Several bacterial cultures were isolated from sponge Halichondria sp., collected from the Gujarat coast of the Indo Pacific region. These bacterial cultures were fermented in the laboratory (100 mL) and the culture filtrate was assayed for antibiotic activity against 16 strains of clinical pathogens. Bacillus sp. (SAB1), the most potent of them and antagonistic to several clinically pathogenic ...

A new ketoreductase useful for asymmetric synthesis of chiral alcohols was identified in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7942. Mass spectrometry of trypsin-digested peptides identified the protein as 3-ketoacyl-[acyl-carrier-protein] reductase (KR) (EC 1.1.1.100). The gene, referred to as fabG, was cloned, functionally expressed in Escherichia coli, and subsequently purified to ...

In this research, antagonistic activity of two Bacillus species isolated from digestive tract of marine fish and culture pond of sea cucumber was studied. The inhibitory activity of Bacillus spp. isolates against some common pathogenic bacteria of fish was assessed using the agar diffusion method. The strain of B. subtilis G024 exhibited antimicrobial activity against Vibrio anguillarum, V. har...

We report a case of a brain abscess due to Bacillus macerans and Clostridium sp. following a penetrating periorbital injury by a wooden branch. Intracranial penetration by and retention of a foreign body were not suspected initially, and neurological symptoms developed only 2.5 months later. Previously reported cases of brain abscesses due to Bacillus species are reviewed.

1.1 [BS02c]. 10 [Loc03]. 10-Gigabit [cFJH03]. 101 [Dav01b]. 10th [IEE01b]. 11th [ACK00, IEE01b]. 12 [Ame00, BMR01, Cra00, SNB00]. 14th [FHM00]. 1st [IEE01e]. 2 [FM05, FK04]. 2.0 [MD02, Ten05]. 2000 [AD01, Cal00, Dre00, IEE01a, Kam00, Kro00, LL01, New01a, NB00, Tre01, Wil02b]. 2001 [BU01, IEE01b, Pal01, Sta01b, Sta01c]. 2002 [B02, IEE02b, IEE02a]. 2003 [ACM03, FLA03, Mos05]. 2004 [ACM04]. 21st [...

BACKGROUND Cyclodextrin glucanotransferases (CGTases) catalyze the synthesis of cyclodextrins, cyclic oligosaccharides composed of glucose monomers that find applications in the pharmaceutical, food, and cosmetic industries. An economic application of these industrially important enzymes requires their efficient production and recovery. In this study, the effect of Sec-type signal peptides on t...

A strain of bacterium producing antifungal antibiotic was isolated and identification of the strain was attempted. We could identify the bacterium as being a Bacillus sp., based on morphological observation, physiological characteristics, and 16S rDNA sequence analysis, thus leading us to designate the strain as Bacillus sp. AH-E-1. The strain showed potent antibiotic activity against phytopath...

The aim of this work was to study the effect of some nutritional and environmental factors on the production of cellulases, in particular endoglucanase (CMCase) and exoglucanases (FPase) from Bacillus licheniformis MVS1 and Bacillus sp. MVS3 isolated from an Indian hot spring. The characterization study indicated that the optimum pH and temperature value was 6.5 to 7.0 and 50-55C, respectively....

A-NETL [BYIO00]. Access [CPC00, HJM00]. Ad [ITT02, JVZ01]. Adaptation [JWP02]. Adapting [Key99]. Adaptive [BH99, KM02, KN02, Sch02, SM02a]. Aggressive [Agr99]. Air [GZ99]. algebra [Bar02]. Algorithm [CD00, HD02, ITT02, KSR02, BRPM98]. Algorithms [BF98, DFKL02, GZ99, GN98, GMMV00, PU02, Son00, TTKG02, Tro02, Bar02]. Analog [Akl02]. Analyser [MV00]. Analysis [ABD00, BGG02, HJHK02, HNW02, Kot00, W...