Multifarious activities of cellulose degrading bacteria from Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) faeces

Cellulose degrading bacteria from koala faeces were isolated using caboxymethylcellulose-Congo red agar, screened in vitro for different hydrolytic enzyme activities and phylogenetically characterized using molecular tools. Bacillus sp. and Pseudomonas sp. were the most prominent bacteria from koala...

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Autores principales: Singh, Surender, Thavamani, Palanisami, Megharaj, Mallavarapu, Naidu, Ravi
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4540270/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26290743
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40781-015-0056-2
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author Singh, Surender
Thavamani, Palanisami
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Naidu, Ravi
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description Cellulose degrading bacteria from koala faeces were isolated using caboxymethylcellulose-Congo red agar, screened in vitro for different hydrolytic enzyme activities and phylogenetically characterized using molecular tools. Bacillus sp. and Pseudomonas sp. were the most prominent bacteria from koala faeces. The isolates demonstrated good xylanase, amylase, lipase, protease, tannase and lignin peroxidase activities apart from endoglucanase activity. Furthermore many isolates grew in the presence of phenanthrene, indicating their probable application for bioremediation. Potential isolates can be exploited further for industrial enzyme production or in bioremediation of contaminated sites.
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spelling pubmed-45402702015-08-19 Multifarious activities of cellulose degrading bacteria from Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) faeces Singh, Surender Thavamani, Palanisami Megharaj, Mallavarapu Naidu, Ravi J Anim Sci Technol Research Cellulose degrading bacteria from koala faeces were isolated using caboxymethylcellulose-Congo red agar, screened in vitro for different hydrolytic enzyme activities and phylogenetically characterized using molecular tools. Bacillus sp. and Pseudomonas sp. were the most prominent bacteria from koala faeces. The isolates demonstrated good xylanase, amylase, lipase, protease, tannase and lignin peroxidase activities apart from endoglucanase activity. Furthermore many isolates grew in the presence of phenanthrene, indicating their probable application for bioremediation. Potential isolates can be exploited further for industrial enzyme production or in bioremediation of contaminated sites. BioMed Central 2015-07-08 /pmc/articles/PMC4540270/ /pubmed/26290743 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40781-015-0056-2 Text en © Singh et al. 2015 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Multifarious activities of cellulose degrading bacteria from Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) faeces
title Multifarious activities of cellulose degrading bacteria from Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) faeces
title_full Multifarious activities of cellulose degrading bacteria from Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) faeces
title_fullStr Multifarious activities of cellulose degrading bacteria from Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) faeces
title_full_unstemmed Multifarious activities of cellulose degrading bacteria from Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) faeces
title_short Multifarious activities of cellulose degrading bacteria from Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) faeces
title_sort multifarious activities of cellulose degrading bacteria from koala (phascolarctos cinereus) faeces
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4540270/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26290743
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40781-015-0056-2
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