Production of the short peptide surfactant DAMP4 from glucose or sucrose in high cell density cultures of Escherichia coli BL21(DE3).

abstract：:Like natural viruses, manmade protein cages for drug delivery are to be ideally formed by repetitive subunits with self-assembling properties, mimicking viral functions and molecular organization. Naturally formed nanostructures (such as viruses, flagella or simpler protein oligomers) can be engineered to acquire spec...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Vázquez E,Villaverde A

更新日期：2010-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:p-Hydroxycinnamic acid (pHCA) is an aromatic compound that serves as a starting material for the production of many commercially valuable chemicals, such as fragrances and pharmaceuticals, and is also used in the synthesis of thermostable polymers. However, chemical synthesis of pHCA is both costly and harmf...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Kawai Y,Noda S,Ogino C,Takeshima Y,Okai N,Tanaka T,Kondo A

更新日期：2013-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cholesterol, the precursor of all steroid hormones, is the most abundant steroid in vertebrates and exhibits highly hydrophobic properties, rendering it a difficult substrate for aqueous microbial biotransformations. In the present study, we developed a Bacillus megaterium based whole-cell system that allows...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Gerber A,Kleser M,Biedendieck R,Bernhardt R,Hannemann F

更新日期：2015-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The characterization of the molecular determinants of metal resistance has potential biotechnological application in biosensing and bioremediation. In this context, the bacterium Thermus thermophilus HB27 is a metal tolerant thermophile containing a set of genes involved in arsenic resistance which, differen...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Antonucci I,Gallo G,Limauro D,Contursi P,Ribeiro AL,Blesa A,Berenguer J,Bartolucci S,Fiorentino G

更新日期：2018-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recombinant protein production is universally employed as a solution to obtain the milligram to gram quantities of a given protein required for applications as diverse as structural genomics and biopharmaceutical manufacture. Yeast is a well-established recombinant host cell for these purposes. In this study...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Ferndahl C,Bonander N,Logez C,Wagner R,Gustafsson L,Larsson C,Hedfalk K,Darby RA,Bill RM

更新日期：2010-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Anaerobic digesters become unstable when operated at a high organi c loading rate (OLR). Investigating the microbial community response to OLR disturbance is helpful for achieving efficient and stable process operation. However, previous studies have only focused on community succession during different proc...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Li L,He Q,Ma Y,Wang X,Peng X

更新日期：2016-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Erythritol is a four-carbon sugar alcohol with sweetening properties that is used by the agro-food industry as a food additive. In the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica, the last step of erythritol synthesis involves the reduction of erythrose by specific erythrose reductase(s). In the earlier report, an erythrose r...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Cheng H,Wang S,Bilal M,Ge X,Zhang C,Fickers P,Cheng H

更新日期：2018-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The industrially relevant filamentous fungus Aspergillus niger is widely used in industry for its secretion capabilities of enzymes and organic acids. Biotechnologically produced organic acids promise to be an attractive alternative for the chemical industry to replace petrochemicals. Itaconic acid (IA) has ...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Hossain AH,Li A,Brickwedde A,Wilms L,Caspers M,Overkamp K,Punt PJ

更新日期：2016-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Indole pyruvic acid (IPA) is a versatile platform intermediate and building block for a number of high-value products in the pharmaceutical and food industries. It also has a wide range of applications, such as drugs for the nervous system, cosmetics, and luminophores. Chemical synthesis of IPA is a complica...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Zhu Y,Hua Y,Zhang B,Sun L,Li W,Kong X,Hong J

更新日期：2017-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:BACKGROUND: A rapid microtiter plate based sandwich hybridization assay was developed for detection and quantification of single RNA species using magnetic beads. Following solution hybridization target RNA molecules were collected by biotin-streptavidin affinity binding and detected by fluorescence signal generated b...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Rautio J,Barken KB,Lahdenperä J,Breitenstein A,Molin S,Neubauer P

更新日期：2003-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Corynebacterium glutamicum is a well-known producer of various L-amino acids in industry. During the fermenting process, C. glutamicum unavoidably encounters oxidative stress due to a specific reactive oxygen species (ROS) produced by consistent adverse conditions. To combat the ROS, C. glutamicum has develo...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Si M,Su T,Chen C,Liu J,Gong Z,Che C,Li G,Yang G

更新日期：2018-12-26 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 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：:This article describes the use of biofilm reactors for the production of various chemicals by fermentation and wastewater treatment. Biofilm formation is a natural process where microbial cells attach to the support (adsorbent) or form flocs/aggregates (also called granules) without use of chemicals and form thick lay...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Qureshi N,Annous BA,Ezeji TC,Karcher P,Maddox IS

更新日期：2005-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Succinic acid is well established as bio-based platform chemical with production quantities expecting to increase exponentially within the next decade. Actinobacillus succinogenes is by far the most studied wild organism for producing succinic acid and is known for high yield and titre during production on v...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Brink HG,Nicol W

更新日期：2014-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Numerous studies have shown that stress induction and genetic engineering can effectively increase lipid accumulation, but lead to a decrease of growth in the majority of microalgae. We previously found that elevated CO2 concentration increased lipid productivity as well as growth in Phaeodactylum tricornutu...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Wu S,Gu W,Huang A,Li Y,Kumar M,Lim PE,Huan L,Gao S,Wang G

更新日期：2019-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ergot alkaloids are a group of highly bioactive molecules produced by a number of filamentous fungi. These compounds have been intensely studied for decades, mainly due to their deleterious effects in contaminated food and feeds, but also for their beneficial pharmaceutical and agricultural applications. Bio...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Nielsen CA,Folly C,Hatsch A,Molt A,Schröder H,O'Connor SE,Naesby M

更新日期：2014-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Green microalgae represent a renewable natural source of vitamin E. Its most bioactive form is the naturally occurring RRR-α-tocopherol which is biosynthesized in photosynthetic organisms as a single stereoisomer. It is noteworthy that the natural and synthetic α-tocopherols are different biomolecular entiti...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Sivakumar G,Jeong K,Lay JO Jr

更新日期：2014-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylotrophic yeasts such as Candida boidinii, Hansenula polymorpha, Pichia methanolica and Pichia pastoris are an emerging group of eukaryotic hosts for recombinant protein production with an ever increasing number of applications during the last 30 years. Their applications are linked to the use of strong methanol-...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Hartner FS,Glieder A

更新日期：2006-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aspergillus niger is widely used for enzyme production and achievement of high enzyme production depends on the comprehensive understanding of cell's metabolic regulation mechanisms. RESULTS:In this paper, we investigate the metabolic differences and regulation mechanisms between a high glucoamylase-produci...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Lu H,Liu X,Huang M,Xia J,Chu J,Zhuang Y,Zhang S,Noorman H

更新日期：2015-09-17 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:Escherichia coli has emerged as a promising platform microorganism to produce biofuels and fine chemicals of industrial interests. Certain obstacles however remain to be overcome, among which organic-solvent tolerance is a crucial one. RESULTS:We used global transcription machinery engineering (gTME) to imp...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Zhang F,Qian X,Si H,Xu G,Han R,Ni Y

更新日期：2015-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Controlling harmful algae blooms (HABs) using microbial algicides is cheap, efficient and environmental-friendly. However, obtaining high yield of algicidal microbes to meet the need of field test is still a big challenge since qualitative and quantitative analysis of algicidal compounds is difficult. In this study, w...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Cai G,Zheng W,Yang X,Zhang B,Zheng T

更新日期：2014-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Signal peptide peptidases play an important role in the removal of remnant signal peptides in the cell membrane, a critical step for extracellular protein production. Although these proteins are likely a central component for extracellular protein production, there has been a lack of research on whether prot...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Cai D,Wang H,He P,Zhu C,Wang Q,Wei X,Nomura CT,Chen S

更新日期：2017-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mannosylglycerate (MG) is one of the most widespread compatible solutes among marine microorganisms adapted to hot environments. This ionic solute holds excellent ability to protect proteins against thermal denaturation, hence a large number of biotechnological and clinical applications have been put forward...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Faria C,Borges N,Rocha I,Santos H

更新日期：2018-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Molecular mechanisms generating genetic variation provide the basis for evolution and long-term survival of a population in a changing environment. In stable, laboratory conditions, the variation-generating mechanisms are dispensable, as there is limited need for the cell to adapt to adverse conditions. In f...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Csörgo B,Fehér T,Tímár E,Blattner FR,Pósfai G

更新日期：2012-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Co-expression of two distinct guide RNAs (gRNAs) has been used to facilitate the application of CRISPR/Cas9 system in fields such as large genomic deletion. The paired gRNAs are often placed adjacently in the same direction and expressed individually by two identical promoters, constituting direct repeats (D...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Ding T,Huang C,Liang Z,Ma X,Wang N,Huo YX

更新日期：2020-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Invertase Suc2 was recently identified as a key hydrolase for inulin catabolism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, whereas the Suc2 activity degrading inulin varies greatly in different S. cerevisiae strains. The molecular mechanism causing such variation remained obscure. The aim of this study is to investigate h...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Yang F,Liu ZC,Wang X,Li LL,Yang L,Tang WZ,Yu ZM,Li X

更新日期：2015-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the biopharmaceutical industry, Escherichia coli (E. coli) strains are among the most frequently used bacterial hosts for producing recombinant proteins because they allow a simple process set-up and they are Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved for human applications. Widespread use of E. coli in ...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Marisch K,Bayer K,Cserjan-Puschmann M,Luchner M,Striedner G

更新日期：2013-06-11 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