Bacterial-fungal interactions are important in the functioning of natural ecosystems. We examined possible synergistic or antagonistic effects during degradation polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) by a fungal–bacterial co-culture. Bacteria and fungi were grown liquid nutrient medium supplemented with PAH substrates. The PAHs identification metabolites checked HPLC. Enzyme activities spectr...

opportunistic fungal infections including candidiasis have increased dramatically in recent years. most medically important fungi are candida species. rapid identification od candida isolates to the species level in the clinical laboratory is necessary for more rapid and effective antifungal therapy and to facilitate hospital infection control measures. conventional morphological methods for id...

Fungal nitric oxide reductase (cytochrome P450 nor) is a heme-containing enzyme, in which the iron-porphyrin complex is an active site of the enzyme. This enzyme is involved in the fungal denitrification process, and catalyzes the reduction of NO to N2O. Its structural and functional characteristics were examined by enzymatic, kinetic, spectroscopic (optical absorption, ESR, resonance Raman, IR...

The dermatophyte Trichophyton schoenleinii elaborates an extracellular collagenase which is specific for native collagen and gelatin and is separable from an enzyme which is active against Azocoll. The fungal enzyme differs from the bacterial collagenases in its acid pH and small molecular weight. In addition, the fungal enzyme is irreversibly inhibited by ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, where...

Adenosine deaminase from Aspergillus oryzae resembles mammalian adenosine deaminases in its ability to catalyze the hydrolytic removal of many substituents from C-6, and in the chirality at C-6 of the active isomer of the transition-state-analogue inhibitor 6-hydroxymethyl-1,6-dihydropurine ribonucleoside. The 5'-OH group of adenosine has been found to contribute a factor of 5.10(4) to transiti...

To produce an active metabolite of Chlordiazepoxide by fungal biotransformation in easy and economic way also to develop microbial models for drug metabolism studies. is metabolized the liver CYP3A4 forms major N-desmethyl chlordiazepoxide. The focus study was explore ability six distinct fungi biotransform its metabolites. Induction, Inhibition kinetic studies were conducted find out type capa...

Terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (TRFLP) profiling of the internally transcribed spacer (ITS) ribosomal DNA of unknown fungal communities is currently unsupported by a broad-range enzyme-choosing rationale. An in silico study of terminal fragment size distribution was therefore performed following virtual digestion (by use of a set of commercially available 135 type IIP restric...

Fungi represent a highly diverse evolutionary group of eukaryotic, heterotrophic organisms which share a common cellular organisation. The fungill thallus or mycelium consists of hyph<le, tubular slructures which may be divided into cellular units by sepIa. Growth of fungal hyph;lC occurs al thc lip and is medialed by continuous synthesis aIIII scnction of cell w;i11 material to the apex. Hypha...