1,720,956 research outputs found
Functional characterisation of alkane-degrading monooxygenases in Rhodococcus jostii strain 8
No full textShort-chain alkanes are gaseous hydrocarbons that contribute to photochemical pollution and ozone production in the atmosphere. A number of studies have shown that Rhodococcus species possess the ability to metabolite a wide range of hydrocarbons since they contain multiple hydrocarbon-degrading enzymes such as soluble diiron monooxygenases (SDIMOs) and alkB-type alkane monooxygenases. This study aimed to investigate the role of multiple alkane-degrading enzymes in the metabolism of gaseous alkanes in Rhodococcus jostii strain 8. R. jostii strain 8 was isolated from a propane enrichment culture using petroleum-contaminated soil as an inoculum. R. jostii strain 8 could grow on ethane, propane, butane, octane, naphthalene and some potential intermediates in alkane metabolism. Oxidation studies showed that R. jostii strain 8 is likely to oxidise propane via both terminal and sub-terminal oxidation of propane and that these activities are induced in propane-grown cells. Alcohol dehydrogenase assays were carried out in order to determine cofactor and substrate ranges of these enzymes. Results showed that alcohol dehydrogenases involved in the metabolism of gaseous alkanes are NDMA-dependent. The size of the genome sequence of R. jostii strain 8 is 8.5 Mbp with a G+C content of 67%. The closest relative of R. jostii strain 8, based on 16S rRNA sequence, is Rhodococcus jostii RHA1 with 99% identity. However, growth profiles and a number of catabolic genes in the genome of R. jostii strain 8 clearly indicated that this bacterium is different from R. jostii RHA1. R. jostii strain 8 contains two alkane-degrading enzyme systems – a propane monooxygenase and an alkB-type alkane monooxygenase. Polypeptide analysis on cell-free extracts from cells grown on gaseous alkanes using SDS-PAGE indicated that propane monooxygenase is inducible during growth on propane. Expression studies using RT-qPCR of prmA and alkB showed that prmA was highly expressed during growth on propane. The exact involvement of alkB-type alkane monooxygenase in the degradation of alkanes was still unclear. A gene transfer system for R. jostii strain 8 was established. Marker-exchanged mutagenesis of prmA and alkB was attempted. Construction of mutated-prmA and mutated-alkB plasmids was achieved. Electroporation conditions were successfully optimised in order to transfer linear DNA into R. jostii strain 8. However, mutants lacking active prmA or alkB are still needed to further study their phenotypes and to provide more evidence supporting the role of these two enzymes
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Effect of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria and rhizofungus on the growth of hairy basil (Ocimum basilicum L.f. var. citratum Back.)
No full textn this study, plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) and plant growth promoting fungi (PGPF) were isolated from soil adhered to the roots of herbs. PGPR and PGPF isolates were selected for producing microbial inoculant as a starter culture for bio-fertilizer production. The screening of PGPR and PGPF was performed using the spread plate technique on the selected medium. Total plant growth promoting microorganisms (PGPM) were composed of 72 isolates, nitrogen-fixing microorganisms: 39 isolates, phosphate-solubilizing: 11 isolates, and potassium-solubilizing: 22 isolates. Two bacterial isolates, S-K7-2 and S-P7-1, had the highest plant growth promoting abilities, and a fungus isolate, Di-K7-2, was able to produce the greatest amount of IAA, which was 45.17 μg IAA equivalent/ml. The isolates were tested on hairy basil seed germination. Treatment using microbial cell dissolved in sterile distilled water had the greatest potential for stimulating the growth of seed and presented 145.26% of GI, followed by 82.87% where the treatment was with IAA standard. The study of the effect of PGPR and PGPF on hairy basil growth found that the highest biomass was shown in treatment 3, peat supplemented bacteria (S-K7-2, S-P7-1), which indicated that rhizobacteria immobilized on peat was able to enhance the growth of hairy basil and had better potential for promoting plant development compared with chemical fertilizer treatment
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
- …
