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Analysis of the biochemical properties, biological activity and biotechnological potential of siderophores and biosurfactants produced by Antarctic psychrotolerant bacteria

2016/23/B/NZ9/02909

Keywords:

siderophore biosurfactant psychrotolerant bacterium Antarctica

Descriptors:

  • NZ9_8: Environmental microbiology
  • NZ1_10: Microbiology
  • NZ9_9: Environmental biotechnology

Panel:

NZ9 - Fundamentals of applied life sciences and biotechnology: agricultural, forestry, horticulture, animal production and fishery, food and nutrition sciences, industrial biosciences, environmental biotechnology and remediation

Host institution :

Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydział Biologii

woj. mazowieckie

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr hab. Łukasz Dziewit 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 6

Call: OPUS 12 - announced on 2016-09-15

Amount awarded: 949 000 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2017-08-04

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2021-02-03

Project duration:: 42 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

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Equipment purchased [PL]

  1. Sterylizator parowy.
  2. Wirówka z agregatem chłodzącym (np. Centrifuge 5430R, firmy Eppendorf) (32 000 PLN)
  3. 12-pozycyjny system pomiarowy OxiTop (np. OxiTop Control, firmy WITKO) (46 000 PLN)

Information in the final report

  • Publication in academic press/journals (5)
  1. Genome-based insights into the production of carotenoids by Antarctic bacteria, Planococcus sp. ANT_H30 and Rhodococcus sp. ANT_H53B
    Authors:
    Michal Styczynski, Agata Rogowska, Katarzyna Gieczewska, Maciej Garstka, Anna Szakiel, Lukasz Dziewit
    Academic press:
    Molecules (rok: 2020, tom: 25, strony: 4357), Wydawca: MDPI
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3390/molecules25194357 - link to the publication
  2. Characterization of a pyomelanin of Antarctic Pseudomonas sp. ANT_H4 – a metabolite protecting against UV and free radicals, interacting with iron from minerals and exhibiting priming properties toward plant hairy roots
    Authors:
    Michal Styczynski, Agata Rogowska, Christine Nyabayo, Przemyslaw Decewicz, Filip Romaniuk, Cezary Pączkowski, Anna Szakiel, Roderich Suessmuth, Lukasz Dziewit
    Academic press:
    Microbiological Research , Wydawca: Elsevier
    Status:
    Submitted
  3. Application of psychrotolerant Antarctic bacteria and their metabolites as efficient plant growth promoting agents
    Authors:
    Michal Styczynski, Gabriel Biegniewski, Przemyslaw Decewicz, Bartosz Rewerski, Klaudia Debiec-Andrzejewska, Lukasz Dziewit
    Academic press:
    Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology (rok: 2022, tom: 10, strony: 772891), Wydawca: Frontiers
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3389/fbioe.2022.772891 - link to the publication
  4. Insight into ecology, metabolic potential, and the taxonomic composition of bacterial communities in the periodic water pond on King George Island (Antarctica)
    Authors:
    Tomasz Krucon, Lukasz Dziewit, Lukasz Drewniak
    Academic press:
    Frontiers in Microbiology (rok: 2021, tom: 12, strony: 708607), Wydawca: Frontiers
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3389/fmicb.2021.708607 - link to the publication
  5. Insight into the diversity and possible role of plasmids in the adaptation of psychrotolerant and metalotolerant Arthrobacter spp. to extreme Antarctic environments
    Authors:
    Krzysztof Romaniuk, Piotr Golec, Lukasz Dziewit
    Academic press:
    Frontiers in Microbiology (rok: 2018, tom: 9, strony: 3144), Wydawca: Frontiers
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3389/fmicb.2018.03144 - link to the publication