| evaluation of ten wild nigerian mushrooms for amylase and cellulase activities. | amylases and cellulases are important enzymes that can be utilized for various biological activities. ten different wild nigerian mushrooms (agaricus blazei, agaricus sp., corilopsis occidentalis, coriolus versicolor, termitomyces clypeatus, termitomyces globulus, pleurotus tuber-regium, podoscypha bolleana, pogonomyces hydnoides, and nothopanus hygrophanus) were assayed for production of these secondary metabolites. the results revealed that most of the tested wild fungi demonstrated very good ... | 2011 | 22783085 |
| pushing the limits of automatic computational protein design: design, expression, and characterization of a large synthetic protein based on a fungal laccase scaffold. | the de novo engineering of new proteins will allow the design of complex systems in synthetic biology. but the design of large proteins is very challenging due to the large combinatorial sequence space to be explored and the lack of a suitable selection system to guide the evolution and optimization. one way to approach this challenge is to use computational design methods based on the current crystallographic data and on molecular mechanics. we have used a laccase protein fold as a scaffold to ... | 2011 | 22654993 |
| optimization and kinetics evaluation of biodegradation of synthetic azo reactive dye by fungal consortium. | wastewater containing direct dyes discharged from various industries, in particular, textile industry, often cause many environmental problems. among the various effluent treatment methods, biological methods found to be cost effective and do not end up in secondary pollutants. in this study, an attempt has been made to study the decolorization of cibacron yellow s-3r, an azo reactive dye by using fungal cultures such as coriolus versicolor, phanerochaete chrysosporium, pleurotus ostreatus, and ... | 2011 | 23505830 |
| effect of coriolus versicolor polysaccharide-b on the biological characteristics of human esophageal carcinoma cell line eca109. | to investigate the effect of coriolus versicolor polysaccharide-b (cvps-b) on the biological characteristics of human esophageal carcinoma cell line eca109 in vitro. | 2012 | 23691473 |
| psp activates monocytes in resting human peripheral blood mononuclear cells: immunomodulatory implications for cancer treatment. | polysaccharopeptide (psp), from coriolus versicolor, has been used as an adjuvant to chemotherapy, and has demonstrated anti-tumor and immunomodulating effects. however its mechanism remains unknown. to elucidate how psp affects immune populations, we compared psp treatments both with and without prior incubation in phytohaemagglutinin (pha) - a process commonly used in immune population experimentation. we first standardised a capillary electrophoresis fingerprinting technique for psp identific ... | 2012 | 23497877 |
| biodegradation of organics in landfill leachate by immobilized white rot fungi, trametes versicolor bcc 8725. | immobilized trametes versicolor bcc 8725 was evaluated for the biodegradation of the organic components of four different types of landfill leachate collected at different time periods and locations from the nonthaburi landfill site of thailand in batch treatment. the effects of carbon source, ammonia and organic loading on colour, biochemical oxygen demand (bod) and chemical oxygen demand (cod) removal, and the reuse of immobilized fungi were investigated. it was found that fungi can remove 78% ... | 2012 | 23437657 |
| synthetic dye decolorization by three sources of fungal laccase. | decolorization of six synthetic dyes using three sources of fungal laccase with the origin of aspergillus oryzae, trametes versicolor, and paraconiothyrium variabile was investigated. among them, the enzyme from p. variabile was the most efficient which decolorized bromophenol blue (100%), commassie brilliant blue (91%), panseu-s (56%), rimazol brilliant blue r (rbbr; 47%), congo red (18.5%), and methylene blue (21.3%) after 3 h incubation in presence of hydroxybenzotriazole (hbt; 5 mm) as the l ... | 2012 | 23369690 |