Ashok Kumar, Kartik Dhar, Shamsher S. Kanwar, Pankaj Kumar Arora
Lipases are industrial biocatalysts, which are involved in several novel reactions, occurring in aqueous medium as well as non-aqueous medium. Furthermore, they are well-known for their remarkable ability to carry out a wide variety of chemo-, regio- and enantio-selective transformations. Lipases ha...
Md. Ekramul Karim, Kartik Dhar, Md. Towhid Hossain
Dyeing effluents have become a vital source of water pollution. Due to the xenobiotic properties and toxicity to all life forms including humans, removal of undesirable color and associated toxicity is crucial. In this study, five dye decolorizing bacteria were isolated from dyeing effluent using se...
Kartik Dhar, Suresh R. Subashchandrabose, Kadiyala Venkateswarlu, Kannan Krishnan et al.
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are a class of hazardous organic contaminants that are widely distributed in nature, and many of them are potentially toxic to humans and other living organisms. Biodegradation is the major route of detoxification and removal of PAHs from the environment. Aero...
Nowshin Tarannum, Tanim Jabid Hossain, Ferdausi Ali, Tuhin Das et al.
Exopolysaccharides (EPSs) are versatile organic thickeners derived from microbes, offering beneficial bioactive properties. This study focused on isolating new bacterial strains from bovine milk capable of EPS biosynthesis. Out of 63 isolates, four strains, Lactiplantibacillus sp. ME2b, Lactococcus ...
Kartik Dhar, Kadiyala Venkateswarlu, Mallavarapu Megharaj
The extraordinary metabolic flexibility of anoxygenic phototrophic purple non-sulfur bacteria (PNSB) has been exploited in the development of various biotechnological applications, such as wastewater treatment, biohydrogen production, improvement of soil fertility and plant growth, and recovery of h...
Md. Ekramul Karim, Kartik Dhar, Md. Towhid Hossain
Pankaj Kumar Arora, Kartik Dhar, Rafael Alejandro Veloz García, Ashutosh Sharma
An indole‐biotransforming strain MA was identified as Lysinibacillus xylanilyticus on the basis of the 16S rRNA gene sequencing. It transforms indole completely from the broth culture in the presence of an additional carbon source (i.e., sodium succinate). Gas‐chromatography‐mass spectrometry identi...
Rocky Chowdhury, Kartik Dhar, Forkan Ahamed, S M Murshid Ul Alam et al.
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are ubiquitous environmental pollutants entering into the environment through natural and anthropogenic activities. Owing to their toxicity to various life forms including humans, detoxification of PAHs is crucial to reduce their effects on cells. In this stud...
Vimal Kumar Dubey, K. Chandrasekhar, Alok Kumar Srivastava, Aminuddin Aminuddin et al.
The coat protein (CP)-mediated resistance against Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) subgroup IA was developed in transgenic lines of Nicotiana tabacum cv. Petit Havana using Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation. Ten independently transformed lines have developed, four of which were tested for...
Md. Ekramul Karim, Kartik Dhar, Md. Moniruzzaman, Mohammad Uzzal Hossain et al.
Treatment of textile and dyeing wastewater using indigenous dye-degrading microorganisms is considered to be a sustainable bioremediation strategy. In the present study, a dye-decolorizing fungal strain was isolated from dyeing sludge and identified as Aspergillus flavus strain EF-3 on the basis of ...
Nowshin Tarannum, Ferdausi Ali, Kartik Dhar, Tuhin Das et al.
Pankqj Deb Nath, Rocky Chowdhury, Kartik Dhar, Tumpa Dhar et al.
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an important infectious agent which causes nosocomial infections in immune-compromised patients, especially among burnt patients. In recent times, it has emerged as a far-flung Multi-Drug Resistant (MDR) pathogen which needs regular and periodic antibiotic susceptibility su...
Kartik Dhar, Tareque Mahmud, Rocky Chowdhury, Sanzida Kulsum et al.
Acinetobacter baumannii has emerged over the last decade as a significant opportunistic pathogen and primarily associated with hospital-acquired infections. Increasing multidrug resistance pattern of A. baumannii makes it among the most difficult antimicrobial-resistant Gram-negative bacilli to cont...