BiologiaPub Date : 2024-06-11DOI: 10.1007/s11756-024-01713-6
Kashifa Akhtar Mughal, Aiman Khan, Amina Sarwar, Rida Mahmood, Amir Ali Abbasi
{"title":"Comparative protein structural analyses of α-synuclein linked pathogenic variants reveal the role of N-terminally located critical region in Parkinson’s disease pathogenesis","authors":"Kashifa Akhtar Mughal, Aiman Khan, Amina Sarwar, Rida Mahmood, Amir Ali Abbasi","doi":"10.1007/s11756-024-01713-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11756-024-01713-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8978,"journal":{"name":"Biologia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141355636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BiologiaPub Date : 2024-06-10DOI: 10.1007/s11756-024-01706-5
E. Çelikoğlu, M. Y. Cankılıç, Ö. İdil
{"title":"Antimicrobial and antioxidant activity and GC-MS metabolite profiling of cyanobacteria in the tersakan stream (Amasya, Türkiye)","authors":"E. Çelikoğlu, M. Y. Cankılıç, Ö. İdil","doi":"10.1007/s11756-024-01706-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11756-024-01706-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8978,"journal":{"name":"Biologia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141362955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BiologiaPub Date : 2024-06-04DOI: 10.1007/s11756-024-01716-3
Aditya Upadhyay, Dharm Pal, Awanish Kumar
{"title":"Development of the dynamic approach for detection of Salmonella Typhi biofilm via optimizations of interaction with safranin dye","authors":"Aditya Upadhyay, Dharm Pal, Awanish Kumar","doi":"10.1007/s11756-024-01716-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11756-024-01716-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><i>Salmonella</i> Typhi infection is showing as a negative alarm for human health due to the occurrence of life-threatening typhoid fever and the emergence of antibiotic resistance. The infection becomes chronic due to the biofilm formation of <i>S.</i> Typhi, which plays a significant role in antibiotic resistance. The <i>S.</i> Typhi can survive under various stress conditions such as antibiotic stress, host immune stress, environmental stress, and nutritional stress in the biofilm stage. Biofilm provides a protective cover to the <i>S.</i> Typhi and prevents the entry of antibiotics inside the bacterial cells. Thus, biofilm is the root cause of the problem. Therefore, this study explores the easy detection of <i>S.</i> Typhi biofilms using safranin dye with specific concentrations. We performed the biofilm growth kinetics, qualitative assessment of the biofilm formations, and safranin interactions to finalize the specific concentrations of safranin (0.5 mg/mL) to detect the <i>S.</i> Typhi biofilm condition. The study was validated at 0.5 mg/mL safranin concentrations with the help of RSM analysis and kinetics study of the typhoidal biofilm. The study is important because the obtained results indicated the precise detection of <i>S.</i> Typhi biofilm, which is useful for all phases of biofilm detection. The study provided new directions for typhoidal biofilm staining that could be an emerging methodology in the area of health sciences.</p>","PeriodicalId":8978,"journal":{"name":"Biologia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141255335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BiologiaPub Date : 2024-06-04DOI: 10.1007/s11756-024-01712-7
Katarína Pastirčáková, Katarína Baková, Katarína Adamčíková, Marek Barta, Michal Lalík, Martin Pavlík, Andrej Kunca, Juraj Galko, Martin Pastirčák
{"title":"Fungi associated with ambrosia beetle Xylosandrus germanus in Slovakia","authors":"Katarína Pastirčáková, Katarína Baková, Katarína Adamčíková, Marek Barta, Michal Lalík, Martin Pavlík, Andrej Kunca, Juraj Galko, Martin Pastirčák","doi":"10.1007/s11756-024-01712-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11756-024-01712-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The black timber bark beetle (<i>Xylosandrus germanus</i>) is a strongly invasive ambrosia beetle and an important forest pest in Slovakia. This pest is closely associated with symbiotic fungi used as its food source. We investigated the fungi associated with <i>X. germanus</i> adults in Slovakia. In this study, <i>Beauveria bassiana</i>, <i>B. pseudobassiana</i>, <i>Clonostachys rosea</i>, <i>Fusarium oxysporum</i>, <i>Ophiostoma quercus</i>, <i>Phaeoacremonium scolyti</i>, and <i>Talaromyces amestolkiae</i> were isolated and identified by morphological and molecular analyses. The fungus <i>Ophiostoma quercus</i> was most frequently isolated from living beetles, while the entomopathogenic <i>Beauveria bassiana</i> was the most commonly isolated from dead beetles. The morphological descriptions of fungi based on isolates from the surface of <i>X. germanus</i> adults are provided.</p>","PeriodicalId":8978,"journal":{"name":"Biologia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141256797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BiologiaPub Date : 2024-05-31DOI: 10.1007/s11756-024-01707-4
Zdenko Levarski, Stanislava Bírová, Kristina Hriňová, Johana Dlapová, Eva Struhárňanská, Lenka Levarská, Ján Turňa, Stanislav Stuchlík
{"title":"Production of N-glycosylated alcohol dehydrogenase in Escherichia coli","authors":"Zdenko Levarski, Stanislava Bírová, Kristina Hriňová, Johana Dlapová, Eva Struhárňanská, Lenka Levarská, Ján Turňa, Stanislav Stuchlík","doi":"10.1007/s11756-024-01707-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11756-024-01707-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p>N-glycosylation of recombinant proteins using bacterial glycosylation system has proven to be a valuable although developing tool ultimately applicable to various industries. When used for enzyme engineering, it offers the possibility of increased stability or immobilization route and thus increasing effectiveness of e.g. biotransformation or other biocatalysis procedures. One such promising enzyme is alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) for use in redox biotransformation reactions. Given the current possibilities of recombinant enzyme production, including major advances in glycoengineering and glycoprotein production in bacterial organisms, the aim of this work was the production of thermotolerant ADH from <i>Rhodococcus ruber</i> (RrADH) in glycosylated form in <i>Escherichia coli</i>. We have successfully developed a dual plasmid expression system enabling glycosylation of target proteins utilizing a glyco-tag approach. We were able to produce RrADH in soluble form and at the same time we detected a bacterial glycan conjugated to RrADH as well as the activity of the enzyme. The glycan bound to recombinant enzyme can be used for oriented covalent immobilization of the enzyme, which would increase the potential for its practical application in biotransformation of various compounds.</p>","PeriodicalId":8978,"journal":{"name":"Biologia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141198099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BiologiaPub Date : 2024-05-30DOI: 10.1007/s11756-024-01709-2
Bohuš Kubala, Peter Ferianc, Katarína Chovanová, Marcel Zámocký
{"title":"In silico analysis of a heme-thiolate peroxidase gene discovered in an ectomycorrhizal fungus of Carpathian primeval forest: implications for biotechnological applications","authors":"Bohuš Kubala, Peter Ferianc, Katarína Chovanová, Marcel Zámocký","doi":"10.1007/s11756-024-01709-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11756-024-01709-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p> In this work, we focus on the identification of novel fungal peroxygenase gene belonging to the peroxidase-peroxygenase superfamily. We applied a metagenomic approach on soil samples from primeval forest and appropriate bioinformatics tools for analysis of obtained genomic DNA sequence. Peroxidases are ubiquitous metalloenzymes that are able to reduce reactive peroxides, mainly hydrogen peroxide, into water, whereas several substrates can be concomitantly oxidized during their catalytic reaction. Our purpose was to collect unique peroxygenase sequence data originating from a preserved biotope for a robust phylogenetic reconstruction of a particular gene family coding for highly versatile heme-thiolate peroxidases that has peculiar yet undiscovered representatives among ectomycorrhizal fungi. We identified unique DNA sequence, 812 bp long, from ectomycorrhizal <i>Suillus</i> species coding for a heme-thiolate peroxidase with 1 typical intron that appears distinctive for Carpathian forests. After translation in corresponding protein sequence 251 amino acids long we could identify typical signatures of this peroxygenase. On the proximal side of heme we found the conserved P-C-P triad responsible for efficient ligation of heme iron thus influencing the reactivity of this peroxidase. On the distal side we recognized the E-H-D-X-S-L motif for interaction with a stabilizing magnesium ion. Maximum likelihood reconstruction of protein phylogeny revealed with a high bootstrap support the presence of a monophyletic HTP4 clade originating in numerous <i>Suillus</i> representatives. Together with sister clades of edible <i>Boletus</i> and poisonous <i>Paxillus</i> containing diverse peroxygenases these newly discovered heme catalyst can be considered for application of oxyfunctionalization of organic molecules.</p>","PeriodicalId":8978,"journal":{"name":"Biologia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141187956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BiologiaPub Date : 2024-05-27DOI: 10.1007/s11756-024-01704-7
Ahmed El Moukhtari, Nadia Lamsaadi, Mohamed Farissi
{"title":"Biostimulatory effects of ascorbic acid in improving plant growth, photosynthesis-related parameters and mitigating oxidative damage in alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) under salt stress condition","authors":"Ahmed El Moukhtari, Nadia Lamsaadi, Mohamed Farissi","doi":"10.1007/s11756-024-01704-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11756-024-01704-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Biostimulants such as ascorbic acid, known as vitamin C, have been reported to have numerous positive roles in plant tolerance to abiotic stresses. However, little is known about the biostimulant effects of ascorbic acid on alfalfa (<i>Medicago sativa</i>). Accordingly, a pot experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of 1 mM ascorbic acid, applied as foliar spray, on the salt tolerance of a Moroccan alfalfa population <i>Demnate 201</i>. One month-old <i>M. sativa</i> seedlings were exposed to 200 mM NaCl for four weeks with or without 1 mM of exogenous ascorbic acid treatment. The results showed that salinity stress significantly (<i>p</i> < 0.001) reduced plant biomass, disturbed photosynthesis-related parameters and induced oxidative stress. However, ascorbic acid foliar spray counteracted the observed negative effects of salinity. It significantly (<i>p</i> < 0.001) improved plant growth and photosynthetic parameters. Besides, stress indicators, including Na<sup>+</sup> in shoot and root, hydrogen peroxide and electrolyte leakage, were significantly reduced by 42%, 29%, 12% and 34%, respectively, in treated and salt-stressed alfalfa plants. Interestingly, the decrease in oxidative stress markers was positively correlated to the ability of ascorbic acid to induce the accumulation of flavonoids and to increase the antioxidant activity of guaiacol peroxidase. Furthermore, compatible solutes, such as proline and soluble sugars, were found higher especially in salt-stressed alfalfa plants treated with 1 mM ascorbic acid. Our findings showed that ascorbic acid supply could be an eco-friendly and sustainable technique to mitigate the toxic effect of salt and could improve alfalfa forage production when grown in salt-affected soils.</p>","PeriodicalId":8978,"journal":{"name":"Biologia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141167114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BiologiaPub Date : 2024-05-24DOI: 10.1007/s11756-024-01708-3
Tainá Belleboni, R. Bassini-Silva, A. Sulzbach, Alana Luísa Scherer, Evelise Cargnin Trebien, Micaela Schneider, Francine Cesca, Pietra Lenz Kniphoff da Cruz, Ágatha Kniphoff da Cruz, Fernando de Castro Jacinavicius, Laura Marina Ohlweiler, Liana Johann, G. L. da Silva
{"title":"Pathogenic and endosymbiotic bacteria associated with the ectoparasite mites Dermanyssus gallinae (Dermanyssidae) and Ornithonyssus bursa (Macronyssidae)","authors":"Tainá Belleboni, R. Bassini-Silva, A. Sulzbach, Alana Luísa Scherer, Evelise Cargnin Trebien, Micaela Schneider, Francine Cesca, Pietra Lenz Kniphoff da Cruz, Ágatha Kniphoff da Cruz, Fernando de Castro Jacinavicius, Laura Marina Ohlweiler, Liana Johann, G. L. da Silva","doi":"10.1007/s11756-024-01708-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11756-024-01708-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8978,"journal":{"name":"Biologia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141098583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}