Yeast prions form infectious amyloid inclusion bodies in bacteria.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The E. coli lac operon and its components have been studied for decades, and lac-derived systems are widely used for recombinant protein production. However, lac operon dynamics and induction behavior remain the paradigm of gene regulation. Recently, an HPLC-MS-based method to quantify IPTG in the medium and...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Fernández-Castané A,Caminal G,López-Santín J

更新日期：2012-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Saccharomyces cerevisiae is being exploited as a cell factory to produce fatty acids and their derivatives as biofuels. Previous studies found that both precursor supply and fatty acid metabolism deregulation are essential for enhanced fatty acid synthesis. A bacterial pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) complex ex...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Zhang Y,Su M,Qin N,Nielsen J,Liu Z

更新日期：2020-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In our previous study, the feasibility of Rubisco-based engineered E. coli (that contains heterologous phosphoribulokinase (PrkA) and Rubisco) for in situ CO2 recycling during the fermentation of pentoses or hexoses was demonstrated. Nevertheless, it is perplexing to see that only roughly 70 % of the carbon ...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Yang CH,Liu EJ,Chen YL,Ou-Yang FY,Li SY

更新日期：2016-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gene therapy has gained an increasing interest in its anti-tumor efficiency. However, numerous efforts are required to promote them to clinics. In this study, a novel and efficient delivery platform based on bacterial magnetosomes (BMs) were developed, and the efficiency of BMs in delivering small interferin...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Dai Q,Long R,Wang S,Kankala RK,Wang J,Jiang W,Liu Y

更新日期：2017-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Emergence of antibiotic resistance and growing consumer trend towards foods containing biopreservatives stimulated the search for alternative antimicrobials. This research is aimed at characterizing, investigating the mechanism of action, scale up optimization and evaluating the biopreservative potential of ...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Wayah SB,Philip K

更新日期：2018-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:4-Hydroxycinnamaldehydes are important intermediates in several secondary metabolism pathways, including those involved in the biosynthesis of phenolic acids, flavonoids, terpenoids and monolignols. They are also involved in the biosynthesis and degradation of lignins, which are important limiting factors du...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Liu S,Qi Q,Chao N,Hou J,Rao G,Xie J,Lu H,Jiang X,Gai Y

更新日期：2015-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The solubility of recombinant proteins expressed in bacteria is often disappointingly low. Several strategies have been developed to improve the yield and one of the most common strategies is the fusion of the target protein with a suitable partner. Despite several reports on the successful use of each of th...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Dümmler A,Lawrence AM,de Marco A

更新日期：2005-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The proteome reflects the available cellular machinery to deal with nutrients and environmental challenges. The most common E. coli strain BL21 growing in different, commonly employed media was evaluated using a detailed quantitative proteome analysis. RESULTS:The presence of preformed biomass precursor mol...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Li Z,Nimtz M,Rinas U

更新日期：2014-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lactones are highly valuable cyclic esters of hydroxy fatty acids that find application as pure fragrances or as building blocks of speciality chemicals. While chemical synthesis often leads to undesired racemic mixtures, microbial production allows obtaining optically pure lactones. The production of a spec...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Silva R,Aguiar TQ,Coelho E,Jiménez A,Revuelta JL,Domingues L

更新日期：2019-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chitinases are ubiquitous enzymes that have gained a recent biotechnological attention due to their ability to transform biological waste from chitin into valued chito-oligomers with wide agricultural, industrial or medical applications. The biological activity of these molecules is related to their size and...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Kidibule PE,Santos-Moriano P,Jiménez-Ortega E,Ramírez-Escudero M,Limón MC,Remacha M,Plou FJ,Sanz-Aparicio J,Fernández-Lobato M

更新日期：2018-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The filamentous fungus T. reesei effectively degrades cellulose and is known to produce various cellulolytic enzymes such as beta-glucosidase, endoglucanase, and cellobiohydrolase. The expression levels of each cellulase are controlled simultaneously, and their ratios and synergetic effects are important for...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Yamada R,Taniguchi N,Tanaka T,Ogino C,Fukuda H,Kondo A

更新日期：2010-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microbial genome editing is a powerful tool to modify chromosome in way of deletion, insertion or replacement, which is one of the most important techniques in metabolic engineering research. The emergence of CRISPR/Cas9 technique inspires various genomic editing methods. RESULTS:In this research, the goal ...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Zhao D,Yuan S,Xiong B,Sun H,Ye L,Li J,Zhang X,Bi C

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Escherichia coli many heterologous proteins are produced in the periplasm. To direct these proteins to the periplasm, they are equipped with an N-terminal signal sequence so that they can traverse the cytoplasmic membrane via the protein-conducting Sec-translocon. For poorly understood reasons, the produc...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Schlegel S,Rujas E,Ytterberg AJ,Zubarev RA,Luirink J,de Gier JW

更新日期：2013-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Production of heterologous proteins in the E. coli periplasm, or into the extracellular fluid has many advantages; therefore naturally occurring signal peptides are selected for proteins translocation. The aim of this study was the production in high yields of a recombinant pectin lyase that is efficiently s...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Papi RM,Chaitidou SA,Trikka FA,Kyriakidis DA

更新日期：2005-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Probiotic bacteria are increasingly used as immunomodulatory agents. Yet detailed molecular knowledge on the immunomodulatory molecules of these bacteria is lagging behind. Lipoteichoic acid (LTA) is considered a major microbe-associated molecular pattern (MAMP) of Gram-positive bacteria. However, many detai...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Claes IJ,Segers ME,Verhoeven TL,Dusselier M,Sels BF,De Keersmaecker SC,Vanderleyden J,Lebeer S

更新日期：2012-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The production of high yields of recombinant proteins is an enduring bottleneck in the post-genomic sciences that has yet to be addressed in a truly rational manner. Typically eukaryotic protein production experiments have relied on varying expression construct cassettes such as promoters and tags, or cultur...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Bonander N,Darby RA,Grgic L,Bora N,Wen J,Brogna S,Poyner DR,O'Neill MA,Bill RM

更新日期：2009-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Phasin (PhaP), a kind of polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) granule-associated proteins, has a role in controlling the properties of PHA granules surface, and is thought to have influence on PHA biosynthesis in PHA-producing bacteria. This study focused on the phaP1(Re) locus in Ralstonia eutropha as a site of chrom...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Kawashima Y,Orita I,Nakamura S,Fukui T

更新日期：2015-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pichia pastoris is one of the most important host organisms for the recombinant production of proteins in industrial biotechnology. To date, strain specific parameters, which are needed to set up feeding profiles for fed batch cultivations, are determined by time-consuming continuous cultures or consecutive ...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Dietzsch C,Spadiut O,Herwig C

更新日期：2011-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bioethanol produced by the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is currently one of the most promising alternatives to conventional transport fuels. Lignocellulosic hemicelluloses obtained after hydrothermal pretreatment are important feedstock for bioethanol production. However, hemicellulosic materials cannot be...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Hasunuma T,Hori Y,Sakamoto T,Ochiai M,Hatanaka H,Kondo A

更新日期：2014-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane remodeling and phospholipid biosynthesis are normally tightly regulated to maintain the shape and function of cells. Indeed, different physiological mechanisms ensure a precise coordination between de novo phospholipid biosynthesis and modulation of membrane morphology. Interestingly, the overproduction of ce...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Royes J,Biou V,Dautin N,Tribet C,Miroux B

更新日期：2020-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:C4-dicarboxylic acids, including malic acid, fumaric acid and succinic acid, are valuable organic acids that can be produced and secreted by a number of microorganisms. Previous studies on organic acid production by Aspergillus carbonarius, which is capable of producing high amounts of citric acid from varie...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Yang L,Christakou E,Vang J,Lübeck M,Lübeck PS

更新日期：2017-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacterial surface display is of interest in many applications, including live vaccine development, screening of protein libraries and the development of whole cell biocatalysts. The goal of this work was to understand which parameters result in production of large quantities of cells that at the same time ex...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Gustavsson M,Bäcklund E,Larsson G

更新日期：2011-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protoilludene is a valuable sesquiterpene and serves as a precursor for several medicinal compounds and antimicrobial chemicals. It can be synthesized by heterologous expression of protoilludene synthase in Escherichia coli with overexpression of mevalonate (MVA) or methylerythritol-phosphate (MEP) pathway, ...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Yang L,Wang C,Zhou J,Kim SW

更新日期：2016-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The biotechnology industry has become a key element in modern societies. Within this industry, the production of recombinant enzymes and biopharmaceutical proteins is of major importance. The global markets for such recombinant proteins are growing rapidly and, accordingly, there is a continuous need for new productio...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： van Dijl JM,Hecker M

更新日期：2013-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding the metabolic mechanism of sterols to produce valuable steroid intermediates in mycobacterium by a noncoding small RNA (sRNA) view is still limited. In the work, RNA-seq was implemented to investigate the noncoding transcriptome of Mycobacterium neoaurum (Mn) in the transformation process of st...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Liu M,Zhu ZT,Tao XY,Wang FQ,Wei DZ

更新日期：2016-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Griseoviridin (GV) and viridogrisein (VG, also referred as etamycin), both biosynthesized by a distinct 105 kb biosynthetic gene cluster (BGC) in Streptomyces griseoviridis NRRL 2427, are a pair of synergistic streptogramin antibiotics and very important in treating infections of many multi-drug resistant mi...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Xie Y,Ma J,Qin X,Li Q,Ju J

更新日期：2017-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Amylases are used in various industrial processes and a key requirement for the efficiency of these processes is the use of enzymes with high catalytic activity at ambient temperature. Unfortunately, most amylases isolated from bacteria and filamentous fungi have optimal activity above 45 °C and low pH. For ...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Carrasco M,Alcaíno J,Cifuentes V,Baeza M

更新日期：2017-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Proteins can be secreted from a host organism with the aid of N-terminal secretion signals. The budding yeast Pichia pastoris (Komagataella sp.) is widely employed to secrete proteins of academic and industrial interest. For this yeast, the most commonly used secretion signal is the N-terminal portion of pre...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Barrero JJ,Casler JC,Valero F,Ferrer P,Glick BS

更新日期：2018-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Medium-chain-length polyhydroxyalkanoates (mcl-PHAs) containing various chain length monomers from C6 to C14 have more applications besides sustainable and environmental-friendly biomaterials owing to their superior physical and mechanical properties. We engineered a reversed fatty acid β-oxidation pathway i...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Zhuang Q,Qi Q

更新日期：2019-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The thermostable serine protease pernisine originates from the hyperthermophilic Archaeaon Aeropyrum pernix and has valuable industrial applications. Due to its properties, A. pernix cannot be cultivated in standard industrial fermentation facilities. Furthermore, pernisine is a demanding target for heterolo...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Šnajder M,Carrillo Rincón AF,Magdevska V,Bahun M,Kranjc L,Paš M,Juntes P,Petković H,Poklar Ulrih N

更新日期：2019-11-07 00:00:00