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Wang D, Yun EJ, Kim S, Kim DH, Seo N, An HJ, Kim JH, Cheong NY, Kim KH. Efficacy of acidic pretreatment for the saccharification and fermentation of alginate from brown macroalgae. Bioprocess Biosyst Eng 2016; 39:959-66. [PMID: 26923145 DOI: 10.1007/s00449-016-1575-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2015] [Accepted: 02/16/2016] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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This study was performed to evaluate the effectiveness of acidic pretreatment in increasing the enzymatic digestibility of alginate from brown macroalgae. Pretreatment with 1 % (w/v) sulfuric acid at 120 °C for 30 min produced oligosaccharides, mannuronic acid, and guluronic acid. Enzymatic saccharification of pretreated alginate by alginate lyases produced 52.2 % of the theoretical maximal sugar yield, which was only 7.5 % higher than the sugar yield obtained with unpretreated alginate. Mass spectrometric analyses of products of the two reactions revealed that acidic pretreatment and enzymatic saccharification produced saturated monomers (i.e., mannuronic and guluronic acid) with saturated oligosaccharides and unsaturated monomers (i.e., 4-deoxy-L-erythro-5-hexoseulose uronic acid; DEH), respectively. While DEH is further metabolized by microorganisms, mannuronic acid and guluronic acid are not metabolizable. Because of the poor efficacy in increasing enzymatic digestibility and owing to the formation of non-fermentable saturated monomers, acidic pretreatment cannot be recommended for enzymatic saccharification and fermentation of alginate.
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- Damao Wang
- Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School, Korea University, Seoul, 02841, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School, Korea University, Seoul, 02841, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School, Korea University, Seoul, 02841, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School, Korea University, Seoul, 02841, Republic of Korea
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- Graduate School of Analytical Science and Technology, Asia-Pacific Glycomics Reference Site, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, 34134, Republic of Korea
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- Graduate School of Analytical Science and Technology, Asia-Pacific Glycomics Reference Site, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, 34134, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Food and Nutrition, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, 34134, Republic of Korea
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- Environmental Analysis Division, Korea Apparel Testing & Research Institute, Seoul, 02579, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School, Korea University, Seoul, 02841, Republic of Korea.
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Mori T, Takahashi M, Tanaka R, Miyake H, Shibata T, Chow S, Kuroda K, Ueda M, Takeyama H. Falsirhodobacter sp. alg1 Harbors Single Homologs of Endo and Exo-Type Alginate Lyases Efficient for Alginate Depolymerization. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0155537. [PMID: 27176711 PMCID: PMC4866713 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0155537] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2016] [Accepted: 04/29/2016] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Alginate-degrading bacteria play an important role in alginate degradation by harboring highly efficient and unique alginolytic genes. Although the general mechanism for alginate degradation by these bacteria is fairly understood, much is still required to fully exploit them. Here, we report the isolation of a novel strain, Falsirhodobacter sp. alg1, the first report for an alginate-degrading bacterium from the family Rhodobacteraceae. Genome sequencing reveals that strain alg1 harbors a primary alginate degradation pathway with only single homologs of an endo- and exo-type alginate lyase, AlyFRA and AlyFRB, which is uncommon among such bacteria. Subsequent functional analysis showed that both enzymes were extremely efficient to depolymerize alginate suggesting evolutionary interests in the acquirement of these enzymes. The exo-type alginate lyase, AlyFRB in particular could depolymerize alginate without producing intermediate products making it a highly efficient enzyme for the production of 4-deoxy-L-erythro-5-hexoseulose uronic acid (DEH). Based on our findings, we believe that the discovery of Falsirhodobacter sp. alg1 and its alginolytic genes hints at the potentiality of a more diverse and unique population of alginate-degrading bacteria.
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- Tetsushi Mori
- Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Bioresources, Mie University, Mie, Japan
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- Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Bioresources, Mie University, Mie, Japan
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- Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Bioresources, Mie University, Mie, Japan
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- Research Center for Aquatic Genomics, National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Division of Applied Life Sciences, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Division of Applied Life Sciences, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
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Takagi T, Morisaka H, Aburaya S, Tatsukami Y, Kuroda K, Ueda M. Putative Alginate Assimilation Process of the Marine Bacterium Saccharophagus degradans 2-40 Based on Quantitative Proteomic Analysis. Mar Biotechnol (NY) 2016; 18:15-23. [PMID: 26458373 DOI: 10.1007/s10126-015-9667-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2015] [Accepted: 08/15/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Quantitative proteomic analysis was conducted to assess the assimilation processes of Saccharophagus degradans cultured with glucose, pectin, and alginate as carbon sources. A liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry approach was used, employing our unique, long monolithic silica capillary column. In an attempt to select candidate proteins that correlated to alginate assimilation, the production of 23 alginate-specific proteins was identified by statistical analyses of the quantitative proteomic data. Based on the analysis, we propose that S. degradans has an alginate-specific gene cluster for efficient alginate utilization. The alginate-specific proteins of S. degradans were comprised of alginate lyases, enzymes related to carbohydrate metabolism, membrane transporters, and transcription factors. Among them, the short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase Sde_3281 annotated in the alginate-specific cluster showed 4-deoxy-L-erythro-5-hexoseulose uronic acid reductase (DehR) activity. Furthermore, we found two different genes (Sde_3280 and Sde_0939) encoding 2-keto-3-deoxy-D-gluconic acid (KDG) kinases (KdgK) that metabolize the KDG derived from alginate and pectin in S. degradans. S. degradans used Sde_3280 to phosphorylate the KDG derived from alginate and Sde_0939 to phosphorylate the KDG derived from pectin. The distinct selection of KdgKs provides an important clue toward the elucidation of how S. degradans recognizes and processes polysaccharides.
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- Toshiyuki Takagi
- Division of Applied Life Sciences, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Sakyo, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan.
- JST, CREST, Kawaguchi, Saitama, 332-0012, Japan.
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Sakyo, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan.
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- Division of Applied Life Sciences, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Sakyo, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan.
- JST, CREST, Kawaguchi, Saitama, 332-0012, Japan.
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- Division of Applied Life Sciences, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Sakyo, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan.
- JST, CREST, Kawaguchi, Saitama, 332-0012, Japan.
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- Division of Applied Life Sciences, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Sakyo, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan.
- JST, CREST, Kawaguchi, Saitama, 332-0012, Japan.
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Sakyo, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan.
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- Division of Applied Life Sciences, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Sakyo, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan.
- JST, CREST, Kawaguchi, Saitama, 332-0012, Japan.
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- Division of Applied Life Sciences, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Sakyo, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan.
- JST, CREST, Kawaguchi, Saitama, 332-0012, Japan.
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Ji SQ, Wang B, Lu M, Li FL. Defluviitalea phaphyphila sp. nov., a Novel Thermophilic Bacterium That Degrades Brown Algae. Appl Environ Microbiol 2016; 82:868-77. [PMID: 26590273 PMCID: PMC4725288 DOI: 10.1128/aem.03297-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2015] [Accepted: 11/15/2015] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Brown algae are one of the largest groups of oceanic primary producers for CO2 removal and carbon sinks for coastal regions. However, the mechanism for brown alga assimilation remains largely unknown in thermophilic microorganisms. In this work, a thermophilic alginolytic community was enriched from coastal sediment, from which an obligate anaerobic and thermophilic bacterial strain, designated Alg1, was isolated. Alg1 shared a 16S rRNA gene identity of 94.6% with Defluviitalea saccharophila LIND6LT2(T). Phenotypic, chemotaxonomic, and phylogenetic studies suggested strain Alg1 represented a novel species of the genus Defluviitalea, for which the name Defluviitalea phaphyphila sp. nov. is proposed. Alg1 exhibited an intriguing ability to convert carbohydrates of brown algae, including alginate, laminarin, and mannitol, to ethanol and acetic acid. Three gene clusters participating in this process were predicted to be in the genome, and candidate enzymes were successfully expressed, purified, and characterized. Six alginate lyases were demonstrated to synergistically deconstruct alginate into unsaturated monosaccharide, followed by one uronic acid reductase and two 2-keto-3-deoxy-d-gluconate (KDG) kinases to produce pyruvate. A nonclassical mannitol 1-phosphate dehydrogenase, catalyzing D-mannitol 1-phosphate to fructose 1-phosphate in the presence of NAD(+), and one laminarase also were disclosed. This work revealed that a thermophilic brown alga-decomposing system containing numerous novel thermophilic alginate lyases and a unique mannitol 1-phosphate dehydrogenase was adopted by the natural ethanologenic strain Alg1 during the process of evolution in hostile habitats.
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- Shi-Qi Ji
- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Energy Genetics, Key Laboratory of Biofuels, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, People's Republic of China
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- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Energy Genetics, Key Laboratory of Biofuels, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, People's Republic of China
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- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Energy Genetics, Key Laboratory of Biofuels, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, People's Republic of China
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- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Energy Genetics, Key Laboratory of Biofuels, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, People's Republic of China
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Li Y, Wang Z, Xu X, Jin L. A Ca-alginate particle co-immobilized with Phanerochaete chrysosporium cells and the combined cross-linked enzyme aggregates from Trametes versicolor. Bioresour Technol 2015; 198:464-469. [PMID: 26413897 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2015.09.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2015] [Revised: 09/13/2015] [Accepted: 09/14/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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For improving stability of immobilized white-rot fungus to treat various effluents, Phanerochaete chrysosporium cells and the combined cross-link enzyme aggregates (combi-CLEAs) prepared from Trametes versicolor were co-immobilized into the Ca-alginate gel particles in this paper. The activity yields of obtained combi-CLEAs were 42.7% for lignin peroxidases (LiPs), 31.4% for manganese peroxidases (MnPs) and 40.4% for laccase (Lac), respectively. And their specific activities were 30.2U/g as combi-CLEAs-LiPs, 9.5 U/g as combi-CLEAs-MnPs and 28.4 U/g as combi-CLEAs-Lac. Further, the present of the combi-CLEAs in the particles extremely improved their ability to degrade the dyes. Compared to the immobilized Ph. chrysosporium without the combi-CLEAs, the co-immobilized particles enhanced the decolorized rate of Acid Violet 7 (from 45.2% to 93.4%) and Basic Fuchsin (from 12.1% to 67.9%). In addition, the addition of the combi-CLEAs improved the adaptability of the white-rot fungal particles to adverse environmental conditions.
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- Yanchun Li
- Qilu University of Technology, No. 3501, Daxue Rd, Changqing District, Jinan, Shandong Province 250353, China.
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- Qilu University of Technology, No. 3501, Daxue Rd, Changqing District, Jinan, Shandong Province 250353, China
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- Qilu University of Technology, No. 3501, Daxue Rd, Changqing District, Jinan, Shandong Province 250353, China
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- Qilu University of Technology, No. 3501, Daxue Rd, Changqing District, Jinan, Shandong Province 250353, China
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Ghosh B, Nowak BF, Bridle AR. Alginate Microencapsulation for Oral Immunisation of Finfish: Release Characteristics, Ex Vivo Intestinal Uptake and In Vivo Administration in Atlantic Salmon, Salmo salar L. Mar Biotechnol (NY) 2015; 17:841-853. [PMID: 26410294 DOI: 10.1007/s10126-015-9663-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2015] [Accepted: 08/24/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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This study examined the feasibility of alginate microcapsules manufactured using a low-impact technology and reagents to protect orally delivered immunogens for use as immunoprophylactics for fish. Physical characteristics and protein release kinetics of the microcapsules were examined at different pH and temperature levels using a microencapsulated model protein, bovine serum albumin (BSA). Impact of the microencapsulation process on contents was determined by analysing change in bioactivity of microencapsulated lysozyme. Feasibility of the method for oral immunoprophylaxis of finfish was assessed using FITC-labelled microcapsules. These were applied to distal intestinal explants of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) to investigate uptake ex vivo. Systemic distribution of microcapsules was investigated by oral administration of FITC-labelled microcapsules to Atlantic salmon fry by incorporating into feed. The microcapsules produced were structurally robust and retained surface integrity, with a modal size distribution of 250-750 nm and a tendency to aggregate. Entrapment efficiency of microencapsulation was 51.2 % for BSA and 43.2 % in the case of lysozyme. Microcapsules demonstrated controlled release of protein, which increased with increasing pH or temperature, and the process had no significant negative effect on bioactivity of lysozyme. Uptake of fluorescent-labelled microcapsules was clearly demonstrated by intestinal explants over a 24-h period. Evidence of microcapsules was found in the intestine, spleen, kidney and liver of fry following oral administration. Amenability of the microcapsules to intestinal uptake and distribution reinforced the strong potential for use of this microencapsulation method in oral immunoprophylaxis of finfish using sensitive immunogenic substances.
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- Bikramjit Ghosh
- Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Locked Bag 1370, Launceston, Tasmania, 7250, Australia.
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- Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Locked Bag 1370, Launceston, Tasmania, 7250, Australia.
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- Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Locked Bag 1370, Launceston, Tasmania, 7250, Australia.
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Kim HS, Chu YJ, Park CH, Lee EY, Kim HS. Site-Directed Mutagenesis-Based Functional Analysis and Characterization of Endolytic Lyase Activity of N- and C-Terminal Domains of a Novel Oligoalginate Lyase from Sphingomonas sp. MJ-3 Possessing Exolytic Lyase Activity in the Intact Enzyme. Mar Biotechnol (NY) 2015; 17:782-792. [PMID: 26342491 DOI: 10.1007/s10126-015-9658-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2014] [Accepted: 07/14/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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A novel oligoalginate lyase from a marine bacterium, Sphingomonas sp. strain MJ-3, exhibited a unique alginate degradation activity that completely depolymerizes alginate to monomers through the formation of oligomers. In order to reveal the reason why MJ-3 oligoalginate can exhibit both endolytic and exolytic alginate lyase activities, ten mutants were developed and characterized on the basis of homology modeling. When the recombinant cell lysates containing the mutated proteins of MJ-3 oligoalginate lyase were allowed to react with alginate, the Asn177Ala, His178Ala, Tyr234Phe, His389Ala, and Tyr426Phe mutants showed reduced oligoalginate lyase activity, whereas the Arg236Ala mutant exhibited endolytic activity. Interestingly, the overexpressed Arg236Ala protein (79.6 kDa) was proteolytically cleaved into two fragments, i.e., the N-terminal 32.0-kDa and the C-terminal 47.6-kDa fragments. Both the purified N-terminal and C-terminal fragments showed endolytic lyase activity. They preferentially degraded a heteropolymeric (polyMG) block than poly-β-D-mannuronate (polyM) or poly-α-L-guluronate (polyG) blocks. These results suggest that the oligoalginate lyase activity of MJ-3 enzyme is derived from the cooperative interaction between the N- and C-terminal endolytic alginate lyase domains in the intact enzyme.
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- Hae Sol Kim
- Department of Food Science and Biotechnology, Kyungsung University, Busan, 608-736, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Food Science and Biotechnology, Kyungsung University, Busan, 608-736, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Gyeonggi-do, 446-701, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Gyeonggi-do, 446-701, Republic of Korea.
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- Department of Food Science and Biotechnology, Kyungsung University, Busan, 608-736, Republic of Korea.
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Yuan Y, Macquarrie DJ. Microwave assisted step-by-step process for the production of fucoidan, alginate sodium, sugars and biochar from Ascophyllum nodosum through a biorefinery concept. Bioresour Technol 2015; 198:819-27. [PMID: 26454369 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2015.09.090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2015] [Revised: 09/21/2015] [Accepted: 09/22/2015] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The biorefinery is an important concept for the development of alternative routes to a range of interesting and important materials from renewable resources. It ensures that the resources are used fully and that all parts of them are valorized. This paper develops this concept, using brown macroalgae Ascophyllum nodosum as an example, by assistance of microwave technology. A step-by-step process was designed to obtain fucoidan, alginates, sugars and biochar (alga residue) consecutively. The yields of fucoidan, alginates, sugars and biochar were 14.09%, 18.24%, 10.87% and 21.44%, respectively. To make an evaluation of the biorefinery process, seaweed sample was also treated for fucoidan extraction only, alginate extraction only and hydrothermal treatment for sugars and biochar only. The chemical composition and properties of each product were also analyzed. The results indicated that A. nodosum could be potentially used as feedstock for a biorefinery process to produce valuable chemicals and fuels.
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- Yuan Yuan
- Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence, University of York, Heslington, YO10 5DD York, UK
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- Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence, University of York, Heslington, YO10 5DD York, UK.
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Gopu V, Meena CK, Shetty PH. Quercetin Influences Quorum Sensing in Food Borne Bacteria: In-Vitro and In-Silico Evidence. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0134684. [PMID: 26248208 PMCID: PMC4527846 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0134684] [Citation(s) in RCA: 142] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2015] [Accepted: 07/13/2015] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Quorum sensing (QS) plays a vital role in regulating the virulence factor of many food borne pathogens, which causes severe public health risk. Therefore, interrupting the QS signaling pathway may be an attractive strategy to combat microbial infections. In the current study QS inhibitory activity of quercetin and its anti-biofilm property was assessed against food-borne pathogens using a bio-sensor strain. In addition in-silico techniques like molecular docking and molecular dynamics simulation studies were applied to screen the quercetin's potentiality as QS inhibitor. Quercetin (80 μg/ml) showed the significant reduction in QS-dependent phenotypes like violacein production, biofilm formation, exopolysaccharide (EPS) production, motility and alginate production in a concentration-dependent manner. Synergistic activity of conventional antibiotics with quercetin enhanced the susceptibility of all tested pathogens. Furthermore, Molecular docking analysis revealed that quercetin binds more rigidly with LasR receptor protein than the signaling compound with docking score of -9.17 Kcal/mol. Molecular dynamics simulation predicted that QS inhibitory activity of quercetin occurs through the conformational changes between the receptor and quercetin complex. Above findings suggest that quercetin can act as a competitive inhibitor for signaling compound towards LasR receptor pathway and can serve as a novel QS-based antibacterial/anti-biofilm drug to manage food-borne pathogens.
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- Venkadesaperumal Gopu
- Department of Food science and Technology, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India
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- Department of Bio-informatics, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India
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Oh Y, Xu X, Kim JY, Park JM. Maximizing the utilization of Laminaria japonica as biomass via improvement of alginate lyase activity in a two-phase fermentation system. Biotechnol J 2015; 10:1281-8. [PMID: 26098412 DOI: 10.1002/biot.201400860] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2014] [Revised: 05/20/2015] [Accepted: 06/19/2015] [Indexed: 01/10/2024]
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Brown seaweed contains up to 67% of carbohydrates by dry weight and presents high potential as a polysaccharide feedstock for biofuel production. To effectively use brown seaweed as a biomass, degradation of alginate is the major challenge due to its complicated structure and low solubility in water. This study focuses on the isolation of alginate degrading bacteria, determining of the optimum fermentation conditions, as well as comparing the conventional single fermentation system with the two-phase fermentation system which is separately using alginate and mannitol extracted from Laminaria japonica. Maximum yield of organic acids production and volatile solids reduction obtained were 0.516 g/g and 79.7%, respectively, using the two-phase fermentation system in which alginate fermentation was carried out at pH 7 and mannitol fermentation at pH 8. The two-phase fermentation system increased the yield of organic acids production by 1.14 times and led to a 1.45-times reduction of VS when compared to the conventional single fermentation system at pH 8. The results show that the two-phase fermentation system improved the utilization of alginate by separating alginate from mannitol leading to enhanced alginate lyase activity.
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- Yuri Oh
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Republic of Korea
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Republic of Korea
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Advanced Nuclear Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Republic of Korea.
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Wang X, Wang L, Che J, Li Z, Zhang J, Li X, Hu W, Xu Y. Improving the quality of Laminaria japonica-based diet for Apostichopus japonicus through degradation of its algin content with Bacillus amyloliquefaciens WB1. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2015; 99:5843-53. [PMID: 25895094 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-015-6583-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2015] [Revised: 03/19/2015] [Accepted: 04/03/2015] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Laminaria japonica feedstuff is used as a substitute for Sargassum thunbergii in the small-scale culturing of Apostichopus japonicus (sea cucumber) because of its abundant sources and low price in China. However, the difficulty associated with the degradation of algin by A. japonicus and, hence, its utilization have limited the practical value of L. japonica feedstuff in sea cucumber farming. In this study, A. japonicus individuals were fed with L. japonica feedstuff pretreated, via fermentation with the algin-degrading bacterial strain, Bacillus amyloliquefaciens WB1, and their growth performance, nonspecific immune responses, and resistance against Vibrio infection were then determined over a 60-day period. Growth performance of these individuals was similar to those fed with a commercial feedstuff made from S. thunbergii (mean weight gain of 5.79 versus 5.69 g on day 60), but was significantly (P < 0.05) increased compared to those fed with untreated L. japonica feedstuff (mean weight gain of 1.31 g). At the same time, they also showed significantly higher levels of amylase, protease, and alginate lyase activities than the other groups. These individuals and those fed with the commercial feedstuff or heat-inactivated but B. amyloliquefaciens WB1-treated L. japonicas feedstuff showed enhanced levels of activities for the immune enzymes nitric oxide synthase, lysozyme, peroxidase, and acid phosphatase, compared to those fed with nontreated L. japonica feedstuff. Furthermore, A. japonicus individuals fed with B. amyloliquefaciens WB1-treated L. japonica feedstuff exhibited greater resistance to disease following Vibrio splendidus challenge, as shown by the much lower cumulative symptom (10 %) compared to the rest, which showed as much as 73 % in the case of individuals fed with the untreated L. japonica feedstuff. Analysis of their intestinal tract revealed a much lower number of total Vibrio sp. These results demonstrated that L. japonica in which the algin content had been degraded by B. amyloliquefaciens WB1 could improve the growth performance of A. japonicus as well its resistance to bacterial infection. It could therefore act as an alternative to S. thunbergii and is economical at the same time.
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- Xitao Wang
- School of Life Science and Biotechnology, Dalian University of Technology, No. 2 Linggong Road, 116024, Dalian, People's Republic of China
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Ohman DE, Goldberg JB, Flynn JA, Powell SK. Genetics of exopolysaccharide production by mucoid Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Antibiot Chemother (1971) 2015; 36:13-22. [PMID: 3923910 DOI: 10.1159/000410468] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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The secretion of the exopolysaccharide, alginate, is believed to contribute to the predilection for persistence of P. aeruginosa in respiratory tract infections of cystic fibrosis patients. To understand more about the pathway of alginate biosynthesis, we have cloned a gene, alg-50, which is involved in alginate biosynthesis. The alg-50 gene was physically mapped on a DNA fragment from P. aeruginosa by deletion analysis and transposition mutagenesis. The alginate trait is unstable, and another clone was found which may contain genes involved in this phenomenon. The two uronic acid components in alginate can vary, and a gene was cloned which increases the L-guluronate concentration of alginate produced by P. aeruginosa.
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Roychoudhury S, Zielinski NA, DeVault JD, Kato J, Shinabarger DL, May TB, Maharaj R, Kimbara K, Misra TK, Chakrabarty AM. Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in cystic fibrosis: biosynthesis of alginate as a virulence factor. Antibiot Chemother (1971) 2015; 44:63-7. [PMID: 1801646 DOI: 10.1159/000420299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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- S Roychoudhury
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois, College of Medicine, Chicago
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, Berkeley
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- Statens Seruminstitut, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Bacteriology, University of Edinburgh Medical School, UK
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- Department of Microbiology, Ohio State University, Columbus
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Xu X, Bi DC, Li C, Fang WS, Zhou R, Li SM, Chi LL, Wan M, Shen LM. Morphological and proteomic analyses reveal that unsaturated guluronate oligosaccharide modulates multiple functional pathways in murine macrophage RAW264.7 cells. Mar Drugs 2015; 13:1798-818. [PMID: 25830683 PMCID: PMC4413188 DOI: 10.3390/md13041798] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2015] [Revised: 03/15/2015] [Accepted: 03/20/2015] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Alginate is a natural polysaccharide extracted from various species of marine brown algae. Alginate-derived guluronate oligosaccharide (GOS) obtained by enzymatic depolymerization has various pharmacological functions. Previous studies have demonstrated that GOS can trigger the production of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS)/nitric oxide (NO), reactive oxygen species (ROS) and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α by macrophages and that it is involved in the nuclear factor (NF)-κB and mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase signaling pathways. To expand upon the current knowledge regarding the molecular mechanisms associated with the GOS-induced immune response in macrophages, comparative proteomic analysis was employed together with two-dimensional electrophoresis (2-DE), matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF/TOF MS) and Western blot verification. Proteins showing significant differences in expression in GOS-treated cells were categorized into multiple functional pathways, including the NF-κB signaling pathway and pathways involved in inflammation, antioxidant activity, glycolysis, cytoskeletal processes and translational elongation. Moreover, GOS-stimulated changes in the morphologies and actin cytoskeleton organization of RAW264.7 cells were also investigated as possible adaptations to GOS. This study is the first to reveal GOS as a promising agent that can modulate the proper balance between the pro- and anti-inflammatory immune responses, and it provides new insights into pharmaceutical applications of polysaccharides.
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- Xu Xu
- College of Life Science, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine Bioresources and Ecology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China.
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- College of Life Science, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine Bioresources and Ecology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China.
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- College of Life Science, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine Bioresources and Ecology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China.
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- College of Life Science, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine Bioresources and Ecology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China.
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- College of Life Science, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine Bioresources and Ecology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China.
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- College of Life Science, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Microbial Genetic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China.
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- National Glycoengineering Research Center, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China.
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- Division of Physiological Chemistry 2, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm 17177, Sweden.
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- College of Life Science, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine Bioresources and Ecology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China.
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Westhrin M, Xie M, Olderøy MØ, Sikorski P, Strand BL, Standal T. Osteogenic differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells in mineralized alginate matrices. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0120374. [PMID: 25769043 PMCID: PMC4358956 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120374] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2014] [Accepted: 01/22/2015] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Mineralized biomaterials are promising for use in bone tissue engineering. Culturing osteogenic cells in such materials will potentially generate biological bone grafts that may even further augment bone healing. Here, we studied osteogenic differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) in an alginate hydrogel system where the cells were co-immobilized with alkaline phosphatase (ALP) for gradual mineralization of the microenvironment. MSC were embedded in unmodified alginate beads and alginate beads mineralized with ALP to generate a polymer/hydroxyapatite scaffold mimicking the composition of bone. The initial scaffold mineralization induced further mineralization of the beads with nanosized particles, and scanning electron micrographs demonstrated presence of collagen in the mineralized and unmineralized alginate beads cultured in osteogenic medium. Cells in both types of beads sustained high viability and metabolic activity for the duration of the study (21 days) as evaluated by live/dead staining and alamar blue assay. MSC in beads induced to differentiate in osteogenic direction expressed higher mRNA levels of osteoblast-specific genes (RUNX2, COL1AI, SP7, BGLAP) than MSC in traditional cell cultures. Furthermore, cells differentiated in beads expressed both sclerostin (SOST) and dental matrix protein-1 (DMP1), markers for late osteoblasts/osteocytes. In conclusion, Both ALP-modified and unmodified alginate beads provide an environment that enhance osteogenic differentiation compared with traditional 2D culture. Also, the ALP-modified alginate beads showed profound mineralization and thus have the potential to serve as a bone substitute in tissue engineering.
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- Marita Westhrin
- Kristian Gerhard Jebsen Center for Myeloma Research, Department of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Physics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Physics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Physics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Biotechnology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Kristian Gerhard Jebsen Center for Myeloma Research, Department of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
- Centre of Molecular Inflammation Research, Department of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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Bacteria are ubiquitous and important components of marine ecosystems, yet the interaction between bacteria and higher trophic levels remain poorly understood. The trophic cascade involving sea otters, urchins, and kelp in the North Pacific is a classic case of altered ecosystem states; however, its impacts on microbial communities are unknown. We investigated the response of microbial communities to variation in kelp abundance between regions with and without sea otter populations along the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. We compared bacterial community structure and function between regions with large and small kelp forests, including an subset of the bacterial community that produces alginate lyase, which allows direct utilization of kelp carbon. The abundance and activity of alginate-lyase-producing bacteria were 3.2 and 1.4 times higher, respectively, in the region with large kelp forests, and declined rapidly with increasing distance from kelp. Total bacterial abundance was 2.7 times greater, and bacteria grew faster and experienced more zooplankton grazing and viral-mediated mortality in the presence of large kelp forests. These patterns suggest that larger kelp forests produce more detritus and dissolved organic matter, which stimulate microbial activity. Our results indicate that variation in kelp forest size alters the community structure and productivity of microbes and contributes to the growing evidence that top predators interact with microbes and ecosystem processes through a cascade of indirect effects.
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Phoem AN, Chanthachum S, Voravuthikunchai SP. Preparation of Eleutherine americana-alginate complex microcapsules and application in Bifidobacterium longum. Nutrients 2015; 7:831-48. [PMID: 25629556 PMCID: PMC4344563 DOI: 10.3390/nu7020831] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2014] [Accepted: 01/15/2015] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Microencapsulation using extrusion and emulsion techniques was prepared for Bifidobacterium longum protection against sequential exposure to simulated gastric and intestinal juices, refrigeration storage and heat treatment. Eleutherine americana was used as the co-encapsulating agent. Hydrolysis of E. americana by gastric and intestinal juices was also determined. E. americana and its oligosaccharide extract demonstrated their resistance to low pH and partial tolerance to human α-amylase. Microencapsulated B. longum with E. americana and oligosaccharide extract prepared by the extrusion technique survived better than that by the emulsion technique under adverse conditions. Survival of microencapsulated cells after exposure to the juices and refrigeration storage was higher than free cells at Weeks 2 and 4. In addition, the viability of microencapsulated cells was better than free cells at 65 °C for 15 min. This work suggested that microencapsulated B. longum with E. americana offers the effective delivery of probiotics to colon and maintains their survival in food products.
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- Atchara N Phoem
- Department of Biology and Applied Biology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Songkhla Rajabhat University, Songkhla 90000, Thailand.
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- Department of Food Technology, Faculty of Agro-industry, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla 90112, Thailand.
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- Department of Microbiology and Natural Product Research Center of Excellence, Faculty of Science, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla 90112, Thailand.
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Inoue A, Nishiyama R, Mochizuki S, Ojima T. Identification of a 4-deoxy-L-erythro-5-hexoseulose uronic acid reductase, FlRed, in an alginolytic bacterium Flavobacterium sp. strain UMI-01. Mar Drugs 2015; 13:493-508. [PMID: 25603344 PMCID: PMC4306948 DOI: 10.3390/md13010493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2014] [Accepted: 01/04/2015] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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In alginate-assimilating bacteria, alginate is depolymerized to unsaturated monosaccharide by the actions of endolytic and exolytic alginate lyases (EC 4.2.2.3 and EC 4.2.2.11). The monosaccharide is non-enzymatically converted to 4-deoxy-l-erythro-5-hexoseulose uronic acid (DEH), then reduced to 2-keto-3-deoxy-d-gluconate (KDG) by a specific reductase, and metabolized through the Entner–Doudoroff pathway. Recently, the NADPH-dependent reductase A1-R that belongs to short-chain dehydrogenases/reductases (SDR) superfamily was identified as the DEH-reductase in Sphingomonas sp. A1. We have subsequently noticed that an SDR-like enzyme gene, flred, occurred in the genome of an alginolytic bacterium Flavobacterium sp. strain UMI-01. In the present study, we report on the deduced amino-acid sequence of flred and DEH-reducing activity of recombinant FlRed. The deduced amino-acid sequence of flred comprised 254 residues and showed 34% amino-acid identities to that of A1-R from Sphingomonas sp. A1 and 80%–88% to those of SDR-like enzymes from several alginolytic bacteria. Common sequence motifs of SDR-superfamily enzymes, e.g., the catalytic tetrad Asn-Lys-Tyr-Ser and the cofactor-binding sequence Thr-Gly-x-x-x-Gly-x-Gly in Rossmann fold, were completely conserved in FlRed. On the other hand, an Arg residue that determined the NADPH-specificity of Sphingomonas A1-R was replaced by Glu in FlRed. Thus, we investigated cofactor-preference of FlRed using a recombinant enzyme. As a result, the recombinant FlRed (recFlRed) was found to show high specificity to NADH. recFlRed exhibited practically no activity toward variety of aldehyde, ketone, keto ester, keto acid and aldose substrates except for DEH. On the basis of these results, we conclude that FlRed is the NADH-dependent DEH-specific SDR of Flavobacterium sp. strain UMI-01.
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- Akira Inoue
- Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology and Microbiology, Faculty of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, Hakodate, Hokkaido 041-8611, Japan.
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- Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology and Microbiology, Faculty of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, Hakodate, Hokkaido 041-8611, Japan.
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- Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology and Microbiology, Faculty of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, Hakodate, Hokkaido 041-8611, Japan.
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- Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology and Microbiology, Faculty of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, Hakodate, Hokkaido 041-8611, Japan.
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Yazdani P, Zamani A, Karimi K, Taherzadeh MJ. Characterization of Nizimuddinia zanardini macroalgae biomass composition and its potential for biofuel production. Bioresour Technol 2015; 176:196-202. [PMID: 25461003 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2014.10.141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2014] [Revised: 10/26/2014] [Accepted: 10/28/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Nizimuddinia zanardini macroalgae, harvested from Persian Gulf, was chemically characterized and employed for the production of ethanol, seaweed extract, alginic acid, and biogas. In order to improve the products yields, the biomass was pretreated with dilute sulfuric acid and hot water. The pretreated and untreated biomasses were subjected to enzymatic hydrolysis by cellulase (15FPU/g) and β-glucosidase (30IU/g). Hydrolysis yield of glucan was 29.8, 82.5, and 72.7g/kg for the untreated, hot-water pretreated, and acid pretreated biomass, respectively. Anaerobic fermentation of hydrolysates by Saccharomycescerevisiae resulted in the maximum ethanol yield of 34.6g/kg of the dried biomass. A seaweed extract containing mannitol and a solid residue containing alginic acid were recovered as the main byproducts of the ethanol production. On the other hand, the biogas yield from the biomass was increased from 170 to 200m(3) per ton of dried algae biomass by hot water pretreatment.
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- Parviz Yazdani
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan 84156-83111, Iran
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan 84156-83111, Iran; Swedish Centre for Resource Recovery, University of Borås, 50190 Borås, Sweden.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan 84156-83111, Iran; Industrial Biotechnology Group, Institute of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan 84156-83111, Iran
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Dixit S, Singh DP. Role of free living, immobilized and non-viable biomass of Nostoc muscorum in removal of heavy metals: an impact of physiological state of biosorbent. Cell Mol Biol (Noisy-le-grand) 2014; 60:110-118. [PMID: 25535721] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2014] [Accepted: 09/21/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Biosorption of Pb and Cd by using free living, immobilized living and non-viable forms of Nostocmuscorum was studied as a function of pH (3-8), contact time (5-240 min) and metal concentration (10-100 μg ml-1), to find out the most efficient physiological formfor metal removal. Results revealed that optimum conditions for biosorption of both the metals by different states of biosorbentwere almost same (contact time- 30 min, metal concentration- 100 μg ml-1 and pH- 5.1 and 6, for Pb and Cd, respectively) however, the immobilized biomass of N. muscorum was found to be more suitable for the development of an efficient biosorbent as evident from theqmax(1000 mg g-1protein) and Kf (0.08 mg g-1protein) values obtained from the Langmuir and Freundlich isotherms. A pseudo second order kinetics was found more suitable for describing the nature of biosorption of both the metals by all the three forms of N. muscorum. An analysis of correlation revealed that as the metal concentration increases, the removal of Pb and Cd by N. muscorum also increases significantly. The regression analysis showed that the rate of removal of Pb by free living and dead biomass was 1.89 and 1.58 times higher than the rate of removal of Cd by respective biomass. In contrast, the rate of removal of Cd by immobilized biomass was 1.46 times higher than that of Pb.
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- S Dixit
- Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University Department of Environmental Science Lucknow India
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- Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University Department of Environmental Science Lucknow India dpsingh_lko@yahoo.com
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Sun C, Chen YJ, Zhang XQ, Pan J, Cheng H, Wu M. Draft genome sequence of Microbulbifer elongatus strain HZ11, a brown seaweed-degrading bacterium with potential ability to produce bioethanol from alginate. Mar Genomics 2014; 18 Pt B:83-5. [PMID: 24907394 DOI: 10.1016/j.margen.2014.05.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2014] [Revised: 05/23/2014] [Accepted: 05/24/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Microbulbifer elongatus strain HZ11, was a new strain of M. elongates DSM 6810(T), which has the ability to degrade brown seaweeds such as Laminaria japonica into single cell detritus particles. Here we report a high quality draft genome of M. elongatus strain HZ11, which comprises 4,223,108bp in 9 contigs with the G+C content of 56.70%. A total of 3293 protein-coding sequences were predicted, including nine alginate lyases (EC 4.2.2.3), five agarases (EC 3.2.1.81), 2-dehydro-3-deoxygluconate kinase (EC 2.7.1.45) and all enzymes involved in the Entner-Doudoroff pathway. Our results suggest that strain HZ11 has the potential ability to produce bioethanol from alginate with moderate genetic modification, which may significantly increase the yield of bioethanol from brown seaweed and the utilization rate of brown seaweeds.
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- Cong Sun
- College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- School of Foresty and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University, Linan, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
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Yang YC, Liu X, Wan C, Sun S, Lee DJ. Accelerated aerobic granulation using alternating feed loadings: alginate-like exopolysaccharides. Bioresour Technol 2014; 171:360-366. [PMID: 25218208 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2014.08.092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2014] [Revised: 08/20/2014] [Accepted: 08/21/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Alginate-like exopolysaccharides (ALE) likely contribute markedly to strength of aerobic granules. This study cultivated aerobic granules from propionate wastewaters using strategies with different organic loading rates (OLRs) (4.4-17.4 kg/m(3)-d). When the OLR increased suddenly, the constituent cells (Pseudomonas, Clostridium, Thauera and Arthrobacter) were stimulated to secret extracellular cyclic diguanylate (c-di-GMP) and produced excess ALE, which formed a large quantity of sticky materials that served as the precursor of aerobic granules. Formation of excess ALE was the prerequisite for accelerated granulation. Conversely, this study observed no enrichment of poly guluronic acid blocks in ALE during granulation.
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- Ya-Chun Yang
- Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 106, Taiwan
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- Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 106, Taiwan; Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China; Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan.
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Nabavimanesh MM, Hashemi-Najafabadi S, Vasheghani-Farahani E. Islets immunoisolation using encapsulation and PEGylation, simultaneously, as a novel design. J Biosci Bioeng 2014; 119:486-91. [PMID: 25454695 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiosc.2014.09.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2014] [Revised: 09/23/2014] [Accepted: 09/26/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The most important obstacle in islets transplantation for the treatment of diabetes is graft rejection by the host immune system. To solve this problem, immunosuppressive drugs should be used, but they may have several side effects. To overcome these problems, islets immunoisolation systems such as encapsulation and PEGylation have been developed. The aim of this study was to investigate the possibility of using encapsulation and PEGylation techniques simultaneously (as a novel design) for immunocamouflaging the islets of Langerhans. For this purpose, the attachment of poly-L-ornithine (PLO) onto the surface of alginate microcapsules and activated methoxy polyethylene glycol (mPEG) onto alginate-PLO microcapsules was verified by Fourier transform infrared analysis and scanning electron microscopy. Viability of the free and encapsulated islets up to the 7th day was approved by acridine orange (AO)/propidium iodide (PI). The obtained results from lymphocytes co-culturing with free and encapsulated islets (in different designs of microcapsules with one to three layers) showed that encapsulation generally reduces the immune response against the islets. However, the addition of PLO and mPEG as second and third layers to the surface of alginate microcapsules decreased interleukine-2 (IL-2) secretion against the islets more and more. Finally, two different activated mPEG, mPEG-succinimidyl carbonate (mPEG-SC) and mPEG-succinimidylvaleric acid (mPEG-SVA), used separately on the surface of microcapsules were investigated, and the results showed that IL-2 secretion was reduced 14.3% and 37.5% in comparison with the alginate-PLO microcapsules, respectively. On the other hand, mPEG-SVA was more effective than mPEG-SC, so it decreased IL-2 secretion 27.1% more than mPEG-SC.
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- Mohammad Mahdi Nabavimanesh
- Biotechnology Group, Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, P. O. Box 14115-114, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
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- Biotechnology Group, Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, P. O. Box 14115-114, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran.
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- Biotechnology Group, Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, P. O. Box 14115-114, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
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Xu X, Kim JY, Oh YR, Park JM. Production of biodiesel from carbon sources of macroalgae, Laminaria japonica. Bioresour Technol 2014; 169:455-461. [PMID: 25084043 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2014.07.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2014] [Revised: 07/02/2014] [Accepted: 07/03/2014] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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As aquatic biomass which is called "the third generation biomass", Laminaria japonica (also known as Saccharina japonica) consists of mannitol and alginate which are the main polysaccharides of algal carbohydrates. In this study, oleaginous yeast (Cryptococcus curvatus) was used to produce lipid from carbon sources derived from Laminaria japonica. Volatile fatty acids (VFAs) were produced by fermentation of alginate extracted from L. japonica. Thereafter, mannitol was mixed with VFAs to culture the oleaginous yeast. The highest lipid content was 48.30%. The composition of the fatty acids was similar to vegetable oils. This is the first confirmation of the feasibility of using macroalgae as a carbon source for biodiesel production.
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- Xu Xu
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, San 31, Hyoja-dong, Pohang 790-784, South Korea
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, San 31, Hyoja-dong, Pohang 790-784, South Korea
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, San 31, Hyoja-dong, Pohang 790-784, South Korea
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, San 31, Hyoja-dong, Pohang 790-784, South Korea; Department of Chemical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, San 31, Hyoja-dong, Pohang 790-784, South Korea; Division of Advanced Nuclear Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, San 31, Hyoja-dong, Pohang 790-784, South Korea.
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Wang DM, Kim HT, Yun EJ, Kim DH, Park YC, Woo HC, Kim KH. Optimal production of 4-deoxy-L-erythro-5-hexoseulose uronic acid from alginate for brown macro algae saccharification by combining endo- and exo-type alginate lyases. Bioprocess Biosyst Eng 2014; 37:2105-11. [PMID: 24794171 DOI: 10.1007/s00449-014-1188-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2013] [Accepted: 04/06/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Algae are considered as third-generation biomass, and alginate is the main component of brown macroalgae. Alginate can be enzymatically depolymerized by alginate lyases into uronate monomers, such as mannuronic acid and guluronic acid, which are further nonenzymatically converted to 4-deoxy-L-erythro-5-hexoseulose uronic acid (DEH). We have optimized an enzymatic saccharification process using two recombinant alginate lyases, endo-type Alg7D and exo-type Alg17C, for the efficient production of DEH from alginate. When comparing the sequential and simultaneous additions of Alg7D and Alg17C, it was found that the final yield of DEH was significantly higher when the enzymes were added sequentially. The progress of saccharification reactions and production of DEH were verified by thin layer chromatography and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, respectively. Our results showed that the two recombinant enzymes could be exploited for the efficient production of DEH that is the key substrate for producing biofuels from brown macro algal biomass.
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- Da Mao Wang
- Department of Biotechnology, Korea University Graduate School, Seoul, 136-713, Republic of Korea
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Chaudhuri O, Koshy ST, Branco da Cunha C, Shin JW, Verbeke CS, Allison KH, Mooney DJ. Extracellular matrix stiffness and composition jointly regulate the induction of malignant phenotypes in mammary epithelium. Nat Mater 2014; 13:970-8. [PMID: 24930031 DOI: 10.1038/nmat4009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 556] [Impact Index Per Article: 55.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2013] [Accepted: 05/13/2014] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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In vitro models of normal mammary epithelium have correlated increased extracellular matrix (ECM) stiffness with malignant phenotypes. However, the role of increased stiffness in this transformation remains unclear because of difficulties in controlling ECM stiffness, composition and architecture independently. Here we demonstrate that interpenetrating networks of reconstituted basement membrane matrix and alginate can be used to modulate ECM stiffness independently of composition and architecture. We find that, in normal mammary epithelial cells, increasing ECM stiffness alone induces malignant phenotypes but that the effect is completely abrogated when accompanied by an increase in basement-membrane ligands. We also find that the combination of stiffness and composition is sensed through β4 integrin, Rac1, and the PI3K pathway, and suggest a mechanism in which an increase in ECM stiffness, without an increase in basement membrane ligands, prevents normal α6β4 integrin clustering into hemidesmosomes.
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- Ovijit Chaudhuri
- 1] School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA [2] Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA [3] Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- 1] School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA [2] Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA [3] Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- 1] School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA [2] Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA [3] Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology, Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica, and Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, Porto 4150-180, Portugal
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- 1] School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA [2] Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- 1] School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA [2] Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- 1] School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA [2] Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Baker P, Ricer T, Moynihan PJ, Kitova EN, Walvoort MTC, Little DJ, Whitney JC, Dawson K, Weadge JT, Robinson H, Ohman DE, Codée JDC, Klassen JS, Clarke AJ, Howell PL. P. aeruginosa SGNH hydrolase-like proteins AlgJ and AlgX have similar topology but separate and distinct roles in alginate acetylation. PLoS Pathog 2014; 10:e1004334. [PMID: 25165982 PMCID: PMC4148444 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004334] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2014] [Accepted: 07/08/2014] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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The O-acetylation of polysaccharides is a common modification used by pathogenic organisms to protect against external forces. Pseudomonas aeruginosa secretes the anionic, O-acetylated exopolysaccharide alginate during chronic infection in the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients to form the major constituent of a protective biofilm matrix. Four proteins have been implicated in the O-acetylation of alginate, AlgIJF and AlgX. To probe the biological function of AlgJ, we determined its structure to 1.83 Å resolution. AlgJ is a SGNH hydrolase-like protein, which while structurally similar to the N-terminal domain of AlgX exhibits a distinctly different electrostatic surface potential. Consistent with other SGNH hydrolases, we identified a conserved catalytic triad composed of D190, H192 and S288 and demonstrated that AlgJ exhibits acetylesterase activity in vitro. Residues in the AlgJ signature motifs were found to form an extensive network of interactions that are critical for O-acetylation of alginate in vivo. Using two different electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) assays we compared the abilities of AlgJ and AlgX to bind and acetylate alginate. Binding studies using defined length polymannuronic acid revealed that AlgJ exhibits either weak or no detectable polymer binding while AlgX binds polymannuronic acid specifically in a length-dependent manner. Additionally, AlgX was capable of utilizing the surrogate acetyl-donor 4-nitrophenyl acetate to catalyze the O-acetylation of polymannuronic acid. Our results, combined with previously published in vivo data, suggest that the annotated O-acetyltransferases AlgJ and AlgX have separate and distinct roles in O-acetylation. Our refined model for alginate acetylation places AlgX as the terminal acetlytransferase and provides a rationale for the variability in the number of proteins required for polysaccharide O-acetylation. Bacteria utilize many defense strategies to protect themselves against external forces. One mechanism used by the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa is the production of the long sugar polymer alginate. The bacteria use this polymer to form a biofilm – a barrier to protect against antibiotics and the host immune response. During its biosynthesis alginate undergoes a chemical modification whereby acetate is added to the polymer. Acetylation of alginate is important as this modification makes the bacterial biofilm less susceptible to recognition and clearance by the host immune system. In this paper we present the atomic structure of AlgJ; one of four proteins required for O-acetylation of the polymer. AlgJ is structurally similar to AlgX, which we have shown previously is also required for alginate acetylation. To understand why both enzymes are required for O-acetylation we functionally characterized the proteins and found that although AlgJ exhibits acetylesterase activity – catalyzing the removal of acetyl groups from a surrogate substrate – it does not bind to short mannuornic acid polymers. In contrast, AlgX bound alginate in a length-dependent manner and was capable of transfering acetate from a surrogate substrate onto alginate. This has allowed us to not only understand how acetate is added to alginate, but increases our understanding of how acetate is added to other bacterial sugar polymers.
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- Perrin Baker
- Program in Molecular Structure and Function, Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Program in Molecular Structure and Function, Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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- Alberta Glycomics Centre and Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Program in Molecular Structure and Function, Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Program in Molecular Structure and Function, Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Program in Molecular Structure and Function, Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Program in Molecular Structure and Function, Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Photon Sciences Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center and McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
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- Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Alberta Glycomics Centre and Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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- Program in Molecular Structure and Function, Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Ali M, Oshiki M, Okabe S. Simple, rapid and effective preservation and reactivation of anaerobic ammonium oxidizing bacterium "Candidatus Brocadia sinica". Water Res 2014; 57:215-22. [PMID: 24726991 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2014.03.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2013] [Revised: 02/03/2014] [Accepted: 03/17/2014] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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It is still the biggest challenge to secure enough seeding biomass for rapid start-up of full-scale (anaerobic ammonium oxidation) anammox processes due to slow growth. Preservation of active anammox biomass could be one of the solutions. In this study, biomass of anammox bacterium, "Candidatus Brocadia sinica", immersed in various nutrient media were preserved at -80 °C, 4 °C and room temperature. After 45, 90 and 150 days of preservation, specific anammox activity (SAA) of the preserved anammox biomass was determined by measuring (29)N2 production rate and transcription levels of hzsA gene encoding hydrazine synthase alpha subunit. Storage in nutrient medium containing 3 mM of molybdate at room temperature with periodical (every 45 days) supply of NH4(+) and NO2(-) was proved to be the most effective storage technique for "Ca. Brocadia sinica" biomass. Using this preservation condition, 96, 92 and 65% of the initial SAA was sustained after 45, 90 and 150 days of storage, respectively. Transcription levels of hzsA gene in biomass correlated with the SAA (R(2) = 0.83), indicating it can be used as a genetic marker to evaluate the anammox activity of preserved biomass. Furthermore, the 90-day-stored biomass was successfully reactivated by immobilizing in polyvinyl alcohol (6%, w/v) and sodium alginate (2%, w/v) gel and then inoculated to up-flow column reactors. Total nitrogen removal rates rapidly increased to 7 kg-N m(-3) d(-1) within 35 days of operation. Based on these results, the room temperature preservation with molybdate addition is simple, cost-effective and feasible at a practical scale, which will accelerate the practical use of anammox process for wastewater treatment.
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- Muhammad Ali
- Division of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, North-13, West-8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8628, Japan
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- Division of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, North-13, West-8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8628, Japan
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- Division of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, North-13, West-8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8628, Japan.
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Gulez G, Altıntaş A, Fazli M, Dechesne A, Workman CT, Tolker-Nielsen T, Smets BF. Colony morphology and transcriptome profiling of Pseudomonas putida KT2440 and its mutants deficient in alginate or all EPS synthesis under controlled matric potentials. Microbiologyopen 2014; 3:457-69. [PMID: 24912454 PMCID: PMC4287175 DOI: 10.1002/mbo3.180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2014] [Revised: 04/23/2014] [Accepted: 05/05/2014] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Pseudomonas putida is a versatile bacterial species adapted to soil and its fluctuations. Like many other species living in soil, P. putida often faces water limitation. Alginate, an exopolysaccharide (EPS) produced by P. putida, is known to create hydrated environments and alleviate the effect of water limitation. In addition to alginate, P. putida is capable of producing cellulose (bcs), putida exopolysaccharide a (pea), and putida exopolysaccharide b (peb). However, unlike alginate, not much is known about their roles under water limitation. Hence, in this study we examined the role of different EPS components under mild water limitation. To create environmentally realistic water limited conditions as observed in soil, we used the Pressurized Porous Surface Model. Our main hypothesis was that under water limitation and in the absence of alginate other exopolysaccharides would be more active to maintain homeostasis. To test our hypothesis, we investigated colony morphologies and whole genome transcriptomes of P. putida KT2440 wild type and its mutants deficient in synthesis of either alginate or all known EPS. Overall our results support that alginate is an important exopolysaccharide under water limitation and in the absence of alginate other tolerance mechanisms are activated.
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- Gamze Gulez
- Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of DenmarkBuilding 113, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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- Center for Biological Sequencing, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of DenmarkBuilding 208, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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- Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, University of CopenhagenOle Maaløes Vej 5, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Department of International Health, Immunology, and Microbiology, University of CopenhagenBlegdamsvej 3C, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of DenmarkBuilding 113, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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- Center for Biological Sequencing, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of DenmarkBuilding 208, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Department of International Health, Immunology, and Microbiology, University of CopenhagenBlegdamsvej 3C, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of DenmarkBuilding 113, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
- Correspondence Barth F. Smets, Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Building 113, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark. Tel: +45 45 25 22 30; Fax: +45 45 93 28 50;, E-mail:
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Xu X, Iwamoto Y, Kitamura Y, Oda T, Muramatsu T. Root Growth-promoting Activity of Unsaturated Oligomeric Uronates from Alginate on Carrot and Rice Plants. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem 2014; 67:2022-5. [PMID: 14519996 DOI: 10.1271/bbb.67.2022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The root elongation activity of unsaturated oligomeric uronates from alginate on carrot and rice plants was investigated. Unsaturated oligomeric uronates were prepared by digesting polymannuronate (PM) and polyguluronate (PG) with an alginate lyase purified from Pseudoalteromonas sp. strain No. 272. The root elongation activity was measured by elongation in length of carrot- and rice-excised root incubated in the B5-medium containing 0.8% agar in the dark. PM and PG showed no activity, but the enzymatic digestion mixtures of PG had promoting activity on roots of both plants at a final concentration of 0.5 mg/ml. The maximum activity was obtained at 0.75 mg/ml. The dependence of activity on degree of polymerization of the uronates was tested and the pentamer was most active, but the mechanism of the action of unsaturated uronates on the cells remains to be solved.
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- Xu Xu
- Division of Biochemistry, Faculty of Fisheries, Nagasaki University, Japan
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Seon J, Lee T, Lee SC, Pham HD, Woo HC, Song M. Bacterial community structure in maximum volatile fatty acids production from alginate in acidogenesis. Bioresour Technol 2014; 157:22-27. [PMID: 24530946 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2014.01.072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2013] [Revised: 01/15/2014] [Accepted: 01/19/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Alginate as biomass feedstock for bioconversion into volatile fatty acids (VFAs) is limited primarily by the low solubility in water or little utilization as microbial substrate and yet unknown about the microbial community structure for acidogenesis. The bacterial community structure was demonstrated the reflected changes in VFAs profiles in the maximized acidogenic process from alginate. Bacteroides- and Clostridium-related microorganisms were suggested to be mainly responsible for the hydrolysis of alginate and VFAs production, respectively. And the bacterial community shifted corresponded to VFAs producing was statistically demonstrated. A number of features discussed in this research can stimulate further interests on bioconversion of alginate into anaerobic biofuels production.
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- Jiyun Seon
- The Institute of Cleaner Production, Pukyong National University, 365 Sinseon-ro, Nam-gu, Busan 608-739, Republic of Korea; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pusan National University, 63 Busandaehak-ro, Geumjeong-gu, Busan 609-735, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pusan National University, 63 Busandaehak-ro, Geumjeong-gu, Busan 609-735, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Pukyong National University, 365 Sinseon-ro, Nam-gu, Busan 608-739, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Pukyong National University, 365 Sinseon-ro, Nam-gu, Busan 608-739, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Pukyong National University, 365 Sinseon-ro, Nam-gu, Busan 608-739, Republic of Korea.
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- The Institute of Cleaner Production, Pukyong National University, 365 Sinseon-ro, Nam-gu, Busan 608-739, Republic of Korea.
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Kawai S, Ohashi K, Yoshida S, Fujii M, Mikami S, Sato N, Murata K. Bacterial pyruvate production from alginate, a promising carbon source from marine brown macroalgae. J Biosci Bioeng 2014; 117:269-74. [PMID: 24064299 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiosc.2013.08.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2013] [Revised: 08/22/2013] [Accepted: 08/27/2013] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Marine brown macroalgae is a promising source of material for biorefining, and alginate is one of the major components of brown algae. Despite the huge potential availability of alginate, no system has been reported for the production of valuable compounds other than ethanol from alginate, hindering its further utilization. Here we report that a bacterium, Sphingomonas sp. strain A1, produces pyruvate from alginate and secretes it into the medium. High aeration and deletion of the gene for d-lactate dehydrogenase are critical for the production of high concentrations of pyruvate. Pyruvate concentration and productivity were at their maxima (4.56 g/l and 95.0 mg/l/h, respectively) in the presence of 5% (w/v) initial alginate, whereas pyruvate produced per alginate consumed and % of theoretical yield (0.19 g/g and 18.6%, respectively) were at their maxima at 4% (w/v) initial alginate. Concentration of pyruvate decreased after it reached its maximum after cultivations for 2 or 3 days at 145 strokes per minute. Our study is the first report to demonstrate the production of other valuable compounds than ethanol from alginate, a promising marine macroalgae carbon source.
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- Shigeyuki Kawai
- Laboratory of Basic and Applied Molecular Biotechnology, Division of Food and Biological Science, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan.
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- Laboratory of Basic and Applied Molecular Biotechnology, Division of Food and Biological Science, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan
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- Laboratory of Basic and Applied Molecular Biotechnology, Division of Food and Biological Science, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan
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- Laboratory of Basic and Applied Molecular Biotechnology, Division of Food and Biological Science, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan
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- Laboratory of Basic and Applied Molecular Biotechnology, Division of Food and Biological Science, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan
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- Central Research Institute, Maruha Nichiro Holdings, Inc., 16-2 Wadai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 300-4295, Japan
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- Laboratory of Basic and Applied Molecular Biotechnology, Division of Food and Biological Science, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan
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Wilson JL, Najia MA, Saeed R, McDevitt TC. Alginate encapsulation parameters influence the differentiation of microencapsulated embryonic stem cell aggregates. Biotechnol Bioeng 2014; 111:618-31. [PMID: 24166004 PMCID: PMC4163549 DOI: 10.1002/bit.25121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2013] [Revised: 08/26/2013] [Accepted: 09/17/2013] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Pluripotent embryonic stem cells (ESCs) have tremendous potential as tools for regenerative medicine and drug discovery, yet the lack of processes to manufacture viable and homogenous cell populations of sufficient numbers limits the clinical translation of current and future cell therapies. Microencapsulation of ESCs within microbeads can shield cells from hydrodynamic shear forces found in bioreactor environments while allowing for sufficient diffusion of nutrients and oxygen through the encapsulation material. Despite initial studies examining alginate microbeads as a platform for stem cell expansion and directed differentiation, the impact of alginate encapsulation parameters on stem cell phenotype has not been thoroughly investigated. Therefore, the objective of this study was to systematically examine the effects of varying alginate compositions on microencapsulated ESC expansion and phenotype. Pre-formed aggregates of murine ESCs were encapsulated in alginate microbeads composed of a high or low ratio of guluronic to mannuronic acid residues (High G and High M, respectively), with and without a poly-L-lysine (PLL) coating, thereby providing four distinct alginate bead compositions for analysis. Encapsulation in all alginate compositions was found to delay differentiation, with encapsulation within High G alginate yielding the least differentiated cell population. The addition of a PLL coating to the High G alginate prevented cell escape from beads for up to 14 days. Furthermore, encapsulation within High M alginate promoted differentiation toward a primitive endoderm phenotype. Taken together, the findings of this study suggest that distinct ESC expansion capacities and differentiation trajectories emerge depending on the alginate composition employed, indicating that encapsulation material physical properties can be used to control stem cell fate.
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- Jenna L Wilson
- The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
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Ito K, Sakata K, Date Y, Kikuchi J. Integrated analysis of seaweed components during seasonal fluctuation by data mining across heterogeneous chemical measurements with network visualization. Anal Chem 2014; 86:1098-105. [PMID: 24401131 DOI: 10.1021/ac402869b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Biological information is intricately intertwined with several factors. Therefore, comprehensive analytical methods such as integrated data analysis, combining several data measurements, are required. In this study, we describe a method of data preprocessing that can perform comprehensively integrated analysis based on a variety of multimeasurement of organic and inorganic chemical data from Sargassum fusiforme and explore the concealed biological information by statistical analyses with integrated data. Chemical components including polar and semipolar metabolites, minerals, major elemental and isotopic ratio, and thermal decompositional data were measured as environmentally responsive biological data in the seasonal variation. The obtained spectral data of complex chemical components were preprocessed to isolate pure peaks by removing noise and separating overlapping signals using the multivariate curve resolution alternating least-squares method before integrated analyses. By the input of these preprocessed multimeasurement chemical data, principal component analysis and self-organizing maps of integrated data showed changes in the chemical compositions during the mature stage and identified trends in seasonal variation. Correlation network analysis revealed multiple relationships between organic and inorganic components. Moreover, in terms of the relationship between metal group and metabolites, the results of structural equation modeling suggest that the structure of alginic acid changes during the growth of S. fusiforme, which affects its metal binding ability. This integrated analytical approach using a variety of chemical data can be developed for practical applications to obtain new biochemical knowledge including genetic and environmental information.
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- Kengo Ito
- Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University , 1-7-29 Suehirocho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan
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Enquist-Newman M, Faust AME, Bravo DD, Santos CNS, Raisner RM, Hanel A, Sarvabhowman P, Le C, Regitsky DD, Cooper SR, Peereboom L, Clark A, Martinez Y, Goldsmith J, Cho MY, Donohoue PD, Luo L, Lamberson B, Tamrakar P, Kim EJ, Villari JL, Gill A, Tripathi SA, Karamchedu P, Paredes CJ, Rajgarhia V, Kotlar HK, Bailey RB, Miller DJ, Ohler NL, Swimmer C, Yoshikuni Y. Efficient ethanol production from brown macroalgae sugars by a synthetic yeast platform. Nature 2014; 505:239-43. [PMID: 24291791 DOI: 10.1038/nature12771] [Citation(s) in RCA: 200] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2013] [Accepted: 10/08/2013] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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The increasing demands placed on natural resources for fuel and food production require that we explore the use of efficient, sustainable feedstocks such as brown macroalgae. The full potential of brown macroalgae as feedstocks for commercial-scale fuel ethanol production, however, requires extensive re-engineering of the alginate and mannitol catabolic pathways in the standard industrial microbe Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Here we present the discovery of an alginate monomer (4-deoxy-L-erythro-5-hexoseulose uronate, or DEHU) transporter from the alginolytic eukaryote Asteromyces cruciatus. The genomic integration and overexpression of the gene encoding this transporter, together with the necessary bacterial alginate and deregulated native mannitol catabolism genes, conferred the ability of an S. cerevisiae strain to efficiently metabolize DEHU and mannitol. When this platform was further adapted to grow on mannitol and DEHU under anaerobic conditions, it was capable of ethanol fermentation from mannitol and DEHU, achieving titres of 4.6% (v/v) (36.2 g l(-1)) and yields up to 83% of the maximum theoretical yield from consumed sugars. These results show that all major sugars in brown macroalgae can be used as feedstocks for biofuels and value-added renewable chemicals in a manner that is comparable to traditional arable-land-based feedstocks.
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- Maria Enquist-Newman
- 1] Bio Architecture Lab Inc., 604 Bancroft Way, Suite A, Berkeley, California 94710, USA [2]
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- 1] Bio Architecture Lab Inc., 604 Bancroft Way, Suite A, Berkeley, California 94710, USA [2]
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- 1] Bio Architecture Lab Inc., 604 Bancroft Way, Suite A, Berkeley, California 94710, USA [2]
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- 1] Bio Architecture Lab Inc., 604 Bancroft Way, Suite A, Berkeley, California 94710, USA [2] Manus Biosynthesis Inc., 790 Memorial Drive, Suite 102, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 (C.N.S.S.); Calysta Energy, 1140 O'Brien Drive, Menlo Park, California 94025 (D.D.R.); Sutro Biopharma lnc., 310 Utah Avenue, Suite 150, South San Francisco, California 94080, USA (A.G.); Total New Energies USA, 5858 Horton Street, Emeryville, California 94560 (S.A.T.; V.R.)
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- Bio Architecture Lab Inc., 604 Bancroft Way, Suite A, Berkeley, California 94710, USA
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- Bio Architecture Lab Inc., 604 Bancroft Way, Suite A, Berkeley, California 94710, USA
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- Bio Architecture Lab Inc., 604 Bancroft Way, Suite A, Berkeley, California 94710, USA
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- Bio Architecture Lab Inc., 604 Bancroft Way, Suite A, Berkeley, California 94710, USA
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- 1] Bio Architecture Lab Inc., 604 Bancroft Way, Suite A, Berkeley, California 94710, USA [2] Manus Biosynthesis Inc., 790 Memorial Drive, Suite 102, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 (C.N.S.S.); Calysta Energy, 1140 O'Brien Drive, Menlo Park, California 94025 (D.D.R.); Sutro Biopharma lnc., 310 Utah Avenue, Suite 150, South San Francisco, California 94080, USA (A.G.); Total New Energies USA, 5858 Horton Street, Emeryville, California 94560 (S.A.T.; V.R.)
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- Bio Architecture Lab Inc., 604 Bancroft Way, Suite A, Berkeley, California 94710, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, 2527 Engineering Building, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1226, USA
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- Bio Architecture Lab Inc., 604 Bancroft Way, Suite A, Berkeley, California 94710, USA
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- Bio Architecture Lab Inc., 604 Bancroft Way, Suite A, Berkeley, California 94710, USA
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- Bio Architecture Lab Inc., 604 Bancroft Way, Suite A, Berkeley, California 94710, USA
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- Bio Architecture Lab Inc., 604 Bancroft Way, Suite A, Berkeley, California 94710, USA
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- Bio Architecture Lab Inc., 604 Bancroft Way, Suite A, Berkeley, California 94710, USA
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- Bio Architecture Lab Inc., 604 Bancroft Way, Suite A, Berkeley, California 94710, USA
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- Bio Architecture Lab Inc., 604 Bancroft Way, Suite A, Berkeley, California 94710, USA
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- Bio Architecture Lab Inc., 604 Bancroft Way, Suite A, Berkeley, California 94710, USA
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- Bio Architecture Lab Inc., 604 Bancroft Way, Suite A, Berkeley, California 94710, USA
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- Bio Architecture Lab Inc., 604 Bancroft Way, Suite A, Berkeley, California 94710, USA
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- 1] Bio Architecture Lab Inc., 604 Bancroft Way, Suite A, Berkeley, California 94710, USA [2] Manus Biosynthesis Inc., 790 Memorial Drive, Suite 102, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 (C.N.S.S.); Calysta Energy, 1140 O'Brien Drive, Menlo Park, California 94025 (D.D.R.); Sutro Biopharma lnc., 310 Utah Avenue, Suite 150, South San Francisco, California 94080, USA (A.G.); Total New Energies USA, 5858 Horton Street, Emeryville, California 94560 (S.A.T.; V.R.)
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- 1] Bio Architecture Lab Inc., 604 Bancroft Way, Suite A, Berkeley, California 94710, USA [2] Manus Biosynthesis Inc., 790 Memorial Drive, Suite 102, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 (C.N.S.S.); Calysta Energy, 1140 O'Brien Drive, Menlo Park, California 94025 (D.D.R.); Sutro Biopharma lnc., 310 Utah Avenue, Suite 150, South San Francisco, California 94080, USA (A.G.); Total New Energies USA, 5858 Horton Street, Emeryville, California 94560 (S.A.T.; V.R.)
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- Bio Architecture Lab Inc., 604 Bancroft Way, Suite A, Berkeley, California 94710, USA
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- Bio Architecture Lab Inc., 604 Bancroft Way, Suite A, Berkeley, California 94710, USA
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- 1] Bio Architecture Lab Inc., 604 Bancroft Way, Suite A, Berkeley, California 94710, USA [2] Manus Biosynthesis Inc., 790 Memorial Drive, Suite 102, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 (C.N.S.S.); Calysta Energy, 1140 O'Brien Drive, Menlo Park, California 94025 (D.D.R.); Sutro Biopharma lnc., 310 Utah Avenue, Suite 150, South San Francisco, California 94080, USA (A.G.); Total New Energies USA, 5858 Horton Street, Emeryville, California 94560 (S.A.T.; V.R.)
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- Statoil ASA, Statoil Research Centre, Arkitekt Ebbells vei 10, Rotvoll, 7005 Trondheim, Norway
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- Bio Architecture Lab Inc., 604 Bancroft Way, Suite A, Berkeley, California 94710, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, 2527 Engineering Building, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1226, USA
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- Bio Architecture Lab Inc., 604 Bancroft Way, Suite A, Berkeley, California 94710, USA
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- Bio Architecture Lab Inc., 604 Bancroft Way, Suite A, Berkeley, California 94710, USA
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- 1] Bio Architecture Lab Inc., 604 Bancroft Way, Suite A, Berkeley, California 94710, USA [2] BALChile S.A., Badajoz 100, Oficina 1404, Las Condes, Santiago 7550000, Chile [3] BAL Biofuels S.A., Badajoz 100, Oficina 1404, Las Condes, Santiago 7550000, Chile
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Kim EJ, Fathoni A, Jeong GT, Jeong HD, Nam TJ, Kong IS, Kim JK. Microbacterium oxydans, a novel alginate- and laminarin-degrading bacterium for the reutilization of brown-seaweed waste. J Environ Manage 2013; 130:153-159. [PMID: 24076515 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2013.08.064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2013] [Revised: 08/25/2013] [Accepted: 08/31/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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There is a growing demand for the efficient treatment of seaweed waste. We identified six bacterial strains from the marine environment for the reutilization of brown-seaweed waste, and the most potentially useful strain, Microbacterium oxydans, was chosen and further investigated. Plate assays indicated that this bacterial isolate possessed both alginate lyase and laminarinase activities. The optimal inoculum size, pH, temperature and substrate concentration for the degradation of brown-seaweed polysaccharides by the isolate were as follows: 20% (v v(-1)), pH 6.0, 37 °C, and 5 g L(-1) for alginate and 20% (v v(-1)), pH 6.0, 30 °C, and 10 g L(-1) for laminarin, respectively. During 6 d in culture under the optimal conditions, the isolate produced 0.17 g L(-1) of reducing sugars from alginate with 11.0 U mL(-1) of maximal alginate lyase activity, and 5.11 and 2.88 g L(-1) of reducing sugars and glucose from laminarin, respectively. In particular, a fair amount of laminarin was degraded to glucose (28.8%) due to the isolate's exolytic laminarinase activity. As a result, the reutilization of brown-seaweed waste by this isolate appears to be possible for the production of reducing sugars as a valuable resource. This is the first study to directly demonstrate the ability of M. oxydans to degrade both alginate and laminarin.
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- Eun Jung Kim
- Department of Biotechnology, Pukyong National University, Busan 608-737, Republic of Korea
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Pham HD, Seon J, Lee SC, Song M, Woo HC. Maximization of volatile fatty acids production from alginate in acidogenesis. Bioresour Technol 2013; 148:601-604. [PMID: 24080441 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2013.08.128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2013] [Revised: 08/20/2013] [Accepted: 08/21/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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In this study, the response surface methodology (RSM) was applied to determine the optimum fermentative condition of alginate with the respect to the simultaneous effects of alginate concentration and initial pH to maximize the production of total volatile fatty acids (TVFAs) and alcohols. The results showed that the alginate fermentation was significantly affected by initial pH than by alginate concentration and there was no interaction between the two variables. The optimum condition was 6.2g alginate/L and initial pH 7.6 with a maximum TVFAs yield of 37.1%. Acetic acids were the main constituents of the TVFAs mixtures (i.e., 71.9-95.5%), while alcohols (i.e., ethanol, butanol, and propanol) were not detected.
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- Hong Duc Pham
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Pukyong National University, 365 Sinseon-ro, Nam-gu, Busan 608-739, Republic of Korea
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Bazzi W, Sabra A, Zahreddine L, Khairallah MT, Baroud M, Hadi U, Matar GM. The inhibitory effect of micafungin on biofilm formation by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Biofouling 2013; 29:909-915. [PMID: 23879871 DOI: 10.1080/08927014.2013.816299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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This study assesses the potential effect of micafungin, an antifungal agent known to inhibit 1,3-β-D-glucan synthesis in Candida albicans, on biofilm formation of selected Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates by decreasing the synthesis of extracellular matrix β-D-glucan forming units. The effect of an optimal therapeutic dose of 10 mg ml(-1) micafungin on the production of biofilm was monitored in vitro using a microtiter plate assay. Phenotypic reduction in the formation of biofilm was significant (based on average optical density; p < 0.05) in most of the isolates. Moreover, the relative gene expression of biofilm encoding genes for alginate and pellicles (algC and pelC, respectively), and the cell wall 1,3-β-D-glucan encoding gene (ndvB) was evaluated using quantitative reverse transcription PCR. For all the genes tested, the levels of mRNA transcription were also decreased significantly (p < 0.05) in micafungin-treated samples cf. their untreated counterparts. In conclusion, this study presents micafungin as a potential agent for disrupting the structure of a biofilm of P. aeruginosa allowing the possible exposure and treatment of core-planktonic cells.
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- Wael Bazzi
- Department of Experimental Pathology, Immunology and Microbiology, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
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Subhashini SS, Velan M, Kaliappan S. Biosorption of lead by Kluyveromyces marxianus immobilized in alginate beads. J Environ Biol 2013; 34:831-835. [PMID: 24558794] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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The uptake and recovery of Pb (II) ions were investigated by using sodium alginate beads. Biosorption experiments are carried out in batch mode. The experimental results showed that the beads were effective in removing Pb (II) ions from solution. Biosorption equilibrium was approached within 16hrs. Pseudo first order was applicable to all the sorption data over the entire time range. The sorption data conformed well for the Langmuir isotherm model. The maximum adsorption capacity (qmax) onto alginate beads was 62.5 mg g-1 for Pb (II) ions. The maximum uptake of metal ions was obtained at pH 7. At temperature 35 degreeC, the biosorption of metal ions was found to be highest, with increase or decrease in temperature resulted in a decrease in the metal ions uptake capacity. The maximum removal efficiency of 94.02% was obtained at 100 mg I' of metal concentration with 200 numbers of immobilized beads. The results suggested that alginate beads can be used as a biosorbent for an efficient removal of Pb (II) ions from aqueous solution.
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- S Sai Subhashini
- Department of Civil Engineering, College ofEngineering, Anna University, Chennai -600 025, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Anna University, Chennai -600 025, India
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- Department of Civil Engineering, Ponjesly College of Engineering, Anna University, Nagercoil-629 003, India
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Tielen P, Rosin N, Meyer AK, Dohnt K, Haddad I, Jänsch L, Klein J, Narten M, Pommerenke C, Scheer M, Schobert M, Schomburg D, Thielen B, Jahn D. Regulatory and metabolic networks for the adaptation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms to urinary tract-like conditions. PLoS One 2013; 8:e71845. [PMID: 23967252 PMCID: PMC3742457 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2012] [Accepted: 07/04/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Biofilms of the Gram-negative bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa are one of the major causes of complicated urinary tract infections with detrimental outcome. To develop novel therapeutic strategies the molecular adaption strategies of P. aeruginosa biofilms to the conditions of the urinary tract were investigated thoroughly at the systems level using transcriptome, proteome, metabolome and enzyme activity analyses. For this purpose biofilms were grown anaerobically in artificial urine medium (AUM). Obtained data were integrated bioinformatically into gene regulatory and metabolic networks. The dominating response at the transcriptome and proteome level was the adaptation to iron limitation via the broad Fur regulon including 19 sigma factors and up to 80 regulated target genes or operons. In agreement, reduction of the iron cofactor-dependent nitrate respiratory metabolism was detected. An adaptation of the central metabolism to lactate, citrate and amino acid as carbon sources with the induction of the glyoxylate bypass was observed, while other components of AUM like urea and creatinine were not used. Amino acid utilization pathways were found induced, while fatty acid biosynthesis was reduced. The high amounts of phosphate found in AUM explain the reduction of phosphate assimilation systems. Increased quorum sensing activity with the parallel reduction of chemotaxis and flagellum assembly underscored the importance of the biofilm life style. However, reduced formation of the extracellular polysaccharide alginate, typical for P. aeruginosa biofilms in lungs, indicated a different biofilm type for urinary tract infections. Furthermore, the obtained quorum sensing response results in an increased production of virulence factors like the extracellular lipase LipA and protease LasB and AprA explaining the harmful cause of these infections.
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- Petra Tielen
- Institute of Microbiology, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany.
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Bashari M, Wang P, Eibaid A, Tian Y, Xu X, Jin Z. Ultrasound-assisted dextranase entrapment onto Ca-alginate gel beads. Ultrason Sonochem 2013; 20:1008-1016. [PMID: 23332458 DOI: 10.1016/j.ultsonch.2012.11.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2012] [Revised: 11/21/2012] [Accepted: 11/28/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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In this research work, dextranase has immobilized onto calcium alginate beads using a novel ultrasound method. The process of immobilization of the enzyme was carried out in a one-step ultrasound process. Effects of ultrasound conditions on loading efficiency and immobilization yield of the enzyme onto calcium alginate beads were investigated. Furthermore, the activity of the free and immobilized enzymes prepared with and without ultrasound treatment, as a function of pH, temperature, recyclability and enzyme kinetic parameters, was compared. The maximum loading efficiency and the immobilization yield were observed when the immobilized dextranase was prepared with an ultrasonic irradiation at 25 kHz, 40 W for 15 min, under which the loading efficiency and the immobilization yield increased by 27.21% and 18.77%, respectively, compared with the immobilized enzymes prepared without ultrasonic irradiation. On the other hand, immobilized enzyme prepared with ultrasonic irradiation showed Vmax and KM value higher than that for the immobilized enzyme prepared without ultrasonic irradiation, likewise, both the catalytic and specificity constants of immobilized enzyme prepared with ultrasonic irradiation were higher than that for immobilized enzyme prepared without ultrasound, indicating that, this new ultrasonic method improved the catalytic kinetics activity of immobilized dextranase at all the reaction conditions studied. Compared with immobilized enzyme prepared without ultrasound treatment, the immobilized enzymes prepared with ultrasound irradiation exhibited: a higher pH optimum, optimal reaction temperature, activation energy, and thermal stability, as well as, a higher recyclability, which, illustrating the effectiveness of the sonochemical method. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report on the effect of ultrasound treatments on the immobilization of dextranase.
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- Mohanad Bashari
- The State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, 1800 Lihu Road, Wuxi 214122, China.
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Paul A, Shum-Tim D, Prakash S. Angiogenic nanodelivery systems for myocardial therapy. Methods Mol Biol 2013; 1036:137-49. [PMID: 23807793 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-511-8_12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/20/2023]
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Despite outstanding progress in the area of cardiovascular diseases, significant challenges remain in designing efficient delivery systems for myocardial therapy. Nanotechnology provides the tools to explore such frontiers of biomedical science at cellular level and thus offers unique features for potential application in the field of cardiac therapy. This chapter focuses on the methodology, based on the work done in our lab, to prepare and investigate two kinds of biocompatible nanoparticles (NPs) that can be useful for sustained delivery of single or multiple angiogenic growth factors to damaged sites, such as in myocardially infarcted heart to promote myocardial angiogenesis and reduce scar area.
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- Arghya Paul
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Technology and Cell Therapy Research Laboratory, Artificial Cells and Organs Research Centre, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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Demir YK, Akan Z, Kerimoglu O. Sodium alginate microneedle arrays mediate the transdermal delivery of bovine serum albumin. PLoS One 2013; 8:e63819. [PMID: 23675508 PMCID: PMC3651096 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063819] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2012] [Accepted: 04/08/2013] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Background The “poke and release” strategy for the delivery of macromolecules using polymeric microneedle (MN) is of great importance because it eliminates microneedle reuse, the risks of biohazardous sharps and cross contamination, and it requires no special disposal mechanism. The main objective of this study was the determination of the stability and delivery of bovine serum albumin (BSA) that was transported across human skin via sodium alginate (SA) microneedle arrays (MNs) and SA needle free patches using two different analytical methods. Methodology and Findings The capability of two analytical methods, the bicinchoninic acid (BCA) assay and sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE), to precisely detect and quantify BSA within different types of polymeric MNs was assessed. The ex vivo protein release of BSA across dermatomed human abdominal skin from 10 w/w SA MNs was compared to that from needle-free patches using Franz diffusion cells. The developed applicator was mechanically characterized using a Texture Analyzer. The patch mold and its components were fabricated using a rapid prototyping machine. Conclusions/Significance The BCA method was able to precisely detect BSA that had been loaded into SA MNs. However, the use of SDS-PAGE as the analytical method resulted in significantly different amounts of BSA recovered from differently conditioned polymeric MNs. The permeation of BSA across dermatomed human abdominal skin by SA MNs, which were composed of 100 pyramidal needles, increased by approximately 15.4 fold compared to the permeation obtained with SA needle-free patches. The ease of use of the applicator during the release studies was also demonstrated, as was its mechanical characterization.
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- Yusuf K Demir
- Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Marmara University Faculty of Pharmacy, Istanbul, Turkey.
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Oviya M, Sukumaran V, Giri SS. Immobilization and characterization of carbonic anhydrase purified from E. coli MO1 and its influence on CO₂ sequestration. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 2013; 29:1813-20. [PMID: 23546830 DOI: 10.1007/s11274-013-1343-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2012] [Accepted: 03/28/2013] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The present investigation entails the immobilisation and characterisation of Escherichia coli MO1-derived carbonic anhydrase (CA) and its influence on the transformation of CO₂ to CaCO₃. CA was purified from MO1 using a combination of Sephadex G-75 and DEAE cellulose column chromatography, resulting in 4.64-fold purification. The purified CA was immobilised in chitosan-alginate polyelectrolyte complex (C-A PEC) with an immobilisation potential of 94.5 %. Both the immobilised and free forms of the enzyme were most active and stable at pH 8.2 and at 37 °C. The K(m) and V(max) of the immobilised enzyme were found to be 19.12 mM and 416.66 μmol min⁻¹ mg⁻¹, respectively; whereas, the K(m) and V(max) of free enzyme were 18.26 mM and 434.78 μmol min⁻¹ mg⁻¹, respectively. The presence of metal ions such as Cu²⁺, Fe²⁺, and Mg²⁺ stimulated the enzyme activity. Immobilised CA showed higher storage stability and maintained its catalytic efficiency after repeated operational cycles. Furthermore, both forms of the enzyme were tested for targeted application of the carbonation reaction to convert CO₂ to CaCO₃. The amounts of CaCO₃ precipitated over free and immobilised CA were 267 and 253 mg/mg of enzyme, respectively. The results of this study show that immobilised CA in chitosan-alginate beads can be useful for CO₂ sequestration by the biomimetic route.
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- M Oviya
- Department of Biotechnology, Periyar Maniammai University, Thanjavur, 613403, Tamil Nadu, India
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Zhao J, Fei J, Gao L, Cui W, Yang Y, Wang A, Li J. Bioluminescent microcapsules: applications in activating a photosensitizer. Chemistry 2013; 19:4548-55. [PMID: 23436585 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201203922] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2012] [Revised: 01/04/2013] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Bioluminescent microcapsules uploading D-luciferin have been fabricated by using the covalent assembly of firefly luciferase and alginate dialdehyde through a layer-by-layer technique. Such assembled microcapsules can produce visible light in the region of 520-680 nm, which can activate the photosensitizers rose bengal (RB) and hypocrellin B (HB) after adding ATP. The microcapsules uploading photosensitizers (RB or HB) have an obvious property to prevent the proliferation of tumor cells in the dark. The assembled bioluminescent microcapsules can be potentially used as photon donors for bioimaging, ATP detection, and photodynamic therapy.
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- Jie Zhao
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Lab of Colloid and Interface Science, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, PR China
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