Hendra Munandar

The gold mining wastewater effluent is potential source for isolating cyanides-degrading bacteria, since cyanide is commonly used in gold extraction process in the mining industry. An indigenous bacterial strain LP3, capable of growing on and utilizing of a high concentration of cyanomethane (up to 1.0 Molar), could be isolated from Cikotok gold mine effluent. Based on 16S rDNA sequence, the strain was identified as Rhodococcus pyridinivorans. During the growth on cyanomethane (CH3CN), ethanamide (CH3ONH2) and ethanoic acid (CH3COOH) were detected in the growth media, indicating that nitrile hydratase and amidase involved in the metabolism of the substrate. The involvement of both enzymes on the conversion of cyanomethane was also proved by our study on cyanomethane biodegradation using whole cells of R. Pyridinivorans LP3. Besides cyanomethane, the R. pyridinivorans LP3 could also utilize various aliphatic, aromatic, heterocyclic nitriles and amides as growth substrates. Base on th...

Among essential treatment of cardiovascular disorders are fibrinolytic proteases. Most thrombolysis agents are fibrinolytic enzymes from group of bacterial proteases. This work reports a potent bacterium isolated from fermented intestine of H. scabra, which could produce fibrinolytic protease with high thrombolysis activity. Bacterial selection was conducted based on proteolytic and fibrinolytic activities indicated as clear zone on skim milk and fibrin agar media, respectively. Crude proteases from the selected bacterial isolates were subjected to thrombolytic activity test based on gravimetric method, which results were confirmed after 7 repetitions. As result, 4 fibrinolytic protease-producing bacterial isolates HFSI-3, HFSI-4, HFSI-5 and HFSI-8 were obtained. Among them, HFSI-5 isolate identified as Bacillus tequilensis on the basis of the 16S rRNA gene sequencing and morphological properties produced crude protease with the highest thrombolytic activity. The thrombolytic activi...

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are still the leading mortality causes in the last decades. The ailments are multifactorial characterized by excessive clot (thrombus) formation in the blood vessels. Thrombus could be degraded through thrombolysis mechanism by plasmin activated by various fibrinolysis agents including, urokinase, nattokinase, or streptokinase. However, the use of these agents is restricted by relatively high cost, short half-life, allergic reaction, and bleeding effects. The search for more economical and safer thrombolytic (clot lysis) agents are essential to address the underlying problem in CVD therapy. Among Holothurians, H. scabra has been known to have the highest protein content making it ideal substrate for protease enzymes including fibrinolytic types with clot lysis properties. However, isolation of a proteases with antithrombotic activities either from tissue or from bacteria of H. scabra has not been reported. This study aimed to screen proteolytic and clo...

Cardiovascular disease is among the largest contributors of premature mortality in the world caused by inflammation of blood vessels. The abnormalities provoke thrombus formation or thrombosis blocking blood vessels leading to strokes, heart attacks and coronary artery diseases. Increasing percentage of cardiovascular cases and deaths due to thrombosis has attracted researchers to look for newer thrombolysis agents. Commonly used drugs to treat thrombosis has been limited due to various side effects. Therefore, the search for sources of safer and cheaper fibrinolytic enzymes for handling thrombolysis continues. This study aimed to evaluate potentials of fibrinolytic protease of bacteria isolated from fermented seafood (sea cucumber) products as antithrombotic agents. Information was initially gathered from scientific publications identified using web-based tools including PubMed (National Center for Biotechnology Information), Science Direct (Scopus) and Web of Science (Thomson Reut...

Teripang hitam Holothuria atra yang memiliki nilai potensial sebagai bahan baku pada industri farmasi telah dibudidayakan di Balai Bio Industri Laut – LIPI sejak tahun 2016. Infeksi penyakit dan penurunan sintasan hidup menjadi salah satu kendala dalam kegiatan budidaya teripang jenis ini terutama pada saat pemeliharaan induk. Salah satu upaya untuk mengatasi hal tersebut adalah penggunaan bakteri probiotik. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk melakukan isolasi dan seleksi bakteri yang menghasilkan enzim protease, selulase, dan amilase sebagai kandidat bakteri probiotik pada sedimen dan saluran pencernaan teripang H. atra. Penumbuhan bakteri dari sedimen dan saluran pencernaan pada media selektif yang ditambahkan substrat selulosa, pati, dan kasein dilakukan untuk melihat potensi bakteri yang mampu menghasilkan enzim selulase, amilase, dan protease melalui proses hidrolisis. Dua isolat bakteri yang memiliki aktivitas enzim selulase dan amilase tertinggi telah diperoleh, yaitu isolat SSe9...

Techniques for producing Holothuria scabra or sandfish sea cucumbers from aquaculture have been developed rapidly in the recent years to address the issues of decreasing sandfish population and increasing market demand. During the process of culturing H. scabra, the early stages of sandfish (i.e. larvae and juveniles) are the most critical of the development. Therefore, the Research and Development Division of the Marine Bio Industry – LIPI conducted a study to assess the growth performance of juvenile H. scabra  ultured in four different rearing conditions: (i) indoor concrete tank, (ii) indoor fiberglass tank, (iii) outdoor concrete tank with 1 mm hapa mesh, and (iv) outdoor concrete tank with 3 mm hapa mesh. Each of the rearing condition was set with an initial juvenile density of 15 juveniles per tank with a mean initial weight of 14 g, and fed ad libitum with a mixed feed consisting of Enhalus acoroides sea grass, Pennisetum purpureum napier and cow manure. The experiments were...

Oseana, Volume XXXIV, Nomor 1, Tahun 2009 ISSN 0216-1877 SISTEM KARBONAT DI LAUT SERTA PERANANNYA BAGI BIOTA "CALSIFIER" Oleh Hendra Munandar]) ABSTRACT ROLE OF OCEANIC CARBONATE SYSTEM FOR CALSIFIER ORGANISM. Carbon dioxide has ...