{"title":"Isolation and Characterization of a Molybdenum-reducing and Methylene Blue-decolorizing Serratia marcescens strain KIK-1 in Soils from Nigeria","authors":"Ibrahim Kabiru Karamba, H. Yakasai","doi":"10.54987/bstr.v6i1.392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54987/bstr.v6i1.392","url":null,"abstract":"Bioremediation of toxic compound in polluted environment is currently considered as the most economical and ecofriendly approach, particularly at a lower concentration of the toxicant, where other physicochemical techniques are ineffective. In this work, molybdenum-reducing bacterium with the capacity to decolorize various azo and triphenyl methane dyes independent of molybdenum reduction was isolated from contaminated soil. The bacterium reduces molybdate to Mo-blue optimally at pH between 5.8 and 6.5, temperature, between 34 and 37 oC, molybdate concentration between 10 and 25 mM and phosphate concentration, 5.0 mM. Glucose was the best electron donor supporting molybdate reduction followed by sucrose, maltose, trehalose, d-mannose, glycerol, d-mannitol, d-sorbitol, myo-inositol, d-adonitol and salicin in descending order. The absorption spectrum of Mo-blue produced was similar to other previous Mo-reducing bacteria, and closely resembles a reduced phosphomolybdate. About 78.1, 63.4, 45.5 and 17.8% of the molybdenum reduction in this bacterium was inhibited by 2 ppm mercury (ii), silver (i), copper (ii) and chromium (vi), respectively. The biochemical analysis resulted in a tentative identification of the bacterium as Serratia marcescens strain KIK-1. The ability of this bacterium to detoxify molybdenum and decolorize azo dye makes this bacterium an important tool for bioremediation. \u0000 \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":436607,"journal":{"name":"Bioremediation Science and Technology Research","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132023131","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}
B. Gunasekaran, W. Johari, Helmi Wasoh, N. A. Masdor, M. Shukor
{"title":"Preliminary Screening of Plant Proteases as a Potential Source for the Development of an Inhibitive Assay for Heavy Metals","authors":"B. Gunasekaran, W. Johari, Helmi Wasoh, N. A. Masdor, M. Shukor","doi":"10.54987/bstr.v6i1.393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54987/bstr.v6i1.393","url":null,"abstract":"Heavy metals pollution has become a great threat to the world. Since instrumental methods are expensive and need skilled technician, a simple and fast method is needed to determine the presence of heavy metals in the environment. In this work, a preliminary study was carried out on the applicability of various local plants as a source of protease for the future development of the inhibitive enzyme assay for heavy-metals. The crude proteases preparation was assayed using casein as a substrate in conjunction with the Coomassie dye-binding assay. The crude protease from the kesinai plant was found to be the most potent plant protease. The crude enzyme exhibited broad temperature and pH ranges for activity and will be developed in the future as a potential inhibitive assay for heavy metals.","PeriodicalId":436607,"journal":{"name":"Bioremediation Science and Technology Research","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128231402","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}
Noris Kartika Sari Islahuddin, M. Halmi, M. Manogaran, M. Shukor
{"title":"Isolation and culture medium optimisation using one-factor-at-time and Response Surface Methodology on the biodegradation of the azo-dye amaranth","authors":"Noris Kartika Sari Islahuddin, M. Halmi, M. Manogaran, M. Shukor","doi":"10.54987/bstr.v5i2.360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54987/bstr.v5i2.360","url":null,"abstract":"Isolate JR1 was isolated from the polluted textile industry activities site in the Juru Penang area. This bacterium was characterized as a gram-positive Bacillus bacterium and also gave a positive biochemical test for catalase test and oxidase test. The isolate JR1 gave a maximum decolourization of Amaranth dye under static conditions with the rate of decolorization of 98.82%. Seven variables which are pH, temperature (°C), ammonium acetate (g/L), glucose (g/L), sodium chloride (g/L), yeast (g/L) and dye concentration (ppm) was run by using Plackett-Burman design for the effective parameter of the decolourization of Amaranth. From the seven variables, three effective variables which were ammonium acetate, glucose, and dye concentration were further optimized by using a central composite design. The optimum value of ammonium acetate concentration at 0.74 g/L, glucose concentration at 3.0 g/L and a dye concentration at 58.1 ppm gave the highest percentage of decolourization. Thus, this isolate could provide an alternate solution in removing toxic dyes from environments.","PeriodicalId":436607,"journal":{"name":"Bioremediation Science and Technology Research","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130885547","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}
Nur Muhamad Syahir Abdul Habib, W. Johari, M. Shukor, N. A. Yasid
{"title":"Screening of hydrocarbon-degrading bacterial isolates using the redox application of 2,6-DCPIP","authors":"Nur Muhamad Syahir Abdul Habib, W. Johari, M. Shukor, N. A. Yasid","doi":"10.54987/bstr.v5i2.358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54987/bstr.v5i2.358","url":null,"abstract":"Petroleum hydrocarbons remain as the major contaminants that could be found across the world. Remediation approach through the utilisation of microbes as the bioremediation means is widely recognised due to their outstanding values. As a result, scientific reports on the isolation and identification of new hydrocarbon-degrading strains were on the rise. Colourimetric-based assays are one of the fastest methods to identify the capability of hydrocarbon-degrading strains in both qualitative and quantitative assessment. In this study, the hydrocarbon-degrading potential of nine bacterial isolates was observed via 2,6-dichlorophenolindophenol (DCPIP) test. Two potent diesel-utilising isolates show a distinctive tendency to utilise aromatic (ADL15) and aliphatic (ADL36) hydrocarbons. Both isolates prove to be a good candidate for bioremediation of wide range of petroleum hydrocarbon components.","PeriodicalId":436607,"journal":{"name":"Bioremediation Science and Technology Research","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124900167","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}
Hui Sin Chee, M. Manogaran, Z. Suhaili, M. H. Yakasai, M. F. Rahman, N. A. Shamaan, N. A. Yasid, A. Othman
{"title":"Isolation and characterisation of a Mo-reducing bacterium from Malaysian soil","authors":"Hui Sin Chee, M. Manogaran, Z. Suhaili, M. H. Yakasai, M. F. Rahman, N. A. Shamaan, N. A. Yasid, A. Othman","doi":"10.54987/bstr.v5i2.359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54987/bstr.v5i2.359","url":null,"abstract":"The issue of heavy metal contamination and toxic xenobiotics has become a rapid global concern. This has ensured that the bioremediation of these toxicants, which are being carried out using novel microbes. A bacterium with the ability to reduce molybdenum has been isolated from contaminated soils and identified as Serratia marcescens strain DR.Y10. The bacterium reduced molybdenum (sodium molybdate) to molybdenum blue (Mo-blue) optimally at pHs of between 6.0 and 6.5 and temperatures between 30°C and 37°C. Glucose was the best electron donor for supporting molybdate reduction followed by sucrose, adonitol, mannose, maltose, mannitol glycerol, salicin, myo-inositol, sorbitol and trehalose in descending order. Other requirements include a phosphate concentration of 5 mM and a molybdate concentration of between 10 and 30 mM. The absorption spectrum of the Mo-blue produced was similar to the previously isolated Mo-reducing bacterium and closely resembles a reduced phosphomolybdate. Molybdenum reduction was inhibited by Hg (ii), Ag (i), Cu (ii), and Cr (vi) at 78.9, 69.2, 59.5 and 40.1%, respectively. We also screen for the ability of the bacterium to use various organic xenobiotics such as phenol, acrylamide, nicotinamide, acetamide, iodoacetamide, propionamide, acetamide, sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) and diesel as electron donor sources for aiding reduction. The bacterium was also able to grow using amides such as acrylamide, propionamide and acetamide without molybdenum reduction. The unique ability of the bacterium to detoxify many toxicants is much in demand, making this bacterium a vital means of bioremediation.","PeriodicalId":436607,"journal":{"name":"Bioremediation Science and Technology Research","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125038693","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}
Aa'ishah Abd Gafar, M. E. Khayat, M. Rahim, M. Shukor
{"title":"Acrylamide toxicity and its biodegradation","authors":"Aa'ishah Abd Gafar, M. E. Khayat, M. Rahim, M. Shukor","doi":"10.54987/bstr.v5i2.357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54987/bstr.v5i2.357","url":null,"abstract":"Acrylamide is a synthetic monomer that has been classified as toxic and carcinogenic apart from its diverse application in the industry. Its application is in the formation of polyacrylamide. Polyacrylamide usage is diverse and is found as herbicide formulation, as soil treatment agent and in water treatment plants. Deaths and sickness due to the accidental exposure to acrylamide has been reported while chronic toxicity is also a source of problem. This review highlight on the toxic effect of acrylamide to various organism like human, animal and plant. This review also discusses on the potential use of biological technologies to remediate acrylamide pollution in the environment and the degradation pathways these microorganisms utilize to assimilate acrylamide as a nitrogen, carbon or both as carbon and nitrogen sources.","PeriodicalId":436607,"journal":{"name":"Bioremediation Science and Technology Research","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128165961","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}
M. H. Yakasai, M. F. Rahman, M. Rahim, M. E. Khayat, N. A. Shamaan, M. Shukor
{"title":"Isolation and characterization of a metal-reducing Pseudomonas sp. strain 135 with amide-degrading capability","authors":"M. H. Yakasai, M. F. Rahman, M. Rahim, M. E. Khayat, N. A. Shamaan, M. Shukor","doi":"10.54987/bstr.v5i2.361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54987/bstr.v5i2.361","url":null,"abstract":"The presence of both heavy metals and organic xenobiotic pollutants in a contaminated site justifies the application of either a multitude of microbial degraders or microorganisms having the capacity to detoxify a number of pollutants at the same time. Molybdenum is an essential heavy metal that is toxic to ruminants at a high level. Ruminants such as cow and goats experience severe hypocuprosis leading to scouring and death at a concentration as low as several parts per million. In this study, a molybdenum-reducing bacterium with amide-degrading capacity has been isolated from contaminated soils. The bacterium, using glucose as the best electron donor reduces molybdenum in the form of sodium molybdate to molybdenum blue. The maximal pH reduction occurs between 6.0 and 6.3, and the bacterium showed an excellent reduction in temperatures between 25 and 40 oC. The reduction was maximal at molybdate concentrations of between 15 and 25 mM. Molybdenum reduction incidentally was inhibited by several toxic heavy metals. Other carbon sources including toxic xenobiotics such as amides were screened for their ability to support molybdate reduction. Of all the amides, only acrylamide can support molybdenum reduction. The other amides; such as acetamide and propionamide can support growth. Analysis using phylogenetic analysis resulted in a tentative identification of the bacterium as Pseudomonas sp. strain 135. This bacterium is essential in remediating sites contaminated with molybdenum, especially in agricultural soil co-contaminated with acrylamide, a known soil stabilizer.","PeriodicalId":436607,"journal":{"name":"Bioremediation Science and Technology Research","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115830708","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}
{"title":"Phenol removal via cellular immobilization: A review","authors":"A. Abubakar, M. Shukor","doi":"10.54987/bstr.v5i2.356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54987/bstr.v5i2.356","url":null,"abstract":"Environmental pollution is one of the major concerns in the 21st century; where billions of tonnes of harmful chemicals are produced by industries such as petroleum, paints, food, rubber, and plastic. Phenol and its derivatives infiltrate the ecosystems and has become one of the top major pollutants worldwide. This review covers the major aspects of immobilization of phenol-degrading bacteria as a method to improve phenol bioremediation. The use of various forms of immobilization matrices is discussed along with the advantages and disadvantages of each of the immobilization matrices especially when environmental usage is warranted. To be used as a bioremediation tool, immobilized system must not only be effective, but the matrices must be non-toxic, non-polluting and if possible non-biodegradable. The mechanical, biological and chemical stability of the system is paramount for long term activity as well as price is an important factor when very large scale is concern. The system must also be able to tolerate high concentration of other toxicants especially heavy metals that form as co-contaminants, and most immobilized systems are geared towards this last aspect as immobilization generally provides protection from other contaminants.","PeriodicalId":436607,"journal":{"name":"Bioremediation Science and Technology Research","volume":"383 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132442078","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}
Ain Farihah Zulkifli, L. G. Tham, N. Perumal, M. K. Sabullah, A. M. Azzeme, M. Shukor, N. A. Shaharuddin
{"title":"Assay for heavy metals using an inhibitive assay based on the acetylcholinesterase from Channa striatus","authors":"Ain Farihah Zulkifli, L. G. Tham, N. Perumal, M. K. Sabullah, A. M. Azzeme, M. Shukor, N. A. Shaharuddin","doi":"10.54987/bstr.v5i1.351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54987/bstr.v5i1.351","url":null,"abstract":"Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) is usually used as an inhibitive assay for insecticides. A lesser known property of AChE is its inhibition by heavy metals. In this work we evaluate an AChE from brains of striped snakehead (Channa striatus) wastes from aquaculture industry as an inhibitive assay for heavy metals. We discovered that the AChE was inhibited almost completely by Hg2+, Ag2+ and Cu2+ during an initial screening. When tested at various concentrations, the heavy metals exhibited exponential decay type inhibition curves. The calculated IC50 for the heavy metals Hg2+, Ag2+, Pb2+, Cu2+ and Cr6+ were 0.08432, 0.1008, 0.1255, 0.0871, and 0.1771, respectively. The IC50 for these heavy metals are comparable and some are lower than the IC50 values from the cholinesterases from previously studied fish. The assay can be carried out in less than 30 minutes at ambient temperature.","PeriodicalId":436607,"journal":{"name":"Bioremediation Science and Technology Research","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132135558","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}
Abubakar Aisami, N. A. Yasid, W. Johari, M. Shukor
{"title":"Estimation of the Q10 value; the temperature coefficient for the growth of Pseudomonas sp. aq5-04 on phenol","authors":"Abubakar Aisami, N. A. Yasid, W. Johari, M. Shukor","doi":"10.54987/bstr.v5i1.355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54987/bstr.v5i1.355","url":null,"abstract":"The Q10 value is tied to an increase in the surrounding temperature with an increase in 10 â—¦C, and usually resulted in a doubling of the reaction rate. When this happens, the Q10 value for the reaction is 2. This value holds true to numerous biological reactions. To date, the Q10 value for the biodegradation of phenol is almost not reported. The Q10 values can be determined from the Arrhenius plots. In this study, the growth rate or biodegradation rates in logarithmic value for the bacterium Pseudomonas sp. AQ5-04 was plotted against 1000/temperature (Kelvin) and the slope of the Arrhenius curve is the value of the Ea, which was utilized to obtain the Q10. The value obtained in this work was 1.834, which is slightly lower than the normal range of between 2 and 3 for the biodegradation rates of hydrocarbon in general and shows that this bacterium is a very efficient phenol-degrading bacterium.","PeriodicalId":436607,"journal":{"name":"Bioremediation Science and Technology Research","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123124175","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}