The ever-increasing global demand for energy and materials has a pronounced effect on worldwide economic stability, diplomacy, and technical advancement. In response, a recent key research area in biotechnology has centered on the biological conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to simple sugars. Lignocellulosic biomass, converted to fermentable sugars via enzymatic hydrolysis of cell wall poly...

Chansel, Dominique, Stanislas Czekalski, Sophie Vandermeersch, Emmanuel Ruffet, Marie-Claude FourniéZaluski, and Raymond Ardaillou. Characterization of angiotensin IV-degrading enzymes and receptors on rat mesangial cells. Am. J. Physiol. 275 (Renal Physiol. 44): F535– F542, 1998.—Because mesangial cells (MC) are a target and a degradation site for angiotensin II (ANG II), we characterized the ...

While many ecosystem processes depend on biodiversity, the relationships between agricultural plant diversity and soil carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) dynamics remains controversial. Our objective was to examine how temporal plant diversity (i.e. crop rotation) influences residue decomposition, a key ecosystem function that regulates nutrient cycling, greenhouse gas emissions, and soil organic matt...

The technology of mRNA-based differential display reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (DDRT-PCR) was used to detect a 246-bp differentially expressed fragment from the nematophagous fungus Arthrobotrys oviformis when young mycelia were induced with the round worm Haemonchus contortus. The fragment was converted into an expressed sequence tag (EST) through characterization at the mol...

Microbial degradation offers an efficient and ecofriendly approach to remove toxicants from the contaminated environments. Botryosphaeria laricina JAS6 and Aspergillus tamarii JAS9 were capable of degrading endosulfan and their metabolites which were isolated through enrichment technique. Both the strains were able to withstand an exposure of 1300 mg/L and showed luxuriant growth at 1000 mg/L o...

pectobacterium carotovorum is one of the most important bacterial pathogens of potato in the world.the expression of numerous genes including those involved in the production of virulence determinants in this bacterium are regulated by quorum sensing (qs). the signal molecules involved in qs in p. carotovorum belong to the group of n-acyl homoserine lactones (ahls). recently, several soil bacte...

Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are lipophilic, constant and bioaccumulative toxic compounds. In general, they considered resistant to biological, photolytic, chemical degradation with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) belonging these chemicals. PCBs were never produced in Serbia, but imported mainly used electrical equipment, transformers, capacitors. Our study aimed analyse sequential mul...

Abstract Ulva is one of the main green algae causing tide disasters. Ulvan primarily component polysaccharide cell wall and its complex structure monosaccharide composition resulted in various biological activities. However, high-value effective utilization extracted ulvan have been obstructed by limitations ranging from large molecular weight low solubility to poor bioavailability. oligosaccha...

In this study, among the 21 diesel-degrading bacteria that were isolated from an oil-polluted area in Fars (Iran), 6 bacterial strains were tested for their capability to metabolize and grow on diesel oil by degrading its hydrocarbons content. The biochemical characteristics and 16S rRNA sequence analysis of diesel-degrading bacteria showed that these strains were related to the genus Pseudomon...