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The Potential of Bacilli-Derived Biosurfactants as an Additive for Biocontrol against Alternaria alternata Plant Pathogenic Fungi. Microorganisms 2023; 11:microorganisms11030707. [PMID: 36985279 PMCID: PMC10056989 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms11030707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2023] [Revised: 03/02/2023] [Accepted: 03/07/2023] [Indexed: 03/11/2023] Open
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Fungal diseases caused by Alternaria alternata constitute a significant threat to the production and quality of a wide range of crops, including beans, fruits, vegetables, and grains. Traditional methods for controlling these diseases involve synthetic chemical pesticides, which can negatively impact the environment and human health. Biosurfactants are natural, biodegradable secondary metabolites of microorganisms that have also been shown to possibly have antifungal activity against plant pathogenic fungi, including A. alternata being sustainable alternatives to synthetic pesticides. In this study, we investigated the potential of biosurfactants of three bacilli (Bacillus licheniformis DSM13, Bacillus subtilis DSM10, and Geobacillus stearothermophilus DSM2313) as a biocontrol agent against A. alternata on beans as a model organism. For this fermentation, we describe using an in-line biomass sensor monitoring both permittivity and conductivity, which are expected to correlate with cell concentration and products, respectively. After the fermentation of biosurfactants, we first characterised the properties of the biosurfactant, including their product yield, surface tension decrement capability, and emulsification index. Then, we evaluated the antifungal properties of the crude biosurfactant extracts against A. alternata, both in vitro and in vivo, by analysing various plant growth and health parameters. Our results showed that bacterial biosurfactants effectively inhibited the growth and reproduction of A. alternata in vitro and in vivo. B. licheniformis manufactured the highest amount of biosurfactant (1.37 g/L) and demonstrated the fastest growth rate, while G. stearothermophilus produced the least amount (1.28 g/L). The correlation study showed a strong positive relationship between viable cell density VCD and OD600, as well as a similarly good positive relationship between conductivity and pH. The poisoned food approach in vitro demonstrated that all three strains suppressed mycelial development by 70–80% when applied with the highest tested dosage of 30%. Regarding in vivo investigations, B. subtilis post-infection treatment decreased the disease severity to 30%, whereas B. licheniformis and G. stearothermophilus post-infection treatment reduced disease severity by 25% and 5%, respectively. The study also revealed that the plant’s total height, root length, and stem length were unaffected by the treatment or the infection.
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Soleiman Meiguni F, Imanparast S, Salimi F, Nemati F. The Probiotic Biosurfactant From Levilactobacillus brevis Strain F20 Isolated from a Diary Product with Potential Food Applications. FOOD BIOTECHNOL 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/08905436.2022.2127758] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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- Fatemeh Soleiman Meiguni
- Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Advanced Sciences and Technology, Tehran Medical Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Biotechnology, Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, School of Biology, Damghan University, Damghan, Iran
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- Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Advanced Sciences and Technology, Tehran Medical Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
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Nataraj BH, Ramesh C, Mallappa RH. Characterization of biosurfactants derived from probiotic lactic acid bacteria against methicillin-resistant and sensitive Staphylococcus aureus isolates. Lebensm Wiss Technol 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.lwt.2021.112195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Nataraj BH, Ramesh C, Mallappa RH. Functional group characterization of lactic bacterial biosurfactants and evaluation of antagonistic actions against clinical isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Lett Appl Microbiol 2021; 73:372-382. [PMID: 34133779 DOI: 10.1111/lam.13523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2020] [Revised: 05/11/2021] [Accepted: 05/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The present study investigated the antimicrobial and antibiofilm potential of biosurfactants derived from Lactobacillus fermentum Lf1, L. fermentum LbS4 and Lactobacillus plantarum A5 against clinical isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). The cell wall-bound and intracellular biosurfactants were extracted by solvent extraction method. Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy-based characterization of biosurfactants revealed the heterogeneous chemical composition involving proteins, fatty acids and carbohydrate moieties in LbS4 and A5, while only the sugar and lipid fractions in Lf1. Fatty acid profiling using Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry indicated hexadecanoic acid and stearic acid as the predominant fatty acids in the biosurfactants of all these strains. Biosurfactants demonstrated dose-dependent antibacterial action against MRSA isolates with the highest inhibition zone diameter (30·0 ± 0·0 to 35·0 ± 0·0 mm) recorded at 400 mg ml-1 . Biosurfactants showed an excellent staphylococcal antibiofilm activity by preventing the biofilm formation and disrupting the preformed biofilms. Visual inspection through scanning electron microscopy witnessed the biosurfactants-induced alteration in the cell membrane integrity and subsequent membrane pore formation on staphylococcal cells. Taken together, our findings emphasize the prospects of biomedical applications of biosurfactants as bactericidal and biofilm controlling agents to confront staphylococcal nosocomial infections.
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- B H Nataraj
- Molecular Biology Unit, Dairy Microbiology Division, ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana, India
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- Molecular Biology Unit, Dairy Microbiology Division, ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana, India
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- Molecular Biology Unit, Dairy Microbiology Division, ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana, India
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De Giani A, Zampolli J, Di Gennaro P. Recent Trends on Biosurfactants With Antimicrobial Activity Produced by Bacteria Associated With Human Health: Different Perspectives on Their Properties, Challenges, and Potential Applications. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:655150. [PMID: 33967992 PMCID: PMC8104271 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.655150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2021] [Accepted: 03/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The attention towards the bacteria associated with human health is growing more and more, above all regarding the bacteria that inhabit the niches offered by the human body, i.e., the gastrointestinal tract, skin, vaginal environment, and lungs. Among the secondary metabolites released by microorganisms associated with human health, little consideration is given to the biosurfactants, molecules with both hydrophobic and hydrophilic nature. Their role in the complex human environment is not only the mere biosurfactant function, but they could also control the microbiota through the quorum sensing system and the antimicrobial activity. These functions protect them and, accordingly, the human body principally from microbial and fungal pathogens. Consequently, nowadays, biosurfactants are emerging as promising bioactive molecules due to their very different structures, biological functions, low toxicity, higher biodegradability, and versatility. Therefore, this review provides a comprehensive perspective of biosurfactants with antimicrobial activity produced by bacteria associated with the human body and related to everything human beings are in contact with, e.g., food, beverages, and food-waste dumping sites. For the first time, the role of an "-omic" approach is highlighted to predict gene products for biosurfactant production, and an overview of the available gene sequences is reported. Besides, antimicrobial biosurfactants' features, challenges, and potential applications in the biomedical, food, and nutraceutical industries are discussed.
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- Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
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Ma M, Zheng L, Yin X, Gao W, Han B, Li Q, Zhu A, Chen H, Yang H. Reconstruction and evaluation of oil-degrading consortia isolated from sediments of hydrothermal vents in the South Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Sci Rep 2021; 11:1456. [PMID: 33446871 PMCID: PMC7809451 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-80991-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2020] [Accepted: 12/23/2020] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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In this study, sediments were collected from two different sites in the deep-sea hydrothermal region of the South Atlantic Ocean. Two microbial enrichment cultures (H7S and H11S), which were enriched from the sediments collected at two sample sites, could effectively degrade petroleum hydrocarbons. The bacterial diversity was analyzed by high-throughput sequencing method. The petroleum degradation ability were evaluated by gas chromatography–mass spectrometry and gravimetric analysis. We found that the dominant oil-degrading bacteria of enrichment cultures from the deep-sea hydrothermal area belonged to the genera Pseudomonas, Nitratireductor, Acinetobacter, and Brevundimonas. After a 14-day degradation experiment, the enrichment culture H11S, which was obtained near a hydrothermal vent, exhibited a higher degradation efficiency for alkanes (95%) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (88%) than the enrichment culture H7S. Interestingly, pristane and phytane as biomarkers were degraded up to 90% and 91% respectively by the enrichment culture H11S, and six culturable oil-degrading bacterial strains were isolated. Acinetobacter junii strain H11S-25, Nitratireductor sp. strain H11S-31 and Pseudomonas sp. strain H11S-28 were used at a density ratio of 95:4:1 to construct high-efficiency oil-degrading consortium H. After a three-day biodegradation experiment, consortium H showed high degradation efficiencies of 74.2% and 65.7% for total alkanes and PAHs, respectively. The degradation efficiency of biomarkers such as pristane and high-molecular-weight polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (such as CHR) reached 84.5% and 80.48%, respectively. The findings of this study indicate that the microorganisms in the deep-sea hydrothermal area are potential resources for degrading petroleum hydrocarbons. Consortium H, which was artificially constructed, showed a highly efficient oil-degrading capacity and has significant application prospects in oil pollution bioremediation.
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- Meng Ma
- College of Biological Science and Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350108, China.,Key Laboratory of Marine Eco-Environmental Science and Technology, First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Qingdao, 266061, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Eco-Environmental Science and Technology, First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Qingdao, 266061, China. .,Laboratory for Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (Qingdao), Qingdao, 266071, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Eco-Environmental Science and Technology, First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Qingdao, 266061, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Eco-Environmental Science and Technology, First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Qingdao, 266061, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Eco-Environmental Science and Technology, First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Qingdao, 266061, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Eco-Environmental Science and Technology, First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Qingdao, 266061, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Eco-Environmental Science and Technology, First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Qingdao, 266061, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Eco-Environmental Science and Technology, First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Qingdao, 266061, China
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- College of Biological Science and Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350108, China.
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Nataraj BH, Ali SA, Behare PV, Yadav H. Postbiotics-parabiotics: the new horizons in microbial biotherapy and functional foods. Microb Cell Fact 2020; 19:168. [PMID: 32819443 PMCID: PMC7441679 DOI: 10.1186/s12934-020-01426-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 226] [Impact Index Per Article: 56.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2020] [Accepted: 08/13/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Probiotics have several health benefits by modulating gut microbiome; however, techno-functional limitations such as viability controls have hampered their full potential applications in the food and pharmaceutical sectors. Therefore, the focus is gradually shifting from viable probiotic bacteria towards non-viable paraprobiotics and/or probiotics derived biomolecules, so-called postbiotics. Paraprobiotics and postbiotics are the emerging concepts in the functional foods field because they impart an array of health-promoting properties. Although, these terms are not well defined, however, for time being these terms have been defined as here. The postbiotics are the complex mixture of metabolic products secreted by probiotics in cell-free supernatants such as enzymes, secreted proteins, short chain fatty acids, vitamins, secreted biosurfactants, amino acids, peptides, organic acids, etc. While, the paraprobiotics are the inactivated microbial cells of probiotics (intact or ruptured containing cell components such as peptidoglycans, teichoic acids, surface proteins, etc.) or crude cell extracts (i.e. with complex chemical composition)". However, in many instances postbiotics have been used for whole category of postbiotics and parabiotics. These elicit several advantages over probiotics like; (i) availability in their pure form, (ii) ease in production and storage, (iii) availability of production process for industrial-scale-up, (iv) specific mechanism of action, (v) better accessibility of Microbes Associated Molecular Pattern (MAMP) during recognition and interaction with Pattern Recognition Receptors (PRR) and (vi) more likely to trigger only the targeted responses by specific ligand-receptor interactions. The current review comprehensively summarizes and discussed various methodologies implied to extract, purify, and identification of paraprobiotic and postbiotic compounds and their potential health benefits.
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- Basavaprabhu H Nataraj
- Technofunctional Starters Lab, National Collection of Dairy Cultures (NCDC), Dairy Microbiology Division, ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana, 132001, India
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- Proteomics and Cell Biology Lab, Animal Biotechnology Center, ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana, 132001, India
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- Technofunctional Starters Lab, National Collection of Dairy Cultures (NCDC), Dairy Microbiology Division, ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana, 132001, India.
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- Department of Internal Medicine-Molecular Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Biotech Place, Room 2E-034, 575 North Patterson Ave, Winston-Salem, NC, 27101, USA.
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