Background: Levan or fructan, a polysaccharide of fructose, is widely used in various commercial industries. Levan could be produced by many organisms, including plants and bacteria. The cloning of the gene from Bacillus licheniformis, which expressed levansucrase in E. coli host, was carried out successfully.  In the present study, we performed the in vitro production of levan and analyzed its...

background: cancer has the highest disease-related mortality rate in iran. reduced activity of paraoxonase reported in patients with cancer may be due to a reduction in its antioxidant properties and a subsequent increased risk of developing cancer. we aimed to assess antioxidant and oxidative status in patients with cancer through measuring the activity of pon1 as an antioxidant enzyme and det...

antioxidant activities protect the cell against oxidative agents that are constant metabolic by-products. the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between harvesting time of thymus transcaspicus and its antioxidant activities. the plant samples were harvested 5 times in different growth phases from 17 april to 22 july 2008, and its antioxidant activity was studied using the fer...

Antioxidant activity of symbiotic organisms known as lichens is an intriguing field of research because of its strong contribution to their ability to withstand extremes of physical and biological stress (e.g. desiccation, temperature, UV radiation and microbial infection). We present a comparative study on the antioxidant activities of 76 Icelandic and 41 Hawaiian lichen samples assessed emplo...

In recent years, scientists and researchers from all over the world pay much attention to carotenoid pigments as a substitute for antibiotics and synthetic chemical compounds with antioxidant property and the plants, various microorganisms including bacteria and algae are also capable of producing carotenoid pigments. In this research, the production of antimicrobial and antioxidant carotenoid ...