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Bacillus pasteurii DR 2, a broad-spectrum Hg-resistant bacterial strain, exhibited delayed sporulation and less mercury volatilization in the presence
of mercury compounds. However, Hg-sensitive Bacillus subtilis sporulated quickly in the presence of HgCl 2 and volatilized no mercury. Levels of Hg 2+-reductase and organomercurial lyase in the endospores of Bacillus pasteurii DR 2 were lower than those in vegetative cells 相似文献
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Bacterial resistance to mercury (Hg) was investigated in strains isolated from Hg-contaminated tailing ponds located in the
gold mining area of El Callao (Bolívar State, Venezuela). High frequencies of resistance were detected to both inorganic-Hg
and organomercurials among these strains. A broad range of resistance levels was observed when determining minimal inhibitory
concentrations of Hg 2+. Some strains were able to grow in liquid medium containing 25 μ M Hg 2+, whereas others grew at 300 μ M Hg 2+. Of 190 Hg-resistant strains tested, 58.2% were additionally shown to be resistant to ampicillin (40 mg/L), 33.3% to chloramphenicol
(30 mg/L), 24.9% to streptomycin (30 mg/L), 23.3% to tetracycline (30 mg/L), and 1.6% to kanamycin (30 mg/L). Furthermore,
we found that 20% of the Hg-resistant strains were simultaneously resistant to as many as four of these antibiotics, at the
concentrations tested. The presence of large plasmids in 62.9% of 53 Hg-resistant strains screened prompted us to investigate
the horizontal transfer of resistance determinants. Mating experiments were performed using Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa as recipient strains. The results obtained confirmed that indigenous Hg-resistant bacteria colonizing the tailing ponds can
effectively transfer the phenotype to potentially pathogenic species. 相似文献
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Minimal inhibitory concentration values of HgCl 2 and 5 organomercurials were determined against 24 mercury-resistant N 2-fixing soil bacteria previously isolated from soil and identified in our laboratory. These bacterial strains also displayed
multiple antibiotic resistant properties. Typical growth pattern of a highly mercury-resistant Beijerinckia sp (KDr 2) was studied in liquid broth supplemented with toxic levels of mercury compounds. Four bacterial strains were selected for
determining their ability to volatilize mercury and their Hg-volatilizing capacity was different. Cell-free extracts prepared
from overnight mercury-induced cells catalyzed Hg 2+-induced NADPH oxidation. Specific activities of Hg 2+-reductase which is capable of catalyzing conversion of Hg 2+ →Hg(o) of 10 Hg-resistant bacterial strains are also reported. 相似文献
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To develop the potential of plant for phytoremediation of methylmercury pollution, a genetically engineered tobacco plant
that coexpresses organomercurial lyase (MerB) with the ppk-specified polyphosphate (polyP) and merT-encoding mercury transporter was constructed by integrating a bacterial merB gene into ppk/merT-transgenic tobacco. A large number of independent transgenic tobaccos was obtained, in some of which the merB gene was stably integrated in the plant genome and substantially translated to the expected MerB enzyme in the transgenic
tobacco. The ppk/merT/merB-transgenic tobacco callus showed more resistance to methylmercury (CH 3Hg +) and accumulated more mercury from CH 3Hg +-containing medium than the ppk/merT-transgenic and wild-type progenitors. These results suggest that the MerB enzyme encoded by merB degraded the incorporated CH 3Hg + to Hg 2+, which then accumulated as a less toxic Hg-polyP complex in the tobacco cells. Phytoremediation of CH 3Hg + and Hg 2+ in the environment with this engineered ppk/merT/merB-transgenic plant, which prevents the release mercury vapor (Hg 0) into the atmosphere in addition to generating potentially recyclable mercury-rich plant residues, is believed to be more
acceptable to the public than other competing technologies, including phytovolatilization. 相似文献
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The extracellular enzyme alginate lyase produced from marine fungus Aspergillus oryzae isolated from brown alga Dictyota dichotoma was purified, partially characterized, and evaluated for its sodium alginate depolymerization abilities. The enzyme characterization
studies have revealed that alginate lyase consisted of two polypeptides with about 45 and 50 kDa each on 10% sodium dodecyl
sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and showed 140-fold higher activity than crude enzyme under optimized pH (6.5)
and temperature (35°C) conditions. Zn 2+, Mn 2+, Cu 2+, Mg 2+, Co 2+ and NaCl were found to enhance the enzyme activity while (Ca 2+, Cd 2+, Fe 2+, Hg 2+, Sr 2+, Ni 2+), glutathione, and metal chelators (ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid and ethylene glycol tetraacetic acid) suppressed the
activity. Fourier transform infrared and thin-layer chromatography analysis of depolymerized sodium alginate indicated the
enzyme specificity for cleaving at the β-1,4 glycosidic bond between polyM and polyG blocks of sodium alginate and therefore
resulted in estimation of relatively higher polyM content than polyG. Comparison of chemical shifts in 13C nuclear magnetic resonance spectra of both polyM and polyG from that of sodium alginate also showed further evidence for
enzymatic depolymerization of sodium alginate. 相似文献
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Summary A phthalate ester hydrolyzing enzyme has been purified from the culture broth of Nocardia erythropolis, a Gram-positive bacterium capable of degrading phthalate esters rapidly. The purified enzyme appeared homogeneous on polyacrylamide gel disc-electrophoresis, and its molecular weight was estimated to be about 15,000. The optimal pH and temperature were pH 8.6 and 42°C, respectively. The enzyme was stable in a pH range from 7.0 to 8.0 and below 30°C. The enzyme activity was stimulated by Ca 2+ and taurocholate, but inhibited by several metals such as Hg 2+. Most of the phthalate esters tested were hydrolyzed to phthalate and alcohols regardless of the type of side-chain. In addition, the enzyme rapidly hydrolyzed olive oil and tributyrin. This enzyme from N. erythropolis may be a novel type of lipase with broad substrate specificity.Microbial degradation of phthalate esters. Part X 相似文献
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Bacillus No. C–59–2 isolated from soil produced a xylanase in alkaline media. The characteristic point of this bacteria was especially good growth in alkaline media, and no growth was observed in neutral media such as nutrient broth. The xylanase of this bacteria was purified by CM-celluIose, hydroxyl apatite and Sephadex G–75 columns. The enzyme was most active at pH 5.5~9 which was much broader and higher than those of other xylanases. The sedimentation constant was about 3.5 S and isoelectric point was pH 6.3. The enzyme was most stable at pH 7 and calcium ion was effective to stabilize the enzyme. The enzyme activity was inhibited by Hg 2+, Ag 2+ and Cd 2 + Maximum hydrolysis rate of xylan by the enzyme was about 40%. The enzyme split xylan and yielded xylobiose and higher oligosaccharides. Therefore, this enzyme is considered to be a type of endo-xylanase. 相似文献
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Essentially all bacteria have genes for toxic metal ion resistances and these include those for Ag+, AsO
−2
, AsO
3−4
, Cd2+, Co2+, CrO
2−4
, Cu2+, Hg2+, Ni2+, Pb2+, TeO
2−3
, Tl+ and Zn2+. The largest group of resistance systems functions by energy-dependent efflux of toxic ions. Fewer involve enzymatic transformations (oxidation, reduction, methylation, and demethylation) or metal-binding proteins (for example, metallothionein SmtA, chaperone CopZ and periplasmic silver binding protein SilE). Some of the efflux resistance systems are ATPases and others are chemiosmotic ion/proton exchangers. For example, Cd2+-efflux pumps of bacteria are either inner membrane P-type ATPases or three polypeptide RND chemiosmotic complexes consisting of an inner membrane pump, a periplasmic-bridging protein and an outer membrane channel. In addition to the best studied three-polypeptide chemiosmotic system, Czc (Cd2+, Zn2+, and Co2), others are known that efflux Ag+, Cu+, Ni2+, and Zn2+. Resistance to inorganic mercury, Hg2+ (and to organomercurials, such as CH3Hg+ and phenylmercury) involve a series of metal-binding and membrane transport proteins as well as the enzymes mercuric reductase and organomercurial lyase, which overall convert more toxic to less toxic forms. Arsenic resistance and metabolizing systems occur in three patterns, the widely-found ars operon that is present in most bacterial genomes and many plasmids, the more recently recognized arr genes for the periplasmic arsenate reductase that functions in anaerobic respiration as a terminal electron acceptor, and the aso genes for the periplasmic arsenite oxidase that functions as an initial electron donor in aerobic resistance to arsenite. 相似文献
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A decrease in citric acid and increases in acetic acid, acetoin and diacetyl were found in the test red wine after inoculation of intact cells of Leuconostoc mesenteroides subsp. lactosum ATCC 27307. a malo-lactic bacterium, grown on the malate plus citrate-medium. Citric acid in the buffer solution was transformed to acetic acid, acetoin and diacetyl in the pH range of 2 to 6 after inoculation with intact cells of this bacterial species. It was concluded that citric acid in wine making involving malolactic fermentation, at first, was converted by citrate lyase to acetic and oxaloacetic acids, and the latter was successively transformed by decarboxylation to pyruvic acid which was subsequently converted to acetoin, diacetyl and acetic acid.Both the activities of citrate lyase and acetoin formation from pyruvic acid in the dialyzed cell-free extract were optimal at pH 6.0. Divalent cations such as Mn 2+, Mg 2+, Co 2+ and Zn 2+ activated the citrate lyase. The citrate lyase was completely inhibited by EDTA, Hg 2+ and Ag 2+ . The acetoin formation from pyruvic acid was significantly stimulated by thiamine pyrophosphate and CoCl 2, and inhibited by oxaloacetic acid. Specific activities of the citrate lyase and acetoin formation were considerably variable among the six strains of malo-lactic bacteria examined. Some activities of irreversible reduction of diacetyl to acetoin were found in the cell-free extracts of four of the malo-lactic bacteria strains and the optimal pH was 6.0 for this activity of Leu. mesenteroides. 相似文献
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Total ambient mercury concentrations and numbers of mercury resistant, aerobic heterotrophic bacteria at six locations in
Chesapeake Bay were monitored over a 17 month period. Mercury resistance expressed as the proportion of the total, viable,
aerobic, heterotrophic bacterial population reached a reproducible maximum in spring and was positively correlated with dissolved
oxygen concentration and sediment mercury concentration and negatively correlated with water turbidity. A relationship between
mercury resistance and metabolic capability for reduction of mercuric ion to the metallic state was established by surveying
a number of HgCl 2-resistant cultures. The reaction was also observed in microrganisms isolated by differential centrifugation of water and
sediment samples. Mercuric ion exhibited an average half-life of 12.5 days in the presence of approximately 10 5 organisms/ml. Cultures resistant to 6 ppm of mercuric chloride and 3 ppm of phenylmercuric acetate (PMA) were classified
into eight generic categories. Pseudomonas spp. were the most numerous of those bacteria capable of metabolizing both compounds; however, PMA was more toxic and was
more selective for Pseudomonas. The mercury-resistant generic distribution was distinct from that of the total bacterial generic distribution and differed
significantly between water and sediment, positionally and seasonally. The proportion of nonglucose-utilizing mercury-resistant Psuedomonas spp. was found to be positively correlated with total bacterial mercury resistance. It is concluded from this study that
numbers of mercury-resistant bacteria as established by plate count can serve as a valid index of in situ Hg 2+ metabolism. 相似文献
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Some enzymatic properties were examined with the purified alkaline proteinase from Aspergillus candidus. The isoelectric point was determined to be 4.9 by polyacrylamide gel disc electrofocusing. The optimum pH for milk casein was around 11.0 to 11.5 at 30°C. The maximum activity was found at 47°C at pH 7.0 for 10 min. The enzyme was stable between pH 5.0 and 9.0 at 30°C and most stable at pH 6.0 at 50°C. The enzyme activity over 95% remained at 40°C, but was almost completely lost at 60°C for 10 min. Calcium ions protected the enzyme from heat denaturation to some extent. No metal ions examined showed stimulatory effect and Hg 2+ ions inhibited the enzyme. The enzyme was also inhibited by potato inhibitor and diisopropylphosphorofluoridate, but not by metal chelating agent or sulfhydryl reagents. A. candidus alkaline proteinase exhibited immunological cross-reacting properties similar to those of alkaline proteinases of A. sojae and A. oryzae. 相似文献
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Strains Paenibacillus sp. BP-23 and Bacillus sp. BP-7, previously isolated from soil from a rice field, secreted high levels of pectinase activity in media supplemented with pectin. Production of pectinases in strain Paenibacillus sp. BP-23 showed catabolite repression, while in Bacillus sp. BP-7 production of pectin degrading enzymes was not negatively affected by glucose. The two strains showed lyase activities as the predominant pectinases, while hydrolase activity was very low. Analysis of Paenibacillus sp. BP-23 in SDS–polyacrylamide gels and zymograms showed five pectinase activity bands. The strict requirement of Ca 2+ for lyase activity of the strain indicates that correspond to pectate lyases. For Bacillus sp. BP-7, zymograms showed four bands of different size. The strain showed a Ca 2+ requirement for lyase activity on pectate but not on pectin, indicating that the pectinolytic system of Bacillus sp. BP-7 is comprised of pectate lyases and pectin lyases. The results show differences in pectin degrading systems between the two aerobic sporogenous bacterial strains studied. 相似文献
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To obtain a lipase which effectively hydrolyzes castor oil, bacteria were isolated from 500 soil samples. The best strain was examined; its microbiological characteristics suggested that it belongs to the genus Pseudomonas. A lipase from this strain was purified by ammonium sulfate fractionation and chromatographies on DEAE-cellulose and DEAE-Toyopearl 650 M. The enzyme was purified about 400-fold with a yield of 13%. The purified enzyme was electrophoretically homogeneous and its molecular weight was 30,000. The optimum pH and temperature for the hydrolysis of olive oil emulsion were 7.0 and 60°C. The enzyme was stable up to 35°C at pH 7.0 for 30min and also stable from pH 9.0 to 10.0 at 4°C for 22 hr. The activity was inhibited by Fe 3+ , Hg 2+ , pCMB, and anionic surfactants, and enhanced by nonionic surfactants and bile salts. The enzyme efficiently hydrolyzed castor oil. 相似文献
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A species of Erwinia was found to produce no other pectolytic enzyme than the two transeliminases of exo-types, namely, an oligogalacturonide transeliminase and an exopectic acid transeliminase. Of the two enzymes, the exopectic acid transeliminase was isolated and its properties were investigated. The results are as follows: (1) Pectic acids having an unsaturated galacturonic acid residue at the non-reducing end of the molecule are susceptible but oxidized or reduced pectic acids resistant to the enzyme action. (2) The enzyme has no activity toward pectinic acid and polymethylpolygalacturonate methyl glycoside. The limit of the enzymatic degradation for citrus pectic acid is 43.8%. (3) The rate of the enzyme activity was maximal with tetragalacturonic acid and followed by acid-soluble pectic acid, acid-insoluble pectic acid, pectic acid and trigalacturonic acid. Unlike the oligogalacturonide transeliminases of Pseudomonas sp. (strain S2) and Erwinia aroideae, the present enzyme shows a considerably high activity toward pectic acids of high molecular weight. (4) The pH-activity curves vary with the buffer employed. (5) The enzyme is activated by Co 2+ and Mn 2+ but powerfully inhibited by Cu 2+ and Hg 2+. Ca 2+ has no significant effect on the enzyme activity. 相似文献
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The sensitivity and resistance of some Gram-negative mercury (Hg 2+)-sensitive and-resistant strains to chemotherapeutic agents and to disinfectants and preservatives are described. Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains harboring plasmid pUB 1351 [pUB 367:Tn 501] and E. coli bearing R100-1 were resistant to inorganic mercury and to various antibiotics, but were not more resistant to organic mercury and other preservatives and disinfectants than plasmidless strains. 相似文献
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A key interest of microbial ecology is to understand the role of environmental heterogeneity in shaping bacterial diversity and fitness. However, quantifying relevant selection pressures and their effects is challenging due to the number of parameters that must be considered and the multiple scales over which they act. In the current study, a model system was employed to investigate the effects of a spatially heterogeneous mercuric ion (Hg 2+) selection pressure on a population comprising Hg-sensitive and Hg-resistant pseudomonads. The Hg-sensitive bacteria were Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25:: rfp and Hg-resistant bacteria were P. fluorescens SBW25 carrying a gfp-labelled, Hg resistance plasmid. In the absence of Hg, the plasmid confers a considerable fitness cost on the host, with µ max for plasmid-carrying cells relative to plasmid-free cells of only 0.66. Two image analysis techniques were developed to investigate the structure that developed in biofilms about foci of Hg (cellulose fibres imbued with HgCl 2). Both techniques indicated selection for the resistant phenotype occurred only in small areas of approximately 178–353 μm (manually defined contour region analysis) or 275–350 μm ( daime analysis) from foci. Hg also elicited toxic effects that reduced the growth of both Hg-sensitive and Hg-resistant bacteria up to 250 μm from foci. Selection for the Hg resistance phenotype was therefore highly localised when Hg was spatially heterogeneous. As such, for this model system, we define here the spatial scale over which selection operates. The ability to quantify changes in the strength of selection for particular phenotypes over sub-millimetre scales is useful for understanding the scale over which environmental variables affect bacterial populations. 相似文献
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Some enzymatic properties of purified alkaline proteinase from Aspergillus sojae were investigated. The optimum pH for casein digestion was 11.0. The enzyme activity was almost completely lost at 60°C within ten minutes. At low temperature, the enzyme was highly stable at the range of pH 4.5 to 10.0. At 50°C, the most stable pH was around 6.0. None of metallic ions tested promoted the activity, but Hg 2+ showed a remarkable inhibition. The Hg 2+-treatment seemed to cause a large unfolding of the enzyme molecule. The enzyme was inhibited by potato inhibitor and a number of animal sera. Metal chelating reagents and sulfhydryl reagents tested had no effect on the activity, but DFP caused a marked inhibition. The sensitivity to DFP of the enzyme was about 1/300 of that of α-chymotrypsin. The enzyme was inhibited neither by TPCK nor by TLCK. As the result it was assumed that the structure of the active site of the enzyme is fairly different from that of trypsin, or of chymotrypsin. 相似文献
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Flavobacterium rigense strain PR2, a broad-spectrum mercury-resistant bacterium abundantly present in soil exhibited multiple metal resistance properties.
Mercury resistance was due to the sequential action of two mercury-detoxicating enzymes, organomercurial lyase and mercuric
reductase. The levels of these enzyme activities were determined using different mercury compounds as inducers and substrates.
Mercuric reductase was partially purified from the bacterium and the physicochemical properties of the enzyme were studied.
The effect of several enzyme inhibitors and heavy metal ions on the enzyme activity was also studied. 相似文献
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Protease secreted into the culture medium by alkalophilic Thermoactinomyces sp. HS682 was purified to an electrophoretically homogeneous state through only two chromatograhies using Butyl-Toyopearl 650M and SP-Toyopearl 650S columns. The purified enzyme has an apparent relative molecular mass of 25, 000 according to gel filtration on a Sephadex G-75 column and SDS-PAGE and an isoelectric point above 11.0.Its proteolytic activity was inhibited by active-site inhibitors of serine protease, DFP and PMSF, and metal ions, Cu 2+ and Hg 2+. The enzyme was stable toward some detergents, sodium perborate, sodium triphosphate, sodium- n-dodecylbenzenesulfonate, and sodium dodecyl sulfate, at a concentration of 0.1% and pH 11.5 and 37°C for 60 min. The optimum pH was pH 11.5–13.0 at 37°C and the optimum temperature was 70°C at pH 11.5. Calcium divalent cation raised the pH and heat stabilities of the enzyme. In the presence of 5 mM CaCl 2, it showed maximum proteolytic activity at 80°C and stability from pH 4–12.5 at 60°C and below 75°C at pH 11.5. The stabilization by Ca 2+ was observed in secondary conformation deduced from the circular dichroic spectrum of the enzyme. The protease hydrolyzed the ester bond of benzoyl leucine ester well. The amino acid terminal sequence of the enzyme showed high homology with those of Microbiol serine protease, although alanine of the NH 2-terminal amino acid was deleted. 相似文献
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Streptococcus dysgalactiae IID 678, belonging to group C of the streptococci, secreted a large amount of hyaluronidase (hyaluronate lyase, EC 4.2.2.1) into a culture medium containing hyaluronic acid. The purification procedures of hyaluronidase were 70% ammonium sulfate precipitation, ECTEOLA-cellulose chromatography, phospho-cellulose chromatography, and gel filtration on Sephacryl S-300. The hyaluronidase was purified approximately 27,000-fold from the culture filtrate. The purified enzyme was homogeneous by SDS-poIyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The enzyme degradated only hyaluronic acid and chondroitin to zl 4,5-unsaturated disaccharides and did not act on other glycosaminoglycans containing sulfate groups, while the degradation rate of chondroitin was about 1/60 of that of hyaluronic acid. The optimum pH was wide, from pH 5.8 to pH 6.6, and the optimum temperature was 37°C. Fe 2 +, Cu 2 +, Pb 2 +, and Hg 2 + ions inhibited the activity strongly and Zn 2+ inhibited it by half. The molecular weight of the enzyme was estimated to be 125,000 by gel filtration and 117,000 by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The enzyme was different immunochemically from the hyaluronidase from Streptococcus pyogenes belonging to group A. 相似文献
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