Lubna Kamil Abdulhussein Abo-Shakeer, M. F. Rahman, M. H. Yakasai, N. A. Bakar, A. Othman, M. Syed, N. Abdullah, M. Shukor
{"title":"Kinetic studies of the partially purified molybdenum-reducing enzyme from Bacillus pumilus strain lbna","authors":"Lubna Kamil Abdulhussein Abo-Shakeer, M. F. Rahman, M. H. Yakasai, N. A. Bakar, A. Othman, M. Syed, N. Abdullah, M. Shukor","doi":"10.54987/bstr.v5i1.354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54987/bstr.v5i1.354","url":null,"abstract":"Bacterial based remediation of environmental toxicants is a promising innovative technology for molybdenum pollution. To date, the enzyme responsible for molybdate reduction to Mo-blue from bacteria show that the Michaelis-Menten constants varies by one order of magnitude. It is important that the constants from newer enzyme sources be characterized so that a comparison can be made. The aim of this study is to characterize kinetically the enzyme from a previously isolated Mo-reducing bacterium; Bacillus pumilus strain Lbna. The maximum activity of this enzyme occurred at pH 5.5 and in between 25 and 35 oC. The Km and Vmax of NADH were 6.646 mM and 0.057 unit/mg enzyme, while the Km and Vmax of LPPM were 3.399 mM and 0.106 unit/mg enzyme. The results showed that the enzyme activity for Bacillus pumilus strain Lbna were inhibited by all heavy metals used. Zinc, copper, silver, chromium, cadmium and mercury all caused more than 50% inhibition to the Mo-reducing enzyme activity with copper being the most potent with an almost complete inhibition of enzyme activity observed.","PeriodicalId":436607,"journal":{"name":"Bioremediation Science and Technology Research","volume":"8 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":"130038175","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":"The development of banana peel/corn starch bioplastic film: a preliminary study","authors":"N. Sultan, W. Johari","doi":"10.54987/bstr.v5i1.352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54987/bstr.v5i1.352","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this study is to develop bioplastic film from a combination of two biopolymers of same source, namely banana peel and corn starch. Five banana peel films (BP film) were prepared with different concentrations of corn starch (1% up to 5%) as co-biopolymer and film without corn starch acted as a control. The films were carried out with several durability tests and characterization analyses. Based on the results obtained, the BP film with 4% corn starch gave the highest tensile strength 34.72 N/m2 compared to other samples. The water absorption test showed that BP films with 3% corn starch were resistant to water uptake by absorbing water up to 60.65%. In terms of characterization, spectra of Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) obtained for BP control film and BP film with 4% corn starch were comparable with most of the peaks were present. The thermal analysis by differential screening calorimetric (DSC) detected the melting temperature for both BP control film and BP film with 4% corn respectively at Tonset of 54.41°C and 67.83°C. Overall, combination of starches from two different sources can be used as an alternative in producing bioplastics.","PeriodicalId":436607,"journal":{"name":"Bioremediation Science and Technology Research","volume":"337 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":"124730781","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}
Helmi Wasoh, Sarinah Baharun, M. Halim, A. Lajis, A. Ariff, O. Lai
{"title":"Production of rhamnolipids by locally isolated Pseudomonas aeruginosa using sunflower oil as carbon source","authors":"Helmi Wasoh, Sarinah Baharun, M. Halim, A. Lajis, A. Ariff, O. Lai","doi":"10.54987/bstr.v5i1.350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54987/bstr.v5i1.350","url":null,"abstract":"Biosurfactants are surface active compounds and amphiphatic in nature which consist of hydrophilic head and hydrophobic tail accumulating at the interphase of two immiscible liquid with different polarity. A study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of sunflower oil in the production of rhamnolipids (RLs) by locally isolated Pseudomonas aeruginosa in shake flask fermentation. In this process, four different fermentation treatments were done for seven days at 30°C and 180 rpm. Sampling was carried out in time intervals of 24 h followed by monitoring of cell growth and biosurfactants production. Colorimetric Orcinol analysis was used for determination of RLs concentrations (g/L). The RLs were studied for emulsification activity using emulsification index (E24%) methods. In addition, oil displacement activity and thermal stability were also studied (4-120°C). All treatments allow the growth of P. aeruginosa and the utilization of sunflower oil as carbon source and glucose as growth initiator were observed to be the best strategy for maximum RLs production. The maximum RLs production was achieved after 120 h with 3.18 g/L of RLs. Diesel shows the highest emulsification activity among the substrate tested ranging from 55.56% - 60.00%. The oil displacement activity was corresponding to RLs concentration with stability up to 120°C (for 60 min). Therefore, from this research a good potential of RLs that may provide good application for industry were produced.","PeriodicalId":436607,"journal":{"name":"Bioremediation Science and Technology Research","volume":"6 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120815156","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}
Umar Abubakar Muhammad, L. G. Tham, N. Perumal, H. Daud, N. A. Yasid, M. Shukor
{"title":"Assessment of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) from Oreochromis mossambicus (Cuvier, 1831) as a source of enzyme for insecticides detection","authors":"Umar Abubakar Muhammad, L. G. Tham, N. Perumal, H. Daud, N. A. Yasid, M. Shukor","doi":"10.54987/bstr.v4i2.370","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54987/bstr.v4i2.370","url":null,"abstract":"In this work we assess the potential of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) from Oreochromis mossambicus (Toman) as a sensitive test for the presence of insecticides. The partial purification and characterization of a soluble AChE from Oreochromis mossambicus brain tissues using affinity chromatography gel (procainamide–Sephacryl S-1000) showed that the partially purified AChE was most active on acetylthiocholine (ATC) but had low activities on propionylthiocholine (PTC) and butyrylthiocholine (BTC), indicating that the partially purified fraction was predominantly AChE. Soluble AChE was partially purified 9.27-fold with a 91.12% yield. The partially purified AChE displayed the highest activity on ATC at pH 7 and at 30oC using 0.1 M Tris buffer. The enzyme exhibited Michaelis-Menten kinetic constants, Km, for ATC, BTC and PTC at 36, 77 and 250 µM, respectively, and the maximum velocities, Vmax, were 18.75, 0.12 and 0.05 µmol/min/mg protein, respectively. Moreover, the AChE from Oreochromis mossambicus presented comparable sensitivity to carbamates and organophosphates insecticides than that from Electrophorus electricus and many other fish AChE by comparing half maximal inhibitory concentration values. Therefore, the enzyme is a valuable source for insecticides detection in Malaysian waters at lower cost. ","PeriodicalId":436607,"journal":{"name":"Bioremediation Science and Technology Research","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123500178","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, K. Ibrahim, N. A. Yasid, M. Halmi, M. F. Rahman, M. Shukor
{"title":"Mathematical modelling of molybdenum reduction to mo-blue by a cyanide-degrading bacterium","authors":"M. H. Yakasai, K. Ibrahim, N. A. Yasid, M. Halmi, M. F. Rahman, M. Shukor","doi":"10.54987/bstr.v4i2.368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54987/bstr.v4i2.368","url":null,"abstract":"Molybdenum, an emerging pollutant, has being demonstrated recently to be toxic to spermatogenesis in several animal model systems. Metal mines especially gold mine often use cyanide and hence isolation of metal-reducing and cyanide-degrading bacteria can be useful for the bioremediation of these pollutants. Preliminary screening shows that three cyanide-degrading bacteria were able to reduce molybdenum to molybdenum blue (Mo-blue) when grown on a molybdate low phosphate minimal salts media. Phylogenetic analyses of the 16S rRNA gene of the best reducer indicates that it belongs to the Serratia genus. A variety of mathematical models such as logistic, Gompertz, Richards, Schnute, Baranyi-Roberts, von Bertalanffy, Buchanan three-phase and Huang were used to model molybdenum reduction, and the best model based on statistical analysis was modified Gompertz with lowest values for RMSE and AICc, highest adjusted R2 values, with Bias Factor and Accuracy Factor nearest to unity (1.0). The reduction constants obtained from the model will be used to carry out secondary modelling to study the effect of various parameters such as substrate, pH and temperature to molybdenum reduction.","PeriodicalId":436607,"journal":{"name":"Bioremediation Science and Technology Research","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116106473","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}
Noor Suffiah Md. Zin, S. N. Padrilah, M. F. Rahman, H. K. Sim, A. Khalid, M. Shukor
{"title":"Isolation and characterization of a 2,4-dinitrophenol-degrading bacterium","authors":"Noor Suffiah Md. Zin, S. N. Padrilah, M. F. Rahman, H. K. Sim, A. Khalid, M. Shukor","doi":"10.54987/bstr.v4i2.373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54987/bstr.v4i2.373","url":null,"abstract":"2,4-dinitrophenol (2,4-DNP) is utilized in the production of wood preservatives, dyes, and also as a pesticide. Human acute (short-term) exposure to 2,4-DNP in humans by means of oral exposure are nausea or vomiting, sweating, headaches, dizziness, and weight reduction. Thus, the removal of this compound is highly sought. A 2,4-DNP-degrading bacterium (isolate 1) was isolated from a sample soil from Terengganu. This bacterium (isolate 1) was characterized as a rod Gram positive, non-sporulated, and non-motile bacterium. The bacterium is oxidase negative and had catalase positive activity and was able to grow aerobically on 2,4-dinitrophenol as the sole carbon source. This bacterium showed maximal growth on 2,4-DNP at the temperature optimum of 30 oC, pH 5.0 and was tolerant to 2,4-DNP concentration of up to 0.5 mM (0.092 g/L). This bacterium prefers to use urea as the nitrogen source in addition to yeast extract for mineral source and vitamin precursors. \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":436607,"journal":{"name":"Bioremediation Science and Technology Research","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125970987","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}
Umar Abubakar Muhammad, L. G. Tham, N. Perumal, H. Daud, N. A. Yasid, M. Shukor
{"title":"Assay for heavy metals using an inhibitive assay based on the acetylcholinesterase from Clarias batrachus","authors":"Umar Abubakar Muhammad, L. G. Tham, N. Perumal, H. Daud, N. A. Yasid, M. Shukor","doi":"10.54987/bstr.v4i2.369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54987/bstr.v4i2.369","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 Clarias batrachus (catfish) exposed to wastes from aquaculture industry as an inhibitive assay for heavy metals. We discovered that the AChE was inhibited completely by Hg2+, Ag2+, Pb2+, Cu2+, Cd2+, Cr6+ and Zn2+ during initial screening. When tested at various concentrations, the heavy metals exhibited exponential decay type inhibition curves. The calculated IC50 (mg/L) for the heavy metals Ag2+, Cu2+, Hg2+, Cr6+ and Cd2+ were 0.088, 0.078, 0.071, 0.87 and 0.913, 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":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128450979","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":"Test for the presence of autocorrelation in the modified Gompertz model used in fitting of Burkholderia sp. strain Neni-11 growth on acrylamide","authors":"A. Shukor, M. Yunus","doi":"10.54987/bstr.v4i2.372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54987/bstr.v4i2.372","url":null,"abstract":"The growth of microorganism on substrates, whether toxic or not usually exhibits sigmoidal pattern. This sigmoidal growth pattern can be modelled using primary models such as Logistic, modified Gompertz, Richards, Schnute, Baranyi-Roberts, Von Bertalanffy, Buchanan three-phase and Huang. Previously, the modified Gompertz model was chosen to model the growth of Burkholderia sp. strain Neni-11 on acrylamide, which shows a sigmoidal curve. The modified Gompertz model relies on the ordinary least squares method, which in turn relies heavily on several important assumptions, which include that the data does not show autocorrelation. In this work we perform statistical diagnosis test to test for the presence of autocorrelation using the Durbin-Watson test and found that the model was adequate and robust as no autocorrelation of the data was found.","PeriodicalId":436607,"journal":{"name":"Bioremediation Science and Technology Research","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128555875","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}
Z. H. M. Yadzir, Aa'ishah Abd Gafar, M. H. Yakasai, M. F. Rahman, M. A. Abdullah, N. A. Shamaan, M. Halmi
{"title":"Characterization of a molybdenum-reducing Acinetobacter baumannii strain Serdang 1 with the capacity to grow on phenol and acrylamide","authors":"Z. H. M. Yadzir, Aa'ishah Abd Gafar, M. H. Yakasai, M. F. Rahman, M. A. Abdullah, N. A. Shamaan, M. Halmi","doi":"10.54987/bstr.v4i2.371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54987/bstr.v4i2.371","url":null,"abstract":"Contamination of organic xenobiotic pollutants and heavy metals in a contaminated site allows the use of multiple bacterial degraders or bacteria with the ability to detoxify numerous toxicants at the same time. A previously isolated SDS- degrading bacterium, Acinetobacter baumannii strain Serdang 1 was shown to reduce molybdenum to molybdenum-blue. The bacterium works optimally at pH 6.5, the temperature range between 25 and 34°C with glucose serves as the best electron donor for molybdate reduction. This bacterium required additional concentration of phosphate at 5.0 mM and molybdate between 15 and 25 mM. The absorption spectrum of the molybdenum blue obtained is similar to the molybdenum blue from other earlier reported molybdate reducing bacteria, as it resembles a reduced phosphomolybdate closely. Ag(i), As(v), Pb(ii) and Cu(ii) inhibited molybdenum reduction by 57.3, 36.8, 27.7 and 10.9%, respectively, at 1 p.p.m. Acrylamide was efficiently shown to support molybdenum reduction at a lower efficiency than glucose. Phenol, acrylamide and propionamide could support the growth of this bacterium independently of molybdenum reduction. This bacterium capability to detoxify several toxicants is an important tool for bioremediation in the tropical region","PeriodicalId":436607,"journal":{"name":"Bioremediation Science and Technology Research","volume":"129 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121526138","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. Halmi, M. E. Khayat, B. Gunasekaran, N. A. Masdor, M. F. Rahman
{"title":"Near real-time biomonitoring of copper from an industrial complex effluent discharge site using a plant protease inhibitive assay","authors":"M. Halmi, M. E. Khayat, B. Gunasekaran, N. A. Masdor, M. F. Rahman","doi":"10.54987/bstr.v4i1.365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54987/bstr.v4i1.365","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, a temporal monitoring work for heavy metals from an effluent discharge point in the Juru Industrial Estate was carried out using the protease extracted from garlic (Allium sativum) as the principal bioassay system. casein-Coomassie-dye binding assay method has utilized this purpose. The periodic sampling results for one day of a location in the Juru Industrial Estate showed temporal variation of copper concentration coinciding with garlic protease inhibition with the highest concentrations of copper occurring between 12.00 and 16.00 hours of between 3 and 3.5 mg/L copper. The crude proteases extracted from Allium sativum successfully detect temporal variation of copper form this location. In conclusion, this assay method has the potential to be a rapid, sensitive, and economic inhibitive assay for the large-scale biomonitoring works for the heavy metal copper from this area.","PeriodicalId":436607,"journal":{"name":"Bioremediation Science and Technology Research","volume":"1979 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130171056","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}