Some derivatives of biphenyl-4-carboxylic acid 2-(aryl)-4-oxo-thiazolidin-3-yl –amide were synthesized and studied for their antimicrobial activity. These compounds were prepared from biphenyl-4-carboxylic-acid hydrazides. Biphenyl-4-carboxylic-acid hydrazides 1 on refluxing with aryl aldehydes in the presence of catalytic amount of glacial acetic acid furnish the biphenyl-4-carboxylic acid hyd...

In bacteria, RNA-binding proteins of the RsmA/CsrA family act as post-transcriptional regulators that modulate translation initiation at target transcripts. The Pseudomonas aeruginosa genome contains two phenazine biosynthetic (phz) gene clusters, phzA1-G1 (phz1) and phzA2-G2 (phz2), each of which is responsible for phenazine-1-carboxylic acid (PCA) biosynthesis. In the present study, we show t...

Study on microbial diversity in the unexplored rhizosphere is important to understand their community structure, biology and ecological interaction with the host plant. This research assessed the genetic and functional diversity of fluorescent pseudomonads [FP] in the green gram rhizophere. One hundred and twenty types of morphologically distinct fluorescent pseudomonads were isolated during ve...

The acidophilic bacterium Pseudomonas phenazinium (N.C.I.B. 11027), isolated from soil by virtue of its ability to grow on L-threonine as sole source of carbon and nitrogen (Bell et al., 1972), was observed to produce the water-insoluble purple pigment iodinin (phenazine-l,6-diol 5,lO-dioxide) during growth on L-threonine or glycine media (Bell & Turner, 1973). Evidence was obtained that iodini...

Abstract Coumarin and its nitrogen analogue 1-aza coumarin are a class of lactones lactams, respectively, which indispensable heterocyclic units to both chemists biochemists. 1-Aza derivatives, ultimately metabolize as the corresponding 8-hydroxy coumarins in biological system therefore found be very good anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer, analgesic agents. A series hybrid substituted azacoumarin-...

Microbial secondary metabolites represent a rich source of valuable compounds with a variety of applications in medicine or agriculture. Effective exploitation of this wealth of chemicals requires the functional expression of the respective biosynthetic genes in amenable heterologous hosts. We have previously established the TREX system which facilitates the transfer, integration and expression...

A mixture of cysteamine and glyoxylate, proposed by Hamilton et al. to form the physiological substrate of hog kidney D-amino acid oxidase (Hamilton, G. A., Buckthal, D. J., Mortensen, R. M., and Zerby, K. W. (1979) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 76, 2625-2629), was confirmed to act as a good substrate for the pure enzyme. As proposed by those workers, it was shown that the actual substrate is...

Nodulated soybean roots produced more ethylene and contained more 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid than uninoculated roots. Nodules produced more ethylene and contained more 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid per gram of material than roots. Almost all of the ethylene produced by the nodules was produced by the plant fractions of the nodules. Ethylene, at physiological concentrations, d...

Reaction of thionyl chloride with 7-chloro-1-cyclopropyl-6-fluoro-1,4-dihydro-4- oxoquinoline-3-carboxylic acid 1 gave acid chloride 2. Compound 2 was reacted with glycine and D-glutamic acid to afford 2-(7-chloro-1-cyclopropyl-6-fluoro-4-oxo-1,4- dihydroquinoline-3-carbonyl) aminopantandioicacid 3a and 2-(7-chloro-1-cyclopropyl-6- fluoro -4- oxo-1,4-dihydroquinoline-3-carbonyl)aminoacetica...

2-Aminobenzothiazole-6-carboxylic acid (1), on condensation with chloroacetyl chloride yielded 2-(2-chloroacetylamino)benzothiazole-6-carboxylic acid (2), which on amination with hydrazine hydrate yielded in turn 2-(2-hydrazinoacetylamino)benzo-thiazole-6-carboxylic acid (3). Compound 3, on condensation with various aromatic aldehydes afforded a series of 2-{2-[N'-(arylidene)hydrazino]acetylami...