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Advances in Microbiology (AIM) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in Microbiology. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of Microbiology. Al…
Justin D. Chaffin, Thomas B. Bridgeman, Darren L. Bade
Phosphorus (P) is generally considered to be the main limiting nutrient to freshwater phytoplankton productivity. However, recent research is drawing attention to the importance of nitrogen (N) in freshwater eutrophication and N often constrains growth of cya…
Jennifer B. Glass, Amisha T. Poret-Peterson, Felisa Wolfe-Simon, Ariel D. Anbar
We studied the effect of molybdenum (Mo) concentration on transcription and translation of a putative Mo-storage protein (Mop) in the freshwater heterocystous cyanobacterium, Nostoc sp. PCC 7120. Triplicate treatments were acclimated to 1, 150, and 3000 nM Mo…
Gabriel Kenne, Deon van der Merwe
Cyanobacteria are gram-negative photosynthetic bacteria capable of producing toxins responsible for morbidity and mortality in humans and domestic animals. They are capable of forming concentrated blooms, referred to as harmful algal blooms (HABs). Characteri…
Veloorvalappil N. Jisha, Robinson B. Smitha, Sailas Benjamin
Strains of Bacillus thuringiensis ( Bt ) are known to produce crystalline proteins ( δ- endotoxins) concomitantly with sporulation during their stationary phase of growth, which are demonstrated as lethal to lepidopeterous, coleopeterous and dipterous insects…
Oksana V. Berezina, German Jurgens, Natalia V. Zakharova, Rustem S. Shakulov, Sergey V. Yarotsky, Tom B. Granström
Heterofermentative lactic acid bacterium Lactobacillus brevis may be considered as a promising host for heterologous butanol synthesis because of tolerance to butanol and ability to ferment pentose and hexose sugars from wood hydrolysates that are cheap and r…
Alicja Hryniszyn, Magdalena Skonieczna, Jarosław Wiszniowski
Viruses present in water might be harmful for human health and life. Nowadays over 100 pathogenic human virus species occur in water polluted with sewage. Chlorination, which is the most popular disinfection method is not able to remove easily viruses from tr…
Janice A. Rafael, Nilton S. Arakawa, Sérgio R. Ambrosio, Fernando B. Da Costa, Suraia Said
Kaurenoic acid (KA) , a kaurane-type diterpene extracted from leaves of Mikania hirsutissima , was previously reported as an inhibitor of vascular contractility mainly by blocking extracellular Ca 2+ influx. The compound is known for several other biological…
Elena Campo, María-Ángeles Lezcano, Ramsy Agha, Samuel Cirés, Antonio Quesada, Rehab El-Shehawy
Cylindrospermopsin (CYN) is an alkaloid that causes hepatotoxicity, neurotoxicity and general cytotoxicity in vertebrates. It is currently gaining widespread attention after its reported appearance in water bodies around the world. A. ovalisporum is capable o…
Juliana Nunes e Oliveira Alves, João Atílio Jorge, Luis Henrique Souza Guimarães
The production of invertases by anamorph ( A. nidulans ) and teleomorph ( E. nidulans ) was investigated. The best level of extracellular enzymatic production for anomorph was obtained in Khanna medium containing sucrose as carbon source, whereas for teleomor…
Teresa A. Johnson, Timothy R. Ellsworth, Robert J. M. Hudson, Gerald K. Sims
Effects of sub-millimeter scale heterogeneity in chemical and microbial distributions on atrazine degradation were examined using Pseudomonas sp. strain ADP introduced into soil at a population mimicking atrazine-adapted soils (~2000 cells/g), and employing a…
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Advances in Microbiology (AIM) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in Microbiology. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of Microbiology. Al… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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