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The results of two experiments with wheat grain inoculated with Penicillium verrucosum are reported. In Experiment I, wheat grain, containing 10, 20 and 30% water, was incubated for 2 weeks at 10, 15, 21 and 28°C. In Experiment II, wheat grain, containing 14, 16, 18, 20 and 22% water, was incubated for 2 weeks at 10, 15, and 20°C. At initial moisture content (IMC) of the wheat grain up to 16% neither...
Yeast-like fungi are the most common cause of fungal infections in humans. Actually, in the age of opportunistic infections and increasing resistance, development of modern antifungal agents becomes a very important challenge. This paper describes synthesis and antimicrobial assay of four naturally occurring peptide antibiotics (aurein 1.2, citropin 1.1, temporin A, uperin 3.6) and three chemically...
Studies of α-amylase production by Bacillus subtilis (CM3) isolated earlier from cow dung microflora, were carried out. The optimum temperature, pH and incubation period for amylase production were 50-70°C, 5.0-9.0 and 36 h, respectively. Enzyme secretion was very similar in the presence of any of the carbon sources tested (soluble starch, potato starch, cassava starch, wheat flour, glucose, fructose,...
The replication system of plasmid pMTH4 (22 kb) of dichloromethane-degrading Paracoccus methylutens DM12 (Alphaproteobacteria) has been cloned within a mini-replicon pMTH100 (4.7 kb) and preliminarily characterized. Functional analysis, performed with a series of mutated plasmid mini-derivatives, showed that the replicator region consists of three elements: (i) gene repA coding for a replication initiation...
Tannins are water-soluble polyphenolic compounds found in plants as secondary metabolites. The presence of these substances in the barks of eight different plants was initially examined and their crude extracts were used separately as a substrate for production of tannase through submerged fermentation by Bacillus licheniformis KBR6. Tannase production as well as biodégradation of the substrate reached...
Bioinformatic analysis of the genome sequence of Neisseria gonorrhoeae revealed presence of four specific prophage islands. Based on the similarity with other DNA phage sequences they seem to belong to the filamentous ssDNA phages group. Phages belonging to this group are also present in the genome of Neisseria meningitidis. The nucleotide and amino acids sequence of NgoΦ6 and NgoΦ7 show similar genetic...
Ferric iron reductases activities have been occurred in 91% of investigated enterococci strains. Maximum activity occurred with coenzyme NADH as the reductant and the presence of cofactor FMN was necessary. Mg(II) ions has not stimulated reductases activity. Treatment of cells with proteolytic enzymes had not effect on iron reduction. The whole cells and cell fraction - cytoplasmic membrane and cytoplasm...
It has been suggested that some microorganisms may play a role in the etiology or progression of atherosclerotic plaques. The purpose of this study was to assess for the presence of Helicobacter pylori and cytomegalovirus (CMV) DNA using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique in vascular-wall specimens obtained during autopsy. Four to 5 mm long samples from 3 different vascular wall specimens (coronary,...
The susceptibility of 96 strains of Listeria monocytogenes isolated from food to antibiotics and disinfectants currently used in human therapy, veterinary, medicine and food industry was determined by a standard operating procedure - broth dilution method. Antimicrobial agents included the β-lactams ampicillin and penicillin, the lantibiotic nisin, and the disinfectants benzalkonium chloride and chlorhexidine...
It was found that the soil-dwelling fungus Rhizoctonia praticola 93A was capable to produce laccase in submerged cultures. Effects of culture conditions on the enzyme biosynthesis in shaken flask and aerated bioreactor cultures were evaluated to improve the yields of the process. Production of extracellular laccase was considerably intensified by the addition of Cu²⁺ to a carbon-limited and nitrogen-sufficient...
The aim of this study was to evaluate methicillin resistance detection methods currently used when studying coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS). The resistance to oxacillin of 142 strains from seven species of CoNS isolated from the Intensive Care Unit environments was tested. The methods used were: disc diffusion test with cefoxitin (FOX₃₀) and oxacillin (OX₁), oxacillin agar screen test with...
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