Microbial activity

Composting is a useful waste treatment for environmental problem, but composting experiment is challenging due to large-scale requirement. Thus, laboratory-scale reactor is of interest for composting experiment. The capability of laboratory-scale reactor to simulate large-scale composting was determined by assessing the quality of produced compost via germination index.

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In order to explore the importance of the Antheroporum genus in pharmaceutical applications, two bioactivities of A. harmandii plant extracts have been evaluated in this study. Antimicrobial and antioxidant activities of A. harmandii extracts will provide evidences for further chemical composition studies to detect new bioactive compounds from this species.

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In this study, we used the reliable GC-FID/MS technique to analyze the methyl ester derivatives of 37 different kinds of fatty acids. The results showed that high saturated fat concentration in all samples was mostly palmitic acid, whereas the low unsaturated fatty acid content in the cis form was primarily oleic acid and linoleic acid. The amount of monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats is quite low.

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Researching objectives: Evaluating the diversity and using values of essential oil plants at Ben En National Park, Thanh Hoa province; determining the content and composition of essential oils of some plant species; determinating the anti-mosquito and anti-microbial activities of essential oils of Zingiber zerumbet (L.) Smith.

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In this study we examined diversity and activities of some actinomycetes isolated from mangroves in Giao Thuy, Nam Dinh Province. The distribution of actinomycetes in soil is strongly affected by external factors. Extra-cellular enzyme producing ability of mangrove actinomycetes is very high, particularly the ability of producing cellulase degrading filter paper (122/128 strains), CMC (110/128 strains), protease (83/128 strains) and amylase (78/128 strains).

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A field experiment was conducted at main research farm of OUAT, Bhubaneswar, Odisha. The experiment was laid out in double split design with 27 treatment combinations and three replications. In main plot sunflower residue was removed in one plot, incorporated in another plot and in third plot no sunflower was grown. In subplot three methods of establishment of rice was taken namely dry direct seeded, wet direct seeded and transplanting method of rice establishment.

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An understanding of soil microorganisms as part of soil system and interactions between the diversity of producers and of decomposers, have major consequences on the functioning of agricultural ecosystems. Soil microorganisms control the transformation and mineralization of natural compounds and xenobiotics. The soil micro biota, existing in high density and diversity, rapidly modify the energetic performance and activity rates to changing environmental conditions.

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A pot culture experiment was conducted to study the effect of humic acid on soil microbial population and enzymatic activity in groundnut in an Alfisol at Main Agricultural Research Station, Dharwad.

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The present study was aimed to investigate the phytochemical screening and antimicrobial activities of Calotropis gigantea leaf extracts. In addition to these studies we also check the effect of UV light radiation on the anti microbial activity of leaf extract.

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Researching objectives: Evaluating the diversity and using values of essential oil plants at Ben En National Park, Thanh Hoa province. Determining the content and composition of essential oils of some plant species. Determinating the anti-mosquito and anti-microbial activities of essential oils of Zingiber zerumbet (L.) Smith.

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We study the enzymatic hydrolysis of lactose by a commercial enzyme from a selected strain of Kluyveromyces fragilis. The variables analyzed were: temperature (25–40 ◦C), enzyme concentration (0.1–3.0 g l−1), lactose concentration (0.0278–0.208 M), and initial galactose concentration (0.0347 M). On the basis of the data analyzed, both published and in the present work, we propose a Michaelis–Menten kinetic model with inhibition by the product (galactose), which reveals that the substrate (lactose) and the product (galactose) present similar affinity for the active site of the enzyme.

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a-Sarcin, a cyclizing ribonuclease secreted by the mould Aspergillus giganteus, is one of the best characterized members of a family of fungal ribotoxins. This protein induces apoptosis in tumour cells due to its highly specific activity on ribosomes. Fungal ribotoxins display a threedimensional protein fold similar to those of a larger group of microbial noncytotoxic RNases, represented by RNases T1 and U2.

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Dendrimeric peptides selective for microbial surfaces have been developed to achieve broad antimicrobial activity and low hemolytic activity to human erythrocytes. The dendrimeric core is an asymmetric lysine branching tethered with two to eight copies of a tetrapeptide (R4) or an octapeptide (R8). The R4 tetrapeptide (RLYR) contains a putative microbial surface recognition BHHB motif (B ¼ basic, H ¼ hydrophobic amino acid) found in protegrins and tachyplesins whereas the octapeptide R8 (RLYRKVYG) consists of an R4 and a degenerated R4 repeat....

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Gaegurin 4 (GGN4), a 37-residue antimicrobial peptide, consists of two amphipathic ahelices (residues 2–10and 16–32) connected by a flexible loop region (residues 11– 15). As part of an effort to develop new peptide antibiotics with low molecular mass, the activities of C-terminally truncated GGN4 analogues were tested. D 24)37 GGN4, a peptide analogue with 14 residues truncated from the C-terminus of GGN4, showed a complete loss of anti-microbial activity.

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The serotype a-specific polysaccharide antigen ofActinoba-cillus actinomycetemcomitansis an unusual sugar, 6-deoxy-D-talose.Guanosinediphosphate (GDP)-6-deoxy-D-talose is the activated sugar nucleotide form of 6-deoxy-D-talose, which has been identified as a constituent of only a few microbial polysaccharides. In this paper, we identify two genes encoding GDP-6-deoxy-D-talose synthetic enzymes, GDP-a-D-mannose 4,6-dehydratase and GDP-4-keto-6-deoxy-D-mannose reductase, in the gene cluster required for the biosynthesis of serotype a-specific polysaccharide anti-gen from A.

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Lactoferrin (LF) is a Fe 3+ -binding glycoprotein, first recognized in milk and then in other human epithelial secretions and barrier fluids. Many different functions have been attributed to LF, including protection from iron-induced lipid peroxidation, immunomodulation and cell growthregulation, DNA binding, and transcriptional acti-vation. Its physiological role is still unclear, but it has been suggested to be responsible for primary defense against microbial and viral infection.

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GE23077, a novel microbial metabolite recently isolated from Actinomadurasp. culture media, is a potent and selective inhibitor of bacterial RNApolymerase (RNAP). It inhibitsGram-positive (Bacillus subtilis) andGram-negative (Escherichia coli)RNAPs with IC50 values (i.e. the concen-tration at which the enzyme activity is inhibited by 50%) in the 10 )8 Mrange, whereas it is not active onE. coliDNA polymerase or on eukaryotic (wheat germ) RNAP II (IC50 values10 )4 Min both cases).

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Antimicrobial peptides are effector molecules of the innate immune system. We recently showed that the human anti-microbial peptidesa-defensin and LL-37 bind to glycos-aminoglycans (heparin and dermatan sulphate). Here we demonstrate the obverse, i.e. structural motifs associated with heparin affinity (cationicity, amphipaticity, and con-sensus regions)may confer antimicrobial properties to a given peptide.

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We recently discovered several nonlysine-analog conforma-tional modulators for plasminogen. These include SMTP-6, thioplabin B and complestatin that are low molecular mass compounds of microbial origin. Unlike lysine-analog mod-ulators,which increaseplasminogenactivationbut inhibit its binding to fibrin, the nonlysine-analog modulators enhance both activation and fibrin binding of plasminogen.

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Triticum aestivum xylanase inhibitor (TAXI)-type inhibitors are active against microbial xylanases from glycoside hydrolase family 11, but the inhibition strength and the specificity towards different xylanases differ between TAXI isoforms. Mutational and biochemical analyses of TAXI-I, TAXI-IIA andBacillus subtilisxylanase A showed that inhibition strength and specificity depend on the identity of only a few key residues of inhibitor and xylanase [Fierens K et al. (2005) FEBS J272, 5872–5882; Raedschelders Get al....

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