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M. Y. Shukor M. F. Rahman Z. Suhaili N. A. Shamaan M. A. Syed 《World journal of microbiology & biotechnology》2009,25(7):1225-1234
A bacterium that was able to tolerate and reduce as high as 50 mM of sodium molybdate to molybdenum blue has been isolated
from a metal recycling ground. The isolate was tentatively identified as Serratia sp. strain Dr.Y8 based on the carbon utilization profiles using Biolog GN plates and partial 16S rDNA molecular phylogeny.
ANOVA analysis showed that isolate Dr.Y8 produced significantly higher (P < 0.05) amount of Mo-blue with 3, 5.1 and 11.3 times more molybdenum blue than previously isolated molybdenum reducers such
as Serratia
marcescens strain Dr.Y6, E. coli K12 and E. cloacae strain 48, respectively. Its molybdate reduction characteristics were studied in this work. Electron donor sources such as
sucrose, mannitol, fructose, glucose and starch supported molybdate reduction. The optimum phosphate, pH and temperature that
supported molybdate reduction were 5 mM, pH 6.0 and 37°C, respectively. The molybdenum blue produced from cellular reduction
exhibited a unique absorption spectrum with a maximum peak at 865 nm and a shoulder at 700 nm. Metal ions such as chromium,
silver, copper and mercury resulted in approximately 61, 57, 80, and 69% inhibition of the molybdenum-reducing activity at
1 mM, respectively. The reduction characteristics of strain Dr.Y8 suggest that it would be useful in future molybdenum bioremediation. 相似文献
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It is generally believed that tropical forests suffer more herbivory, as a proportion of leaf area, than do temperate forests.
Reviews so far have compared studies performed by different authors using very different methodologies. Here we carried out
studies on 125 samples at 86 localities in eastern North America and on 75 samples taken at five localities in Malaysia and
Singapore, including both mature secondary and primary forest. Samples in North America were spread over 3 years. In tropical
Asia, the samples were taken at four time slices at least 8 months apart, scattered over a 4-year period. Total herbivore
damage during the lifetime of tree leaves was estimated from the percentage area damaged in recently fallen, undecayed leaves
from the forest floor, using scanner-linked software. In terms of percentage damage per leaf, the results suggest that lowland
tropical forest has significantly higher leaf herbivory (5.82%) than temperate forest (5.48%). This is in accord with the
general expectation that aseasonal tropical forests should have more herbivory damage. However, when percentage damage ‘per
unit time of growing season’ is calculated based on an estimate of leaf lifetime in the tropics, tropical lowland herbivory
damage turns out to be a fraction (about one half) of that in the temperate zone. Thus, these results tend to put in question
the widely held view that herbivore damage is markedly more intense in the tropics. Over total leaf lifetime, the intensity
of damage in the tropical area is only slightly higher than temperate regions. In terms of intensity of herbivory on leaves
per unit of time, the opposite seems to be the case. It is uncertain which index should be taken as more significant in interpreting
the selection pressure for anti-herbivore defenses in the tropics. 相似文献
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Batai (Falcataria moluccana) is a valuable tree species for forest plantations in Malaysia and Indonesia. Since 1993, a gall rust disease has caused
severe damage to all growth stages, from seedlings in the nursery to mature trees in the field. To identify the fungus causing
gall rust disease on F. moluccana in Malaysia and Indonesia, study of the mode of infection and changes in the anatomy of infected cells were carried out in
the anatomy laboratory. The disease in Malaysia and Indonesia is caused by Uromycladium tepperianum. The fungus produces three longitudinally ridged teliospores on each head, with spores measuring 13–20 μm wide and 17–28 μm
long. The fungus is microcyclic, completing its entire life cycle on F. moluccana. This study confirmed that the teliospores themselves cannot infect the host. Under favorable conditions, about 10 h after
inoculation, teliospores germinate to produce basidiospores that form penetration pegs about 6 h later, and it is this peg
which penetrates the host cells directly through the epidermis. Pycnia, recognized as small brown pustules, break through
the epidermis about 7 days after inoculation. 相似文献
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Glutathione S-transferase (GST) from the 4th instar larvae of the dengue vector Aedes albopictus was purified by glutathione-agarose affinity chromatography and characterised using SDS-PAGE. The expression of the purified enzyme in the life stages and insecticide treated populations of Ae. albopictus as well as its cross-reactivity with larval GST of two dipteran species Aedes aegypti and Batrocera papayae were observed using western blotting. The purified GST had a specific activity of 196.0 ± 11 μmol/min/mg with a purification fold and yield of 28 and 69%, respectively. The SDS-PAGE analysis of the purified GST depicted a single band size of 23 kDa. The GST was expressed in all the larval and adult stages of Ae. albopictus with the exception of the pupal stage. However, the expression level in the adult stage was visibly reduced as compared to the larval stages. Western blotting analysis showed no cross-reactivity with the GST of Ae. aegypti (4th instar) and B. papayae (3rd instar) larvae. The expression of this enzyme was not inducible by exposure to the insecticides dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (1.25 mg/L) and malathion (0.3125 mg/L). 相似文献
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H. Li E. Veenendaal N.A. Ab Shukor J.R. Cobbinah C. Leifert 《Letters in applied microbiology》1995,21(5):322-326
H. LI, E. VEENENDAAL, N.A. AB SHUKOR, J.R. COBBINAH AND C. LEIFERT. 1995. Yeast populations found on the tropical timber tree species Milicia excelsa showed very little diversity at the genus and species level. Of 62 isolates, 87% were Cryptococcus laurentii , 5% Candida humicola , 3% Candida curvata , 1.5% Candida membranaefaciens , 1.5% Rhodotorula minuta and 1.5% Rhodotorula rubra . Approximately half of the Crypt. laurentii strains had unusual metabolic profiles when compared with the Crypt. laurentii strains in the profile library of the APILAB yeast identification software. All isolated strains were non-pathogenic and did not show antagonism against Botrytis cinerea in an in vitro plate assay. However, three strains of Crypt. laurentii suppressed disease development of B. cinerea in a leaf disk bio-assay. This indicates that protection of leaves against opportunistic fungal diseases may be part of the ecological function of Crypt. laurentii populations on Milicia leaves and the potential of this yeast species for biological control. 相似文献
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Sumiko Minobe Shingo Fukui Rumiko Saiki Tadashi Kajita Suchitra Changtragoon Nor Aini Ab Shukor A. Latiff B. R. Ramesh Osamu Koizumi Tsuneyuki Yamazaki 《Conservation Genetics》2010,11(1):301-310
To evaluate the genetic diversity of a mangrove species and clarify the genetic structure of its populations, we studied nucleotide
polymorphism in two DNA regions of Bruguiera gymnorhiza collected from the southern islands of Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Micronesia, and India. The two DNA sequences
were the chloroplast (cp) intergenic spacer between trnL and trnF genes (ca. 300 bp), and a part (ca. 550 bp) of the nuclear gene coding for glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GapCp). Little polymorphism was found within each of the three geographical regions, Pacific Ocean, Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea.
Throughout the vast regions east of the Malay peninsula including Indonesia, Thailand, Micronesia and the southern islands
of Japan (Pacific Ocean), essentially only one haplotype (apart from variation in number of a T repeat) was present. A second
haplotype was present on the western coast of Malay Peninsula and the eastern coast of India (Bay of Bengal). On the southwest
of Malay Peninsula both of these haplotypes were present. Finally a third haplotype was found only on the western coast of
India (Arabian Sea). When taken over all geographic populations, total nucleotide variation within the species was large (μ = 0.006, average of the two genes). Our results are consistent with the hypothesis that this low genetic diversity within
any local population and differentiation between the different oceans or regions are caused by very low gene flow between
each of the different oceans coupled with frequent fluctuation of population sizes due to the change in sea level. The significance
of these results is discussed from evolutionary point of the mangrove forests. 相似文献
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Qurratu Aini Musthafa Muhd Faizan Abdul Shukor Noor Akmal Shareela Ismail Azmee Mohd Ghazi Rosli Mohd Ali Ika Faizura M. Nor 《Free radical research》2017,51(9-10):787-798
Identifying patients at risk of developing premature coronary artery disease (PCAD) which occurs at age below 45 years old and constitutes approximately 7–10% of coronary artery disease (CAD) worldwide remains a problem. Oxidative stress has been proposed as a crucial step in the early development of PCAD. This study was conducted to determine the oxidative status of PCAD in comparison to CAD patients. PCAD (<45 years old) and CAD (>60 years old) patients were recruited with age-matched controls (n?=?30, each group). DNA damage score, plasma malondialdehyde (MDA) and protein carbonyl content were measured for oxidative damage markers. Antioxidants such as erythrocyte glutathione (GSH), oxidised glutathione (GSSG), and glutathione peroxidase activity (GPx), superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase (CAT) were also determined. DNA damage score and protein carbonyl content were significantly higher in both PCAD and CAD when compared to age-matched controls while MDA level was increased only in PCAD (p<.05). In contrast, GSH, GSH/GSSG ratio, α-tocotrienol isomer, and GPx activity were significantly decreased, but only in PCAD when compared to age-matched controls. The decrease in GSH was associated with PCAD (OR?=?0.569 95%CI [0.375???0.864], p?=?.008) and cut-off values of 6.69?μM with areas under the ROC curves (AUROC) 95%CI: 0.88 [0.80–0.96] (sensitivity of 83.3%; specificity of 80%). However, there were no significant differences in SOD and CAT activities in all groups. A higher level of oxidative stress indicated by elevated MDA levels and low levels of GSH, α-tocotrienol and GPx activity in patients below 45 years old may play a role in the development of PCAD and has potential as biomarkers for PCAD. 相似文献
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M. Y. Shukor M. F. Rahman Z. Suhaili N. A. Shamaan M. A. Syed 《Folia microbiologica》2010,55(2):137-143
A local molybdenum-reducing bacterium was isolated and tentatively identified as Acinetobacter calcoaceticus strain Dr.Y12 based on carbon utilization profiles using Biolog GN plates and 16S rDNA comparative analysis. Molybdate reduction
was optimized under conditions of low dissolved oxygen (37 °C and pH 6.5). Of the electron donors tested, glucose, fructose,
maltose and sucrose supported molybdate reduction after 1 d of incubation, glucose and fructose supporting the highest Mo-blue
production. Optimum Mo-blue production was reached at 20 mmol/L molybdate and 5 mmol/L phosphate; increasing the phosphate
concentrations inhibited the production. An increase in an overall absorption profiles, especially at peak maximum at 865
nm and the shoulder at 700 nm, was observed in direct correlation with the increased in Mo-blue amounts. Metal ions, such
as chromium, cadmium, copper, mercury and lead (2 mmol/L final concentration) caused ≈88, 53, 80, 100, and 20 % inhibition,
respectively. Respiratory inhibitors, such as antimycin A, rotenone, sodium azide and cyanide showed in this bacterium no
inhibition of the Mo-blue production, suggesting that the electron transport system is not a site of molybdate reduction. 相似文献
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Mohd-Yusof Nur Syafika Senawi Juliana Nor Shukor Md Md-Zain Badrul Munir 《Acta theriologica》2020,65(2):375-385
Mammal Research - Taxonomic confusion among island flying foxes (Pteropus hypomelanus) still in debate as in the lack of further genetic studies that describe subspecies validity needs... 相似文献