Biochemical transformations of herbicide-derived anilines in culture medium and in soil

1972 ◽  
Vol 18 (12) ◽  
pp. 1857-1864 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. M. Bordeleau ◽  
R. Bartha

A correlation was established between peroxidase activity of soil and its capacity to transform 3,4-dichloroaniline, a breakdown product of several herbicides, to 3,3′,4,4′-tetrachloroazobenzene. Supplementation of soil by carbon and nitrogen sources for microbial growth stimulated both activities, and pointed to the microbial origin of soil peroxidases. Several peroxidase-producing bacteria, actinomycetes, and fungi were isolated from soil and were characterized. On the basis of its rapid growth and high peroxidase activity, a Geotrichum candidum strain was selected for further study. The culture filtrate of this organism exhibited both peroxidase and aniline oxidase activity. The highest per milligram dry weight activity of these enzymes was observed after cultivation on a mineral salts medium supplemented with soil extract and yeast extract.

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 34-40
Author(s):  
Abdulkareem Jasim ◽  
Hameed M. Jasim ◽  
Isra'a M. Dhahi

Different nutritional and cultural factors were studied to determine the optimum conditions for prodigiosin production by Serratia marcescens S11 in a batch culture of brain-heart infusion broth medium. These factors include carbon source and its concentration, nitrogen source and its concentration, phosphate source, temperature and pH. Results showed that the optimum conditions for prodigiosin production were achieved when the production medium was supplemented with olive oil and casein hydrolysate as a carbon and nitrogen sources respectively in a concentration of 1.5% for broth, KH2PO4 as a phosphate source at initial medium pH8, and incubation at 28°C for 24 hours. Under these optimal conditions, prodigiosin activity produced by Serratia marcescens S11 in culture medium was increased from 200 U/cell before optimization to 3000 U/cell.


2021 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 05003
Author(s):  
Nguyen Van Zhang ◽  
Nguyen Thi Thu ◽  
Vu Thi Linh ◽  
V.V. Pylnev ◽  
M.I. Popchenko

This work presents the experimental study results of the influence of the culture medium on the ability to IAA synthesis of three endophytic strains TH10R, TH11T, and TH13T from roots of Ipomoea pes-caprae. Three investigated strains give the highest IAA concentration after 96 h of cultivation. A significant increase in IAA biosynthesis was obtained by cultivating the TH10R strain in a medium containing lactose or starch as a carbon source and NH4Cl or KNO3 as a nitrogen source. The TH11T strain produces the maximum amount of IAA, using glucose or xylose and KNO3 or NH4NO3 as carbon and nitrogen sources, respectively. Sucrose is a suitable carbon source for the TH13T strain; on a sucrose-containing medium, the TH13T strain produces the highest IAA amount. The most active strain is TH10R, identified as Bacillus mycoides and named Bacillus mycoides TH10R.


2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saraswati Bisht

Assessment of different sources of carbon and nitrogen in terms of dry weight biomass of four selected aquatic hyphomycetes viz; Flagellospora penicilloides Ingold, Pestalotiopsis submersus Sati and Tiwari, Tetrachaetum elegans Ingold and Tetracladium marchalianum De Wildeman was made for their nutritional requirements. Eight carbon sources and ten nitrogen sources were singly added to the basal media in order to provide 4g of carbon and 1g of nitrogen per litre of distilled water. Among carbon compounds glucose and sucrose were found to be most suitable sources of carbon for all the four fungal isolates, where as fructose proved good for T. marchalianum, P. submersus and F.penicilloides fairly. Cellulose was found a poor source of carbon for the growth of all these isolates. The inorganic sources of nitrogen were found as good nitrogen sources with preference for ammonium ions. Suitability of amino acids was found variable from species to species for nitrogen. T.elegans and T.marchalianum had their maximum growth in asparagines, whereas, P. submersus had their highest growth in proline. Cysteine was observed as a good source of nitrogen for almost all the fungal isolates used. Anova calculated for these observed data showed significant variations in the dry weight production of different fungal species grown in different sources of carbon and nitrogen(P<0.01).


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prakash Shyam Karuppiah ◽  
Rajkumar Prabhakaran ◽  
Ramya Venkatesan ◽  
Sivabalan Sivasamy ◽  
L.R.Monisha Miriam

Polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) is a synthetic polymer, widely used for industrial applications, and its contamination related to the ecosystem concerns an increasingly serious problem. In the present study, we account a novel, potent PVA degrader, VVD-MBB8, isolated from the Gulf of Mannar. The VVD-MBB8 was identified as Enterobacter cloacae based on the molecular analysis using 16S rRNA gene sequence, biochemical and evolutionary distance analysis. This is the first report for the PVA degrader from the Enterobacter genus. The results showed 83% of the PVA present in the culture medium was degraded by Enterobacter cloacae VVD-MBB8 after 48 hrs of incubation with 30⁰C at the agitation of 145rpm. The results obtained from the FTIR showed notable differences in the PVA degradation stretches (3000 to 3300cm-1, 2500 to 3000cm-1) at 24 and 48 hrs compared with control (before degradation of PVA). The effects of carbon and nitrogen sources for PVA degradation were identified and the results revealed nitrogen sources have a significant increase in PVA degrading enzyme production and the enzyme activity was 83 U/ml.


1981 ◽  
Vol 27 (7) ◽  
pp. 685-691 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. A. Barnett ◽  
W. A. Ayers

Three of five isolates of Sporidesmium sclerotivorum, a mycoparasite of Sclerotinia spp., grew well on an agar medium containing mineral salts, glucose, thiamine, and glutamine or Casamino acids as the nitrogen source. The nitrogen requirement for two of the isolates was satisfied by NH4Cl, Casamino acids, or glutamine. Glutamine was the best single nitrogen source. Only one isolate, CS-1, was used in further nutritional studies. The optimum concentration of glutamine for growth was 5 g/L. Glucose, mannose, mannitol, and cellobiose were excellent carbon sources. A glucose concentration of 20 g/L was optimum. Mannitol supported greater growth than glucose with Casamino acids as the nitrogen source but glucose was the superior carbon source with glutamine as the nitrogen source. Greatest growth was achieved with a combination of these carbon and nitrogen sources. Sporidesmium sclerotivorum, isolate CS-1, required thiamine for growth and sporulation. Biotin stimulated growth. The fungus developed maximally within the range of pH 5.0–5.5 and growth was greatly reduced at a pH below 4.0 or above 6.0. Control of acidity by the periodic addition of NaOH solution permitted substantially increased growth. The optimum temperature for growth was 22.5–25.0 °C but production of macroconidia was greatest at 15–20 °C.


2010 ◽  
Vol 65 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 528-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alapati Kavitha ◽  
Muvva Vijayalakshmi

Cultural factors affecting the production of L-asparaginase by Streptomyces tendae isolated from laterite soil samples of Guntur region were investigated on glycerolasparagine- salts (modified ISP-5) broth. Optimal yields of L-asparaginase were recorded in the culture medium with the initial pH 7.0 incubated at 30 °C for 72 h. The strain utilized sucrose (2%) and yeast (2%) extract as carbon and nitrogen sources for L-asparaginase production. The productivity of L-asparaginase was slightly enhanced when the strain was treated with cell-disrupting agents like EDTA. The crude enzyme was purifi ed to homogeneity by ammonium sulfate precipitation, Sephadex G-100 and CM-Sephadex G-50 gel filtration. By employing sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, the molecular weight of the enzyme was recorded as 97.4 kDa. This is the first report on production and purification of L-asparaginase from S. tendae.


AMB Express ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dayana Morales-Borrell ◽  
Nemecio González-Fernández ◽  
Néstor Mora-González ◽  
Carlos Pérez-Heredia ◽  
Ana Campal-Espinosa ◽  
...  

Abstract Culture medium composition is one of the most important parameters to analyze in biotechnological processes with industrial purposes. The aim of this study was to design of a culture medium for optimal growth of the bacterium Pseudoxanthomonas indica H32 allowing its production as biopesticide and biofertilizer. The influence of several carbon and nitrogen sources and their molar ratios on P. indica H32 growth was investigated. The effect of different micronutrients such as mineral salts and vitamin on P. indica H32 growth was determined as well. A mixture design based on Design-Expert 10.0 Software was performed to optimize the culture medium concentration. Finally, in the designed medium, an attribute of the biological mechanism of action of the P. indica H32 against nematodes, was evaluated: the hydrogen sulfide production. It was found that tested carbon/nitrogen ratios were not a significant influence on P. indica H32 growth. Growth of P. indica H32 was favored with use of sucrose, yeast extract and phosphate buffer without the addition of any tested micronutrients. An optimal concentration of 10 g/L sucrose and 5 g/L yeast extract were obtained at a cost of 0.10 $/L. In this concentration, the specific growth rate (µ) and maximal optical density (Xmax) were equal to 0.439 h− 1 and 8.00 respectively. It was evidenced that under the culture conditions used, P. indica H32 produced hydrogen sulfide. The designed medium led to a 1.08 $/L reduction of costs in comparison to LB medium. These results were critical to carry on with biotechnological development of P. indica H32 as a bioproduct.


1978 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 81 ◽  
Author(s):  
GR Donovan ◽  
JW Lee

Detached wheat heads (8 days post anthesis) were grown in liquid culture using media containing various nitrogen sources at different concentrations. Grain development in terms of dry weight, nitrogen, starch and protein were equivalent whether the nitrogen was supplied as either a complete spectrum of amino acids or as glutamine, asparagine or ammonium nitrate. Where the concentration of nitrogen in the culture medium was varied while maintaining the sucrose concentration constant, no variations were observed in the rate of grain dry weight or starch accumulation. Nitrogen per grain and percentage grain nitrogen increased with increasing concentrations of nitrogen in the culture medium. Percentage grain nitrogen was higher in the 'high protein' cultivar Timgalen than in the 'low protein' cultivar WW 15 at equivalent nitrogen concentrations in the culture medium, but differences in percentage proteins were only small.


2004 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 2279-2288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrícia A. Ramalho ◽  
M. Helena Cardoso ◽  
A. Cavaco-Paulo ◽  
M. Teresa Ramalho

ABSTRACT Several model azo dyes are reductively cleaved by growing cultures of an ascomycete yeast species, Issatchenkia occidentalis. In liquid media containing 0.2 mM dye and 2% glucose in a mineral salts base, more than 80% of the dyes are removed in 15 h, essentially under microaerophilic conditions. Under anoxic conditions, decolorization does not occur, even in the presence of pregrown cells. Kinetic assays of azo reduction activities in quasi-resting cells demonstrated the following: (i) while the optimum pH depends on dye structure, the optimum pH range was observed in the acidic range; (ii) the maximum decolorizing activity occurs in the late exponential phase; and (iii) the temperature profile approaches the typical bell-shaped curve. These results indirectly suggest the involvement of an enzyme activity in azo dye reduction. The decolorizing activity of I. occidentalis is still observed, although at a lower level, when the cells switch to aerobic respiration at the expense of ethanol after glucose exhaustion in the culture medium. Decolorization ceased when all the ethanol was consumed; this observation, along with other lines of evidence, suggests that azo dye reduction depends on cell growth. Anthraquinone-2-sulfonate, a redox mediator, enhances the reduction rates of the N,N-dimethylaniline-based dyes and reduces those of the 2-naphthol-based dyes, an effect which seems to be compatible with a thermodynamic factor. The dye reduction products were tested as carbon and nitrogen sources. 1-Amino-2-naphthol was used as a carbon and nitrogen source, and N,N-dimethyl-p-phenylenediamine was used only as a nitrogen source. Sulfanilic and metanilic acids did not support growth either as a carbon or nitrogen source.


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