Judul: Pengaruh Pemanenan Pada Kestabilan Model Dua Mangsa Satu Pemangsa
Abstrak: Pada hakikatnya makhluk hidup di bumi ini tidak dapat hidup sendiri secara normal, tetapi akan saling berinteraksi dengan berbagai spesies yang ada. Interaksi yang terjadi dapat berupa predasi, kompetisi, maupun simbiosis antara dua spesies atau lebih. Dalam karya ilmiah ini dipelajari dua buah model yang meliputi interaksi tiga spesies, yaitu model dua mangsa satu pemangsa (Cramer dan May, 1972) serta model dua mangsa satu pemangsa dengan adanya pemanenan terhadap pemangsa (May dan Bedelington, 1980).
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Judul: Analisis kestabilan model interaksi dua pemangsa-satu mangsa
Abstrak: Interaksi antar makhluk hidup dalam kehidupan ini ada yang berdampak positif, negatif dan ada pula yang tidak berpengaruh terhadap makhluk hidup lain. Tulisan ini akan membahas model interaksi antara dua pemangsa dengan satu mangsa yang didasari dari model mangsa-pemangsa Lotka-Volterra. Pada model yang dikembangkan ini diasumsikan bahwa interaksi antar pemangsa bersifat komensalis, artinya interaksi dimana satu spesies pemangsa memperoleh keuntungan, sedangkan spesies pemangsa lainnya tidak terpengaruh. Model yang disusun ini terdiri atas variabel-variabel R (banyaknya mangsa), H (banyaknya pemangsa inang), C (banyaknya pemangsa yang komensalis terhadap H), u (tingkat pertumbuhan mangsa), v (tingkat pemangsaan pemangsa C), w (tingkat pemangsaan pemangsa H), 0 ( efisiensi konversi C), p ( efisiensi konversi H), x (tingkat kematian pemangsa C), dan y (tingkat kematian pemangsa H). Kestabilan model interaksi dua pemangsa-satu mangsa ini diperoleh dari kriteria Routh-Hurwitz. Pada kriteria ini, pengujian kestabilan dilakukan di sekitar titik-titik tetap yang diperoleh dari model tersebut. Hasil yang diperoleh menunjukkan bahwa, jika populasi pemangsa inang punah, maka akan terjadi ketidakstabilan, sedangkan jika tingkat kematian pemangsa C lebih besar atau sama dengan tingkat kematian pemangsa H, maka akan menyebabkan kestabilan. Pada kondisi ini, jika tingkat kematian salah satu pemangsa meningkat, maka populasi pemangsa tersebut turun, dan populasi pemangsa yang lain naik.
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Judul: Extracellular Expression of thermostable Geobacillus stearothermophilus T1.2RQ Lipase for Biodiesel Production
Abstrak: The extracellular expression of enzymes in an excellent secretion host such as Bacillus subtilis is a useful strategy for making enzymes of industrial significance more affordable by lowering the cost of its downstream processing. Lipases are a category of hydrolases that catalyze the hydrolysis of triglycerides to glycerol and free fatty acids. Also, lipases catalyze the hydrolysis and transesterification of other esters as well as the synthesis of esters. They can perform very specific biotransformation reactions and are widely used in food, organic synthesis, detergents, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical industries. Geobacillus stearothermophilus T1.2RQ lipase is an industrially-desired thermostable lipolytic enzyme with an excellent hydrolytic and transesterification activity. This study aimed to express T1.2RQ lipase, in B. subtilis WB800 and ensure its secretion into the extracellular medium. Three signal peptides (AmyQ, Epr, LipA) and two promoters (Pgrac01 and Pgrac100) were used in the secretory-expression of T1.2RQ lipase, based on five constructed expression vectors constructed by restriction cloning and PCR mutagenesis. Sangers sequencing was used to verify constructs to ensure they are in the correct reading frame. Recombinants vectors, pHT43 (plasmid control), pHT43-T1.2RQ, pHT43- T1.2RQ_AmyQ, pHT43-T1.2RQ_Epr, and pHT43-T1.2RQ_LipA, were transformed by electroporation into Bacillus subtilis WB800. The electroporation was successful with the optimum condition of 2500V, 200 ohms, 25µF, and 5milliseconds. Recombinant B. subtilis pHT43 (negative control) and pHT43-T1.2RQlip + signal peptides were streaked on the lipidic agar, LA+TBN. All four recombinants, including the negative control (B. subtilis WB800-pHT43), produced clear zones on the TBN agar plate after overnight incubation (fig 2), indicating the presence of a lipolytic enzyme in all of the recombinant B. subtilis cells. pHT43-T1.2RQlip + signal peptides (AmyQ, Epr, and LipA) have clear zones with significantly higher diameters than B. subtilis WB800-pHT43 (negative control). This phenomenon suggests that the recombinant thermostable lipase T1.2RQ introduced into these cells was successfully expressed, thereby increasing the lipolytic capability of its host cells T1.2RQ lipase was expressed in 50ml terrific broth medium (TB) and the expression induced with 1mM IPTG. Lipase activity assay using p-nitrophenyl esters showed that all three signal peptides directed the secretion of T1.2RQ lipase into the extracellular medium. Signal peptide, LipA, resulted in the highest extracellular activity of 5.6 U/mL, which corresponds to a 6-fold increase over the parent B. subtilis WB800 strain. Meanwhile, signal peptides, AmyQ and Epr produced 4.2 U/mL and 3.4 U/mL activity respectively. SDS-Zymogram analysis confirmed that T1.2RQ lipase was correctly processed and secreted in its original size of 44 kDa. An attempt to further increase lipase expression level by promoter optimization showed that, contrary to expectation, promoter Pgrac100 exhibited similar expression levels as the original Pgrac01. Nevertheless, the demonstration of the successful secretion of T1.2RQ lipase in this work confirms the latter as a promising approach for the industrial production of the enzyme
Keyword: Bacillus subtilis, Expression, Extracellular, Heterologous, Lipase, Thermostable