Lubov V. Slepchenko, Irina Y. Bakunina, Vladimir V. Isakov, Stanislav D. Anastyuk, Galina N. Likhatskaya, Larissa A. Balabanova, Vasiliy A. Golotin, Valery A. Rasskazov
{"title":"Comparative Studies and Analysis of Transglycosylation Products of a Recombinant α-Galactosidase from the Marine Bacterium Pseudoalteromonas KMM 701 and its Mutants D450G and С493N","authors":"Lubov V. Slepchenko, Irina Y. Bakunina, Vladimir V. Isakov, Stanislav D. Anastyuk, Galina N. Likhatskaya, Larissa A. Balabanova, Vasiliy A. Golotin, Valery A. Rasskazov","doi":"10.1016/j.als.2016.12.048","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.als.2016.12.048","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100012,"journal":{"name":"Achievements in the Life Sciences","volume":"10 ","pages":"Page S49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.als.2016.12.048","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85625581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Sigida, A. Shashkov, Y. P. Fedonenko, E. Zdorovenko, V. Ignatov, Y. Knirel
{"title":"AbstractsStructure of the O-specific polysaccharide of the bacteria Pseudomonas putida TSh-18","authors":"E. Sigida, A. Shashkov, Y. P. Fedonenko, E. Zdorovenko, V. Ignatov, Y. Knirel","doi":"10.1016/J.ALS.2016.12.045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/J.ALS.2016.12.045","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100012,"journal":{"name":"Achievements in the Life Sciences","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81974449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Natalia V. Potekhina , Alexander S. Shashkov , Sof'ya Senchenkova , Natalia V. Prisyazhnaya , Lyudmila I. Evtushenko
{"title":"Heterogeneity of Glycopolymers of the Cell Walls of Actinobacteria of the Polyphyletic Genus Arthrobacter","authors":"Natalia V. Potekhina , Alexander S. Shashkov , Sof'ya Senchenkova , Natalia V. Prisyazhnaya , Lyudmila I. Evtushenko","doi":"10.1016/j.als.2016.12.038","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.als.2016.12.038","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100012,"journal":{"name":"Achievements in the Life Sciences","volume":"10 ","pages":"Page S39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.als.2016.12.038","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90755624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yulia A. Noskova , Larissa A. Balabanova , Lubov A. Slepchenko , Vasiliy A. Golotin , Valery A. Rasskazov
{"title":"Dispersion of extracellular polysaccharide matrix by nucleolytic enzymes from the marine bacterium Cobetia amphilecti KMM 296","authors":"Yulia A. Noskova , Larissa A. Balabanova , Lubov A. Slepchenko , Vasiliy A. Golotin , Valery A. Rasskazov","doi":"10.1016/j.als.2016.12.031","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.als.2016.12.031","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100012,"journal":{"name":"Achievements in the Life Sciences","volume":"10 ","pages":"Page S32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.als.2016.12.031","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89205623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Cytokine-Stimulating Activity of Lectin from the Mussel Mytilus Trossulus","authors":"Alina P. Filshtein , Irina V. Chikalovets","doi":"10.1016/j.als.2016.12.012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.als.2016.12.012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100012,"journal":{"name":"Achievements in the Life Sciences","volume":"10 ","pages":"Page S12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.als.2016.12.012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86404730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vladimir N. Bocharnikov , Yuriy N. Gluschenko , Dmitriy V. Korobov , Irina N. Korobova
{"title":"Materials for the Study of the Spring Migration of Waterfowl (Anseriformes, Aves) on the Lake Khanka","authors":"Vladimir N. Bocharnikov , Yuriy N. Gluschenko , Dmitriy V. Korobov , Irina N. Korobova","doi":"10.1016/j.als.2015.11.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.als.2015.11.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The results of 11<!--> <!-->years (2003–2013) monitoring activities, including estimation of number and gender structure of waterfowl on the Lake Khanka, are presented. The accounting work (50<!--> <!-->days) took place in the first decade of April, in the period of mass spring migration of migratory birds. About 682,270 birds are registered. The comparison of the species composition and the ratio of the major groups of waterfowl of the two periods — 2003–2009 and 2010–2013 are given. The most minority group of migratory birds is <em>Cygnus</em> — less than 0.1% of all registered birds. More than 10,000 specimens of geese were accounted (17.7% of registered birds). The maximum number of birds was registered in 2008, the minimum number was registered in 2011. In all years of monitoring the part of <em>Anas formosa</em> was the largest among migratory birds — from 42 to 80% of all registered birds. The <em>Anser albifrons</em> dominates among all Ansers — about 50–80% of all identified species of Ansers. For the first time of all years of the ornithological investigations of the Prikhankayskaya lowland the gender structure of Anas was identified by visual estimates and photo data. The sample was 28.9 thousand birds. The average proportion of males for all years (2003–2013) was 58.9%, the maximum was recorded for <em>Authya ferina</em> (70.2%) and <em>Authya foligula</em> (70.3%).</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100012,"journal":{"name":"Achievements in the Life Sciences","volume":"9 2","pages":"Pages 87-94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.als.2015.11.002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83288947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assessment of Organochlorine Pesticide Residues in Water, Sediments and Fish from Lake Tashk, Iran","authors":"Farshid Kafilzadeh","doi":"10.1016/j.als.2015.12.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.als.2015.12.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this study, the levels of organochlorine (OC) pesticide residues in Lake Tashk have been investigated using water, sediment and fish (carp) samples as a case study to find out the extent of pesticide contamination and accumulation in the lake. Six OC pesticides namely DDT, DDE, lindane, endosulfan, heptachlor and chlordane were analyzed in four sites at four seasons. Water samples were processed using a liquid–liquid extraction technique and gas chromatograph equipped with electron capture detector (GC-ECD). Soxhlet extraction was used for fish and sediment samples followed by clean up and gas chromatograph. DDE was the predominant residue in all the samples analyzed, at the mean concentrations of 0.075<!--> <!-->ppb, 8.750<!--> <!-->ppb and 4.446<!--> <!-->ppb in water, sediment and fish samples, respectively. The lowest levels of OC pesticides were related to heptachlor and chlordane which none of them were found in water samples. Gonban and Midstream sites had the highest and the lowest concentrations of OC pesticides, respectively.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100012,"journal":{"name":"Achievements in the Life Sciences","volume":"9 2","pages":"Pages 107-111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.als.2015.12.003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87454595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vitaliy A. Zaitsev , Ivan V. Seryodkin , Dariya A. Maksimova , Svetlana V. Soutyrina
{"title":"Study of the Musk Deer Population Structure in Sikhote-Alin Reserve","authors":"Vitaliy A. Zaitsev , Ivan V. Seryodkin , Dariya A. Maksimova , Svetlana V. Soutyrina","doi":"10.1016/j.als.2015.11.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.als.2015.11.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Research on population structure and behavior of musk deer has been conducted on defined areas within Sikhote-Alin Reserve (Russian Far East) since 1974 using a combination of techniques (snowtracking, visual observation, and radiotracking since 2012). We have acquired previously unknown data on the structure of the overall population and sub-groups, home range size, sex and age-related differences in habitat use, inheritance of home ranges and territories between generations, mechanisms regulating distribution of individuals and population structure. This knowledge is extremely valuable in understanding recent population declines of musk deer associated with habitat destruction, unregulated hunting and natural cycles in population size.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100012,"journal":{"name":"Achievements in the Life Sciences","volume":"9 2","pages":"Pages 83-86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.als.2015.11.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73800321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Artem S. Silchenko , Huynh Hoang Nhu Khanh , Cao Thi Thuy Hang , Valeriya V. Kurilenko , Alexander M. Zakharenko , Anastasiya O. Zueva , Bui Minh Ly , Mikhail I. Kusaykin
{"title":"A Simple Plate Method for the Screening and Detection of Fucoidanases","authors":"Artem S. Silchenko , Huynh Hoang Nhu Khanh , Cao Thi Thuy Hang , Valeriya V. Kurilenko , Alexander M. Zakharenko , Anastasiya O. Zueva , Bui Minh Ly , Mikhail I. Kusaykin","doi":"10.1016/j.als.2015.12.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.als.2015.12.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A novel method was developed for the screening and detection of fucoidanase activity in bacterial colonies using fucoidan–agarose plates and staining with hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide (Cetavlon). Colonies with fucoidanase activity were indicated by a transparent halo. The medium containing undegraded fucoidan showed as a milk-colored background, but areas with degraded fucoidan under the colonies were visualized as a transparent halo.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100012,"journal":{"name":"Achievements in the Life Sciences","volume":"9 2","pages":"Pages 104-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.als.2015.12.002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89729286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rare Earth Elements: Review of Medical and Biological Properties and Their Abundance in the Rock Materials and Mineralized Spring Waters in the Context of Animal and Human Geophagia Reasons Evaluation","authors":"A.M. Panichev","doi":"10.1016/j.als.2015.12.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.als.2015.12.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>New data on the abundance of rare earth elements (REE) and their biological properties, which appeared in recent decades, force the researchers to reconsider the facts previously collected by different researchers related to the study of the geophagia phenomenon in animals and humans. From the standpoint of the new data it becomes apparent that one of the reasons for instinctively traditional form of geophagia, as well as for drinking water from mineralized sources by animals and a man with lengthy visits to the same places could be an instinctual drive of a specific organism to adjust in their bodies and tissues the concentration and ratio of the rare earth elements which are able to actively influence, either directly or indirectly (through the effects on metabolism of other chemical elements in the body) the biochemical and physiological processes that determine the quality of health. Since REE influence at the level of nerve tissue biochemistry, hormonal regulation of the body and even at the genetic level, it all can point to a higher order which they occupy in the hierarchy of elements in the composition of any organism. It seems that REE have reasons to claim to be the main causes of all instinctive forms of traditional geophagia and related consumption of mineralized water.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100012,"journal":{"name":"Achievements in the Life Sciences","volume":"9 2","pages":"Pages 95-103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.als.2015.12.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88823123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}