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Item Natural and anthropogenic factors controlling the dissolved organic carbon concentrations and fluxes in a large tropical river, India(2006) Balakrishna, K.; Kumar, I.A.; Srinikethan, G.; Mugeraya, G.Carbon studies in tropical rivers have gained significance since it was realized that a significant chunk of anthropogenic CO2 emitted into the atmosphere returns to the biosphere, that is eventually transported by the river and locked up in coastal sediments for a few thousand years. Carbon studies are also significant because dissolved organic carbon (DOC) is known to complex the toxic trace metals in the river and carry them in the dissolved form. For the first time, this work has made an attempt to study the variations in DOC concentrations in space and time for a period of 19 months, and estimate their fluxes in the largest peninsular Indian river, the Godavari at Rajahmundry. Anthropogenic influence on DOC concentrations possibly from the number of bathing ghats along the banks and domestic sewage discharge into the river are evident during the pre-monsoon of 2004 and 2005. The rise in DOC concentrations at the onset of monsoon could be due to the contributions from flood plains and soils from the river catchment. Spatial variations highlighted that the DOC concentrations in the river are affected more by the anthropogenic discharges in the downstream than in the upstream. The discharge weighted DOC concentrations in the Godavari river is 3-12 times lower than Ganga-Brahmaputra, Indus and major Chinese rivers. The total carbon fluxes from the Godavari into the Bay of Bengal is insignificant (0.5%) compared to the total carbon discharges by major rivers of the world into oceans. © Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. 2006.Item Isolation of Thiobacillus sp from aerobic sludge of distillery and dairy effluent treatment plants and its sulfide oxidation activity at different concentrations(Triveni Enterprises, 2007) Ravichandra, P.; Mugeraya, G.; Rao, A.G.; Ramakrishna, M.; Jetty, A.In the present study two strains of Thiobacillus sp were isolated from aerobic sludge of distillery and dairy effluent treatment plant using standard methods of isolation and enrichment. Experiments were conducted using isolated cultures in batch bioreactor with initial sulfide concentration of 75 and 150 mg/l. The effect of initial sulfide concentration on the activity of isolated Thiobacillus sp was studied. Sulfide oxidizing capacity was also determined at different initial sulfide concentrations. The results from the study indicate the possible isolation of Thiobacillus cultures from native source and application in the full-scale reactor. © Triveni Enterprises.Item Biological treatment of toxic petroleum spent caustic in fluidized bed bioreactor using immobilized cells of thiobacillus RAI01(2008) Potumarthi, R.; Mugeraya, G.; Jetty, A.In the present studies, newly isolated Thiobacillus sp was used for the treatment of synthetic spent sulfide caustic in a laboratory-scale fluidized bed bioreactor. The sulfide oxidation was tested using Ca-alginate immobilized Thiobacillus sp. Initially, response surface methodology was applied for the optimization of four parameters to check the sulfide oxidation efficiency in batch mode. Further, reactor was operated in continuous mode for 51 days at different sulfide loading rates and retention times to test the sulfide oxidation and sulfate and thiosulfate formation. Sulfide conversions in the range of 90-98% were obtained at almost all sulfide loading rates and hydraulic retention times. However, increased loading rates resulted in lower sulfide oxidation capacity. All the experiments were conducted at constant pH of around 6 and temperature of 30?±?5 °C. © 2008 Humana Press.Item Screening and optimisation of bioconversion parameters for the reduction of 3-[5-[(4-flurophenyl)-1,5, di-oxopentol]-yl] -4-(S) phenyl oxazolidin-2-one(2009) Brahmani Priyadarshini, S.R.; Mugeraya, G.; Sandhyavali, M.S.The reduction of ketones is one of the most important and practical reaction for producing non racemic alcohols, which are needed to synthesize industrially important chemicals such as pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals and natural products. Biocatalysis has turned out to be a highly competitive technology for asymmetric ketone reduction. In the present work, an attempt was made to identify a potential microorganism for the reduction of 3-[5-[(4-flurophenyl)-1,5, di-oxopentol]-yl] -4-(S) phenyl oxazolidin-2-one. Some of the fungi screened were Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Aspergillus niger(2 strains), Pichia farinosa, Candida vishwanathii, Rhizopus stolonifer and Penicillin species. The experimental results showed that S. cerevisiae, Aspergillus niger and C. viswanathii strains were able to bring about the conversion of selected ketone to alcohol. As Saccharomyces cerevisiae was found to be more effective in bringing about reduction, it was selected for further experiment. In order to improve the yield certain bioconversion parameters like pH of reaction medium, time of incubation, incubation temperature and biomass to substrate ratio were studied. The results showed that the bioreduction of the above mentioned substrate was maximum in pH 7.6 at 30°C when incubated for 48 h. The conversion increased with increase in biomass, however it reached saturation at the ratio of 300:1.Item Microbial transformation of bioactive natural products(2010) Gopkumar, P.; Mugeraya, G.In the present study, the fungal biotransformation of 1, 2, 3, 9-tetra hydrpyrrolo [2, 1-b] quinazolin-3-ol (I) is presented. Biocatalysis, isolation and subsequent structure elucidation of the newly transformed metabolite (-)-3-hydroxy -2, 3-dihydro pyrrolo [2, 1-b] quinazoline-9(1H)-one (II) is presented. Microbial transformation of Vasicine (I) by Aspergillus niger, Rhizopus arrhizus, Pencillium notatum and Trematus versicolor afforded (-)-3-hydroxy -2, 3-dihydro pyrrolo [2, 1-b] quinazoline-9(1H)-one (II) (100%) as the sole metabolic product. 1, 2, 3, 9-tetra hydrpyrrolo [2, 1-b] quinazolin-3-ol (I) and (-)-3-hydroxy -2, 3-dihydro pyrrolo [2, 1-b] quinazoline-9(1H)-one (II) screened for antibacterial and antifungal activity.