Arsenite oxidizing Klebsiella pneumoniae strain SSSW7 isolated from shipyard waste Goa, India showed a minimum inhibitory concentration of 21 mM in mineral salts medium. The strain possessed a small supercoiled plasmid and ...

Functional screening of marine metagenomic library resulted in a single protease positive clone (GUSK-1) containing a 4.0 kbps insert. The DNA insert was sub-cloned using pET-22b expression vector system. Phenylmethylsulfonyl ...

Tributyltin chloride (TBTC)- and lead-resistant estuarine bacterium from Mandovi estuary, Goa, India was isolated and identified as Aeromonas caviae strain KS-1 based on biochemical characteristics and FAME analysis. It ...

Recent developments in science have recognized that culture-based method is inefficient in recognizing most (99 percent) of the unculturable microorganisms inhabiting the planet Earth. This fact stimulated the development ...

Achromobacter xylosoxidans strain SJ11, tolerating up to 4.0?mM lead nitrate, in a defined minimal medium was isolated from the waste of a battery manufacturing industry, Goa, India. Interestingly, it formed white precipitate ...

A novel arsenite resistant bacterial strain SSBW5 was isolated from the battery waste site of Corlim, Goa, India. This strain interestingly exhibited rapid arsenite oxidation with an accumulation of 5 mM arsenate within ...