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du Plessis EM Theron J Joubert L Lotter T Watson TG 《Systematic and applied microbiology》2002,25(1):21-30
An acid phosphatase, designated SapS, hydrolyzing p-nitrophenyl phosphate (pNPP), was identified and characterized from the culture supernatant of a Staphylococcus aureus strain isolated from vegetables. Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) analysis of the protein indicated an estimated molecular mass of 30 kDa. The enzyme displayed optimum activity at 40 degrees C and pH 5. Characterization of the phosphatase in a reconstitution assay showed that MgCl2 and Triton X-100, respectively, restored maximal activity, but not CaCl2 The phosphatase activity was affected by EDTA and sodium molybdate. The DNA sequence encoding SapS was cloned and sequenced. The putative acid phosphatase gene encodes a protein of 296 amino acids with a 31-residue signal peptide. Database searches revealed significant structural homology of SapS to several proteins belonging to the bacterial class C family of nonspecific acid phosphatases. Comparison of the sequences indicated that despite a low level of overall conservation between the proteins, four conserved sequence motifs could be identified. 相似文献
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Elvis Fosso-Kankeu Antoine F. Mulaba-Bafubiandi Lizelle A. Piater Matsobane G. Tlou 《World journal of microbiology & biotechnology》2016,32(7):114
In this study, a potential microbial biosorbent was engineered to improve its capacity to remediate heavy metal contaminated water resources. A Bacillaceae bacterium isolated from a mining area was transformed with a plasmid carrying the (pECD312)-based cnr operon that encodes nickel and cobalt resistance. The bioadsorption ability of the transformed strain was evaluated for removal of nickel from metallurgical water relative to the wildtype strain. Results showed that transformation improved the adsorption capacity of the bacterium by 37 % at nickel concentrations equivalent to 150 mg/L. Furthermore it was possible to apply prediction modelling to study the bioadsorption behaviour of the transformed strain. As such, this work may be extended to the design of a nickel bioremediation plant utilising the newly developed Bacillaceae bacterium as a biosorbent. 相似文献
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Lizelle J. Odendaal David S. Jacobs 《Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology》2011,197(5):435-446
We investigated intraspecific variation in echolocation calls of the Cape horseshoe bat, Rhinolophus capensis, by comparing echolocation and associated morphological parameters among individuals from three populations of this species.
The populations were situated in the center and at the western and eastern limits of the distribution of R. capensis. The latter two populations were situated in ecotones between vegetation biomes. Ecotone populations deviated slightly from
the allometric relationship between body size and peak frequency for the genus, and there was no relationship between these
variables within R. capensis. Nasal chamber length was the best predictor of peak frequency but not correlated with body size. The evolution of echolocation
thus appears to have been uncoupled from body size in R. capensis. Furthermore, females used higher frequencies than males, which imply a potential social role for peak frequency. The differences
in peak frequency may have originated from random founder effects and then compounded by genetic drift and/or natural selection.
The latter may have acted directly on peak frequency altering skull parameters involved in echolocation independently of body
size, resulting in the evolution of local acoustic signatures. 相似文献
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Jacqueline van Marwijk Diederik J. Opperman Lizelle A. Piater Esta van Heerden 《Biotechnology letters》2009,31(6):845-849
Dissimilatory reduction of vanadium(V) by Enterobacter cloacae EV-SA01, isolated from a gold mine at 1.6 km below surface, is shown to occur anaerobically as well as aerobically. Growth
rates were unaffected by up to 2 mM V2O5. Reduction of vanadium(V) was growth phase-dependent and resulted in cell deformities and precipitation of the vanadium in
its lower oxidation states. The vanadate reductase activity was membrane-associated and coupled the oxidation of NADH to the
reduction of vanadate. 相似文献
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Hypertension (high blood pressure) is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease, which is the leading cause of death worldwide. The somatic isoform of angiotensin I‐converting enzyme (sACE) plays a critical role in blood pressure regulation, and ACE inhibitors are thus widely used to treat hypertension and cardiovascular disease. Our current understanding of sACE structure, dynamics, function, and inhibition has been limited because truncated, minimally glycosylated forms of sACE are typically used for X‐ray crystallography and molecular dynamics simulations. Here, we report the first cryo‐EM structures of full‐length, glycosylated, soluble sACE (sACES1211). Both monomeric and dimeric forms of the highly flexible apo enzyme were reconstructed from a single dataset. The N‐ and C‐terminal domains of monomeric sACES1211 were resolved at 3.7 and 4.1 Å, respectively, while the interacting N‐terminal domains responsible for dimer formation were resolved at 3.8 Å. Mechanisms are proposed for intradomain hinging, cooperativity, and homodimerization. Furthermore, the observation that both domains were in the open conformation has implications for the design of sACE modulators. 相似文献
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Xiaonan Wang Alan Shao Zhenghong Li Lizelle Policarpio Haoran Zhang 《Biotechnology journal》2020,15(9)
Modular co‐culture engineering is an emerging approach for biosynthesis of complex natural products. In this study, microbial co‐cultures composed of two and three Escherichia coli strains, respectively, are constructed for de novo biosynthesis of flavonoid acacetin, a value‐added natural compound possessing numerous demonstrated biological activities, from simple carbon substrate glucose. To this end, the heterologous biosynthetic pathway is divided into different modules, each of which is accommodated in a dedicated E. coli strain for functional expression. After the optimization of the inoculation ratio between the constituent strains, the engineered co‐cultures show a 4.83‐fold improvement in production comparing to the mono‐culture controls. Importantly, cultivation of the three‐strain co‐culture in shake flasks result in the production of 20.3 mg L?1 acacetin after 48 h. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first report on acacetin de novo biosynthesis in a heterologous microbial host. The results of this work confirm the effectiveness of modular co‐culture engineering for complex flavonoid biosynthesis. 相似文献
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Bacteria can reduce toxic and carcinogenic Cr(VI) to insoluble and less toxic Cr(III). Thermus scotoductus SA-01, a South African gold mine isolate, has been shown to be able to reduce a variety of metals, including Cr(VI). Here we report the purification to homogeneity and characterization of a novel chromate reductase. The oxidoreductase is a homodimeric protein, with a monomer molecular mass of approximately 36 kDa, containing a noncovalently bound flavin mononucleotide cofactor. The chromate reductase is optimally active at a pH of 6.3 and at 65 degrees C and requires Ca(2+) or Mg(2+) for activity. Enzyme activity was also dependent on NADH or NADPH, with a preference for NADPH, coupling the oxidation of approximately 2 and 1.5 mol NAD(P)H to the reduction of 1 mol Cr(VI) under aerobic and anaerobic conditions, respectively. The K(m) values for Cr(VI) reduction were 3.5 and 8.4 microM for utilizing NADH and NADPH as electron donors, respectively, with corresponding V(max) values of 6.2 and 16.0 micromol min(-1) mg(-1). The catalytic efficiency (k(cat)/K(m)) of chromate reduction was 1.14 x 10(6) M(-1) s(-1), which was >50-fold more efficient than that of the quinone reductases and >180-fold more efficient than that of the nitroreductases able to reduce Cr(VI). The chromate reductase was identified to be encoded by an open reading frame of 1,050 bp, encoding a single protein of 38 kDa under the regulation of an Escherichia coli sigma(70)-like promoter. Sequence analysis shows the chromate reductase to be related to the old yellow enzyme family, in particular the xenobiotic reductases involved in the oxidative stress response. 相似文献
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