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Mercury (Hg)-contaminated soil remediation has become an urgent necessity due to its harmful effect on the environment and living organisms. The use of plant-endophyte partnership for phytoremediation demonstrates an excellent opportunity for cleaning heavy metal contaminated soil. This study aimed to screen and characterize the phenotype of the Hg-resistant endophytic bacteria from local grasses (Cynodon dactylon and Eleusine indica) in the Hg-contaminated soil of West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia with siderophore-producing traits. Siderophore production of bacteria was qualitatively tested using overlay-chrome azurol S (O-CAS) medium and quantitatively tested using the succinic acid medium. The assay was designed using a Completely Randomized Factorial Design consisting of two factors, i.e., isolate type and incubation time with three replicates. The selected isolates were pathogenicity tested, then they were phenotypically characterized. All tested isolates showed a positive result on changing O-CAS medium color from blue to yellow/brown that indicated hydroxamate type of siderophore. The highest siderophore production was achieved at 72 hours of incubation, by the EI5 and EI6 isolates (62.90% and 35.31%, respectively). In turn, the CD6, EI5 and EI6 isolates achieved high siderophore production at a short incubation period (48 hours). However, during the hemolysis test, only the CD6 and EI6 isolates were not pathogenic. The CD6 and EI6 isolates would be used for phytoremediation on Hg-contaminated soil in the future study. On the basis of the 16S rDNA analysis, it was shown that the CD6 isolate was Jeotgalicoccus huakuii and the EI6 isolate was Bacillus amyloliquefaciens.

cJun NH2 terminal Kinase (JNK) merupakan protein kinase family MAPK yang berperan dalam j alur pensinyalan penyakit metabolisme, salah satunya dalam regulasi faktor resiko obesitas. Penelitian in bertujuan untuk mengeksplorasi potensi asemanan dan glukomanan dalam menghambat JNK sebagai antidiabetes.metode pendekatan molecular docking digunakan untuk mengidentifikasi interaksi antara senyawa asemanan dan glukomanan terhadap protein JNK. Asemanan dan glukomanan berikatan di sisi aktif yang berbeda satu sama lain. Residu sisi aktif asemanan berada di close gate protein JNK, sedangkan glukomanan menunjukkan sisi aktif jalur ikatan inhibitor dari JNK. Asemanan dan glukomanan menghambat aktivitas JNK dengan berikatan di sisi non-katalitik dan diprediksi penghambatan protein JNK oleh kedua senyawa secara alosterik yang dapat merubah konformasi protein JNK. Selain itu, asemanan berikatan dengan kuat terhadap protein JNK dengan jenis ikatan hydrogen, interaksi hidrofobik dan elektrostatik dengan energi ikatan yang lebih rendah dari glukomanan -JNK. Penelitian disimpulkan bahwa senyawa asemanan dan glukomanan berpotensi sebagai antiobesitas dengan peranannya sebagai inhibitor terhadap protein JNK.

Sustainability of paddy field becomes the main concern as the media of biomass production, thus it is needed a datum and information about land characteristics to find out its degradation. Mapping of soil degradation potency in paddy field is an identification of initial soil condition to discover the land degradation potency. Mapping was done by overlaying map of soil, slope, rainfall and land use with standard procedures to obtain its value and status of soil degradation potency. Area mapping is an effective land for biomass production (natural forest, mixed farm, savanna, paddy field, shrub and dry field) with approximately 43,291.00 hectares (ha)

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