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Title

Potential Use of Rice Field Cyanobacterium Nostoc muscorum in the Evaluation of Butachlor Induced Toxicity and their Degradation

 

Authors

Sumaiya Anees, Shazia Suhail, Neelam Pathak & Mohd Zeeshan*

 

Affiliation

Department of Biosciences, Integral University, Lucknow-226 026, India

 

Email

zee_bot_auind@rediffmail.com; *Corresponding author

 

Article Type

Hypothesis

 

Date

Received May 26, 2014; Accepted May 28, 2014; Published June 30, 2014

 

Abstract

In the present study, butachlor (5, 10, 20, 40 and 80 ppm) induced toxicity in Nostoc muscorum and their degradation was evaluated. The dose of butachlor dependent decreased in the cell survival and growth of N. muscorum was noticed. Scanning electron microscopy revealed the adverse impact on the cell size and shapes. Low concentrations of butachlor (10 and 20 ppm) induced the over expression of a polypeptides of 31.0 K Da and 42.7 K Da, respectively which could be responsible for developing resistance in the organism up to certain level. Further, the degradation product of butachlor as a result of metabolic activities of N. muscorum, identified by GC-MS analysis includes phenols and benzene dicarboxylic acid indicating the utilization of herbicide during active growth.

 

Keywords

Bioremediation, Butachlor, Cyanobacteria, GC-MS, SDS-PAGE, SEM.

 

Citation

Anees et al. Bioinformation 10(6): 365-370 (2014)

 

Edited by

P Kangueane

 

ISSN

0973-2063

 

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

 

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.