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Metabolic Characterization of cold active Pseudomonas, Arthrobacter, Bacillus, and Flavobacterium spp. from Western
Pooja Gangwar1, Syed Imteyaz Alam, Lokendra Singh
1Biotechnology Division, Defence Research and Development Establishment, Jhansi Road, Gwalior, 474002 India.
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Himalayan soils undergo dramatic temporal changes in their microclimatic properties. The soil habitats in the high altitude cold habitats of Himalayas are little explored with respect to bacterial diversity and metabolic potentials of the bacterial species. Soil habitat in Western Himalayas is dominated by the genera of Pseudomonas, Arthrobacter, Bacillus, and Flavobacterium. Strains were found to be diverse in their metabolic potentials to utilize different carbon sources by growing them on media containing 114 different sole carbon sources. Bacillus sp. STL9 was supported by the lowest number (12.3%) of the carbon sources while growth was observed in 73.7% of the carbon sources tested for the Pseudomonas sp. SPS2. Carbohydrates appeared to be preferred carbon sources for these Himalayan isolates followed by amino acids and proteins. These microbes also produced various extra-cellular hydrolytic enzymes having biotechnological potentials, lipase being the one secreted by most strains (85.7%) followed by β-galactosidase (42.8%). Antibiotic resistance profiling for 85 different antibiotics has also been described.
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