Biocatalytic activity of Monascus mycelia depending on physiology and high sensitivity to product concentration.

abstract：:Efficient methods to achieve the safe decontamination of agricultural products are needed. Here, we investigated the decontamination of citrus fruits to test the antifungal potential of a novel non-thermal gas plasma apparatus, termed a roller conveyer plasma instrument. This instrument generates an atmospheric pressu...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Sakudo A,Yagyu Y

更新日期：2021-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：: To improve the biodegradation of biodegradable plastic (BP) mulch films, 1227 fungal strains were isolated from plant surface (phylloplane) and evaluated for BP-degrading ability. Among them, B47-9 a strain isolated from the leaf surface of barley showed the strongest ability to degrade poly-(butylene succinate-co-bu...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Koitabashi M,Noguchi MT,Sameshima-Yamashita Y,Hiradate S,Suzuki K,Yoshida S,Watanabe T,Shinozaki Y,Tsushima S,Kitamoto HK

更新日期：2012-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we report a novel protein elicitor from Bacillus subtilis BU412 which could cause hypersensitive response (HR) and systemic acquired resistance (SAR) in tobacco. The purification was executed by ion-exchange and size exclusion chromatography. The target band on SDS-PAGE was analyzed by mass spectrometry, and the...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Shen Y,Li J,Xiang J,Wang J,Yin K,Liu Q

更新日期：2019-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant antibodies are used with great success in many different diagnostic and therapeutic applications. A variety of protein expression systems are available, but nowadays almost all therapeutic antibodies are produced in mammalian cell lines due to their complex structure and glycosylation requirements. However...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Blanco-Toribio A,Álvarez-Cienfuegos A,Sainz-Pastor N,Merino N,Compte M,Sanz L,Blanco FJ,Álvarez-Vallina L

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poly-3-hydroxybutyrate (PHB), the most abundant type of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) is synthesized inside a variety of microorganisms as a primary candidate for industrial PHB production. Lipophilic dyes such as Nile red and BODIPY have been used to quantify intracellular PHB, but their uses have often been limited in...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Choi JE,Na HY,Yang TH,Rhee SK,Song JK

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida albicans is an opportunistic pathogen that causes fatal diseases in immunocompromised hosts. Host resistance against C. albicans relies on ingestion of the pathogen by macrophages. Analysis of the escaping behavior of C. albicans from macrophages is required to understand the onset of systemic candidiasis. In ...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Kitahara N,Morisaka H,Aoki W,Takeda Y,Shibasaki S,Kuroda K,Ueda M

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enhanced bioremediation is a favorable approach for petroleum pollutant cleanup, which depends on the growth of oil-eating microorganisms. In this study, we show that, by using the modified T-RFLP (mT-RFLP) methodology, one of the four major microbial populations derived from oil sludge has failed to propagate in MS m...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Liang J,Cheng T,Huang Y,Liu J

更新日期：2018-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, many efforts have been directed to explore the methods to reduce the production costs of industrial lipase by improving the yield and the use of low-cost agricultural wastes. Coconut dregs, which is a lignocellulosic by-product from coconut oil and milk processing plants, is rich in cellulose (36%) an...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Mohd Zin NB,Mohamad Yusof B,Oslan SN,Wasoh H,Tan JS,Ariff AB,Halim M

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane (CL-20) is a compound with a polycyclic cage and an N-nitro group that has been shown to play an unfavorable role in environmental fate, biosafety, and physical health. The aim of this study was to isolate the microbial community and to identify a single microbial strain that can degrade ...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Liu Z,Dang K,Li C,Gao J,Wang H,Gao Y,Zhao B,Fan P,Qian A

更新日期：2020-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of the present study was to evaluate the effects of enzymes (cellulase combined with galactosidase) and their combination with Lactobacillus plantarum (LP) on bacterial diversity in alfalfa silages using high-throughput sequencing. Alfalfa forages were treated with or without cellulase + ɑ-galactosidase (CEGA...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Hu Z,Ma D,Niu H,Chang J,Yu J,Tong Q,Li S

更新日期：2021-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was demonstrated with a coculture fermentation system using sugar beet pulp (SBP) as a carbon source combining the cellulose-degrading bacterium Clostridium cellulovorans with microbial flora of methane production (MFMP) for the direct conversion of cellulosic biomass to methane (CH4). The MFMP was taken fr...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Tomita H,Okazaki F,Tamaru Y

更新日期：2019-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Mathematical models have been used from growth kinetic simulation to gen regulatory networks prediction for B. thuringiensis culture. However, this culture is a time dependent dynamic process where cells physiology suffers several changes depending on the changes in the cell environment. Therefore, through its culture...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Navarro-Mtz AK,Pérez-Guevara F

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mixotrophic cultivation is a potential approach to produce microalgal biomass that can be used as raw materials for renewable biofuels and animal feed, although using a suitable, cost-effective organic carbon source is crucial. Here, we used a Box-Behnken design with three factors, the glucose and sodium acetate conce...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Silva HR,Prete CEC,Zambrano F,de Mello VH,Tischer CA,Andrade DS

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Porcine circovirus type 3 (PCV3) is a novel circovirus identified in sows with PDNS-like clinical signs and reproductive failure. The capsid protein (CAP) of PCV3 is expected to be an effective vaccine candidate. Here, we expressed the original capsid protein, truncated capsid protein without anterior highly repetitiv...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Liu BY,Gao B,Liu MZ,Zhang TT,Liu BS,Chen ZL

更新日期：2020-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular enzymes play an important role in the growth and development of edible fungi. Extracellular enzyme activities have also become an important object of measurement. In this study, Agaricus brunnescens Peck, Coprinus comatus, and Pleurotus ostreatus were compared in terms of their enzyme production in liqui...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Huang L,Sun N,Ban L,Wang Y,Yang H

更新日期：2019-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The tissues of marine invertebrates are colonized by species-rich microbial communities. The dysbiosis of host's microbiota is tightly associated with the invertebrate diseases. Yesso scallop (Patinopecten yessoensis), one of the most important maricultured scallops in northern China, has recently suffered massive sum...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Yu Z,Liu C,Fu Q,Lu G,Han S,Wang L,Song L

更新日期：2019-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:With the developments in taxonomy, the classically used highly conserved 16S rRNA molecular marker has shown some disadvantages among closely related species. For further taxonomic studies of the prokaryotes, specific PCR primers were designed from two conserved regions in the amino acid sequences of the 70-kDa heat s...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Hu Y,Sun F,Liu W

更新日期：2018-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Other than the needs for infection control to investigate the survival and inactivation of airborne bacterial pathogens, there has been a growing interest in exploring bacterial communities in the air and the effect of environmental variables on them. However, the innate biological mechanism influencing the bacterial ...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Ng TW,Chan WL,Lai KM

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ginsenoside compound K has been used as a key nutritional and cosmetic component because of its anti-fatigue and skin anti-aging effects. β-Glycosidase from Sulfolobus solfataricus (SS-BGL) is known as the most efficient enzyme for compound K production. The hydrolytic pathway from ginsenoside Rb1 to compound K via Rd...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Shin KC,Choi HY,Seo MJ,Oh DK

更新日期：2017-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Wheat bran is an effective raw material for preparation xylooligosaccharides; however, current research mainly focuses on alkali extraction and enzymatic hydrolysis methods. Since ester bonds are destroyed during the alkali extraction process, xylanase and arabinofuranosidase are mainly used to hydrolyze xylooligosacc...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Zhang Y,Yang H,Yu X,Kong H,Chen J,Luo H,Bai Y,Yao B

更新日期：2019-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactic acid bacteria are industrially important microorganisms recognized for fermentative ability mostly in their probiotic benefits as well as lactic acid production for various applications. Fermentation conditions such as concentration of initial glucose in the culture, concentration of lactic acid accumulated in ...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Othman M,Ariff AB,Wasoh H,Kapri MR,Halim M

更新日期：2017-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus aculeatus β-glucosidase 1 (AaBGL1), which promotes cellulose hydrolysis by Trichoderma cellulase system, was characterized and compared some properties to a commercially supplied orthologue in A. niger (AnBGL) to elucidate advantages of recombinant AaBGL1 (rAaBGL1) for synergistic effect on Trichoderma enz...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Baba Y,Sumitani JI,Tani S,Kawaguchi T

更新日期：2015-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:During the last few years, the global transcription machinery engineering (gTME) technique has gained more attention as an effective approach for the construction of novel mutants. Genetic strategies (molecular biology methods) were utilized to get mutational for both genes (SPT15 and TAF23) basically existed in the S...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： El-Rotail AAMM,Zhang L,Li Y,Liu SP,Shi GY

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laccases are used for the conversion of biomass into fermentable sugars but it is difficult to produce high yields of active laccases in heterologous expression systems. We overcame this challenge by expressing Streptomyces cyaneus CECT 3335 laccase in Escherichia coli (ScLac) and we achieved a yield of up to 104 mg L...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Ece S,Lambertz C,Fischer R,Commandeur U

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii has gained interest as a sustainable resource because it can be easily grown using CO2 as a carbon source owing to its high CO2 assimilating activity. Although the robustness of the cell wall of C. reinhardtii makes it difficult to extract its intracellular products, such property ...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Nakanishi A,Iritani K,Sakihama Y,Ozawa N,Mochizuki A,Watanabe M

更新日期：2020-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The study was carried out to investigate the effect of dietary selenium (Se) and vitamin E (VE) supplementation on mRNA level of heat shock proteins, selenoproteins, and antioxidant enzyme activities in the breast meat of broilers under summer heat stress conditions. A total of 200 male broilers (Ross 308) of 1 day ag...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Kumbhar S,Khan AZ,Parveen F,Nizamani ZA,Siyal FA,El-Hack MEA,Gan F,Liu Y,Hamid M,Nido SA,Huang K

更新日期：2018-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：: Type-2 diabetes is mediated by defects in either insulin secretion or insulin action. In an effort to identify extracts that may stimulate glucose uptake, similar to insulin, a high throughput-screening assay for measuring glucose uptake in skeletal muscle cells was established. During the screening studies to discov...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Kulkarni-Almeida AA,Brahma MK,Padmanabhan P,Mishra PD,Parab RR,Gaikwad NV,Thakkar CS,Tokdar P,Ranadive PV,Nair AS,Damre AA,Bahirat UA,Deshmukh NJ,Doshi LS,Dixit AV,George SD,Vishwakarma RA,Nemmani KV,Mahajan GB

更新日期：2011-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the effects of the rumen fungus Piromyces sp. CN6 CGMCC 14449 as a silage additive on the fermentation quality, nutrient composition and in vitro digestibility of whole crop maize silage. Whole crop maize served as the silage material and was vacuum packed in polyethylene bags. Three ensiling t...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Wang D,Zhao C,Liu S,Zhang T,Yao J,Cao Y

更新日期：2019-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus amyloliquefaciens has been widely used as a probiotic in the field of biological control,and its antibacterial compounds plays an important role in the prevention and control of plant, livestock and poultry diseases. It has the advantages of green, safe and efficiency. This study aims to separate and purify a...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Wang Y,Zhao B,Liu Y,Mao L,Zhang X,Meng W,Liu K,Chu J

更新日期：2020-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Sweet potato vine (SPV) is an abundant agricultural waste, which is easy to obtain at low cost and has the potential to produce clean energy via anaerobic digestion (AD). The main objectives of this study were to reveal methane production and process stability of SPV and the mixtures with animal manure under various t...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Zhang E,Li J,Zhang K,Wang F,Yang H,Zhi S,Liu G

更新日期：2018-03-22 00:00:00