Background: Sophorolipids are glycolipid biosurfactants with potential antibacterial, antifungal, and anticancer applications, rendering them promising for research. Therefore, this study hypothesizes that sophorolipids may have a notable impact on disrupting membrane integrity and triggering the production of reactive oxygen species, ultimately resulting in the eradication of pathogenic microbes.
Results: The current study resulted in the isolation of two Metschnikowia novel yeast strains.
Monoclonal antibody downstream processing typically entails chromatography-based purification processes beginning with Protein A chromatography, accounting for 50 % of the total manufacturing expense. Alternatives to protein A chromatography have been explored by several researchers. In this paper, aqueous two-phase extraction (ATPE) has been proposed for continuous processing of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) as an alternative to the traditional protein A chromatography.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe present study reports the structural and functional characterization of a new glutaminase-free recombinant L-asparaginase (PrASNase) from Pseudomonas resinovorans IGS-131. PrASNase showed substrate specificity to L-asparagine, and its kinetic parameters, K, V, and k were 9.49 × 10 M, 25.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFour yeast strains were isolated from the gut of stingless bee, collected in Churdhar, Himachal Pradesh, India. Physiological characterization, morphological examination, and sequence analysis of small subunit ribosomal RNA (18S rRNA) genes, internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region, and D1/D2 domain of the large subunit rRNA gene revealed that the four strains isolated from the gut of stingless bee belonged to the Debaryomyces clade. Strain CIG-23H showed sequence divergence of 7.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe marine environment is known for its vast diversity of the microbial population; however, less explored for bioactive compounds. In this study, an AMP produced by a new marine isolate, MT110, showed broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. The AMP was purified to homogeneity using ethyl acetate extraction followed by RP-HPLC, and LC-MS analysis showed its molecular weight as 980 Da.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: L-Asparaginase is an essential enzyme for the food and biopharmaceutical industry. The stability, however, of L-asparaginase is widely known to be an issue. Commercial manufacturing of any biopharmaceutical involves hold-ups during processing, and can result in product loss if stability is an issue, as is the case with L-asparaginase.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEpidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is the primary target for the treatment of colorectal cancer, the third most diagnosed cancer worldwide. In recent years, regulatory changes have facilitated the approval of biosimilars aimed to bring more access to biologics to patients. However, it has also expended the requirements of non-clinical characterisation data using state-of-the-art and orthogonal methodologies to demonstrate similarity between proposed biologic and its reference medicinal product (RMP).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn the current study, the production of novel glutaminase free l-asparaginase from a new microbial source ( IGS-131) is reported. Optimization of l-asparaginase production using conventional and statistical optimization techniques resulted in an enzyme yield of 37.63 IU/mL, which was 3.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFl-asparaginase is a pharmaceutically and industrially important enzyme as it has potential to treat different cancers and inhibit acrylamide formation in fried and baked food products. In the present study, an attempt was made to screen for new and novel l-asparaginase producers using a widely applied phenol red and bromothymol blue (BTB) dye-based plate assay. Screening of four different soil samples for l-asparaginase producers resulted in the isolation of three new potential l-asparaginase producing bacteria.
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