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In Prince Edward Island, Canada, widespread intensive potato production has contributed to elevated nitrate concentrations in groundwater and streams, and eutrophic or anoxic conditions occur regularly in several estuarine systems. In this research, the stable isotopes of nitrogen and oxygen in nitrate in intertidal groundwater discharge and stream water were used, in conjunction with water quality and quantity data and land use information, to better understand the characteristics of nitrate delivered to two small estuaries with contrasting land use in their contributory catchments. Most of the water samples collected during the two-year study had isotopic signatures that fell in the range expected for nitrate derived from ammonium-based fertilizers (26.5 % of the samples) or in the overlapping range formed between ammonium-based fertilizers and nitrate derived from soil (64 % of the samples). Overall, isotopic signatures spanned over relatively narrow ranges, and correlations with other water quality parameters, or catchment characteristics, were weak. Nitrate in groundwater discharge and surface water in the Trout River catchment exhibited significantly different isotopic signatures only for the nitrogen isotope, while in the McIntyre Creek catchment groundwater discharge and surface water had similar isotopic signatures. When the isotopic results for the waters from the two catchments were compared, the surface waters were found to be similar, while the isotopic signatures of nitrate in groundwater were distinct only for the nitrogen isotope. Denitrification in the two study catchments was not evident based on the isotopic results for nitrate; however, in the case of the Trout River catchment, where a small freshwater pond exists, an average nitrate load reduction of 14 % was inferred based on a comparison of nitrate loads entering and leaving the pond. Overall, it appears that natural attenuation processes, occurring either in the streams or groundwater flow systems, do not significantly reduce nitrate loading to these estuaries. 相似文献
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A Pseudomonas sp. strain NGK 1 (NCIM 5120) was immobilized in various matrices, namely, alginate, agar (1.8 × 1011 cfu g−1 beads) and polyacrylamide (1.6 × 1011 cfu g−1 beads). The degradation of naphthalene was studied, by freely suspended cells (4 × 1010 cfu ml−1) and immobilized cells in batches, with shaken culture and continuous degradation in a packed-bed reactor. Free cells brought
about the complete degradation of 25 mmol naphthalene after 3 days of incubation, whereas, a maximum of 30 mmol naphthalene
was degraded by the bacteria after 3–4 days of incubation with 50 mmol and 75 mmol naphthalene, and no further degradation
was observed even after 15 days of incubation. Alginate-entrapped cells had degraded 25 mmol naphthalene after 3.5 days of
incubation, whereas agar- and polyacrylamide-entrapped cells took 2.5 days; 50 mmol naphthalene was completely degraded by
the immobilized cells after 6–7 days of incubation. Maximum amounts of 55 mmol, 70 mmol and 67 mmol naphthalene were degraded,
from an initial 75 mmol naphthalene, by the alginate-, agar- and polyacrylamide-entrapped cells after 15 days of incubation.
When the cell concentrations were doubled, 25 mmol and 50 mmol naphthalene were degraded after 2 and 5.5 days of incubation
by the immobilized cells. Complete degradation of 75 mmol naphthalene occurred after 10 days incubation with agar- and polyacrylamide-entrapped␣cells,
whereas only 60 mmol naphthalene was degraded by alginate-entrapped cells after 15 days of␣incubation. Further, with 25 mmol
naphthalene, alginate-, agar- and polyacrylamide-entrapped cells (1.8 × 1011 cfu g−1 beads) could be reused 18, 12 and 23 times respectively. During continuous degradation in a packed-bed reactor, 80 mmol naphthalene
100 ml−1 h−1 was degraded by alginate- and polyacrylamide-entrapped cells whereas 80 mmol naphthalene 125 ml−1␣h−1 was degraded by agar-entrapped cells.
Received: 21 October 1997 / Received revision: 15 January 1998 / Accepted: 18 January 1998 相似文献
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Steven G. Smith Kaatje Smits Simone A. Joosten Krista E. van Meijgaarden Iman Satti Helen A. Fletcher Nadia Caccamo Francesco Dieli Francoise Mascart Helen McShane Hazel M. Dockrell Tom H. M. Ottenhoff TBVI TB Biomarker Working Group 《PloS one》2015,10(9)
Intracellular cytokine staining combined with flow cytometry is one of a number of assays designed to assess T-cell immune responses. It has the specific advantage of enabling the simultaneous assessment of multiple phenotypic, differentiation and functional parameters pertaining to responding T-cells, most notably, the expression of multiple effector cytokines. These attributes make the technique particularly suitable for the assessment of T-cell immune responses induced by novel tuberculosis vaccines in clinical trials. However, depending upon the particular nature of a given vaccine and trial setting, there are approaches that may be taken at different stages of the assay that are more suitable than other alternatives. In this paper, the Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative (TBVI) TB Biomarker Working group reports on efforts to assess the conditions that will determine when particular assay approaches should be employed. We have found that choices relating to the use of fresh whole blood or peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) and frozen PBMC; use of serum-containing or serum-free medium; length of stimulation period and use of co-stimulatory antibodies can all affect the sensitivity of intracellular cytokine assays. In the case of sample material, frozen PBMC, despite some loss of sensitivity, may be more advantageous for batch analysis. We also recommend that for multi-site studies, common antibody panels, gating strategies and analysis approaches should be employed for better comparability. 相似文献
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Sajjan S Kulkarni G Yaligara V Kyoung L Karegoudar TB 《Journal of microbiology and biotechnology》2010,20(11):1513-1520
The bacterium capable of producing melanin pigment in the presence of L-tyrosine was isolated from crop field soil sample and identified as Klebsiella sp. GSK based on morphological, biochemical and 16S rDNA sequencing. The polymerization of this pigment occurs outside the cell wall, which has granular structure as melanin ghosts. The chemical characterization of pigment particles showed acid resistant, alkali soluble, insoluble in most of the organic solvents and water. The pigment gets bleached when subjected to the action of oxidants as well as reductants. This pigment was precipitated with FeCl3, ammoniacal silver nitrate and potassium ferricynide. The pigment showed high absorbance in the UV region and decreased absorbance when shifted towards the visible region. The melanin pigment was further charecterized by FT-IR and EPR spectroscopy. A key enzyme 4-hydroxyphenylacetic acid hydroxylase catalyzes the formation of melanin pigment by hydroxylation of L-tyrosine was detected in this bacterium. Inhibition studies with specific inhibitor kojic acid and KCN proved that melanin is synthesized by DOPA-Melanin pathway. 相似文献
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Complete mineralisation of dimethylformamide by Ochrobactrum sp. DGVK1 isolated from the soil samples collected from the coalmine leftovers 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Veeranagouda Y Emmanuel Paul PV Gorla P Siddavattam D Karegoudar TB 《Applied microbiology and biotechnology》2006,71(3):369-375
A bacterial strain DGVK1 capable of using N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF) as sole source of carbon and nitrogen was isolated from the soil samples collected from the coalmine leftovers. The molecular phylogram generated using the complete sequence of 16S rDNA of the strain DGVK1 showed close links to the bacteria grouped under Brucellaceae family that belongs to alphaproteobacteria class. Specifically, the 16S rDNA sequence of strain DGVK1 has shown 97% similarity to Ochrobactrum anthropi LMG 3331 (D12794). This bacterium has also shown impressive growth on dimethylamine, methylamine, formaldehyde and formate that are considered to be the prominent catabolic intermediates of DMF. DMF degradation has led to the accumulation of ammonia and dimethylamine contributing to the increase of pH of the medium. The DMF-grown resting cells of Ochrobactrum sp. DGVK1 have also contributed for the release of ammonia when resting cell suspension was added to phosphate buffer containing DMF. Similar experiments done with the glucose-grown cultures have not produced ammonia and thus indicating the inducible nature of DMF-degrading enzymes in Ochrobactrum sp. DGVK1. Further, dimethylformamidase, dimethylamine dehydrogenase and methylamine dehydrogenase, the key enzymes involved in the degradation of DMF, were assayed, and the activities of these enzymes were found only in DMF-grown cultures further confirming the inducible nature of the DMF degradation. Based on these results, DMF degradation pathway found in Ochrobactrum sp. DGVK1 has been proposed. 相似文献
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Doris Hillemann Sven Hoffner Daniela Cirillo Francis Drobniewski Elvira Richter Sabine Rüsch-Gerdes the Baltic-Nordic TB- Laboratory Network TB PAN-NET ECDC ERLN-TB Networks 《PloS one》2013,8(10)
Three networks/projects involving 27 European countries were established to investigate the quality of second-line drug (SLD) susceptibility testing with conventional and molecular methods. 1. The “Baltic-Nordic TB-Laboratory Network” comprised 11 reference laboratories in the Baltic-Nordic States. They performed SLD testing in the first phase with a panel of 20 Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains. After several laboratories made technical changes a second panel of 10 strains with a higher proportion of resistant strains were tested. Although the concordance for Ofloxacin, Kanamycin, and Capreomycin was consistently high, the largest improvements in performance were achieved for the analysis of Ofloxacin resistant (from 88.9 to 95.0%), and Capreomycin resistant (from 71.0 to 88.9%) strains. 2. Within the FP7 TB PAN-NET project (EU Grant agreement 223681) a quality control panel to standardize the EQA (External Quality Assurance) for first-line drugs (FLD) and SLD testing for phenotypic and molecular methods was established. The strains were characterized by their robustness, unambiguous results when tested, and low proportion of secondary drug resistances. 3. The (European Reference Laboratory Network-TB) ERLN-TB network analyzed four different panels for drug resistance testing using phenotypic and molecular methods; in two rounds in 2010 the 31 participating laboratories began with 5 strains, followed by 10 strains and 6 additional crude DNA extracts in 2011 and 2012 were examined by conventional DST and molecular methods. Overall, we demonstrated the importance of developing inter-laboratory networks to establish quality assurance and improvement of SLD testing of M. tuberculosis. 相似文献
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B Utete C Phiri SS Mlambo N Maringapasi N Muboko TB Fregene 《African Journal of Aquatic Science》2018,43(1):1-15
Concentrations of aluminium, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, copper, iron, lead, nickel and zinc were determined in surface water, benthic sediments, and the gills, liver and stomach muscle tissues of Oreochromis niloticus and Clarias gariepinus in peri-urban lakes Chivero and Manyame, Zimbabwe. Five sites were sampled in each lake once per month in November 2015, February, May, August and November 2016. Pollution load index detected no metal contamination, whereas the geo-accumulation index reflected heavy to extreme sediment pollution, with Fe, Cd, Zn, Cr, Ni and Cu present in both lakes. Significant spatial temporal variations were detected for Al, Cr, Cu and Pb across sites within and between the two lakes. High Fe, Al and Cr concentrations in water and sediments in lakes Chivero and Manyame derive from geogenic background sources in addition to anthropogenic loads and intensity. Elevated concentrations of Al, Pb, Cu, Cd, Fe and Zn detected in gills, liver and stomach tissue of catfish corroborate concentrations in water and sediments, and pose the highest ecological and health risk for hydrobionts in lakes Chivero and Manyame. Contiguity of peri-urban lakes exposes them to similar threats, necessitating creative water management strategies, which ensure ecological continuity. 相似文献
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Stenotrophomonas sp. RMSK capable of degrading acenaphthylene as a sole source of carbon and energy was isolated from coal sample. Metabolites
produced were analyzed and characterized by TLC, HPLC and mass spectrometry. Identification of naphthalene-1,8-dicarboxylic
acid, 1-naphthoic acid, 1,2-dihydroxynaphthalene, salicylate and detection of key enzymes namely 1,2-dihydroxynaphthalene
dioxygenase, salicylaldehyde dehydrogenase and catechol-1,2-dioxygenase in the cell free extract suggest that acenaphthylene
metabolized via 1,2-dihydroxynaphthalene, salicylate and catechol. The terminal metabolite, catechol was then metabolized
by catechol-1,2-dioxygenase to cis,cis-muconic acid, ultimately forming TCA cycle intermediates. Based on these studies, the proposed metabolic pathway in strain
RMSK is, acenaphthylene → naphthalene-1,8-dicarboxylic acid → 1-naphthoic acid → 1,2-dihydroxynaphthalene → salicylic acid → catechol → cis,cis-muconic acid. 相似文献
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M. Santoshkumar Anand S. Nayak O. Anjaneya Timmanagouda B. Karegoudar 《Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology》2010,37(1):111-115
A novel indicator plate method was developed for screening of aliphatic-nitrile-degrading bacteria. Isolated bacteria were
tested for utilization of acetonitrile as sole source of carbon and nitrogen with the release of ammonia. The released ammonia
causes increase of the pH of the medium. Phenol red indicator is used for detection of ammonia based on colour change of the
indicator dye from red to pink. The liberation of ammonia from aliphatic-nitrile-utilizing bacteria is also studied in plates
containing other indicators such as bromothymol blue and phenolphthalein. The usefulness of the indicator plate is demonstrated
for bacteria that degrade certain aliphatic nitriles. Bacteria degrading nitriles as a nitrogen source can also be isolated
with a medium containing additional carbon source. This plate method would be useful in isolation and screening of bacteria
for degradation of aliphatic nitriles and also for production of nitrile-hydrolyzing enzymes. 相似文献