Anto Budiharjo

• M.Biotech (Flinders University. Australia); Dr. rer. nat.(Humboldt University, Germany); Post Doc (SDSU, USA)
• Diponegoro University

The utilisation of enzymes in the industry has brought numerous benefits and advantages to production processes. Enzymes serve as biocatalysts, efficiently catalyzing reactions and hydrolysis in biochemical processes. However, there are challenges in applying enzymes in the industry, particularly concerning enzyme stability. The obstacle encountere...

Rhizobia are bacteria that symbiosis with host plant, as shown in the root nodules formation, and provide nitrogen that can be absorbed by plants in greater quantities than rhizobacteria. Available Nitrogen, which absorbed by plants, is the essential requirement for plant growth because its role in increasing yield and quality, hence it is needed i...

Soft corals can produce bioactive compounds that act as antibacterials. Sinularia sp. is a soft coral that can produce antibacterial compounds. Symbion bacteria are bacteria that can produce bioactive compounds that tend to be the same as their host. The use of symbiont bacteria can be an alternative to exploit the potential of Sinularia sp. withou...

Vibriosis and septicemia are infections caused by bacteria that rise many problems on aquaculture industry. Bioprospection of marine organisms such as sea cucumber are very promising as they are widely known to contain symbiotic microorganisms having antibacterial potential. This study aimed to analyze the antibacterial potential of sea cucumber St...

Tanjung Emas Port is the entry and exit point for trade commodities, both regional and international filled with many ships. This condition makes biofouling a very massive process in that place by various types of marine bacteria. The initial formation of a biofilm is relevant to bacterial diversity, colonization and adhesion. The objective of the...

Marine sponges have been investigated as potential bioresources because of their symbiotic relationship with microbes such as Actinobacteria that produce antibacterial substances. In contrast, a group of sponges, that inhabits freshwater environments called freshwater sponges (Order Spongillida Manconi & Pronzato, 2002) and consists of only one per...

β‐Glucosidase (BGL) is an essential enzyme for the hydrolysis of cellulose in industrial processes, but natural BGL enzymes are poorly understood. Metagenomics is a robust tool for bioprospecting in the search for novel enzymes from the entire community’s genomic DNA present in nature. The metagenomics approach simplifies the process of searching f...

Sponges from freshwater environments are poorly known producers of phytochemicals with pharmacological potency. Oncosclera asiatica and Eunapius carteri are freshwater sponges from the Porong River, East Java province. They can be considered promising new sources of bioactive compounds. This study aims to investigate the pharmacological potency of...

Distribution of freshwater sponges (Porifera: Spongillida) in Indonesia is currently insufficiently reported and underestimated compared to marine sponges. An inventory study on freshwater sponges in East Java after Indonesian independence in 1945 is yet to be carried out. For this reason, we reported new records of two freshwater species, Eunapius...

Penyakit Layu Bakteri merupakan penyakit tular tanah yang menyerang tanaman hortikultura yang disebabkan oleh bakteri fitopatogen Ralstonia solanacearum . Komunitas bakteri tanah yang menghuni rizosfer tanaman diketahui memiliki potensi yang baik dalam mendukung pertumbuhan maupun melindungi tanaman dari serangan patogen. Bakteri pembentuk endospor...

Freshwater sponges are animals from the Porifera phylum that live in freshwater. The sponge used is Oncosclera asiatica was taken from Kali Porong, East Java. Seventeen isolates of bacteria have been obtained from isolation. Antibacterial potential testing was performed by paper disc inhibition assay using Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus...

Bioinformatics as an interdisciplinary science, combine biology, computer science, information technology, mathematics, and statistics in order to analyze and interprete biological data. Bioinformatics has been used for in silico analysis of biological questions using mathematical and statistical techniques. In silico analysis allows indirect simul...

The potential for the use of enzymes in industry is starting to be widely used. Protease is one of the most widely used enzymes in industry. Protease is an enzyme capable of hydrolyzing peptide bonds in proteins. Proteolytic thermotolerant bacteria are one of the important sources of thermostable enzymes that can be isolated from hot springs. The p...

Mikroalga merupakan organisme eukariot bersel satu yang habitatnya berada di perairan. Suatu spesies mikroalga koleksi kultur BBPBAP Jepara berpotensi menghasilkan astaxantin dalam jumlah tinggi. Namun, spesies ini belum di karakterisasi secara molekuler. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memperoleh karakter morfologi dan molekuler pada isolat mikroal...

Sulardiono B, Hartoko A, Aini AN, Wulandari D, Budiharjo A. 2021. Genetic diversity of commercial sea cucumbers Stichopus (Echinoderm: Stichopodidae) based on DNA Barcoding in Karimunjawa, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 23: 922-927. DNA barcoding has proven a sufficient tool for species identification in varied groups of marine invertebrates, including c...

One of the most common methods for purifying RNA is using TRIzol reagent because of its simplicity and economic feasibility. However, the drawback of this method is frequently the low quality of extracted RNA due to contaminants from the residue of phenol and guanidinium thiocyanate from the reagents. This study aimed to evaluate the improvement in...

Abstract Traditional fermented food as a special delicacy is one of the elements of culinary diversity found in many regions of Indonesia. This type of food is closely related to the customs and surrounding environment, displaying the characteristics of each region and ethnicity. Maluku is one of the regions located in Eastern Indonesia. Ina sua is...

Background: Microbial community has an essential role in various fields, especially the industrial sector. Microbes produce metabolites in the form of enzymes, which are one of the essential compounds for industrial processes. Unfortunately, there are still numerous microbes that cannot be identified and cultivated because of the limitations of th...

Akanthomyces is a genus of invertebrate-pathogenic fungi from the family Cordycipitaceae (Ascomycota, Hypocreales). Its species occurs on two different types of hosts, spiders and insects, and in the latter case specifically Lepidoptera adults. Three new species of Akanthomyces , A. noctuidarum , A. pyralidarum , and A. tortricidarum occurring on a...

ABSTRACT Aims: Pigments used as food additives for a long time and people prefer natural pigment than synthetic ones because of their safety. Microorganisms are interesting for pigment production and many of them have been used in food industry. Many research have been conducted to find out for natural pigment sources. The objective of this researc...

The abundant number of existing species of microalgae in the environment constitutes biodiversity, which supports potential commercial exploitation of many novel products like carotenoid. Microalgae represent a sustainable source of any kinds of natural carotenoid. Aquaculture requires antioxidant supplements such as carotenoids but are unable to s...

Indigenous bacteria are able to remove the metals contamination in environment. This study aimed to assess the resistance of bacterial species to Zinc (Zn) in Banger River, Pekalongan City. The bacteria from three different parts of Banger River were isolated and inoculated in Zn-selective medium. Then, molecular identification to determine the bac...

Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) is transmitted to humans by dengue virus harboring Aedes aegypti. Immune response against viral infection can be influenced by stress as stress could weaken immune response. Stress can cause illness through physiological changes and changes in immune function. The immunological changes associated with stress were adap...

Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever (DHF) is an infectious disease caused by one of 4 different Dengue viruses and transmitted by Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. Incidence Rate (IR) of DHF in Semarang District from 2006 to 2016 are always much higher than IR DHF of Central Java and IR DHF of National Indonesia. Human sweat contains components that plays...

Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever is an infectious disease caused by dengue virus which is transmitted through bites of Aedes aegypti or Aedes albopictus [1]' In Indonesia particularly, there has not been much research on ABO blood type associated with dengue fever occurrence[2]. This study aims to see the ABO blood group description and its relation to the...

Vibrio parahaemolyticus is hallophilic gram-negative bacteria that live as natural inhabitant in aquatic environment. All Vibrio parahaemolyticus strain known to have thermolabile hemolysin encoded by tlh gene as species marker. Thermostable direct hemolysin encoded by tdh gene is responsible for regulating virulence factor in Vibrio parhaemolyticu...

Pentana, dekana, pentadekana, dan parafin merupakan jenis kelompok senyawa alkana yang tidak dapat larut dalam air dan sulit terdegradasi. Sifat ini yang menjadikan senyawa alkana dapat mencemari lingkungan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui konsentrasi optimum senyawa alkana bagi pertumbuhan isolat LBF-1-0025 dan mengidentifikasinya secara...

Bacillus altitudinis P-10 was isolated from the rhizosphere of rice grown in an organic rice field and provides strong antagonism against the bacterial blight caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae in rice. Herein, we provide the complete genome sequence and a possible explanation of the antibiotic function of the P-10 strain.

Microorganisms become an important source of natural pigments, especially isolates from extreme environments. Pink-pigmented thermophile bacteria has been isolated from GedongSongo hot spring in Bandungan– Semarang. Morphological, biochemical and molecular analysis were used to identify the isolate. The isolate had coccus shape, GRAM positive, mode...

Itik Tegal adalah salah satu sumber plasma nutfah ternak Indonesia yang belum memiliki informasi asal usul dan identitas genetik, sedangkan ini sangat diperlukan sebagai dasar dalam usaha persilangan dan pemuliaan untuk menghasilkan itik hibrida unggul. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui identitas genetik itik Tegal menggunakan gen sitokrom...

The paper industry contributed the environment pollution due to chlor substances. Utilization of alkalothermophilic xylanase enzyme as a biocatalyst in the production of paper may become an environmentally friendly biobleaching alternative. Bacillus halodurans CM1 produces xilanase enzyme that had optimal activity at pH 9 and temperature 70°C. Prev...

Rhizobacteria are rhizosphere competent bacteria that colonize and proliferate in all the ecological niches found on the plant roots at all stages of plant growth, in the presence of a competing microflora. These bacteria are potential as biological control agent to inhibit the growth of phytopathogen. The aim of this study was to isolate endospore...

Magelang duck is a wild type of local duck from Indonesia. The advantagesof Magelangduckcompare tootherlocalduck from Indonesiaareabilityto livein the highlandsandlowlands and high production of egg and meat. Geneticcharacterization of Magelangduck still not available until now.The aim of the research is selectprimers forampliflying COIgeneof mitoc...

The Indonesia needs of Bioethanol were 390.000 kL in 2012, but the local ethanol production only able to cover less than 4% from the needed. The high demand of the bioethanol encourage for another innovation in ethanol production more efficient and effectively. Seaweeds and the residual pulp of Gracilaria sp. could be useful as substrate for bioeth...

Availability of drugs in Indonesia is still limited by the high prices of drugs due to on the imported raw materials that reaches 95%. Developing antibiotic raw materials can be achieved by increasing of penicillin G production, which is the raw material for the formation of semisynthetic penicillin derivatives through the production of 6-aminopeni...

A massive death of vannamei shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei Boone.) due to Infectious Myonecrosis Virus (IMNV) infection has occurred in Indonesia recently and still cannot be eradicated efficiently. The fast reproduction of IMNV depends on the RdRp gene that encodes for RNA polymerase. Genetic characterization of IMNV RdRp gene from Indonesia is impo...

Bacillus amyloliquefaciens ssp. plantarum FZB42 represents the prototype of Gram-positive plant growth promoting and biocontrol bacteria. In this study, we applied transposon mutagenesis to generate a transposon library, which was screened for genes involved in multicellular behavior and biofilm formation on roots as a prerequisite of plant growth...

Bacillus amyloliquefaciens FZB42 is a Gram-positive plant growth-promoting bacterium with an impressive capacity to synthesize nonribosomal secondary metabolites with antimicrobial activity. Here we report on a novel circular bacteriocin which is ribosomally synthesized by FZB42. The compound displayed high antibacterial activity against closely re...

Infectious Hypodermal and Hematopoietic Necrosis Infectious Virus (IHHNV) is the most important DNA virus which can lead to Runt Deformity Syndrome (RDS) in vaname shrimp. The RAPD technique can be used to determine the resistance of a species to a disease. This research aimed to screen and identify RAPD markers which could distinguish the resistan...

Bacillus amyloliquefaciens FZB42 has been shown to stimulate plant growth and to suppress the growth of plant pathogenic organisms including nematodes. However, the mechanism underlying its effect against nematodes remains unknown. In this study, we screened a random mutant library of B. amyloliquefaciens FZB42 generated by the mariner transposon T...

Indonesia as a maritim country confronted a serious problem in maintainance equipments which is submerged under sea water called biofouling. Biofouling is a settlement process from marine organisms initiated by microbial layers (biofilm). This process result in a huge losses such us shorting the life time of equipments were submerged sea water, cau...

Kutuh Beach in Bali is an area established as the Minapolitan algae with a high diversity. Microorganisms associated with marine organisms, usually have secondary metabolites that can be used as a source of drugs, antibiotics, enzymes, and cosmetics. The aimed of this research was to isolate and characterize colony morphology of bacteria associated...

Colonization studies previously performed with a green-fluorescent-protein, GFP, labeled derivative of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens FZB42 revealed that the bacterium behaved different in colonizing surfaces of plant roots of different species (Fan et al., 2012). In order to extend these studies and to elucidate which genes are crucial for root coloni...

Bacillus amyloliquenaciense FZB42 ist ein bekanntes Pflanzenwachstum-stimulierendes Rhizobakterium. Es produziert neben einer Vielzahl an Sekundärmetaboliten mit antibakterieller und antifungaler Wirkung, auch das Pflanzenhormon IAA. Obwohl viele dieser Mechanismen diskutiert werden, ist wenig darüber bekannt, auf welche Weise die Bakterien das Pfl...

A single copy of the gfp gene linked with the P(spac) promoter and flanked by the terminal FZB42 amyE sequences was stably integrated into the chromosome of plant growth promoting bacterium Bacillus amyloliquefaciens FZB42 via homologous recombination. A spontaneous mutant, FB01mut, emitting bright fluorescence was detected among the transformants...