scholarly journals Isolation and characterization of extremely halotolerant Bacillus species from Dead Sea black mud and determination of their antimicrobial and hydrolytic activities

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (32) ◽  
pp. 1303-1314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Obeidat Maher
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Celosia Lukman ◽  
Christopher Yonathan ◽  
Stella Magdalena ◽  
Diana Elizabeth Waturangi

Abstract Objective This study was conducted to isolate and characterize lytic bacteriophages for pathogenic Escherichia coli from chicken and beef offal, and analyze their capability as biocontrol for several foodborne pathogens. Methods done in this research are bacteriophage isolation, purification, titer determination, application, determination of host range and minimum multiplicity of infection (miMOI), and bacteriophage morphology. Results Six bacteriophages successfully isolated from chicken and beef offal using EPEC and EHEC as host strain. Bacteriophage titers observed between 109 and 1010 PFU mL−1. CS EPEC and BL EHEC bacteriophage showed high efficiency in reduction of EPEC or EHEC contamination in meat about 99.20% and 99.04%. The lowest miMOI was 0.01 showed by CS EPEC bacteriophage. CI EPEC and BL EPEC bacteriophage suspected as Myoviridae family based on its micrograph from Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM). Refers to their activity, bacteriophages isolated in this study have a great potential to be used as biocontrol against several foodborne pathogens.


2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (14) ◽  
pp. 1037-1043 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kintet Torome Tom ◽  
Gomezgani Matasyoh Lexa ◽  
Orinda George ◽  
Gakuya Francis

1980 ◽  
Vol 35 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 209-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Schöbel ◽  
W. Pollmann

Abstract The isolation and characterization of a specific chlorogenic acid esterase is described. The enzyme activity is measured by determination of the hydrolysis product caffeic acid. The enzyme had been concentrated by means of ultrafiltration and column-chromatography. The pH- and temperature optimum were 6.5 and 45 °C respectively. Divalent cations were not required for the enzyme activity. As other esterases, this enzyme is inhibited by di-isopropyl-phosphorofluoridate. The Km-value is 0.70 mᴍ chlorogenic acid, the molecular weight 240000. The described enzyme is specific for chlorogenic acid. On the other hand a typical unspecific esterase like the pig liver esterases does not split chloro­genic acid. The isoelectric focusing reveals several isoenzymes of chlorogenase within a pI-range of 4.0-4.5.


Author(s):  
Walaa Hussein ◽  
Ramadan WA ◽  
Sameh Fahim

Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) are consid­ered one of the most important vegetable crops and infected by numbers of different diseases. Studying the use of biological alternatives, instead of chemical substances against plant diseases became necessary for the treatment by beneficial microorganisms endophytes, which can excrete natural products benefits to plant in reducing disease severity, promoting growth and inducing plant defence mechanisms. In this work, three endophytes strains were isolated from tomato stems and their 16srDNA have been found to belong to Bacillus species. The first strain was named BMG100, the second BMG101 and the third BMG102. Two Bacillus strains BMG100 and BMG101 have been found to harbour synthetases genes from three lipopeptides families; surfactin, plipastatin, and iturin (mycosubtilin) which can be detected by degenerated primers designed to detect the presence of synthetases genes encoding lipopeptides. The lipopeptides production was proved by their quantification using High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC), whereas BMG100 produced 105, 178 and 293 mg/L of plipastatin, mycosubtilin and surfactin, respectively, BMG101 produced 385 mg/L of surfactin and 236 mg/L of mycosubtilin, while BMG102 showed no lipopeptides production. Keywords: Tomato; Endophytic bacteria; Lipopeptides; Bacillus species


1971 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 179 ◽  
Author(s):  
IJ O'donnell

Proteins extracted from reduced and carboxymethylated feather keratins (SCM-keratins) have been studied by Harrap and Woods (1964a, 1964b, 1967). They have demonstrated the presence of electrophoretic heterogeneity amongst the proteins and have obtained a molecular weight of approximately 11,000 in agreement with earlier work of Woodin (1954). There was no indication of marked heterogeneity with respect to size. Using acid hydrolysis and determination of acetic acid produced they found an acetyl content of 1 �30 molesj104 g in the rachis off owl feathers. These were thought to be attached to primary amino groups since there were no O-acetyl groups. In the present paper the isolation and characterization of the predominant, and probably sole, amino-terminal tripeptide from goose feather calamus is described. Goose feather calamus was chosen because its extracted proteins had one of the simplest electrophoretic patterns of proteins from the feathers of a number of species (Harrap and Woods 1967).


1986 ◽  
Vol 28 (11) ◽  
pp. 1753-1760 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce E. Rittmann ◽  
LouAnn Crawford ◽  
Cynthia K. Tuck ◽  
Eun Namkung

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