A novel locus for mycelial aggregation forms a gateway to improved Streptomyces cell factories.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Due to their high energy density and compatible physical properties, several monoterpenes have been investigated as potential renewable transportation fuels, either as blendstocks with petroleum or as drop-in replacements for use in vehicles (both heavy and light-weight) or in aviation. Sustainable microbial...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Zhuang X,Kilian O,Monroe E,Ito M,Tran-Gymfi MB,Liu F,Davis RW,Mirsiaghi M,Sundstrom E,Pray T,Skerker JM,George A,Gladden JM

更新日期：2019-03-18 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:Thymosin α1 (Tα1), a 28-amino acid Nα-acetylated peptide, has a powerful general immunostimulating activity. Although biosynthesis is an attractive means of large-scale manufacture, to date, Tα1 can only be chemosynthesized because of two obstacles to its biosynthesis: the difficulties in expressing small pe...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Ren Y,Yao X,Dai H,Li S,Fang H,Chen H,Zhou C

更新日期：2011-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the process of ABO-incompatible (ABOi) organ transplantation, removal of anti-A and/or B antibodies from blood plasma is a promising method to overcome hyperacute rejection and allograft loss caused by the immune response between anti-A and/or B antibodies and the A and/or B antigens in the recipient. Alt...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Shang W,Zhai Y,Ma Z,Yang G,Ding Y,Han D,Li J,Zhang H,Liu J,Wang PG,Liu XW,Chen M

更新日期：2016-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intracellular metabolism of glucocorticoid hormones plays an important role in the pathogenesis of metabolic syndrome and regulates, among many physiological processes, collagen metabolism in skin. At the peripheral level the concentration of active glucocorticoids is mainly regulated by the 11β-hydroxystero...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Vanella R,Callari R,Weston A,Heider H,Schwab MS,Kübler E

更新日期：2016-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) is an important cofactor ensuring intracellular redox balance, anabolism and cell growth in all living systems. Our recent multi-omics analyses of glucoamylase (GlaA) biosynthesis in the filamentous fungal cell factory Aspergillus niger indicated that low a...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Sui YF,Schütze T,Ouyang LM,Lu H,Liu P,Xiao X,Qi J,Zhuang YP,Meyer V

更新日期：2020-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Bacillus subtilis spore has long been used to display antigens and enzymes. Spore display can be accomplished by a recombinant and a non-recombinant approach, with the latter proved more efficient than the recombinant one. We used the non-recombinant approach to independently adsorb two thermophilic enzy...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Mattossovich R,Iacono R,Cangiano G,Cobucci-Ponzano B,Isticato R,Moracci M,Ricca E

更新日期：2017-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In past years research has focused on the development of alternative Gram positive bacterial expression systems to produce industrially relevant proteins. Brevibacillus choshinensis is an easy to handle non-sporulating bacterium, lacking extracellular proteases, that has been already shown to provide a high ...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： D'Urzo N,Martinelli M,Nenci C,Brettoni C,Telford JL,Maione D

更新日期：2013-02-01 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:Recent interest has been focused on the production of platform chemicals from renewable biomass due to increasing concerns on global warming and depletion of fossil fuel reserves. Microbial production of platform chemicals in biorefineries has been suggested to be a promising solution for these problems. Gam...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Baritugo KA,Kim HT,David Y,Khang TU,Hyun SM,Kang KH,Yu JH,Choi JH,Song JJ,Joo JC,Park SJ

更新日期：2018-08-21 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:The selection of bacterial recombinants that harbour a desired insert, has been a key factor in molecular cloning and a series of screening procedures need to be performed for selection of clones carrying the genes of interest. The conventional cloning techniques are reported to have problems such as screeni...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Banerjee S,Kumar J,Apte-Deshpande A,Padmanabhan S

更新日期：2010-05-11 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: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：BACKGROUND:A cellular stress response is triggered upon induction of recombinant protein expression which feedback inhibits both growth as well as protein synthesis. In order to separate these two effects, it was decided to study "quiescent cultures" which continue to be metabolically active and express recombinant pro...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Mahalik S,Sharma AK,Jain P,Mukherjee KJ

更新日期：2017-07-28 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:High-throughput screening methods assume that the output measured is representative of changes in metabolic flux toward the desired product and is not affected by secondary phenotypes. However, metabolic engineering can result in unintended phenotypes that may go unnoticed in initial screening. The red pigme...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Bongers M,Chrysanthopoulos PK,Behrendorff JB,Hodson MP,Vickers CE,Nielsen LK

更新日期：2015-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a common and leading cause for liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Current therapies to treat HCV infection are shown to be partially effective and poorly tolerated. Therefore, ample efforts are underway to rationally design therapies targeting the HCV non-structural prot...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Anwar MI,Iqbal M,Yousef MS,Rahman M

更新日期：2013-11-16 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: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: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: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:Activation of silent biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) in marine-derived actinomycete strains is a feasible strategy to discover bioactive natural products. Actinoalloteichus sp. AHMU CJ021, isolated from the seashore, was shown to contain an intact but silent caerulomycin A (CRM A) BGC-cam in its genome. Th...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Xie Y,Chen J,Wang B,Chen T,Chen J,Zhang Y,Liu X,Chen Q

更新日期：2020-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A number of valuable candidates as tuberculosis vaccine have been reported, some of which have already entered clinical trials. The new vaccines, especially subunit vaccines, need multiple administrations in order to maintain adequate life-long immune memory: this demands for high production levels and degre...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Piubelli L,Campa M,Temporini C,Binda E,Mangione F,Amicosante M,Terreni M,Marinelli F,Pollegioni L

更新日期：2013-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent years have seen a huge growth in the market of industrial yeasts with the need for strains affording better performance or to be used in new applications. Stress tolerance of commercial Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeasts is, without doubt, a trait that needs improving. Such trait is, however, complex, an...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Pérez-Torrado R,Panadero J,Hernández-López MJ,Prieto JA,Randez-Gil F

更新日期：2010-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacteriocin-producing Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) have vast applications in human and animal health, as well as in food industry. The structural, immunity, regulatory, export and modification genes are required for effective bacteriocin biosynthesis. Variations in gene sequence, composition and organisation w...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Tai HF,Foo HL,Abdul Rahim R,Loh TC,Abdullah MP,Yoshinobu K

更新日期：2015-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Calreticulin (CRT) resides in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and functions to chaperone proteins, ensuring proper folding, and intracellular Ca(2+) homeostasis. Emerging evidence shows that CRT is a multifunctional protein with significant roles in physiological and pathological processes with presence both ...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Čiplys E,Žitkus E,Gold LI,Daubriac J,Pavlides SC,Højrup P,Houen G,Wang WA,Michalak M,Slibinskas R

更新日期：2015-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris is a common host for the production of recombinant proteins. However, hypermannosylation hinders the use of recombinant proteins from yeast in most biopharmaceutical applications. Glyco-engineered yeast strains produce more homogeneously glycosylated proteins, but can...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Pekarsky A,Veiter L,Rajamanickam V,Herwig C,Grünwald-Gruber C,Altmann F,Spadiut O

更新日期：2018-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:β-Ionone is a fragrant terpenoid that generates a pleasant floral scent and is used in diverse applications as a cosmetic and flavoring ingredient. A growing consumer desire for natural products has increased the market demand for natural β-ionone. To date, chemical extraction from plants remains the main ap...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Czajka JJ,Nathenson JA,Benites VT,Baidoo EEK,Cheng Q,Wang Y,Tang YJ

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nowadays, microbial infections have caused increasing economic losses in aquaculture industry and deteriorated worldwide environments. Many of these infections are caused by opportunistic pathogens through cell-density mediated quorum sensing (QS). The disruption of QS, known as quorum quenching (QQ), is an ...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Dong W,Cai Y,Xu Z,Fu B,Chen Q,Cui Y,Ruan Z,Liang Y,Peng N,Zhao S

更新日期：2020-10-07 00:00:00