The aim of this work was to assess the possibility of using native bacterial nanocellulose (BC) as a carrier for laccase immobilization. BC was synthesized by Gluconacetobacter xylinus, which was statically cultivated in a mannitol-based medium and was freeze-dried to form BC sponge after purification. For the first time, fungal laccase from Trametes versicolor was immobilized on the native nan...

The mechanism of the increased cell growth and cellulose production of Acetobacter xylinum subsp. sucrofermentans BPR3001E, a sulfaguanidine (SG)-resistant mutant, was investigated. We found that adding p-aminobenzoic acid (PABA) to cultures of the parent strain, BPR2001, led to increased levels of intracellular adenosine-related purine compounds and increased cellulose production. Furthermore,...

The action of cellulosomes from Clostridium thermocellum on model cellulose microfibrils from Acetobacter xylinum and cellulose microcrystals from Valonia ventricosa was investigated. The biodegradation of these substrates was followed by transmission electron microscopy, Fourier-transform IR spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction analysis, as a function of the extent of degradation. The cellulosom...

Bacterial cellulose (BC) has a range of structural and physicochemical properties that make it a particularly useful material for the culture of bacteria. We studied the growth of 14 genera of bacteria on BC substrates produced by Acetobacter xylinum and compared the results to growth on the commercially available biopolymers agar, gellan, and xanthan. We demonstrate that BC produces rates of b...

It has previously been shown that cell-free extracts of Acetobacter subozydans possess two pathways for the oxidation of sorbitol (1). In the presence of DPN,l fructose is produced; with TPN, sorbose is formed. The primary purpose of this paper is to describe the separation of these two dehydrogenases from each other. The DPN enzyme free from TPN activity has been concentrated about lBfold, whe...

Microbial terminal oxidases are usually associated with particulate fractions in the cell. These fractions, however, are difficult to resolve into smaller active molecules that are suitable for enzymatic studies in vitro. This fact led Rittenberg (1) to propose that these particles are surrounded by a special membrane. The present paper will report a method of “solubilization”’ of particulate o...

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g-frames in hilbert spaces are a redundant set of operators which yield a repre-sentation for each vector in the space. in this paper we investigate the connection betweeng-frames, g-orthonormal bases and g-riesz bases. we show that a family of bounded opera-tors is a g-bessel sequences if and only if the gram matrix associated to its denes a boundedoperator.