scholarly journals An Overview on Industrial and Medical Applications of Bio-Pigments Synthesized by Marine Bacteria

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Ali Nawaz ◽  
Rida Chaudhary ◽  
Zinnia Shah ◽  
Laurent Dufossé ◽  
Mireille Fouillaud ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Marine Bacteria ◽  
Bacterial Species ◽  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Medical Applications ◽  
Cytotoxic Activities ◽  
Environmentally Safe ◽  
Future Potential ◽  
Bacterial Sources ◽  
Bacterial Pigments

Marine bacterial species contribute to a significant part of the oceanic population, which substantially produces biologically effectual moieties having various medical and industrial applications. The use of marine-derived bacterial pigments displays a snowballing effect in recent times, being natural, environmentally safe, and health beneficial compounds. Although isolating marine bacteria is a strenuous task, these are still a compelling subject for researchers, due to their promising avenues for numerous applications. Marine-derived bacterial pigments serve as valuable products in the food, pharmaceutical, textile, and cosmetic industries due to their beneficial attributes, including anticancer, antimicrobial, antioxidant, and cytotoxic activities. Biodegradability and higher environmental compatibility further strengthen the use of marine bio-pigments over artificially acquired colored molecules. Besides that, hazardous effects associated with the consumption of synthetic colors further substantiated the use of marine dyes as color additives in industries as well. This review sheds light on marine bacterial sources of pigmented compounds along with their industrial applicability and therapeutic insights based on the data available in the literature. It also encompasses the need for introducing bacterial bio-pigments in global pigment industry, highlighting their future potential, aiming to contribute to the worldwide economy.

scholarly journals Marine Bacteria Is the Cell Factory to Produce Bioactive Pigments: A Prospective Pigment Source in the Ocean

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Palanivel Velmurugan ◽  
Chidambaram Kulandaisamy Venil ◽  
Arumugam Veera Ravi ◽  
Laurent Dufossé
Keyword(s):  
Bioactive Compounds ◽  
Marine Environment ◽  
Marine Bacteria ◽  
Bacterial Species ◽  
Cell Factory ◽  
Microbial Metabolites ◽  
The Past ◽  
Commercial Applications ◽  
Bacterial Pigments

The course of investigations of bioactive compounds like bacterial pigments from the marine environment has greatly expanded in the recent decades. Despite the huge concern in secluding and collecting marine bacteria, microbial metabolites are progressively alluring to science due to their wide ranging applications in various fields, particularly those with distinctive color pigments. This review is a short appraisal of the studies undertaken over the past 5 years on the bacterial pigments sourced from the marine environment. Herein, we have reviewed the potential of different bacterial species isolated from marine environment in diverse studies that are producing bioactive pigments that have potential commercial applications.

Medical Cyclotrons

2009 ◽  
Vol 02 (01) ◽  
pp. 133-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. L. Friesel ◽  
T. A. Antaya
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Therapy ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Medical Applications ◽  
Particle Accelerators ◽  
Radioisotope Production ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Medical Radioisotope ◽  
High Energy Particles

Particle accelerators were initially developed to address specific scientific research goals, yet they were used for practical applications, particularly medical applications, within a few years of their invention. The cyclotron's potential for producing beams for cancer therapy and medical radioisotope production was realized with the early Lawrence cyclotrons and has continued with their more technically advanced successors — synchrocyclotrons, sector-focused cyclotrons and superconducting cyclotrons. While a variety of other accelerator technologies were developed to achieve today's high energy particles, this article will chronicle the development of one type of accelerator — the cyclotron, and its medical applications. These medical and industrial applications eventually led to the commercial manufacture of both small and large cyclotrons and facilities specifically designed for applications other than scientific research.

Robots in Medicine

2019 ◽  
pp. 1543-1566
Author(s):  
Hruday Kasina ◽  
M. V. A. Raju Bahubalendruni ◽  
Rahul Botcha
Keyword(s):  
Minimally Invasive Surgery ◽  
Laparoscopic Surgery ◽  
Robotic Surgery ◽  
Minimally Invasive ◽  
Medical Industry ◽  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Medical Applications ◽  
Operation Theatre ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Robotic Surgeries

Robots are wide across used in several industrial applications. Robot applications are more found in medical industry in recent days. In initial days, robots were mostly used for simple surgeries and medical applications such as laparoscopic surgery and minimally invasive surgery in 1980's. At that time robotic surgeries were performed with the presence of surgeons in operation theatre. The present day technology has been so much advanced with more enhanced capabilities to perform several complicated tasks such as remote surgery and micro robotic surgery. The current paper discuss about the history and evolution of robots in medical industry and their latest technological advances, applications in various fields in medicine and limitations of robots in medical industry along with its future scope.

scholarly journals A Stringent Analysis of Polyphosphate Dynamics inEscherichia coli

2019 ◽  
Vol 201 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Downey
Keyword(s):  
Escherichia Coli ◽  
Infection Control ◽  
Bacterial Species ◽  
Stringent Response ◽  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Bacterial Cells ◽  
Inescherichia Coli ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Polyphosphate Accumulation ◽  
Inorganic Phosphates

ABSTRACTDuring stress, bacterial cells activate a conserved pathway called the stringent response that promotes survival. Polyphosphates are long chains of inorganic phosphates that modulate this response in diverse bacterial species. In this issue, Michael J. Gray provides an important correction to the model of how polyphosphate accumulation is regulated during the stringent response inEscherichia coli(M. J. Gray, J. Bacteriol, 201:e00664-18, 2019,https://doi.org/10.1128/JB.00664-18). With other recent publications, this study provides a revised framework for understanding how bacterial polyphosphate dynamics might be exploited in infection control and industrial applications.

Implementing 3D Printer to Produce Parts in Medical Applications

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 188
Author(s):  
Roger Johnson ◽  
Charles Taylor ◽  
G. H. Massiha
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Applications ◽  
The Other ◽  
Medical Applications ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
3D Printer ◽  
Cnc Machine

<p class="Abstract">The purpose of this project is to show the ability of a 3D printer to produce temporary parts, molds, and jigs for industrial applications. In the industry, it is common for any replacement parts to be milled by a CNC machine or a large inventory of replacement parts to be kept on standby.  This represents an underutilization of company capital.  This is because there should either be a CNC machine delegated to remake the part, while the other machine is down, or have capital dumped into parts that will not be utilized until a part breaks.  A 3D printer can create a temporary part that can take the place of the broken one until another, more permanent, one can be produced or ordered.  Although, if this was the only thing it would be used for it also would be underutilized and not bringing out its full potential.  It can also make jigs in a fraction of the time, and cost in materials, it would take for a CNC machine to mill it from metal.  This increases flexibility of the 3D printer and does not leave it underutilized, thus not being capital that is underutilized.</p>

Future Potential, Problems, and Practicalities of Herbicide-Tolerant Crops from Genetic Engineering

Weed Science ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 35 (S1) ◽  
pp. 28-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert M. Goodman
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Engineering ◽  
Broad Spectrum ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Agricultural Practices ◽  
High Potency ◽  
Crop Varieties ◽  
Potential Problems ◽  
Environmentally Safe ◽  
Future Potential

Genetic engineering is a powerful new technology that makes possible rapid development of herbicide tolerances in superior crop varieties. Use of the technology will have a major impact on future agricultural practices and the agrichemical industry. Possible risks as well as significant likely benefits – to agricultural users, corporate suppliers, and the environment – are discussed. Increased product lifetimes, decreased costs, and increased usefulness of broad-spectrum, high-potency, environmentally safe herbicides and herbicide combinations are predicted.

scholarly journals Anticancer Potential of L-Asparaginase: An Overview

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-129
Author(s):  
Kamesh Kumar Keshri ◽  
Mrunali Nandanwar ◽  
Eesha Shukla ◽  
Aswatha Ram H N ◽  
Aravinda Pai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bone Marrow ◽  
Anticancer Agent ◽  
Lymphoblastic Leukemia ◽  
Industrial Applications ◽  
The Body ◽  
Enzyme Preparations ◽  
Microbial Origin ◽  
Bacterial Sources ◽  
Glutaminase Activity ◽  
Insight Into

Asparaginase, derived from microbial origin hydrolyses L-asparagine to L-aspartic acid. The enzyme finds principal use in the treatment of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia during childhood that primarily occurs between two to ten years of age. L-Asparaginase finds its use in management of haemopoietic disorders especially in pediatrics that is caused due to proliferation and enlargement of lymphoblast in bone marrow and in blood as well as other part of the body. L- Asparaginase from bacterial sources exhibit quaternary and tertiary structural forms. However for using it in therapeutic and clinical application it should not generate any fatal allergic reaction to the patient. Such effects can occur due to the enzyme associated L-Glutaminase activity and also due to the endotoxins from bacteria in enzyme preparations. Therefore, with the recent development in biotechnology with respect to production and purification techniques it is possible to get pure L- asparaginase from microbial origin. The present article provides an insight into the mechanism of action of L-Asparaginase as an anticancer agent and its industrial applications. 

scholarly journals Identification and the First Record of Marine bacteria Mudskippers Boleophthalmus dussumieri (Valenciennes, 1837) by 16S rRNA on the Northern Intertidal areas of Persian Gulf, Iran

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
nerssy nassirabady ◽  
N. Negar Ghotbeddin ◽  
Laleh Roomiani
Keyword(s):  
16S Rrna ◽  
Marine Bacteria ◽  
Persian Gulf ◽  
Bacterial Species ◽  
First Record ◽  
Rrna Gene ◽  
Biochemical Tests ◽  
Fish Samples ◽  
The Persian Gulf ◽  
Boleophthalmus Dussumieri

Abstract Background Mudskipper is from the Gobiidae family and from the subfamily Oxudercinae. Mudskipper contains four main genera Boleophthalmus, Periophthalmodon, Periophthalmus, and Scartelaos. The aim of this research identification of bacterial agent (Marine bacteria) mudskippers Boleophthalmus dussumieri on the Shores of the northern intertidal areas of the Persian Gulf (Abadan, Hendijan and Bahrekan), Iran. The mud sediment and water samples (at the depth of one m), and mudskipper fish samples (near shore at the intertidal) were collected from Abadan, Hendijan and Bahrekan in northern coasts of the Persian Gulf, Iran. Results A total of 80 aerobic bacteria marine (from the intestines of mudskipper, seawater, and muddy sediments ) was identified by biochemical tests and 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis. The bacteria's (Marine bacteria) [Eubacterium] tenue strain DSM 20695, Praclostridium bifermentans strain JCM 1386 and Vibrio hyugaensis strain 090810a was first identified in the northern intertidal areas of Persian Gulf, Iran. Conclusions Bacteria compete with other organisms to get oxygen to the surface layers of the flower bed. They give that the bacterial species common to the fish intestines and sediments is high and due to fish feeding of sediment it can be concluded that the species present in the fish intestine in the present study may be a function of substrate species that needs further studies to prove this.

scholarly journals Hybrid Genome Assemblies of Marine Bacteria Isolated from the Sponge Sycon capricorn

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (43) ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver L. Mead ◽  
Erin E. Hahn ◽  
Maja A. Adamska
Keyword(s):  
Marine Bacteria ◽  
Bacterial Species ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Microbial Genomes ◽  
Calcareous Sponge ◽  
Hybrid Genome ◽  
Whole Genomes ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
Genome Assemblies

Sponges have complex relationships with bacteria, the roles of which include food, important components of the holobiont, pathogens, and accidentally accumulated elements of the environment. Consequently, sponges are reservoirs of microbial genomes and novel compounds. Therefore, we isolated and sequenced the whole genomes of bacterial species from the calcareous sponge Sycon capricorn .

scholarly journals Missense mutations in a transmembrane domain of the Komagataeibacter xylinus BcsA lead to changes in cellulose synthesis

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Salgado ◽  
Silvia Blank ◽  
Reza Alipour Moghadam Esfahani ◽  
Janice L. Strap ◽  
Dario Bonetta
Keyword(s):  
Transmembrane Domain ◽  
Bacterial Species ◽  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Forward Genetics ◽  
Site Directed Mutagenesis ◽  
Cellulose Synthesis ◽  
Missense Mutations ◽  
Cellulose Biosynthesis ◽  
Phenotypic Analysis ◽  
Komagataeibacter Xylinus

Abstract Background Cellulose is synthesized by an array of bacterial species. Komagataeibacter xylinus is the best characterized as it produces copious amounts of the polymer extracellularly. Despite many advances in the past decade, the mechanisms underlying cellulose biosynthesis are not completely understood. Elucidation of these mechanisms is essential for efficient cellulose production in industrial applications. Results In an effort to gain a better understanding of cellulose biosynthesis and its regulation, cellulose crystallization was investigated in K. xylinus mutants resistant to an inhibitor of cellulose I formation, pellicin. Through the use of forward genetics and site-directed mutagenesis, A449T and A449V mutations in the K. xylinus BcsA protein were found to be important for conferring high levels of pellicin resistance. Phenotypic analysis of the bcsAA449T and bcsAA449V cultures revealed that the mutations affect cellulose synthesis rates and that cellulose crystallinity is affected in wet pellicles but not dry ones. Conclusions A449 is located in a predicted transmembrane domain of the BcsA protein suggesting that the structure of the transmembrane domain influences cellulose crystallization either by affecting the translocation of the nascent glucan chain or by allosterically altering protein-protein interactions.

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