Industrialization has added extremely toxic metalloid arsenic into the environment which at high concentration severely threatens the biota. Naturally, some microbes possess the ability to bio-accumulate metals and also to transform arsenite (As III) a toxic form to a non-toxic ars...
Background: Plastic waste is a serious problem because it is difficult to degrade, thereby leading to global environment problems. Poly(lactic acid) (PLA) is a biodegradable aliphatic polyester derived from renewable resources, and it can be degraded by various enzymes produced by microorganisms. This st...
One of the newest areas of using the potential of a microbial association of kefir grains is obtaining a biodegradable film. The research was aimed at creating a packaging material with new properties of suppressing the development of concomitant microflora in dried berries and fruits....
Although Cr(VI)-reducing and/or tolerant microorganisms have been investigated, there is no detailed information on the composition of the microbial community of the biocathode microbial fuel cell for Cr(VI) reduction. In this investigation, the bacterial diversity of a biocathode was analyzed using 454 ...
BACKGROUND: Bioremoval of phenolic compounds using fungi and bacteria has been studied extensively; nevertheless, trinitrophenol bioremediation using modified Oscillatoria cyanobacteria has been barely studied in the literature. RESULTS: Among the effective parameters of bioremediation, algal concentrati...
Picratos/metabolismo,
Biodegradación Ambiental,
Aguas Residuales,
Oscillatoria/metabolismo,
Almidón,
Compuestos Fenólicos/análisis,
Reactores Biológicos,
Hierro,
Nanopartículas del Metal,
Grafito,
Picratos/análisis
BACKGROUND: Eugenol is an economically favorable substrate for the microbial biotransformation of aromatic compounds. Coniferyl aldehyde is one kind of aromatic compound that is widely used in condiment and medical industries; it is also an important raw material for producing other valuable products suc...
Pele, Milagre A;
Rubio Ribeaux, Daylin;
Rodrigues Vieira, Edson;
Souza, Adriana F;
Luna, Marcos A C;
Montero Rodríguez, Dayana;
Andrade, Rosileide F S;
Sales Alviano, Daniela;
Sales Alviano, Celuta;
Barreto-Bergter, Eliana;
Santiago, André L C M A;
Campos-Takaki, Galba M.
BACKGROUND: The use of agro-industrial wastes to produce high value-added biomolecules such as biosurfactants is a promising approach for lowering the total costs of production. This study aimed to produce biosurfactants using Rhizopus arrhizus UCP 1607, with crude glycerol (CG) and corn steep liquor (CS...
Rhizopus/metabolismo,
Gasolina,
Tensoactivos/metabolismo,
Interacciones Hidrofóbicas e Hidrofílicas,
Agroindustria,
Suelo,
Mucorales/metabolismo,
Residuos Industriales,
Biodegradación Ambiental,
Zea mays,
Ambiente Marino,
Glicerol,
Tensión Superficial,
Micelas,
Tensoactivos/toxicidad
Tributyltin (TBT) is recognized as a major environmental problem at a global scale. Haloalkaliphilic tributyltin (TBT)-degrading bacteria may be a key factor in the remediation of TBT polluted sites. In this work, three haloalkaliphilic bacteria strains were isolated from a TBT-contaminated site in the M...
Abstract The microbiological characterization by molecular techniques (DGGE and quantitative PCR) of Archaea, Bacteria domain and sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) from a laboratory scale Up-flow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket (UASB) processing sugar cane vinasse was performed during the operational phase with i...
Abstract: Feather meal conversion through submerged cultivations with Bacillus strains (CL33A, CL14) yielded proteases and protein hydrolysates. After 4-day (CL33A) and 10-day (CL14) cultivations, protease activities reached 461 U/mL; hydrolysates presented antioxidant (radicals-scavenging, 57-77%; Fe2+-...
