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Reduction of molybdate to molybdenum blue by Klebsiella sp. strain hkeem


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Lim, H. K. and Syed, Mohd. Arif and Abd. Shukor, Mohd. Yunus (2012) Reduction of molybdate to molybdenum blue by Klebsiella sp. strain hkeem. Journal of Basic Microbiology, 52 (3). pp. 296-305. ISSN 0233-111X; ESSN: 1521-4028

Abstract

A novel molybdate-reducing bacterium, tentatively identified as Klebsiella sp. strain hkeem and based on partial 16s rDNA gene sequencing and phylogenetic analysis, has been isolated. Strain hkeem produced 3 times more molybdenum blue than Serratia sp. strain Dr.Y8; the most potent Mo-reducing bacterium isolated to date. Molybdate was optimally reduced to molybdenum blue using 4.5 mM phosphate, 80 mM molybdate and using 1% (w/v) fructose as a carbon source. Molybdate reduction was optimum at 30 °C and at pH 7.3. The molybdenum blue produced from cellular reduction exhibited absorption spectrum with a maximum peak at 865 nm and a shoulder at 700 nm. Inhibitors of electron transport system such as antimycin A, rotenone, sodium azide, and potassium cyanide did not inhibit the molybdenum-reducing enzyme. Mercury, silver, and copper at 1 ppm inhibited molybdenum blue formation in whole cells of strain hkeem.


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences
DOI Number: https://doi.org/10.1002/jobm.201100121
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: Klebsiella sp. strain hkeem; Molybdate reduction; Molybdenum blue
Depositing User: Nurul Ainie Mokhtar
Date Deposited: 07 Dec 2015 06:13
Last Modified: 07 Dec 2015 06:13
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URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/22394
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