Annales Bogorienses

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Authors: Anggia Prasetyoputri, Wien Kusharyoto

Control and eradication of a number of infectious diseases are primarily attributed to effective vaccination programs. A concerted effort is still imperative to develop novel vaccines and improve the immunogenicity of existing ones with regards to efficacy, immunogenicity and safety. Rational design of vaccines using subunit vaccines is a potentially safer alternative to conventional vaccines, yet they are poorly immunogenic without additional adjuvant. Using antigen carriers to enhance their immunogenicity in the forms of adsorption or encapsulation with a delivery system has been widely investigated as an alternative to currently available adjuvants. This review aims to elaborate on the existing nanotechnology being used to develop more immunogenic subunit vaccines, with focus on particulate delivery systems for development of prophylactic vaccine candidates.

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Authors: Akhirta Atikana, Mohamad Azrul Naim, Detmer Sipkema

Sponges are sources of various useful natural products. The natural compounds derived from sponges are mostly complex polyketide. The polyketide synthase genes (PKS) is responsible for the biosynthesis of complex polyketides. During this research, we detected ketosynthase (KS) gene domain from 10 species of marine sponges, collected from Mediterranean Sea (Aplysina aerophoba, Petrocia ficiformis, Axinella damicornis, Axinella veronicas, Crambe crambe) and North Sea (Halichondria panicea, Haliclona xena, Haliclona oculata, Suberites massa, Ephydatia fluviatilis). We also detected KS gene domain from 12 bacterial sponge isolated from H. panacea. We used a PCR-based approach to detect the ketosynthase (KS) gene domain of Polyketosynthase (PKS) genes. Our result showed that the sponges and the bacterial sponges are mostly KS-positive (700 bp). The presence of the PKS gene indicates the ability of the sponges to produce bioactive compound and potential natural product. The presence of the KS domain in both of the sponges and the bacterial sponges might also indicate that the bacterial sponges involved in the biosintesis of secondary metabolite of the sponges

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Authors: Dwi Susilaningsih, Fumiyoshi Okazaki, Yopi Yopi, Yantyati Widyastuti, Shigeaki Harayama

Page Header OPEN ACCESS POLICY Annales Bogorienses is Open Acces Journal for public. Feel free for viewing, downloading and contributing articles (free of charges). For more informations do not hesitate to contact us or click the page. Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Information For Readers For Authors For Librarians Current Issue Atom logo RSS2 logo RSS1 logo Notifications View Subscribe User Username Password Remember me Home About Login Register Search Current Archives Announcements Editorial Board Peer Reviewer Home > Vol 17, No 2 (2013) > Susilaningsih Isolation and Screening of Surfactant-producing Bacteria from Indonesian Marine Environments and Its Application on Bioremediation Dwi Susilaningsih, Fumiyoshi Okazaki, Yopi Yopi, Yantyati Widyastuti, Shigeaki Harayama Abstract Isolation and screening have been undertaken on oil-degrading microbes from Indonesian marine environments. During screening process it has been found many bacterial isolates capable of degrading crude oil. Hence, study has been focused on the biodiversity of biosurfactant-producing bacterial species in Indonesian marine environment and its function for remedial the pollutant in marine and soil areas. A total of 103 out of 463 isolates showed positive surfactant-degrading properties. By means of partial 16S rRNA gene analyses, it has been found that the majority of taxa are related to Alcanivorax, Pseudomonas, Bacillus, Bortetela, Brucella, Acenitobacter, Staphia, Lysobacter, and Talasosophira. Biosurfactant properties assay showed that they were capable of lowering the surface- and interfacial water tension from 74 mN/m to 40-65 mN/m and from 24 mN/m to 6-10 mN/m, respectively. In addition, most of the surfactants were capable of emulsifying hydrocarbon (crude oil) of 0.01 to 0.15 units, comparable to 0.08 units of synthetic surfactant (20% Tween). Further observation showed that the majority of the surfactants were able to degrade a long chain of alkane, but not branched alkane, with a recovering rate of 20-80%. The application of the surfactant towards oil polluted model beach was done in laboratory scale and showing the surfactant obtained from microbial broth cultures capable for recovering the oil pollutant significantly, compared to the control (without addition microbial broth).