bacillus sp. sbs25, a gram positive bacteria isolated from soil was found to be effectivein the biodegradation of natural rubber latex. the products of latex biodegradation were separated from the ether extract by thin layer chromatography. gas chromatography and mass spectrometry showed the biodegradation of the major compound into three simpler fractions with low molecular weights. this was f...

Deccan plateau in India periodically experiences droughts due to irregular rain fall and the soil in many parts of the region is considered to be poor for farming. Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria are originally defined as root-colonizing bacteria, i.e., Bacillus that cause either plant growth promotion or biological control of plant diseases. The study aims at the isolation of novel Bacill...

Three novel bacterial strains, PVAS-1(T), B3W22(T) and B8W22(T), were isolated from cryotubes used to collect air samples at altitudes of between 27 and 41 km. Based on phenotypic characteristics, chemotaxonomic features, DNA-DNA hybridization with the nearest phylogenetic neighbours and phylogenetic analysis based on partial 16S rRNA gene sequences (PVAS-1(T), 1196 nt; B3W22(T), 1541 nt; B8W22...

Mastitis in dairy herds can usually be brought under control by following the basic Program of the National Mastitis Council. Two points of this Program involve the use of antibiotics, one to treat clinical mastitis and the other to treat cows at the beginning of the nonlactating period. Antibiotic therapy, without identifying the mastitis causing organisms, is frequently the veterinarian and d...

Enrichment technique was employed for the isolation of the crude oil degrading bacteria. The isolated bacteria were screened for their degradative ability and the best degrading bacteria were selected based on their growth. Specific activities of Catechol-2,3-dioxygenase and effects of temperature and pH and their stabilities on the enzyme relative activities were observed. Bacteria isolated fr...

The aim of this study was to report the genome sequence of the cellulolytic Bacillus sp. strain CMAA 1185, isolated from Stain House Lake, Antarctica.

Bacillus sp., Leuconostoc mesenteroides, Vagococcus sp., and Pediococcus sp. were isolated from fermented vegetables. All the four isolates produced bacteriocin and they have showed antibacterial activity against E. coli, B. subtilis and K. pneumoniae. Bacteriocin was stable at various temperature and pH. But it was sensitive to enzymes such as α amylase, lipase and pepsin and also affected by ...

Bacillus subtilis and Lactococcus lactis are ideal hosts for the production of extracellular heterologous proteins of major commercial importance. A recombinant gene for the novel Ganoderma lucidium immunomodulatory protein LZ-8, recombinant LZ-8, was designed encoding the same amino acid sequence but using the preferred codons for both strains and was synthesized by overlapping extension PCR. ...

Lipohexin was isolated as a novel lipohexapeptide (I) (C39H68N6O9) from three fungal strains, Moeszia lindtneri HKI-0054, Paecilomyces sp. HKI-0055 and Paecilomyces sp. HKI-0096. The structure was elucidated by detailed mass spectrometric and NMR experiments. The proline-containing peptide displays moderate antibacterial activity against Bacillus subtilis ATCC 6633 and inhibits competitively th...

background and objectives: thermophilic bacteria are less studied but important group of microorganisms due to their ability to produce industrial enzymes. materials and methods: in this study, thermophilic bacteria were isolated from hot spring of tarabalo, india. a bacterium that could tolerate high temperatures was characterized by morphology, biochemistry and sequencing of its 16s rrna gene...