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Production and spillage of petroleum hydrocarbons which is the most versatile energy resource causes disastrous environmental pollution. Elevated oil degrading performance from microorganisms is demanded for successful microbial remediation of those toxic pollutants. The employment of biosurfactant-producing and hydrocarbon-utilizing microbes enhances the effectiveness of bioremediation as biosurfactant plays a key role by making hydrocarbons bio-available for degradation. The present study aimed the isolation of a potent biosurfactant producing indigenous bacteria which can be employed for crude oil remediation, along with the characterization of the biosurfactant produced during crude oil biodegradation. A potent bacterial strain Pseudomonas aeruginosa PG1 (identified by 16s rDNA sequencing) was isolated from hydrocarbon contaminated soil that could efficiently produce biosurfactant by utilizing crude oil components as the carbon source, thereby leading to the enhanced degradation of the petroleum hydrocarbons. Strain PG1 could degrade 81.8% of total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH) after 5 weeks of culture when grown in mineral salt media (MSM) supplemented with 2% (v/v) crude oil as the sole carbon source. GCMS analysis of the treated crude oil samples revealed that P. aeruginosa PG1 could potentially degrade various hydrocarbon contents including various PAHs present in the crude oil. Biosurfactant produced by strain PG1 in the course of crude oil degradation, promotes the reduction of surface tension (ST) of the culture medium from 51.8 to 29.6 mN m-1, with the critical micelle concentration (CMC) of 56 mg L-1. FTIR, LC-MS, and SEM-EDS studies revealed that the biosurfactant is a rhamnolipid comprising of both mono and di rhamnolipid congeners. The biosurfactant did not exhibit any cytotoxic effect to mouse L292 fibroblastic cell line, however, strong antibiotic activity against some pathogenic bacteria and fungus was observed.
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PMID:Characterization of Biosurfactant Produced during Degradation of Hydrocarbons Using Crude Oil As Sole Source of Carbon. 2827 73

To overcome the instability of pectin-Ca2+ gels based oral colon-specific drug delivery system (OCDDS) in the upper gastrointestinal tract, the chemical cross-linked pectin carriers were prepared by adding succinic anhydride and glutaric dialdehyde as the cross-linking reagents. The diclofenac sodium was employed as the water-soluble drug model to calculate the controlled release properties. The encapsulation efficiency and loading efficiency were measured and the sample PG1 shows the best efficiency of 78.81% and 7.78%, respectively. The simulative release rate was estimated and the cumulative release rate of sample PG1 reached to a maximum of 3.04, 3.66 and 79.43% in SGF, SSIF and SCF. The release data was employed to fit the First order, Higuchi, Bhaskar, and Ritger-peppas model and the goodness of the fit was calculated by the regression coefficient. The succinic anhydride and glutaric dialdehyde cross-linked pectin were characterized by FTIR to prove the cross-linking reaction. In addition, FE-SEM characterization of sample PG1 indicated the rally microsphere with smooth surface. The sample PG1 after the digestion was also characterized by the FE-SEM, and irregularly structure was obtained.
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PMID:Chemical cross-linking approach for prolonging diclofenac sodium release from pectin-based delivery system. 3127 23