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- Upgrading Isoquercitrin Concentration via Submerge Fermentation of Mulberry Fruit Extract with Edible Probiotics to Suppress Gene Targets for Controlling Kidney Cancer and Inflammation
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Md Rezaul Karim, Safia Iqbal, Shahnawaz Mohammad, Jong-Hoon Kim, Li Ling, Changbao Chen, Abdus Samad, Md Anwarul Haque, Deok-Chun Yang, Yeon Ju Kim, Dong Uk Yang
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J. Microbiol. 2024;62(10):919-927. Published online October 8, 2024
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12275-024-00163-8
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In recent years, kidney cancer has become one of the most serious medical issues.
Kidney cancer is treated with a variety of active compounds that trigger genes that cause cancer. We identified in our earlier research that isoquercitrin (IQ) can activate PIK3CA, IGF1R, and PTGS2. However, it has a very low bioavailability because of its lower solubility in water. So, we utilized sub-merge fermentation technology with two well-known probiotics, Lactobacillus acidophilus and Bacillus subtilis, as a microbial source and mulberry fruit extract as a substrate, which has a high IQ level to improve IQ yield. Furthermore, we compared the total phenolic, flavonoid, and antioxidant contents of fermented and non-fermented samples, and we found that the fermented samples had greater levels than non-fermented sample. In addition, the high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) results showed that the fermented mulberry fruit extract from B. subtilis and L. acidophilus showed higher IQ values (190.73 ± 0.004 μg/ml and 220.54 ± 0.007 μg/ml, respectively), compared to the non-fermented samples, which had IQ values (80.12 ± 0.002 μg/ml). Additionally, at 62.5 µg/ml doses of each sample, a normal kidney cell line (HEK 293) showed higher cell viability for fermented and non-fermented samples. Conversely, at the same doses, the fermented samples of L. acidophilus and B. subtilis in a kidney cancer cell line (A498) showed an inhibition of cell growth around 36% and 31%, respectively. Finally, we performed RT and qRT PCR assay, and we found a significant reduction in the expression of the PTGS2, PIK3CA, and IGF1R genes. We therefore can conclude that the fermented samples have a higher concentration of isoquercitrin, and also can inhibit the expression of the genes PTGS2, PIK3CA, and IGF1R, which in turn regulates kidney cancer and inflammation.
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- Recent research on the bioactivity of polyphenols derived from edible fungi and their potential in chronic disease prevention
Wenbin Yu, Yufei Zhang, Yi Lu, Zhiwei Ouyang, Jiahua Peng, Yayi Tu, Bin He
Journal of Functional Foods.2025; 124: 106627. CrossRef
- Reduction of selenite to elemental Se(0) with simultaneous degradation of phenol by co-cultures of Phanerochaete chrysosporium and Delftia lacustris
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Samayita Chakraborty , Eldon R. Rene , Piet N. L. Lens
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J. Microbiol. 2019;57(9):738-747. Published online August 3, 2019
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12275-019-9042-6
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The simultaneous removal of phenol and selenite from synthetic
wastewater was investigated by adopting two different
co-culturing techniques using the fungus Phanerochaete chrysosporium
and the bacterium Delftia lacustris. Separately grown
biomass of the fungus and the bacterium (suspended co-culture)
was incubated with different concentrations of phenol
(0–1,200 mg/L) and selenite (10 mg/L). The selenite ions were
biologically reduced to extracellular Se(0) nanoparticles (3.58
nm diameter) with the simultaneous degradation of up to 800
mg/L of phenol. Upon growing the fungus and the bacterium
together using an attached growth co-culture, the bacterium
grew as a biofilm onto the fungus. The extracellularly produced
Se(0) in the attached growth co-culture had a minimum
diameter of 58.5 nm. This co-culture was able to degrade
completely 50 mg/L phenol, but was completely inhibited
at a phenol concentration of 200 mg/L.
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- Alteration in the ultrastructural morphology of mycelial hyphae and the dynamics of transcriptional activity of lytic enzyme genes during basidiomycete morphogenesis
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Elena Vetchinkina , Maria Kupryashina , Vladimir Gorshkov , Marina Ageeva , Yuri Gogolev , Valentina Nikitina
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J. Microbiol. 2017;55(4):280-288. Published online January 26, 2017
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The morphogenesis of macromycetes is a complex multilevel process resulting in a set of molecular-genetic, physiological- biochemical, and morphological-ultrastructural changes in the cells. When the xylotrophic basidiomycetes Lentinus edodes, Grifola frondosa, and Ganoderma lucidum were grown on wood waste as the substrate, the ultrastructural morphology of the mycelial hyphal cell walls differed considerably between mycelium and morphostructures. As the macromycetes passed from vegetative to generative development, the expression of the tyr1, tyr2, chi1, chi2, exg1, exg2, and exg3 genes was acti-vated. These genes encode enzymes such as tyrosinase, chi-tinase, and glucanase, which play essential roles in cell wall growth and morphogenesis.
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- Inhibition of quorum sensing, biofilm, and spoilage potential in Shewanella baltica by green tea polyphenols
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Junli Zhu , Xuzheng Huang , Fang Zhang , Lifang Feng , Jianrong Li
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J. Microbiol. 2015;53(12):829-836. Published online December 2, 2015
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We investigated the quorum sensing (QS) system of Shewanella
baltica and the anti-QS related activities of green tea
polyphenols (TP) against spoilage bacteria in refrigerated large
yellow croaker. Autoinducer-2 (AI-2) and the diketopiperazines
(DKPs) cyclo-(L-Pro-L-Leu) and cyclo-(L-Pro-L-Phe) were
detected in the culture extract of S. baltica XH2, however,
no N-acylhomoserine lactones (AHLs) activity was observed.
Green TP at sub-inhibitory concentrations interfered with
AI-2 and DKPs activities of S. baltica without inhibiting
cell growth and promoted degradation of AI-2. The green TP
treatment inhibited biofilm development, exopolysaccharide
production and swimming motility of S. baltica in a concentration-
dependent manner. In addition, green TP decreased
extracellular protease activities and trimethylamine production
in S. baltica. A transcriptional analysis showed that green
TP repressed the luxS and torA genes in S. baltica, which
agreed with the observed reductions in QS activity and the
spoilage phenotype. Epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG)-enriched
in green TP significantly inhibited AI-2 activity of S.baltica.
These findings strongly suggest that green TP could be developed
as a new QS inhibitor for seafood preservation to
enhance shelf life.
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Jun Seung Lee , Hye Ryun Ryu , Ji Young Cha , Hyung Suk Baik
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J. Microbiol. 2015;53(10):725-731. Published online October 2, 2015
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Plants produce a wide array of antimicrobial compounds,
such as phenolic compounds, to combat microbial pathogens.
The hrp PAI is one of the major virulence factors in the
plant pathogen, Pseudomonas syringae. A major role of hrp
PAI is to disable the plant defense system during bacterial
invasion. We examined the influence of phenolic compounds
on hrp PAI gene expression at low and high concentrations.
There was approximately 2.5 times more hrpA and hrpZ
mRNA in PtoDC3000 that was grown in minimal media
(MM) supplemented with 10 μM of ortho-coumaric acid than
in PtoDC3000 grown in MM alone. On the other hand, a
significantly lower amount of hrpA mRNA was observed in
bacteria grown in MM supplemented with a high concentration
of phenolic compounds. To determine the regulation
pathway for hrp PAI gene expression, we performed qRTPCR
using gacS, gacA, and hrpS deletion mutants.
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The focus of this study was the cloning, expression, and characterization of recombinant ginsenoside hydrolyzing β-glucosidase from Arthrobacter chlorophenolicus with an ultimate objective to more efficiently bio-transform ginse-nosides. The gene bglAch, consisting of 1,260 bp (419 amino acid residues) was cloned and the recombinant enzyme, over-expressed in Escherichia coli BL21 (DE3), was characterized. The GST-fused BglAch was purified using GST·Bind agarose resin and characterized. Under optimal conditions (pH 6.0 and 37°C) BglAch hydrolyzed the outer glucose and arabino-pyranose moieties of ginsenosides Rb1 and Rb2 at the C20 position of the aglycone into ginsenoside Rd. This was fol-lowed by hydrolysis into F2 of the outer glucose moiety of ginsenoside Rd at the C3 position of the aglycone. Additio-nally, BglAch more slowly transformed Rc to F2 via C-Mc1 (compared to hydrolysis of Rb1 or Rb2). These results in-dicate that the recombinant BglAch could be useful for the production of ginsenoside F2 for use in the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries.
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Multicomponent phenol hydroxylases (mPHs) are diiron
enzymes that use molecular oxygen to hydroxylate a variety
of phenolic compounds. The DNA sequence of the alpha
subunit (large subunit) of mPH from 4-chlorophenol (4-CP)-
degrading bacterial strain PT3 was determined. Strain PT3
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to automobile workshops and oil stations after enrichment
and establishment of a chlorophenol-degrading consortium.
Strain PT3 was identified as a member of Pseudomonas sp.
based on sequence analysis of the 16S rRNA gene fragment.
The 4-CP catabolic pathway by strain PT3 was tentatively
proposed to proceed via a meta-cleavage pathway after hydroxylation
to the corresponding chlorocatechol. This hypothesis
was supported by polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
detection of the LmPH encoding sequence and UV/VIS spectrophotometric
analysis of the culture filtrate showing accumulation
of 5-chloro-2-hydroxymuconic semialdehyde
(5-CHMS) with λmax 380. The detection of catabolic genes
involved in 4-CP degradation by PCR showed the presence of
both mPH and catechol 2,3-dioxygenase (C23DO). Nucleotide
sequence analysis of the alpha subunit of mPH from strain
PT3 revealed specific phylogenetic grouping to known mPH.
The metal coordination encoding regions from strain PT3
were found to be conserved with those from the homologous
dinuclear oxo-iron bacterial monooxygenases. Two
DE(D)XRH motifs was detected in LmPH of strain PT3
within an approximate 100 amino acid interval, a typical
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Pentachlorophenol is the most toxic and recalcitrant chlorophenol because both aspects are directly proportional to the halogenation degree. Biological and abiotic pentachlorophenol degradation generates p-chloranil, which in neutral to lightly alkaline environmental conditions is hydrolyzed to chloranilic acid that present a violet-reddish coloration in aqueous solution. Several genes of the degradation pathway, cadR-cadCDX, as well as other uncharacterized genes (ORF5 and 6), were isolated from a chloranilic acid degrading bacterium, Pseudomonas putida strain TQ07. The disruption by random mutagenesis of the cadR and cadC genes in TQ07 resulted in a growth deficiency in the presence of chloranilic acid, indicating that these genes are essential for TQ07 growth with chloranilic acid as the sole carbon source. Complementation assays demonstrated that a transposon insertion in mutant CAD82 (cadC) had a polar effect on other genes contained in cosmid pLG3562. These results suggest that at least one of these genes, cadD and cadX, also takes part in chloranilic acid degradation. Based on molecular modeling and function prediction, we strongly suggest that CadC is a pyrone dicarboxylic acid hydrolase and CadD is an aldolase enzyme like dihydrodipicolinate synthase. The results of this study allowed us to propose a novel pathway that offers hypotheses on chloranilic acid degradation (an abiotic by-product of pentachlorophenol) by means of a very clear phenotype that is narrowly related to the capability of Pseudomonas putida strain TQ07 to degrade this benzoquinone.
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A white rot fungus Phlebia tremellosa produced lignin degrading enzymes, which showed degrading activity against various recalcitrant compounds. However, manganese peroxidase (MnP) activity, one of lignin degrading enzymes, was very low in this fungus under various culture conditions. An expression vector that carried both the laccase and MnP genes was constructed using laccase genomic DNA of P. tremellosa and MnP cDNA from Polyporus brumalis. P. tremellosa was genetically transformed using the expression vector to obtain fungal transformants showing increased laccase and MnP activity. Many transformants showed highly increased laccase and MnP activity at the same time in liquid medium, and three of them were used to degrade endocrine disrupting chemicals. The transformant not only degraded bisphenol A and nonylphenol more rapidly but also removed the estrogenic activities of the chemicals faster than the wild type strain.
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Cold environments, including polar and alpine regions, are colonized by a wide diversity of microorganisms able to thrive at low temperatures. There is evidence of a wide range of metabolic activities in alpine cold ecosystems. Like polar microorganisms, alpine microorganisms play a key ecological role in their natural habitats for nutrient cycling, litter degradation, and many other processes. A number of studies have demonstrated the capacity of alpine microorganisms to degrade efficiently a wide range of hydrocarbons, including phenol, phenol-related compounds and petroleum hydrocarbons, and the feasibility of low-temperature bioremediation of European alpine soils by stimulating the degradation capacity of indigenous microorganisms has also been shown.
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Sphingomonas chlorophenolica ATCC39723 was successfully labeled with the gfp (green fluorescent protein) gene inserted into the pcpB gene by homologous recombination. As the gfp recombinant was easily distinguished from other indigenous organisms, the population of gfp recombinant was monitored after being released into the soil microcosms. Their population density dropped from 108 to 106 (cfu/ml) in the non-sterilized soil microcosms during the first 6 days. Moreover, the gfp recombinant was not detected even at lower dilution rates after a certain time period. The recombinant, however, survived for at least 28 days in the sterilized soil microcosms. Although the gfp recombinant did not degrade pentachlorophenol (PCP), this experiment showed the possibility of using gfp as a monitoring reporter system for S. chlorophenolica ATCC39723 and potentially other species of Sphingomonas.
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Jeon, Taeck Joong , Lee, Kil Jae
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Exposure of Escherichia coli strain MC4100 to various concentrations of phenol at temperatures higher than 20℃ led to induction of stress proteins such as GroEL and DnaK, as analyzed by SDS-PAGE and Western blotting methods. The optimum range of phenol concentration for the induction of GroEL and DnaK was slightly different at each temperature of bacterial growth and phenol treatment. The level of GroEL increased as the temperatures of growth and phenol treatment were increased from 30℃ to 40℃. The level of induced FroEL was maximal in the wild type cells which had been grown and treated by 2000㎍/㎖ phenol at 40℃. In contrast to GroEL, the level of DnaK decreased as the temperatures of growth and phenol treatment were increased from 25℃ to 40℃. Dnak was maximally induced in the cells grown and exposed to 1000㎍/㎖ phenol at 25℃. In rpoH mutant cells KY1601, GroEL was not additionally induced by phenol treatment and DnaK was not even detectable under normal and phenol stress conditions. Viability of cells under the same conditions of phenol treatment showed that the phenol resistance in much more induced in wild type cells than rpoH mutant cells. These results suggest that the induction of GroEL and DnaK is required for the enhanced viability of cells under conditions of phenol stress.
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Dong-Hun Lee , Sung-Ae Noh , Chi-Kyung Kim
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A new method was developed for the rapid analysis of diverse bacterial species in the natural envi-ronment. Our method is based on PCR-single-strands-conformation polymorphism (PCR-SSCP) and selective isolation technique of single-stranded DNA. Variable V3 fragments of 16S rDNA were amplified by PCR with bacterial 16S rDNA primers, where one of the primers was biotinylated at the 5'-end. The biotinylated strands of the PCR products were selectively isolated by using streptavidin paramagnetic particles and a magnetic stand, to prevent SSCP analysis producing heteroduplexes from heterogeneous DNA samples. The selected strands were separated by electrophoresis on a polyacrylamide gel, and detected by silver staining. Analysis of PCR products from 8 bacterial strains demonstrated their characteristic DNA band patterns. In addition, changes in the structure of the bacterial community and species diversity in the microcosm treated with phenol could be monitored. After 3 weeks of incubation, phenol and its intermediate, 2-hydroxy-muconic-semialdehyde, were degraded by indig-enous bacteria. These dominating bacterial populations were identified as strong bands on an SSCP gel. Therefore, this study provides useful tools for microbial community analysis of natural habitats.
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Dockyu Kim , Min Jung Park , Sung-Cheol Koh , Jae-Seong So , Eungbin Kim
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J. Microbiol. 2002;40(1):86-89.
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Rhodococcus sp. strain T104, which is able to grow on either biphenyl or limonene, was found to utilize phenol as sole carbon and energy sources. Furthermore, T104 was positively identified to possess three separate pathways for the degradation of limonene, phenol, and biphenyl. The fact that biphenyl and limonene induced almost the same amount of catechol 1,2-dioxygenase activity indicates that limonene can induce both upper and lower pathways for biphenyl degradation by T104.