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Item Enhanced degradation of azo dye using mixed cultures of white-rot fungi in a modified rotating packed disc bioreactor and reuse of treated water(Elsevier Ltd, 2023) Kalnake, R.P.; Raval, R.; Murthy, D.V.R.; Vanzara, P.B.; Raval, K.Reactive azo dyes are toxic and carcinogenic. In this study, mixed cultures of white-rot fungi (WRF) are used to treat synthetic reactive black 5 (RB-5) wastewater in a modified rotating packed disc bioreactor (RPDB). The continuous degradation studies were carried out for 25 days under the influence of the recycle stream in which 3665 L of synthetic effluent was treated. The dye wastewater was completely decolorized with more than 93 % chemical oxygen demand (COD) reduction using the mixed fungal culture. During the continuous operation, the COD of influent reduced more than 85 % for successive 25 days of continuous operation at hydraulic retention time of 10.8 h. The dry biomass loading was about 0.14 g/g GAC at the end of the continuous process. The rate of COD removal followed first order kinetics with a rate constant of 0.026 per hour. The treated water was reused to produce melanin from microbial culture. © 2023 Elsevier LtdItem Synthesis, computational and UV–Vis absorption studies of novel sulfathiazole azo sulfonamides acting as potent antitubercular agents(Elsevier B.V., 2025) K?k?, V.; Bodke, Y.D.; Naik, S.; Udayakumar, U.; O?, N.; Krishnamurthy, C.In this work, we have reported the synthesis of unprecedented sulfonamide azo dyes 4(a-j) by the diazo-coupling reaction of sulfathiazole with various coupling components. Different spectroscopic techniques, like FT-IR, NMR (1H and 13C), and HRMS, were used to precisely assess the structures of the target molecules. The UV–Vis absorption study was conducted using variety of organic solvents. Quantum chemical calculations, geometrical optimization, and molecular electrostatic potential regions of all sulfathiazole azo colorants were explored using (DFT)/B3LYP method. The efficacy of the synthesized dyes in combatting M. tuberculosis was examined using the MABA assay; the derivatives 4c and 4h demonstrated promising activity with MIC of 1.56 µg/mL. Further, in silico molecular docking study was performed to elucidate the interactions with enoyl-ACP reductase. Target compounds were screened for their antimicrobial activity using the broth microdilution method against two gram-positive, two gram-negative bacterial strains, and a fungal strain. The cytotoxic potential of the active compounds was assessed using the MTT assay against the Vero cell line. © 2024 Elsevier B.V.
