Molecular genetic analysis indicates that the problematic human bacterial pathogen methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus possesses more than 2000 open reading frames in its genome. This number of potential gene products, coupled with intrinsic mechanisms of posttranslational modification, endows methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus with a highly complex biochemical repertoire. Rece...

Molecular genetic analysis indicates that the problematic human bacterial pathogen methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus possesses more than 2000 open reading frames in its genome. This number of potential gene products, coupled with intrinsic mechanisms of posttranslational modification, endows methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus with a highly complex biochemical repertoire. Rece...

Recently, high-throughput screening (HTS) has become the mainstream technique for drug discovery. Compounds that are synthesized by combinatorial chemistry might be more suitable than natural products to apply to HTS, because the purification procedure is a drawback of using natural products. Nevertheless, natural products remain an extremely important source of drugs. To overcome the demerits ...

background: considering the toxic effects of heavy metals and microbial pathogens in industrial wastewaters, it is necessary to treat metal and microbial contaminated wastewater prior to disposal in the environment. the purpose of this study is to assess the removal of heavy metals pollution and microbial contamination from a mixture of municipal and industrial wastewater using membrane bioreac...

Epidemiological and experimental studies have led to the hypothesis that stimulation of the immune system by certain microbial products may prevent or treat allergic diseases (1–5). There are also bacterial products on the market which have been proposed for treatment of allergic diseases but their clinical efficacy is not well documented, however. The European Academy of Allergology and Clinic...

Disintegration of microbial cells is a necessary first step for the production of intracellular enzymes and organelIes. With increasing use o f intracellular microbial material in industry and medicine, the cell disruption unit operation is gaining in importance. This review examines the state of the art o f the largescale cell disruption technology and disruption methods o f potential commerci...