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Colin Scott Gunjan Pandey Carol J. Hartley Colin J. Jackson Matthew J. Cheesman Matthew C. Taylor Rinku Pandey Jeevan L. Khurana Mark Teese Chris W. Coppin Kahli M. Weir Rakesh K. Jain Rup Lal Robyn J. Russell John G. Oakeshott 《Indian journal of microbiology》2008,48(1):65-79
Enzymes are central to the biology of many pesticides, influencing their modes of action, environmental fates and mechanisms
of target species resistance. Since the introduction of synthetic xenobiotic pesticides, enzymes responsible for pesticide
turnover have evolved rapidly, in both the target organisms and incidentally exposed biota. Such enzymes are a source of significant
biotechnological potential and form the basis of several bioremediation strategies intended to reduce the environmental impacts
of pesticide residues. This review describes examples of enzymes possessing the major activities employed in the bioremediation
of pesticide residues, and some of the strategies by which they are employed. In addition, several examples of specific achievements
in enzyme engineering are considered, highlighting the growing trend in tailoring enzymatic activity to a specific biotechnologically
relevant function. 相似文献
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Debarati Paul Neha Rastogi Ulrich Krauss Michael Schlomann Gunjan Pandey Janmejay Pandey Anuradha Ghosh Rakesh K. Jain 《Indian journal of microbiology》2008,48(2):279-286
Ring hydroxylating dioxygenases (RHDOs) are one of the most important classes of enzymes featuring in the microbial metabolism
of several xenobiotic aromatic compounds. One such RHDO is benzenetriol dioxygenase (BtD) which constitutes the metabolic
machinery of microbial degradation of several mono- phenolic and biphenolic compounds including nitrophenols. Assessment of
the natural diversity of benzenetriol dioxygenase (btd) gene sequence is of great significance from basic as well as applied study point of view. In the present study we have evaluated
the gene sequence variations amongst the partial btd genes that were retrieved from microorganisms enriched for PNP degradation from pesticide contaminated agriculture soils.
The gene sequence analysis was also supplemented with an in silico restriction digestion analysis. Furthermore, a phylogenetic analysis based on the deduced amino acid sequence(s) was performed
wherein the evolutionary relatedness of BtD enzyme with similar aromatic dioxygenases was determined. The results obtained
in this study indicated that this enzyme has probably undergone evolutionary divergence which largely corroborated with the
taxonomic ranks of the host microorganisms. 相似文献
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Hussain MA Naveed SA Sechi LA Ranjan S Alvi A Ahmed I Ranjan A Mukhopadhyay S Ahmed N 《PloS one》2008,3(1):e1481
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H. pylori causes gastritis and peptic ulcers and is a risk factor for the development of gastric carcinoma. Many of the proteins such as urease, porins, flagellins and toxins such as lipo-polysaccharides have been identified as potential virulence factors which induce proinflammatory reaction. We report immunogenic potentials of isocitrate dehydrogenase (ICD), an important house keeping protein of H. pylori.Methodology/Principal Findings
Amino acid sequences of H. pylori ICD were subjected to in silico analysis for regions with predictably high antigenic indexes. Also, computational modelling of the H. pylori ICD as juxtaposed to the E. coli ICD was carried out to determine levels of structure similarity and the availability of surface exposed motifs, if any. The icd gene was cloned, expressed and purified to a very high homogeneity. Humoral response directed against H. pylori ICD was detected through an enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) in 82 human subjects comprising of 58 patients with H. pylori associated gastritis or ulcer disease and 24 asymptomatic healthy controls. The H. pylori ICD elicited potentially high humoral immune response and revealed high antibody titers in sera corresponding to endoscopically-confirmed gastritis and ulcer disease subjects. However, urea-breath-test negative healthy control samples and asymptomatic control samples did not reveal any detectable immune responses. The ELISA for proinflammatory cytokine IL-8 did not exhibit any significant proinflammatory activity of ICD.Conclusions/Significance
ICD of H. pylori is an immunogen which interacts with the host immune system subsequent to a possible autolytic-release and thereby significantly elicits humoral responses in individuals with invasive H. pylori infection. However, ICD could not significantly stimulate IL8 induction in a cultured macrophage cell line (THP1) and therefore, may not be a notable proinflammatory agent. 相似文献44.
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The genomic era has seen a remarkable increase in the number of genomes being sequenced and annotated. Nonetheless, annotation remains a serious challenge for compositionally biased genomes. For the preliminary annotation, popular nucleotide and protein comparison methods such as BLAST are widely employed. These methods make use of matrices to score alignments such as the amino acid substitution matrices. Since a nucleotide bias leads to an overall bias in the amino acid composition of proteins, it is possible that a genome with nucleotide bias may have introduced atypical amino acid substitutions in its proteome. Consequently, standard matrices fail to perform well in sequence analysis of these genomes. To address this issue, we examined the amino acid substitution in the AT-rich genome of Plasmodium falciparum, chosen as a reference and reconstituted a substitution matrix in the genome's context. The matrix was used to generate protein sequence alignments for the parasite proteins that improved across the functional regions. We attribute this to the consistency that may have been achieved amid the target and background frequencies calculated exclusively in our study. This study has important implications on annotation of proteins that are of experimental interest but give poor sequence alignments with standard conventional matrices. 相似文献
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Isabel Regadas Olle Dahlberg Roshan Vaid Oanh Ho Sergey Belikov Gunjan Dixit Sebastian Deindl Jiayu Wen Mattias Mannervik 《Molecular cell》2021,81(8):1766-1780.e10
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Kanwal Rehman Muhammad Sajid Hamid Akash Zunaira Alina 《Journal of cellular biochemistry》2018,119(7):5016-5027
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Kanwal Rehman Fiza Fatima Iqra Waheed Muhammad Sajid Hamid Akash 《Journal of cellular biochemistry》2018,119(1):157-184
Even in the current era of growing technology, the concentration of heavy metals present in drinking water is still not within the recommended limits as set by the regulatory authorities in different countries of the world. Drinking water contaminated with heavy metals namely; arsenic, cadmium, nickel, mercury, chromium, zinc, and lead is becoming a major health concern for public and health care professionals. Occupational exposure to heavy metals is known to occur by the utilization of these metals in various industrial processes and/or contents including color pigments and alloys. However, the predominant source resulting in measurable human exposure to heavy metals is the consumption of contaminated drinking water and the resulting health issues may include cardiovascular disorders, neuronal damage, renal injuries, and risk of cancer and diabetes. The general mechanism involved in heavy metal‐induced toxicity is recognized to be the production of reactive oxygen species resulting oxidative damage and health related adverse effects. Thus utilization of heavy metal‐contaminated water is resulting in high morbidity and mortality rates all over the world. Thereby, feeling the need to raise the concerns about contribution of different heavy metals in various health related issues, this article has discussed the global contamination of drinking water with heavy metals to assess the health hazards associated with consumption of heavy metal‐contaminated water. A relationship between exposure limits and ultimate responses produced as well as the major organs affected have been reviewed. Acute and chronic poisoning symptoms and mechanisms responsible for such toxicities have also been discussed. 相似文献
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