Optimization of biodiesel production from castor oil using response surface methodology.

abstract：:The increase of multidrug-resistant pathogens and the restriction on the use antibiotics due to its side effects have drawn attention to the search for possible alternatives. Bacteriocins are small antimicrobial peptides produced by numerous bacteria. Much interest has been focused on bacteriocins because they exhibit...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Jena PK,Trivedi D,Chaudhary H,Sahoo TK,Seshadri S

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have described a novel red biochrome, 514 Da in size, produced by solid-state cultivation of a bacterial isolate obtained from garden soil. The growth requirements of the isolate, the chemical characteristics of the biochrome produced, and the application of the biochrome in dying of silk, wool, and cotton fabrics ...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Vaidyanathan J,Bhathena-Langdana Z,Adivarekar RV,Nerurkar M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modification of the phosphoenolpyruvate/sugar phosphotransferase system (PTS) has shown improvement in sugar coassimilation in Escherichia coli production strains. However, in preliminary experiments under anaerobic conditions, E. coli strains with an inactive PTS and carrying pLOI1594, which encodes pyruvate decarbox...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Balderas-Hernández VE,Hernández-Montalvo V,Bolívar F,Gosset G,Martínez A

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of biodiesel from Scenedesmus algal oil is one of the best alternative forms of liquid fuel production from biomass to petrol diesel. Biodiesel plays a significant role in the carbon sequestration process during cultivation. Scenedesmus algal species was isolated and cultured in a bold basal medium by u...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Mamo TT,Mekonnen YS

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of thidiazuron (TDZ) has been investigated in shoot multiplication for a simple, efficient, rapid, and commercially applicable regeneration protocol of an important medicinal plant, Vitex trifolia. Multiple shoots were induced in nodal explants obtained from a mature tree on Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium ...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Ahmed MR,Anis M

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agricultural by-products are becoming an attractive substrate for bioethanol production. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of regional differences in the rice hulls using Escherichia coli KO11 for bioethanol production. The rice hulls coded Edirne were obtained from Thrace Region, and the rice hulls co...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Imamoglu E,Dalay MC,Sukan FV

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic polymorphism of the cytochrome P450 (CYP) genes particularly affects CYP2D6 and CYP2C19 to a functionally relevant extent, and it is therefore crucial to elucidate the enzyme kinetic and molecular basis for altered catalytic activity of these allelic variants. This study explored the expression and function of...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Dong AN,Pan Y,Palanisamy UD,Yiap BC,Ahemad N,Ong CE

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Bacillus subtilis strain isolated from contaminated soil from a refinery has been screened for biosurfactant production in crystal sugar (sucrose) with different nitrogen sources (NaNO(3), (NH(4))(2)SO(4), urea, and residual brewery yeast). The highest reduction in surface tension was achieved with a 48-h fermentati...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Fonseca RR,Silva AJ,De França FP,Cardoso VL,Sérvulo EF

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of temperature on the performance of an anaerobic sequencing biofilm batch reactor (ASBBR) with liquid-phase recirculation was assessed. Assays were performed using a recirculation velocity of 0.20 cm/s, 8-h cycles, and an average treated synthetic wastewater volume of 2 L/cycle with a concentration of 500 ...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Agibert SA,Moreira MB,Ratusznei SM,Rodrigues JA,Zaiat M,Foresti E

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial strain NYT501, which we previously isolated from soil, was identified as Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, and it was confirmed that this strain produces an intracellular β-N-acetylhexosaminidase exhibiting transglycosylation activity. Several properties of this enzyme were characterized using a partially purifi...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Uehara A,Takahashi N,Moriyama M,Hirano T,Hakamata W,Nishio T

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corn stover has potential as a resource for both fiber and chemical needs if separation strategies can be developed to deal with its heterogeneity. Relative hydrolysis characteristics were assessed for pith (sclerenchyma and parenchyma) and fiber (collenchyma) tissue fractions derived from mechanical separation of cor...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Bootsma JA,Shanks BH

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was undertaken to examine the influence of biogenic nanoparticles synthesized from Tridax procumbens on different parameters of seed germination, seedling growth, and various biochemical parameters in four Eruca sativa varieties having low percentage of germination. Seeds were treated with different concentrat...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Ushahra J,Bhati-Kushwaha H,Malik CP

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To develop more potent thrombolytic agents with fibrinolytic and antiplatelet aggregation activity, staphylokinase (Sak) variant Y1-Sak, a recombinant mutant of the Staphylococcus aureus protein Sak, was constructed. Y1-Sak formed an insoluble inclusion body when overexpressed in Escherichia coli strain JF1125. To obt...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： He J,Wang G,Xu R,Feng J,Wang J,Su H,Song H

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusarium delphinoides (Ascomycota; Nectriaceae) is an indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) producing plant pathogen and a causal agent of wilt in chickpea. The IAA biosynthetic pathway in F. delphinoides strain GPK (FDG) was examined by analyzing metabolic intermediates and by feeding experiments. Gas chromatograph (GC) analysi...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Kulkarni GB,Sanjeevkumar S,Kirankumar B,Santoshkumar M,Karegoudar TB

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marinobacter sp. (MSI032) isolated from the marine sponge Dendrilla nigra was optimized for the production of extracellular cellulolytic enzyme (CMCase) by submerged fermentation. Initial experiments showed that the culture medium containing 1% maltose as carbon source and 1% peptone and casein as nitrogen source supp...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Shanmughapriya S,Kiran GS,Selvin J,Thomas TA,Rani C

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flavonoids are secondary metabolites synthesized by plants shown to exhibit health benefits such as anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and anti-tumor effects. Thus, due to the importance of this compound, several enzymes involved in the flavonoid pathway have been cloned and characterized in Escherichia coli. However, th...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Zakaria II,Rahman RN,Salleh AB,Basri M

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The unique carbohydrate-binding property of lectins makes them invaluable tools in biomedical research. Here, we report the purification, partial primary structure, carbohydrate affinity characterization, crystallization, and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of a lactose-specific lectin from Cymbosema roseum see...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Rocha BA,Moreno FB,Delatorre P,Souza EP,Marinho ES,Benevides RG,Rustiguel JK,Souza LA,Nagano CS,Debray H,Sampaio AH,de Azevedo WF Jr,Cavada BS

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was performed regarding the effect of the relation between fill time, volume treated per cycle, and influent concentration at different applied organic loadings on the stability and efficiency of an anaerobic sequencing batch reactor containing immobilized biomass on polyurethane foam with recirculation of the...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Rodrigues JA,Oliveira RP,Ratusznei SM,Zaiat M,Foresti E

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L-asparaginase production was optimized using isolated Bacillus circulans (MTCC 8574) under solid-state fermentation (SSF) using locally available agricultural waste materials. Among different agricultural materials (red gram husk, bengal gram husk, coconut, and groundnut cake), red gram husk gave the maximum enzyme p...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Hymavathi M,Sathish T,Subba Rao Ch,Prakasham RS

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small RNAs influence the gene expression at the post-transcriptional level by guiding messenger RNA (mRNA) cleavage, translational repression, and chromatin modifications. In addition to model plants, the microRNAs (miRNAs) have been identified in different crop species. In this work, we developed a specific pipeline ...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Chaves SS,Fernandes-Brum CN,Silva GF,Ferrara-Barbosa BC,Paiva LV,Nogueira FT,Cardoso TC,Amaral LR,de Souza Gomes M,Chalfun-Junior A

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pretreatment-induced structural alteration is critical in influencing the rate and extent of enzymatic saccharification of lignocellulosic biomass. The present work has investigated structural features of rice straw pretreated by hot-compressed water (HCW) from 140 to 240 °C for 10 or 30 min and enzymatic hydrolysis p...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Yu G,Yano S,Inoue H,Inoue S,Wang J,Endo T

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspartate aminotransferase (AspAT, EC 2.6.1.1) was bound on CNBr-activated Sepharose and the effects of immobilization on the maximum velocity, biologically active pyridoxal-5'-phosphate (PLP), and transaminationable active centers were studied. By comparing these parameters of soluble and immobilized enzyme the facto...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Kurkijärvi K,Korpela T

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study deals with the characterization of halotolerant protease produced by Bacillus aquimaris VITP4 strain isolated from Kumta coast, Karnataka, India. The studies were performed at 40 °C and pH 8 in Tris buffer. Metal ions such as Mn(2+) and Ca(2+) increased the proteolytic activity of the enzyme by 34 an...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Thaz CJ,Jayaraman G

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With regard to the enzymatic synthesis of sorbitol and gluconic acid, a screening was carried out to identify promising producers of glucose-fructose oxidoreductase (GFOR) and gluconolactonase (GL). Zymomonas mobilis DSM 473 and Rhodotorula rubra DSM 70403 have been selected for the synthesis of GFOR and GL, respectiv...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Nidetzky B,Fürlinger M,Gollhofer D,Haug I,Haltrich D,Kulbe KD

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:γ-Aminobutyric acid (γ-GABA) is a non-proteinogenic amino acid, which acts as a major regulator in the central nervous system. Glutamate decarboxylase (namely GAD, EC 4.1.1.15) is known to be an ideal enzyme for γ-GABA production using L-glutamic acid as substrate. In this study, we cloned and expressed GAD gene from ...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Xiong Q,Xu Z,Xu L,Yao Z,Li S,Xu H

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The article describes preparation of new calixarene biopolymers consisting of the immobilization of convenience calixarene derivative onto cellulose and chitosan biopolymers, and the encapsulation of these calixarene biopolymers with Candida rugosa lipase within a chemical inert sol-gel supported by polycondensation w...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Ozyilmaz E,Sayin S

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sugarcane bagasse is the major by-product of the sugar industry. It has a great potential for the production of biofuels and chemicals due to its considerable amount of cellulose and hemicellulose. In this study, we investigated a simple and economic pretreatment process using dilute ammonia for the storage of sugarca...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Kim M,Aita G,Day DF

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rheological behavior of a sulfated galactan extracted from Halymenia durvillei, a red seaweed collected in the coastal waters of a small island of Madagascar (Nosy-be in Indian Ocean), was investigated in dilute and semi-dilute solutions. In dilute solution with NaCl at 0.3 M, the polysaccharide adopted a coil con...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Fenoradosoa TA,Laroche C,Delattre C,Dulong V,Le Cerf D,Picton L,Michaud P

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A two-phase partitioning bioreactor to treat gas effluents polluted by volatile organic compound has been developed. In this work, both the mass transfer of isopropylbenzene (IPB) and oxygen have been considered in relation to their influence on the hydrodynamics of the reactor and the type of silicone oils used as a ...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Aldric JM,Lecomte JP,Thonart P

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Batch pressure vessels commonly used for hydrothermal liquefaction have typical heating times in the range of 30 to 60 min. Thermodynamically, the complex set of reactions are path dependent, so that the heating rate can possibly affect yields and the composition of the resultant liquid products. It is postulated that...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Zhang B,von Keitz M,Valentas K

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00