Thermostable and halotolerant keratinase from Bacillus aerius NSMk2 with remarkable dehairing and laundary applications.

abstract：:Spodoptera littoralis, one of the major pests of many important crop plants, is more susceptible to Bacillus thuringiensis aizawai delta-endotoxins than to those of Bacillus thuringiensis kurstaki. Within the framework of the development of efficient bioinsecticides and the prevention against insect resistance, we tes...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Benfarhat-Touzri D,Ben Amira A,Ben khedher S,Givaudan A,Jaoua S,Tounsi S

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The steroid 1-dehydrogenase of Rhodococcus erythropolis IMET 7030, an active steroid-transforming strain, was localized by immunogold labelling both in cells induced with 17-alpha-methyl-testosterone and in noninduced cells. The labelling intensity was much higher in induced cells than in noninduced cells, indicating ...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Wagner B,Atrat PG,Clark-Curtiss JE,Wagner M

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phylogeny of the latest recognized domain, Archaea, is still complicated and it is largely based on environmental sequences. A culture independent molecular phylogenetic analysis revealed high Archaea diversity in a terrestrial hot spring, village Varvara, Bulgaria. A total of 35 archaeal operational taxonomic uni...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Ivanova I,Atanassov I,Lyutskanova D,Stoilova-Disheva M,Dimitrova D,Tomova I,Derekova A,Radeva G,Buchvarova V,Kambourova M

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Schizosaccharomyces pombe msrB(+) gene encoding methionine-R-sulfoxide reductase (MsrB) was cloned into the shuttle vector pRS316 to generate the recombinant plasmid pFMetSO. The msrB(+) mRNA level was significantly increased in the S. pombe cells harboring pFMetSO, indicating that the cloned msrB(+) gene is funct...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Jo H,Cho YW,Ji SY,Kang GY,Lim CJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sphingobium sp. SYK-6 can utilize lignin biphenyl compounds, such as 2,2'-dihydroxy-3,3'-dimethoxy-5,5'-dicarboxybiphenyl (DDVA). In the metabolism of DDVA, this microorganism exploits two O -demethylation systems with different substrate specificities, namely, a DDVA-specific oxygenative O -demethylation system and a...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Sonoki T,Masai E,Sato K,Kajita S,Katayama Y

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In most filamentous basidiomycetes, clamp cells are found at the septa of dikaryotic mycelia. Clamp cell formation starts at hyphal tip cells with the development of a lateral bulge at a position slightly apical to the future septum. Relative to the growth direction of the hypha, the protrusion expands backwards into ...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Badalyan SM,Polak E,Hermann R,Aebi M,Kües U

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixteen Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) strains were screened for their anti-insect, antibacterial and antifungal determinants by phenotypic tests and PCR targeting major insecticidal proteins and complements, chitinases, lactonases, beta-1,3-glucanases and zwittermicinA. Six strains had genes of at least two major insect...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Raddadi N,Belaouis A,Tamagnini I,Hansen BM,Hendriksen NB,Boudabous A,Cherif A,Daffonchio D

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of rock inhabiting bacteria in potassium (K) solubilization from feldspar and their application in crop nutrition through substitution of fertilizer K was explored through the isolation of 36 different bacteria from rocks of a major hill station at Ponmudi in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. A comprehensive...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Anjanadevi IP,John NS,John KS,Jeeva ML,Misra RS

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indigenous thermophilic hydrocarbon degraders are of special significance for the bioremediation of oil-contaminated desert soils with ambient temperature of 45-50 degrees C. The first objective of this study was to demonstrate the hydrocarbon-degrading capability of Nocardia otitidiscaviarum TSH1 (DSM 45,036) which g...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Zeinali M,Vossoughi M,Ardestani SK,Babanezhad E,Masoumian M

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yarrowia lipolytica yeast was grown batchwise on n-hexadecane as the carbon and energy source. Two cerebroside species were quantitatively isolated from sphingolipid fractions of total lipids by a combination of column chromatography and preparative high-performance thin-layer chromatography. The cerebroside content a...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Rupcić J,Georgiù K,Marić V

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simulation model was established in this study to evaluate the impacts of assimilable organic carbon concentration on the growth of biofilm and bulk bacteria under lower flow velocity conditions. The experimental results showed that the growth trends of heterotrophic plate count bacteria of biofilm and bulk bacteria...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Tsai YP

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Screening new organisms for antibacterial activity and searching for new antibacterial drugs is important due to the constant generation of new antibiotic-resistant strains of pathogenic bacteria. An E. coli broth microdilution test was used to evaluate the results of the Vibrio fischeri bioluminescence test in five o...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Janes D,Umek A,Kreft S

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recA gene of Proteus mirabilis (recApm) has been cloned into the PstI site of the Bacillus promoter-probe plasmid pPL603. When present on this plasmid, the recApm1) gene is expressed in B. subtilis under the control of its own transcriptional and translational signals. It is concluded that the high AT-content of t...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Eitner-Mönke G,Manteuffel R

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneously occurring thallium-resistant (Tl+ -R) mutant of diazotrophic, heterocystous cyanobacterium Nostoc muscorum is described in which Tl+ -R phenotype is the cause of defective salinity-inducible K+ uptake activity and proline uptake activity. The results indicate that mutant strain is more sensitive to salin...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Bhargava S

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nourseothricin-producing S. noursei strain JA 3890b possessed a high degree of resistance to its own antibiotic when grown in submerged cultures started from mycelium samples as inocula. In contrast, both the outgrowth of spores and the development of surface colonies from mycelium samples were severely inhibited ...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Röder B,Plonka G,Bormann EJ,Gräfe U

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lyme disease, caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, is a focally endemic tick-transmitted zoonotic infection. In this study, the major factors underlying synonymous codon-related amino acid usage in the B. burgdorferi genome and bias in synonymous codon usage of the translation initiation region of coding sequences were ana...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Ma XX,Ma P,Chang QY,Liu ZB,Zhang D,Zhou XK,Ma ZR,Cao X

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichoderma atroviride (T-15603.1) is a promising fungal agent for biological control of wood decay fungi in urban tree wounds. The aim of this work was to determine the combined effects of water activity (a(w), 0.998-0.892), temperature (10-30 °C) and pH (3-7) on the development of conidia on low-nutrient agar (LNA)....

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Schubert M,Mourad S,Schwarze FW

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium signaling is one of the most important signaling-pathways in all eukaryotes. One important target activated by an increased intracellular calcium concentration via calmodulin is the protein phosphatase calcineurin, which is composed of a catalytic subunit (calcineurin A) and a regulatory subunit (calcineurin B...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Thewes S,Schubert SK,Park K,Mutzel R

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mediterranean sponge Halichondria (Halichondria) panicea was explored as a novel matrix for the isolation of biosurfactant-producing bacteria. A total of 38 (out of 56) isolates gave a good response to the employed screening tests (e.g., stable emulsion detection, surface tension measurement, hemolytic activity, a...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Rizzo C,Syldatk C,Hausmann R,Gerçe B,Longo C,Papale M,Conte A,De Domenico E,Michaud L,Lo Giudice A

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A culture was isolated from an industrial mercuric salt-contaminated soil, which could tolerate Cd, Co, Zn, Cr, and Hg up to 190, 525, 350, 935, and 370 μM, respectively. The isolate was identified as Lysinibacillus sphaericus by 16S rRNA gene sequencing. It bioaccumulated Cd, Co, and Zn, and reductively detoxified Cr...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Bafana A,Chakrabarti T,Krishnamurthi K

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mn-oxidizing potential of two metal-tolerant bacterial strains - Halomonas meridiana and Marinobacter algicola isolated from the South West Indian Ridge waters were compared at varying concentrations of Mn (II), i.e., 1, 10, and 100 μmol and mmol L-1 . Accompanying changes in their morphology and metabolism were also ...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Fernandes SO,Surya Prakash L,Balan Binish M,Padinchati Krishnan K,John Kurian P

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Anoxybacillus sp. SK 3-4, previously isolated from a hot spring, was screened for its heavy metals resistance (Al(3+), Mn(2+), Cu(2+), Co(2+), Zn(2+), and Ni(2+)) and the strain was found to be most resistant to aluminum. Significant growth of the strain was observed when it was grown in medium containing aluminum...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Lim JC,Goh KM,Shamsir MS,Ibrahim Z,Chong CS

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosomal efficiency (RE) estimates provide a quantitative descriptor of intrinsic growth rate of cell populations using readily-obtainable experimental data. In Aspergillus nidulans chemostat cultures, RE increased linearly with growth rate over the range 25-60% of maximum growth rate (mu max), consistent with increa...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Bushell ME,Bull AT

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transposons are a group of mobile genetic elements that are defined as a DNA sequence. Transposons can jump into different places of the genome; for this reason, they are called jumping genes. However, some transposons are always kept at the insertion site in the genome. Most transposons are inactivated and as a resul...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Babakhani S,Oloomi M

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prokaryotic diversity in two brackish lakes (Sayram Lake and Chaiwopu Lake) was investigated by constructing bacterial and archaeal clone libraries of 16S rRNA genes. Bacterial clones from Sayram Lake were classified into six phyla (Proteobacteria, Verrucomicrobia, Bacteroidetes, Planctomycetes, Acidobacteria, Act...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Zeng J,Deng LJ,Lou K,Zhang T,Yang HM,Shi YW,Lin Q

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies were carried out to isolate chlorpyrifos degrading Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) strains from chlorpyrifos-contaminated samples. Six Bt strains (isolation rate 2.7%) were isolated by modified sodium acetate antibiotic heat treatment, and one novel strain (BRC-HZM2) was selected for further analysis. Phenotype an...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Wu S,Peng Y,Huang Z,Huang Z,Xu L,Ivan G,Guan X,Zhang L,Zou S

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Swainsonine is a polyhydroxylated indolizidine alkaloid having anticancer, antimetastatic, antiproliferative and immunomodulatory activities and also potential therapeutic applications against AIDS. In the present study, ten isolates of M. anisopliae were screened and enzyme assayed for the production of swainsonine i...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Singh D,Kaur G

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeasts form a significant and diverse part of the phyllosphere microbiota. Some yeasts that inhabit plants have been found to exhibit extracellular enzymatic activities. The aim of the present study was to investigate the ability of yeasts isolated from leaves, fruits, and blossoms of fruit trees cultivated in Southwe...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Molnárová J,Vadkertiová R,Stratilová E

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus nidulans produces sterigmatocystin, a secondary metabolite mycotoxin, for the protection of its reproductive structures. Previous studies on grazing behavior of fungivore arthropods, regulation of sexual development, and secondary metabolite biosynthesis have revealed the association of sterigmatocystin bi...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Ámon J,Keisham K,Bokor E,Kelemen E,Vágvölgyi C,Hamari Z

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The outer membrane protein (OMP) profiles of 23 blood isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii representing all the different antimicrobial susceptibility patterns observed during a 3-year period in a Spanish hospital were studied. OMPs extracted from envelopes of sonicated cells after solubilisation with 2% of N-lauryl-sa...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Cuenca FF,Pascual A,Martínez Marínez L,Conejo MC,Perea EJ

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00