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1.
The objectives were to determine the influence of water activity (aw, 0.997–0.92) and temperature (10–37°C) and their interactions on conidial germination, mycelial growth and sporulation of
two strains of Stachybotrys chartarum in vitro on a potato dextrose medium. Studies were carried out by modifying the medium with glycerol and either spread plating
with conidia to evaluate germination and germ tube extension or centrally inoculating treatment media for measuring mycelial
growth rates and harvesting whole colonies for determining sporulation. Overall, germination of conidia was significantly
influenced by aw and temperature and was fastest at 0.997–0.98 aw between 15 and 30°C with complete germination within 24 h. Germ tube extension was found to be most rapid at similar aw levels and 25–30°C. Mycelial growth rates of both strains were optimal at 0.997 aw between 25 and 30°C, with very little growth at 37°C. Sporulation was optimum at 30°C at 0.997 aw. However, under drier conditions, this was optimum at 25°C. This shows that there are differences in the ranges of aw x temperature for germination and growth and for sporulation. This may help in understanding the role of this fungal species
in damp buildings and conditions under which immune-compromised patients may be at risk when exposed to such contaminants
in the indoor air environment. 相似文献
2.
This article reports rate constants for thiol–thioester exchange (k
ex), and for acid-mediated (k
a), base-mediated (k
b), and pH-independent (k
w) hydrolysis of S-methyl thioacetate and S-phenyl 5-dimethylamino-5-oxo-thiopentanoate—model alkyl and aryl thioalkanoates, respectively—in water. Reactions such as
thiol–thioester exchange or aminolysis could have generated molecular complexity on early Earth, but for thioesters to have
played important roles in the origin of life, constructive reactions would have needed to compete effectively with hydrolysis
under prebiotic conditions. Knowledge of the kinetics of competition between exchange and hydrolysis is also useful in the
optimization of systems where exchange is used in applications such as self-assembly or reversible binding. For the alkyl
thioester S-methyl thioacetate, which has been synthesized in simulated prebiotic hydrothermal vents, k
a = 1.5 × 10−5 M−1 s−1, k
b = 1.6 × 10−1 M−1 s−1, and k
w = 3.6 × 10−8 s−1. At pH 7 and 23°C, the half-life for hydrolysis is 155 days. The second-order rate constant for thiol–thioester exchange
between S-methyl thioacetate and 2-sulfonatoethanethiolate is k
ex = 1.7 M−1 s−1. At pH 7 and 23°C, with [R″S(H)] = 1 mM, the half-life of the exchange reaction is 38 h. These results confirm that conditions
(pH, temperature, pK
a of the thiol) exist where prebiotically relevant thioesters can survive hydrolysis in water for long periods of time and
rates of thiol–thioester exchange exceed those of hydrolysis by several orders of magnitude. 相似文献
3.
Four species of brown seaweeds, namely Sargassum baccularia, Sargassum binderi, Sargassum siliquosum and Turbinaria conoides, harvested from Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia were analysed for ash content, alginate yield and alginate properties.
Seaweeds calcined at 450°C were found to have low amount of non-combustible residue as these were not contaminated by calcareous
animals. Alginate was extracted from these seaweeds by two methods: hot and cold. In the hot method, the storing time was
3 h and the processing temperature was 50°C, whilst in the cold method, the sample was stored overnight at room temperature.
Higher yield of alginate was obtained by the hot method compared to the cold method, but alginate extracted by the cold method
gave higher molecular weight. In the hot method, 49.9% of alginate was extracted from S. siliquosum, followed by T. conoides (41.4%), S. binderi (38.9%) and S. baccularia (26.7%). Alginate extracted from T. conoides has an average molecular weight, M
w, of 8.06 × 105 g mol−1, whereas alginate from S. siliquosum was the lowest in M
w (4.81 × 105 g mol−1) when the extraction was done at room temperature. Alginate extracted from S. baccularia was found to be very heat-sensitive. Its M
w has dropped more than 83%, from 7.52 × 105 to 1.23 × 105 g mol−1, when the extraction temperature was raised. The effect of heat on the extent of depolymerisation of the alginate molecule
of the other three brown seaweed species was less significant, with decrease in molecular weight ranging between 13% and 16%. 相似文献
4.
The benefits of controlling water activity, a
w, during enzymatically catalysed synthesis reactions, such as reverse-hydrolytic reactions promoted by lipases, are now well
recognized. Numerous techniques for controlling a
w in the laboratory and their implementation in continuous reactors have been discussed in the published literature. However,
in enzymatic interesterification reactions, such as acidolysis and transesterification, it is not appropriate merely to maintain
the a
w of the reaction system at one value since the two stages of the reaction, namely the cleavage of the original acyl bond and
the formation of a new one, are best carried out at different levels of water activity – the former at a high a
w and the latter at a lower one. The use of a continuous packed-bed hollow-fibre reactor has been described in this article
for carrying out solvent-free acidolysis of ethyl laurate with octanoic acid with in situ a
w control, using air that has been pre-equilibrated with saturated salt solutions to the desired a
w. At a single optimum (a
w = 0.54), the highest steady-state conversion to ethyl octanoate was 32%. However, it is possible to obtain a steady-state
conversion of 46% by operating the reactor with a step change in the water activity, from an initial value of unity to 0.23.
Received: 10 February 1998 / Received revision: 2 June 1998 / Accepted: 7 June 1998 相似文献
5.
The effects of temperature on photosynthesis of a rosette plant growing at ground level, Acaena cylindrostachya R. et P., and an herb that grows 20–50 cm above ground level, Senecio formosus H.B.K., were studied along an altitudinal gradient in the Venezuelan Andes. These species were chosen in order to determine
– in the field and in the laboratory – how differences in leaf temperature, determined by plant form and microenvironmental
conditions, affect their photosynthetic capacity. CO2 assimilation rates (A) for both species decreased with increasing altitude. For Acaena leaves at 2900 m, A reached maximum values above 9 μmol m−2 s−1, nearly twice as high as maximum A found at 3550 m (5.2) or at 4200 m (3.9). For Senecio leaves, maximum rates of CO2 uptake were 7.5, 5.8 and 3.6 μmol m−2 s−1 for plants at 2900, 3550 and 4200 m, respectively. Net photosynthesis-leaf temperature relations showed differences in optimum
temperature for photosynthesis (A
o.t.) for both species along the altitudinal gradient. Acaena showed similar A
o.t. for the two lower altitudes, with 19.1°C at 2900 m and 19.6°C at 3550 m, while it increased to 21.7°C at 4200 m. Maximum
A for this species at each altitude was similar, between 5.5 and 6.0 μmol m−2 s−1. For the taller Senecio, A
o.t. was more closely related to air temperatures and decreased from 21.7°C at 2900 m, to 19.7°C at 3550 m and 15.5°C at 4200 m.
In this species, maximum A was lower with increasing altitude (from 6.0 at 2900 m to 3.5 μmol m−2 s−1 at 4200 m). High temperature compensation points for Acaena were similar at the three altitudes, c. 35°C, but varied in Senecio from 37°C at 2900 m, to 39°C at 3550 m and 28°C at 4200 m. Our results show how photosynthetic characteristics change along
the altitudinal gradient for two morphologically contrasting species influenced by soil or air temperatures.
Received: 5 July 1997 / Accepted: 25 October 1997 相似文献
6.
S A Shaikh J M Khire M I Khan 《Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology》1997,19(4):239-245
A thermostable β-galactosidase was produced extracellularly by a thermophilic Rhizomucor sp, with maximum enzyme activity (0.21 U mg−1) after 4 days under submerged fermentation condition (SmF). Solid state fermentation (SSF) resulted in a nine-fold increase
in enzyme activity (2.04 U mg−1). The temperature range for production of the enzyme was 38–55°C with maximum activity at 45°C. The optimum pH and temperature
for the partially purified enzyme was 4.5 and 60°C, respectively. The enzyme retained its original activity on incubation
at 60°C up to 1 h. Divalent cations like Co2+, Mn2+, Fe2+ and Zn2+ had strong inhibitory effects on the enzyme activity. The K
m and V
max for p-nitrophenyl-β- D-galactopyranoside and o-nitrophenyl-β - D-galactopyranoside were 0.39 mM, 0.785 mM and 232.1 mmol min−1 mg−1 respectively. The K
m and V
max for the natural substrate lactose were 66.66 μM and 0.20 μ mol min−1 mg−1.
Received 10 March 1997/ Accepted in revised form 17 July 1997 相似文献
7.
The influence of low temperature (5–29 °C) on the methanogenic activity of non-adapted digested sewage sludge and on temperature/leachate-adapted
biomass was assayed by using municipal landfill leachate, intermediates of anaerobic degradation (propionate) and methane
precursors (acetate, H2/CO2) as substrates. The temperature dependence of methanogenic activity could be described by Arrhenius-derived models. However,
both substrate and adaptation affected the temperature dependence. The adaptation of biomass in a leachate-fed upflow anaerobic
sludge-blanket reactor at approximately 20 °C for 4 months resulted in a sevenfold and fivefold increase of methanogenic activity
at 11 °C and 22 °C respectively. Both acetate and H2/CO2 were methanized even at 5 °C. At 22 °C, methanogenic activities (acetate 4.8–84 mM) were 1.6–5.2 times higher than those
at 11 °C. The half-velocity constant (K
s) of acetate utilization at 11 °C was one-third of that at 22 °C while a similar K
i was obtained at both temperatures. With propionate (1.1–5.5 mM) as substrate, meth‐anogenic activities at 11 °C were half
those at 22 °C. Furthermore, the residual concentration of the substrates was not dependent on temperature. The results suggest
that the adaptation of biomass enables the achievement of a high treatment capacity in the anaerobic process even under psychrophilic
conditions.
Received: 23 December 1996 / Received last revision: 18 June 1997 / Accepted: 23 June 1997 相似文献
8.
D. Audet D. W. Thomas 《Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology》1997,167(2):146-152
The present study questions whether hypothermia is an artifact due to captivity-induced stress or a thermoregulatory strategy
for bats of the neotropical family Phyllostomidae. In Guanacaste, Costa Rica, Carollia perspicillata and Sturnira lilium exhibited a bimodal distribution of body temperatures when submitted to an ambient temperature of 21 °C. Body temperature
was highly correlated with body mass in both species. C. perspicillata of mass ≥20 g and S. lilium of mass ≥17 g remained normothermic (body temperature >37 °C), whereas at masses below 18 g and 13 g, respectively, >80%
of individuals were hypothermic (body temperature ≤32 °C). In two treatment groups for each species, we restricted food intake
to ca. 20% of body mass on either night 1 or night 4 following capture. Hypothermia was significantly related to food-restriction,
but not time in captivity. Metabolic rate (ml O2 · g−1 h−1) at ambient temperature = 21 °C was MR = e
(–2.11 + 0.101 Tb) (r
2 = 0.7, P < 0.001) for C. perspicillata and MR = e
(−2.62 + 0.115 Tb) (r
2 = 0.89) for S. lilium. Free-ranging, radio tagged C. perspicillata exhibited daily depression of body temperature to 33–34 °C. We conclude that hypothermia is an thermoregulatory strategy
that allows phyllostomid bats to adjust metabolic rate to feeding success and the level of fat stores.
Accepted: 20 August 1996 相似文献
9.
Atar Selouane Driss Bouya Ahmed Lebrihi C. Decock Amina Bouseta 《Journal of microbiology (Seoul, Korea)》2009,47(4):411-419
The effects of temperature, water activity (aw), incubation time, and their combinations on radial growth and ochratoxin A (OTA) production of/by eight Aspergillus niger aggregate strains (six A. tubingensis and two A. niger) and four A. carbonarius isolated from Moroccan grapes were studied. Optimal conditions for the growth of most studied strains were shown to be at
25°C and 0.95 aw. No growth was observed at 10°C regardless of the water activity and isolates. The optimal temperature for OTA production
was in the range of 25°C∼30°C for A. carbonarius and 30°C∼37°C for A. niger aggregate. The optimal aw for toxin production was 0.95∼0.99 for A. carbonarius and 0.90∼0.95 for A. niger aggregate. Mean OTA concentration produced by all the isolates of A. niger aggregate tested at all sampling times shows that maximum amount of OTA (0.24 μg/g) was produced at 37°C and 0.90 aw. However, for A. carbonarius, mean maximum amounts of OTA (0.22 μg/g) were observed at 25°C and 0.99 aw. Analysis of variance showed that the effects of all single factors (aw, isolate, temperature and incubation time) and their interactions on growth and OTA production were highly significant. 相似文献
10.
Six Angus steers (319 ± 8.5 kg) were assigned to one of two groups (hot or cold exposure) of three steers each, and placed
into two environmental chambers initially maintained at 16.5–18.8°C air temperature (T
a). Cold chamber T
a was lowered to 8.4°C, while T
a within the hot chamber was increased to 32.7°C over a 24-h time period. Measurements included respiration rate, and air and
body (rectal and skin) temperatures. Skin temperature was measured at shoulder and rump locations, with determination of sweat
rate using a calibrated moisture sensor. Rectal temperature did not change in cold or hot chambers. However, respiration rate
nearly doubled in the heat (P < 0.05), increasing when T
a was above 24°C. Skin temperatures at the two locations were highly correlated (P < 0.05) with each other and with T
a. In contrast, sweat rate showed differences at rump and shoulder sites. Sweat rate of the rump exhibited only a small increase
with T
a. However, sweat rate at the shoulder increased more than four-fold with increasing T
a. Increased sweat rate in this region is supported by an earlier report of a higher density of sweat glands in the shoulder
compared to rump regions. Sweat rate was correlated with several thermal measurements to determine the best predictor. Fourth-order
polynomial expressions of short-term rectal and skin temperature responses to hot and cold exposures produced r values of 0.60, 0.84, and 0.98, respectively. These results suggest that thermal inputs other than just rectal or skin temperature
drive the sweat response in cattle. 相似文献
11.
Screening and characterization of bioflocculant produced by isolated Klebsiella sp. 总被引:18,自引:0,他引:18
Sixteen strains of polymer-producing bacteria were isolated from the activated sludge samples taken from two seafood processing
plants in Southern Thailand. Their culture broths possessed the ability to flocculate kaolin suspension in the presence of
1% CaCl2. Based on the flocculating activity, the strain S11 was selected and identified to be a Klebsiella sp. using the partial 16S rRNA sequencing method. The growth of the isolated Klebsiella sp. was maximal (1.026 g l−1 dry cell mass) after 1 day cultivation while the highest polymer yield (0.973 g l−1) was achieved after 5 days cultivation. The flocculating activity of the culture broth, however, was highest after 2 days
cultivation. The polymer was identified to be an acidic polysaccharide containing neutral sugar and uronic acid as its major
and minor components, respectively. Results on the properties of the partially purified polysaccharide from Klebsiella sp. S11 revealed that it consisted of galactose, glucose and mannose in an approximate ratio of 5:2:1. It was soluble in
acidic or basic solutions but not in organic solvents. Its molecular mass was greater than 2 × 106 Da. Infrared spectra showed the presence of hydroxyl, carboxyl and methoxyl groups in its molecules. Differential scanning
calorimetry of the polysaccharide indicated the crystalline melting point (T
m) at 314 °C. The optimum dosage of polysaccharide to give the highest flocculating activity was 15 mg l−1 in the presence of 1% CaCl2.
Received: 8 February 1999 / Received last revision: 4 June 1999 / Accepted: 4 June 1999 相似文献
12.
The cellulolytic myxobacterium Sorangium cellulosum is able to efficiently degrade many kinds of polysaccharides, but none of the enzymes involved have been characterized. In
this paper, a xylanase gene (xynA) was cloned from S. cellulosum So9733-1 using thermal asymmetric interlaced PCR. The gene is composed of 1,209 bp and has only 52.27% G + C content, which
is much lower than that of most myxobacterial DNA reported (67–72%). Gene xynA encodes a 402 amino acid protein that contains a single catalytic domain belonging to the glycoside hydrolase family 10.
The novel xylanase gene, xynA, was expressed in Escherichia coli BL21 (DE3) and the recombinant protein (r-XynA) was purified by Ni-affinity chromatography. The r-XynA had the optimum temperature
of 30–35°C and exhibited 33.3% activity at 5°C and 13.7% activity at 0°C. Approximately 80% activity was lost after 20-min
pre-incubation at 50°C. These results indicate that r-XynA is a cold-active xylanase with low thermostability. At 30°C, the
K
m values of r-XynA on beechwood xylan, birchwood xylan, and oat spelt xylan were 25.77 ± 4.16, 26.52 ± 4.78, and 38.13 ± 5.35 mg/mL,
respectively. The purified r-XynA displayed optimum activity at pH 7.0. The activity of r-XynA was enhanced by the presence
of Ca2+. The r-XynA hydrolyzed beechwood xylan, birchwood xylan, and xylooligosaccharides (xylotriose, xylotetraose, and xylopentose)
to produce primarily xylose and xylobiose. To our knowledge, this is the first report on the characterization of a xylanase
from S. cellulosum. 相似文献
13.
Daisuke Sugimori 《Applied microbiology and biotechnology》2009,82(2):351-357
To develop a microbial treatment of edible oil-contaminated wastewater, microorganisms capable of rapidly degrading edible
oil were screened. The screening study yielded a yeast coculture comprising Rhodotorula pacifica strain ST3411 and Cryptococcus laurentii strain ST3412. The coculture was able to degrade efficiently even at low contents of nitrogen ([NH4–N] = 240 mg/L) and phosphorus sources ([PO4–P] = 90 mg/L). The 24-h degradation rate of 3,000 ppm mixed oils (salad oil/lard/beef tallow, 1:1 w/w) at 20°C was 39.8% ± 9.9% (means ± standard deviations of eight replicates). The highest degradation rate was observed at
20°C and pH 8. In a scaled-up experiment, the salad oil was rapidly degraded by the coculture from 671 ± 52.0 to 143 ± 96.7 ppm
in 24 h, and the degradation rate was 79.4% ± 13.8% (means ± standard deviations of three replicates). In addition, a repetitive
degradation was observed with the cell growth by only pH adjustment without addition of the cells. 相似文献
14.
The growth conditions and ochratoxin A (OTA) production of Aspergillus strains were studied in aniseed (Pimpinella anisum L.)-based media. The results showed that methanol/NaHCO3 (50:50, v/v) mixture for extraction and competitive direct ELISA analytical method are capable of detecting low OTA concentrations
in this raw material, which were confirmed by HPLC with fluorescence detection (R
2 = 0.994). In aniseed meal extract agar artificially contaminated with selected fungi, the higher OTA values obtained were
283.8 ± 28.1 μg L-1 for A. carbonarius and between 1.7 ± 0.1 μg L-1 and 16.5 ± 12.8 μg L-1 for A. steynii strains. While the optimal conditions of growth for A. carbonarius and A. steynii are 28°C and 0.98 a
w, the optimal production of OTA was observed at 0.99 a
w for both A. carbonarius and A. steynii but at 22°C and 28°C, respectively. Except in one sample, all the aniseed samples analysed were negative for OTA natural
contamination. This study demonstrates that aniseed can be a matrix capable to contamination with OTA, at least produced by
A. carbonarius and A. steynii strains, regardless of the antimicrobial properties of aniseed essential oil. 相似文献
15.
W. Bartels B. S. Law F. Geiser 《Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology》1998,168(3):233-239
Little is known about torpor in the tropics or torpor in megachiropteran species. We investigated thermoregulation, energetics
and patterns of torpor in the northern blossom-bat Macroglossus minimus (16 g) to test whether physiological variables may explain why its range is limited to tropical regions. Normothermic bats
showed a large variation in body temperature (T
b) (33 to 37 °C) over a wide range of ambient temperatures (T
as) and a relatively low basal metabolic rate (1.29 ml O2 g−1 h−1). Bats entered torpor frequently in the laboratory at T
as between 14 and 25 °C. Entry into torpor always occurred when lights were switched on in the morning, independent of T
a. MRs during torpor were reduced to about 20–40% of normothermic bats and T
bs were regulated at a minimum of 23.1 ± 1.4 °C. The duration of torpor bouts increased with decreasing T
a in non-thermoregulating bats, but generally terminated after 8 h in thermoregulating torpid bats. Both the mean minimum T
b and MR of torpid M. minimus were higher than that predicted for a 16-g daily heterotherm and the T
b was also about 5 °C higher than that of the common blossom-bat Syconycteris australis, which has a more subtropical distribution. These observations suggest that variables associated with torpor are affected
by T
a and that the restriction to tropical areas in M. minimus to some extent may be due to their ability to enter only very shallow daily torpor.
Accepted: 22 September 1997 相似文献
16.
The effect of water availability (water activity,aw; 0.995–0.90) and temperature (18–30 °) on in vitro interactions between an ochratoxin producing strain of Aspergillus ochraceus and six other spoilage fungi was assessed in dual culture experiments on a maize meal-based agar medium. Inprimary resource
capture of nutrient substrate, A. ochraceus was dominant against many of the interacting species, being able to overgrow and replace A. candidus, and sometimes A. flavus and the Eurotium spp. regardless of aw or temperature. However, with freely available water (0.995 aw) A. alternata and A. niger were dominant, with mutual antagonism between A. ochraceus and A. flavus at 25–30 °C. In the driest conditions tested (0.90 aw) there was also mutual antagonism between A. ochraceus and the two Eurotium spp. Overall, under allconditions tested the Index of Dominance for A. ochraceus was much higher than for other competing species combined suggesting that A. ochraceus wasa good competitive colonist able to replace a numberof other species. However, the growth rate ofA. ochraceus was modified and decreased by the interaction with competitors. Interaction between A. ochraceus and species such as A. alternata (18°C/0.995) and Eurotium spp. (0.995–0.95 and 25–30 °C) resulted in a significant stimulation of ochratoxin production. Theresults are discussed in
relation to the effect that environmental factors have on the possible competitiveness of A. ochraceus in the maizegrain ecosystem and the role of ochratoxin in nicheexclusion of competitors.
This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
17.
The conduction properties of peripheral nerves from the Arctic fish species Arctic eelpouts (Lycodes sp.), snake blenny (Lumpenus lampretaeformis) and polar cod (Boreogadus saida), permanently adapted to low temperatures, were studied. Nerves of these fishes have two types of fibres, characterised by
extracellular compound action potentials with fast (7 m/s) and slow (4 m/s) conduction velocities, as measured at 12 °C. The
temperature dependence of the conduction velocity was bimodal, changing its slope at about 16 °C. The Q
10 above 16 °C was 1.12–1.49, while below 16 °C it was 1.82–2.16. Irreversible deterioration of the nerve was observed at temperatures
around 19–27 °C. A comparison with data previously obtained from Mediterranean fishes indicates that Arctic fishes have similar
temperature sensitivity of nerve conduction and a slight vertical displacement on the conduction velocity-temperature curves,
which is insufficient to compensate the decrease of the conduction velocity at their physiological temperature, the conduction
velocity of Arctic fishes being about one-half of that of temperate fishes. This suggests that this neurophysiological function
is not fully cold-adapted in these Arctic fish species.
Accepted: 3 June 2000 相似文献
18.
Vicentini FT Casagrande R Verri WA Georgetti SR Bentley MV Fonseca MJ 《AAPS PharmSciTech》2008,9(2):591-596
The purpose of this study was to develop a lyotropic liquid crystalline formulation using the emulsifier vitamin E TPGS and
evaluate its behavior after incorporation of a flavonoid, quercetin. The physical (macro and microscopic), chemical (determination
of quercetin content by the HPLC method) and functional (determination of quercetin antioxidant activity by DPPH• assay) stability of the lamellar liquid crystalline formulation containing flavonoid was evaluated when stored at 4 ± 2 °C;
30 ± 2 °C/70 ± 5% RH (relative humidity) and 40 ± 2 °C/70 ± 5% RH during 12 months. The lamellar liquid crystalline structure
of the formulation was maintained during the experiment, however chemical and functional stability results showed a great
influence of the storage period in all conditions tested. A significant decrease in quercetin content (approximately 40%)
was detected during the first month of storage and a similar significant loss in antioxidant activity was detected after 6 months.
The remaining flavonoid content was unchanged during the final 6 months of the experimental period. The results suggest possible
interactions between quercetin and the liquid crystalline formulation, which could inhibit or reduce the quercetin activity
incorporated in the system. In conclusion, the present study demonstrated that incorporation of quercetin (1%) did not affect
the liquid crystalline structure composed of vitamin E TPGS/IPM/PG–H2O (1:1) at 63.75/21.25/15 (w/w/w). Nevertheless, of the total quercetin incorporated in the system only 60% was free to act as an antioxidant. 相似文献
19.
Sudhir K. Rai Jetendra K. Roy Ashis K. Mukherjee 《Applied microbiology and biotechnology》2010,85(5):1437-1450
An alkaline-protease-producing bacterial strain (AS-S24-II) isolated from a soil sample in Assam is a Gram-stain-positive,
catalase-positive, endospore-forming rod and grows at temperatures ranging from 30 °C to 60 °C and salinity ranging from 0%
to 7% (w/v) NaCl. Phenotypic characterisation, chemotaxonomic properties, presence of Paenibacillus-specific signature sequences, and ribotyping data suggested that the strain AS-S24-II represents a novel species of the genus
Paenibacillus, for which the name Paenibacillus tezpurensis sp. nov. (MTCC 8959) is proposed. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that P. lentimorbus strain DNG-14 and P. lentimorbus strain DNG-16 represent the closest phylogenetic neighbour of this novel strain. Alkaline protease production (598 × 103 U l−1) by P. tezpurensis sp. nov. in SmF was optimised by response surface method. A laundry-detergent-stable, Ca2+-independent, 43-kDa molecular weight alkaline serine protease from this strain was purified with a 1.7-fold increase in specific
activity. The purified protease displayed optimum activity at pH 9.5 and 45–50 °C temperature range and exhibited a significant
stability and compatibility with surfactants and most of the tested commercial laundry detergents at room temperature. Further,
the protease improved the wash performance of detergents, thus demonstrating its feasibility for inclusion in laundry detergent
formulations. 相似文献
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Adaptation and acclimation of growth and photosynthesis of five Antarctic red algae to low temperatures 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Temperature requirements for growth, photosynthesis and dark respiration were determined for five Antarctic red algal species.
After acclimation, the stenothermal species Gigartina skottsbergii and Ballia callitricha grew at 0 or up to 5 °C, respectively; the eurythermal species Kallymenia antarctica, Gymnogongrus antarcticus and Phyllophora ahnfeltioides grew up to 10 °C. The temperature optima of photosynthesis were between 10 and 15 °C in the stenothermal species and between
15 and 25 °C in the eurythermal species, irrespective of the growth temperature. This shows that the temperature optima for
photosynthesis are located well below the optima from species of other biogeographical regions, even from the Arctic. Respiratory
rates rose with increasing temperatures. In contrast to photosynthesis, no temperature optimum was evident between 0 and 25 °C.
Partial acclimation of photosynthetic capacity to growth temperature was found in two species. B. callitricha and Gymnogongrus antarcticus acclimate to 0 °C, and 5 and 0 °C, respectively. But acclimation did in no case lead to an overall shift in the temperature
optimum of photosynthesis. B. callitricha and Gymnogongrus antarcticus showed acclimation of respiration to 5 °C, and P. ahnfeltioides to 5 and 10 °C, resulting in a temperature independence of respiration when measured at growth temperature. With respect
to the acclimation potential of the species, no distinction can be made between the stenothermal versus the eurythermal group.
(Net)photosynthetic capacity:respiration (P:R) ratios showed in all species highest values at 0 °C and decreased continuously to values lower than 1.0 at 25 °C. In turn,
the low P:R ratios at higher temperatures are assumed to determine the upper temperature growth limit of the studied species. Estimated
daily carbon balance reached values between 4.1 and 30.7 mg C g−1 FW day−1 at 0 °C, 16:8 h light/dark cycle, 12–40 μmol m−2 s−1.
Received: 4 November 1999 / Accepted: 7 March 2000 相似文献