Identification and utilization of two important transporters: SgvT1 and SgvT2, for griseoviridin and viridogrisein biosynthesis in Streptomyces griseoviridis.

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: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:Acetic acid bacteria (AAB) are widely applied in food, bioengineering and medicine fields. However, the acid stress at low pH conditions limits acetic acid fermentation efficiency and high concentration of vinegar production with AAB. Therefore, how to enhance resistance ability of the AAB remains as the maj...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Yin H,Zhang R,Xia M,Bai X,Mou J,Zheng Y,Wang M

更新日期：2017-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Membrane proteins are important drug targets in many human diseases and gathering structural information regarding these proteins encourages the pharmaceutical industry to develop new molecules using structure-based drug design studies. Specifically, membrane-bound catechol-O-methyltransferase (MBCOMT) is an...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Pedro AQ,Martins LM,Dias JM,Bonifácio MJ,Queiroz JA,Passarinha LA

更新日期：2015-08-07 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:Sabinene, one kind of monoterpene, accumulated limitedly in natural organisms, is being explored as a potential component for the next generation of aircraft fuels. And demand for advanced fuels impels us to develop biosynthetic routes for the production of sabinene from renewable sugar. RESULTS:In this stu...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Zhang H,Liu Q,Cao Y,Feng X,Zheng Y,Zou H,Liu H,Yang J,Xian M

更新日期：2014-02-10 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:Sesquiterpenes are a class of natural products with a diverse range of attractive industrial proprieties. Due to economic difficulties of sesquiterpene production via extraction from plants or chemical synthesis there is interest in developing alternative and cost efficient bioprocesses. The hydrocarbon α-sa...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Scalcinati G,Partow S,Siewers V,Schalk M,Daviet L,Nielsen J

更新日期：2012-08-31 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：BACKGROUND:Enantiopure 2-hydroxy acids are key intermediates for the synthesis of pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals. We present an enantioselective cascade biocatalysis using recombinant microbial cells for deracemization of racemic 2-hydroxy acids that allows for efficient production of enantiopure 2-hydroxy acids. ...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Xue YP,Zeng H,Jin XL,Liu ZQ,Zheng YG

更新日期：2016-09-22 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：: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:Lipases (EC 3.1.1.3) catalyze the hydrolysis of triacyl glycerol to glycerol and are involved in the synthesis of both short chain and long chain acylglycerols. They are widely used industrially in various applications, such as baking, laundry detergents and as biocatalysts in alternative energy strategies. ...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Selvin J,Kennedy J,Lejon DP,Kiran GS,Dobson AD

更新日期：2012-06-01 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:Omega hydroxy fatty acids (ω-OHFAs) are multifunctional compounds that act as the basis for the production of various industrial products with broad commercial and pharmaceutical implications. However, the terminal oxygenation of saturated or unsaturated fatty acids for the synthesis of ω-OHFAs is intricate ...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Durairaj P,Malla S,Nadarajan SP,Lee PG,Jung E,Park HH,Kim BG,Yun H

更新日期：2015-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:D-Lactate is a valued chemical which can be produced by some bacteria including Klebsiella pneumoniae. However, only a few studies have focused on K. pneumoniae for D-lactate production with a significant amount of by-products, which complicated the purification process and decreased the yield of D-lactate. ...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Feng X,Jiang L,Han X,Liu X,Zhao Z,Liu H,Xian M,Zhao G

更新日期：2017-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：: Different species of microorganisms including yeasts, filamentous fungi and bacteria have been used in the past 25 years for the controlled production of foreign proteins of scientific, pharmacological or industrial interest. A major obstacle for protein production processes and a limit to overall success has been th...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Gasser B,Saloheimo M,Rinas U,Dragosits M,Rodríguez-Carmona E,Baumann K,Giuliani M,Parrilli E,Branduardi P,Lang C,Porro D,Ferrer P,Tutino ML,Mattanovich D,Villaverde A

更新日期：2008-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Methane-utilizing bacteria (methanotrophs) are capable of growth on methane and are attractive systems for bio-catalysis. However, the application of natural methanotrophic strains to large-scale production of value-added chemicals/biofuels requires a number of physiological and genetic alterations. An accur...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： de la Torre A,Metivier A,Chu F,Laurens LM,Beck DA,Pienkos PT,Lidstrom ME,Kalyuzhnaya MG

更新日期：2015-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cellobiose dehydrogenase (CDH) is an extracellular hemoflavoenzyme produced by lignocellulose-degrading fungi including Pycnoporus cinnabarinus. We investigated the cellulolytic system of P. cinnabarinus, focusing on the involvement of CDH in the deconstruction of lignocellulosic biomass. RESULTS:First, P. ...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Bey M,Berrin JG,Poidevin L,Sigoillot JC

更新日期：2011-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The metabolic capabilities of acetogens to ferment a wide range of sugars, to grow autotrophically on H2/CO2, and more importantly on synthesis gas (H2/CO/CO2) make them very attractive candidates as production hosts for biofuels and biocommodities. Acetogenic metabolism is considered one of the earliest mod...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Nagarajan H,Sahin M,Nogales J,Latif H,Lovley DR,Ebrahim A,Zengler K

更新日期：2013-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cellulosic biomass especially agricultural/wood residues can be utilized as feedstock to cost-effectively produce fuels, chemicals and bulk industrial enzymes, which demands xylose utilization from microbial cell factories. While previous works have made significant progress in improving microbial conversion...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Li P,Sun H,Chen Z,Li Y,Zhu T

更新日期：2015-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacillus subtilis is an important industrial workhorse applied in the production of many different commercially relevant proteins, especially enzymes. Virtually all of these proteins are secreted via the general secretion (Sec) pathway. Studies from different laboratories have demonstrated essential or non-e...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Neef J,Bongiorni C,Schmidt B,Goosens VJ,van Dijl JM

更新日期：2020-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Animal venoms are complex molecular cocktails containing a wide range of biologically active disulphide-reticulated peptides that target, with high selectivity and efficacy, a variety of membrane receptors. Disulphide-reticulated peptides have evolved to display improved specificity, low immunogenicity and t...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Turchetto J,Sequeira AF,Ramond L,Peysson F,Brás JL,Saez NJ,Duhoo Y,Blémont M,Guerreiro CI,Quinton L,De Pauw E,Gilles N,Darbon H,Fontes CM,Vincentelli R

更新日期：2017-01-17 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:Despite the progressive miniaturization of bioreactors for screening purposes, shake flasks are still widespread in biotechnological laboratories and industry as cultivation vessels. Shake flasks are often applied as the first or second step in applications such as strain screening or media optimization. Thu...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Flitsch D,Ladner T,Lukacs M,Büchs J

更新日期：2016-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fine-tuning the aeration for cultivations when oxygen-limited conditions are demanded (such as the production of vaccines, isobutanol, 2-3 butanediol, acetone, and bioethanol) is still a challenge in the area of bioreactor automation and advanced control. In this work, an innovative control strategy based on...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Mesquita TJB,Sargo CR,Fuzer JR Neto,Paredes SAH,Giordano RC,Horta ACL,Zangirolami TC

更新日期：2019-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are known to have a significant ability to colonize the human intestinal tract and adhere to the surface of intestinal epithelial cells. Among the various lactic acid bacteria, exopolysaccharide (EPS) producing strains are known to provide a variety of health benefits for their hos...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Jin H,Jeong Y,Yoo SH,Johnston TV,Ku S,Ji GE

更新日期：2019-06-13 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 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:L-tryptophan is an aromatic amino acid widely used in the food, chemical and pharmaceutical industries. In Escherichia coli, L-tryptophan is synthesized from phosphoenolpyruvate and erythrose 4-phosphate by enzymes in the shikimate pathway and L-tryptophan branch pathway, while L-serine and phosphoribosylpyr...

journal_title：Microbial cell factories

authors： Gu P,Yang F,Kang J,Wang Q,Qi Q

更新日期：2012-03-02 00:00:00