Publications by authors named "Selvapravin Kumaran"
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- Membrane-bound styrene oxide isomerase (SOI) facilitates the conversion of epoxides to carbonyl compounds through a Lewis-acid-based rearrangement but lacked structural insights into its mechanism.
- Using cryo-electron microscopy and various biochemical techniques, researchers shed light on SOI's structure and catalytic process, identifying key residues and interactions that ensure its high selectivity and specificity.
- The discoveries could enhance the use of SOI for different epoxide substrates and enable its application in novel iron-based chemical reactions.
The soil bacteria isolated in this study, including three strains of actinobacteria and one Paraburkholderia sp., showed decolorization activity of azo dyes in the resting cell assay and were shown to use methyl red as the sole carbon source to proliferate. Therefore, their ability to degrade, bioabsorb, or a combination of both mechanism was investigated using the substrate brilliant black.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn the present study, we report the draft genome of soil isolate DP-K7 that has the potential to degrade methyl red. The 16S rRNA gene sequencing and whole-genome analysis exposed that the bacterial strain DP-K7 belongs to the species . The genome annotation of the strain DP-K7 through the bioinformatics tool "Prokka" showed that the genome contains 3,010,594 bp with 69.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA novel Gram-stain negative, aerobic, motile, rod-shaped bacterium was isolated from Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) rhizosphere soil. Based on the 16S rRNA gene similarity value (99.
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