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    Characteristics of a novel Acinetobacter sp. and its kinetics in hexavalent chromium bioreduction
    (2012) Narayani, M.; Shetty K, K.V.
    Cr-B2, a Gram-uegadve hexavalent chromium [Cr(VI)] reducing bacteria, was isolated from the aerator water of an activated sludge process in the wastewater treatment facility of a dye and pigment based chemical industry. Cr-B2 exhibited a resistance for 1,100mg/l Cr(VI) and, similarly, resistance against other heavy metal ions such as Ni2+ (800 mg/l), Cu2+ (600 mg/l), Pb2+ (1,100 mg/l), Cd2+ (350 mg/l), Zn2+ (700 mg/l), and Fe3+ (1,000 mg/l), and against selected antibiotics. Cr-B2 was observed to efficiently reduce 200mg/l Cr(VI) completely in both nutrient and LB media, and could convert Cr(VI) to Cr(III) aerobically. Cr(VI) reduction kinetics followed allosteric enzyme kinetics. The Km values were found to be 43.11 mg/l for nutrient media and 38.05 mg/l for LB media. Vmax values of 13.17 mg/l/h and 12.53 mg/l/h were obtained for nutrient media and LB media, respectively, and the cooperativity coefficients (n) were found to be 8.47 and 3.49, respectively, indicating positive cooperativity in both cases. SEM analysis showed the formation of wrinkles and depressions in the cells when exposed to 800 mg/l Cr(VI) concentration. The organism was seen to exhibit pleomorphic behavior. Cr-B2 was identified on the basis of morphological, biochemical, and partial 16S rRNA gene sequencing chracterizations and found to be Acinetobacter sp. © The Korean Society for Microbiology and Biotechnology.
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    T3P mediated synthesis of some new quinoline substituted pyrazole derivatives and its antibacterial studies
    (2012) Chandrakantha, B.; Isloor, A.M.; Peethambar, S.K.; Shetty, P.
    A series of new N-(substituted)-5-phenyl-1-(quinolin-2-yl)-1H-pyrazole-4-carboxamide derivatives (5a-h) have been synthesized by condensing ethyl-3-(dimethylamino)-2-[(phenyl)carbonyl]prop-2-enoate 2 with quinoline-2-yl-hydrazine. Compound 3 is hydrolyzed into 4 which is upon further coupled with different aromatic/aliphatic amines using 50% prpopyl phosphonic anhydride (T3P) in ethyl acetate as coupling reagent to afford different quinoline substituted pyrazole carboxamide derivatives. All the newly synthesized compounds were screened for their invitro antibacterial studies against Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The results revealed that compounds 5d, 5f, and 5h showed good antibacterial activity towards all bacterial strains. These newly synthesized compounds were characterized by NMR, mass spectral, IR spectral study and also by C, H, N analyses.
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    Preparation of gold nanoparticles by novel bacterial exopolysaccharide for antibiotic delivery
    (Elsevier Inc. usjcs@elsevier.com, 2016) Pradeepa, n.; Vidya, S.M.; Mutalik, S.; Bhat, K.U.; Huilgol, P.; Avadhani, K.
    Aim To develop potent drug delivery agents to treat multidrug resistant (MDR) bacterial infections using gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) prepared by bacterial exopolysaccharide (EPS) being a reducing and stabilizing agent. Methods Gold nanoparticles were prepared by EPS, extracted from Lactobacillus plantarum. AuNPs were characterized by UV-visible spectrophotometer, transmission electron microscope (TEM), zeta potential and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. Antibiotics used for functionalization of AuNPs were levofloxacin, cefotaxime, ceftriaxone and ciprofloxacin. The resulted functionalized AuNPs were tested against various MDR bacteria by employing different assays such as well diffusion assay, minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC), minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC) and time killing assay. Key findings The nanostructures exhibited excellent bactericidal activity and reduced MIC and MBC against MDR Gram positive and Gram negative bacteria compared to free drugs. Escherichia coli was the most susceptible MDR bacteria followed by Klebsiella pneumoniae and Staphylococcus aureus. TEM results revealed that the bactericidal activity of nanostructures could be mediated by penetration, loss of cytoplasmic contents and cell lysis. Significance Antibiotic functionalized nanostructures were more potent than free drugs and could be used as potent drug delivery vehicles. © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.