hive microorganisms and in some cases they can be molecularly bred to enhance their metabolic capabilities without genetic engineering.

The present invention relates to a method for increasing the stability of an α/β-hydrolase. In addition, the present invention relates to an α/β-hydrolase obtainable by the method of the present invention. Also provided are α/β-hydrolases having a decreased grand average of hydropathy (GRAVY) value and/or comprising specific mutations. In addition, the present invention concerns a use of an α/β-hydrolase of the present invention for degrading zearalenone (ZEN).

The present invention relates to a method for increasing the stability of an α/β-hydrolase. In addition, the present invention relates to an α/β-hydrolase obtainable by the method of the present invention. Also provided are α/β-hydrolases having a decreased grand average of hydropathy (GRAVY) value and/or comprising specific mutations. In addition, the present invention concerns a use of an α/β-hydrolase of the present invention for degrading zearalenone (ZEN).

Improvement of the intestinal health of a monogastric animal by increasing the levels of cecal butyrate levels in situ in said animal by administering a GH30 glucuronoxylan hydrolase-enriched maize-based animal feed is described. Improving the feed conversion ratio of said animal feed is furthermore observed.

Improvement of the intestinal health of a monogastric animal by increasing the levels of cecal butyrate levels in situ in said animal by administering a GH30 glucuronoxylan hydrolase-enriched maize-based animal feed is described. Improving the feed conversion ratio of said animal feed is furthermore observed.

Methods and compositions are described for producing a phytase in transgenic maize plants and then incorporating parts of the transgenic maize plants in animal feed. The feed phytase enzyme displays activity across a broad pH range, and tolerance to temperatures that are often encountered during the process of preparing animal feeds. Methods of producing an animal feed that incorporate the transgenic maize plants, parts thereof or plant derived phytases, as well as methods of promoting the release of inorganic phosphate from a phytic acid in an animal, producing an animal meat, or reducing the ratio of intake of an animal feed per weight of the animal meat by feeding an animal with the animal feed incorporating transgenic maize plants are provided.