MicroRNA-466c-3p exerts protective effect on neuronal apoptosis and improves functional recovery post spinal cord injury via mitochondrial apoptotic pathway.

abstract：:Aglycon protopanaxatriol (APPT) has valuable pharmacological effects such as anti-inflammatory and anti-stress activities. However, the complete conversion of all typical glycosylated protopanaxatriol ginsenosides to APPT has not been achieved to date. β-Glycosidase from the hyperthermophilic bacterium Dictyoglomus tu...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Yang EJ,Kim TH,Shin KC,Oh DK

更新日期：2018-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzymatic hydrolysis of cassava peels was evaluated using cellulase and beta-glucanase enzymes and their mixtures at three different enzyme loadings with time. The pH of the medium used for hydrolysis was 5 and the temperature was 50 °C. The efficiency of the hydrolysis using beta-glucanase was better than cellulase a...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Bayitse R,Hou X,Bjerre AB,Saalia FK

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pectin is a structural heteropolysaccharide of the primary cell walls of plants and as such is a significant fraction of agricultural waste residues that is currently insufficiently used. Its main component, D-galacturonic acid, is an attractive substrate for bioconversion. The complete metabolic pathway is present in...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Sloothaak J,Schilders M,Schaap PJ,de Graaff LH

更新日期：2014-08-23 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：:Hydrogen gas represents a promising alternative energy source to dwindling fossil fuel reserves, as it carries the highest energy per unit mass and its combustion results in the release of water vapour as only byproduct. The facultatively anaerobic thermophile Parageobacillus thermoglucosidasius is able to produce hyd...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Mohr T,Aliyu H,Biebinger L,Gödert R,Hornberger A,Cowan D,de Maayer P,Neumann A

更新日期：2019-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:With fossil fuel sources in limited supply, microalgae show tremendous promise as a carbon neutral source of biofuel. Current microalgae biofuel strategies typically rely on growing high-lipid producing laboratory strains of microalgae in open raceways or closed system photobioreactors. Unfortunately, these microalgae...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Eibl JK,Corcoran JD,Senhorinho GN,Zhang K,Hosseini NS,Marsden J,Laamanen CA,Scott JA,Ross GM

更新日期：2014-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：: Effective utilization of photosynthetic microorganisms as potential biocatalysts is favorable for the production of useful biomaterials and the reduction of atmospheric CO2. For example, biocatalytic transformations are used in the synthesis of optically active alcohols. We previously found that ketone reduction in c...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Yamanaka R,Nakamura K,Murakami A

更新日期：2011-09-01 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：:Herbicides are important tools for weed control in modern agriculture. In the search for potential herbicidal natural products from fungal species, harzianum A and B were identified from the biofertilizer fungus, Trichoderma brevicompactum. In the phytotoxicity assays on the dicot species Brassica chinensis, harzianum...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Yin M,Fasoyin OE,Wang C,Yue Q,Zhang Y,Dun B,Xu Y,Zhang L

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene therapy and viral vaccine are becoming attractive therapeutic options for the treatment of different malignant diseases. Viral vector productions are often using static culture vessels and small volume stainless steel bioreactors (SSB). However, the yield of each vessel can be relatively low and multiple vessels ...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Yang J,Guertin P,Jia G,Lv Z,Yang H,Ju D

更新日期：2019-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological synthesis of metal nanoparticles using plant extracts with defined size and morphology is a simple, nontoxic and environmentally friendly method. The present study focused on the synthesis of silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) by Artemisia annua L. extract as reducing and stabilising agent. The Ag NPs functi...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Aghajanyan A,Gabrielyan L,Schubert R,Trchounian A

更新日期：2020-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological technologies for recycling rare metals, which are essential for high-tech products, have attracted much attention because they could prove to be more environmentally friendly and energy-saving than other methods. We have developed biological recycling technologies by cell surface engineering for the selecti...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Ito R,Kuroda K,Hashimoto H,Ueda M

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：: Two genes from Streptomyces albidoflavus, one exochitinase (905-bp) and an endochitinase (1100-bp) were functionally expressed in Escherichia coli in form of a fusion protein with a maltose binding protein (MBP). The goal was to produce and test proteins that inhibit both the coffee berry borer insect Hypothenemus ha...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Martínez CP,Echeverri C,Florez JC,Gaitan AL,Góngora CE

更新日期：2012-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The major platform for high level recombinant protein production is based on genetically modified microorganisms like Escherichia coli (E. coli) due to its short dividing time, ability to use inexpensive substrates and additionally, its genetics is comparatively simple, well characterized and can be manipulated easily...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Kangwa M,Yelemane V,Polat AN,Gorrepati KD,Grasselli M,Fernández-Lahore M

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present work, a remediation bioprocess based on the use of a native isolate of Chlorella vulgaris immobilized in an alginate matrix inside a polylactic acid (PLA) device is proposed. This microalga immobilized in alginate beads was previously shown to be useful for the reduction of several chemical and microbia...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Marconi PL,Trentini A,Zawoznik M,Nadra C,Mercadé JM,Sánchez Novoa JG,Orozco D,Groppa MD

更新日期：2020-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：: Biosurfactants are amphiphilic molecules that have both hydrophilic and hydrophobic moieties which partition preferentially at the interfaces such as liquid/liquid, gas/liquid or solid/liquid interfaces. Such characteristics enable emulsifying, foaming, detergency and dispersing properties. Their low toxicity and env...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Makkar RS,Cameotra SS,Banat IM

更新日期：2011-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：: The nutrition-versatility of Burkholderia sp. strain USM (JCM 15050) has initiated the studies on the use of this bacterium for polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) production. To date, the Burkholderia sp. has been reported to synthesize 3-hydroxybutyrate, 3-hydroxyvalerate and 3-hydroxy-4-methylvalerate monomers. In this stu...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Lau NS,Sudesh K

更新日期：2012-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The zygomycete fungus Lichtheimia ramosa H71D, isolated from sugarcane bagasse compost, was identified by applying phylogenetic analysis based on the DNA sequence of the Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS), and subsequent secondary structure analysis of ITS2. L. ramosa H71D was able to grow over a wide range of temperat...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Alvarez-Zúñiga MT,Santiago-Hernández A,Rodríguez-Mendoza J,Campos JE,Pavón-Orozco P,Trejo-Estrada S,Hidalgo-Lara ME

更新日期：2017-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:High temperature causes ubiquitous environmental stress to microorganisms, but studies have not fully explained whether and to what extent heat shock would affect genome stability. Hence, this study explored heat-shock-induced genomic alterations in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Using genetic screening systems a...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Shen L,Wang YT,Tang XX,Zhang K,Wang PM,Sui Y,Zheng DQ

更新日期：2020-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel strain of Pseudomonas putida LS46 was isolated from wastewater on the basis of its ability to synthesize medium chain-length polyhydroxyalkanoates (mcl-PHAs). P.putida LS46 was differentiated from other P.putida strains on the basis of cpn60 (UT). The complete genome of P.putida LS46 was sequenced and annotate...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Sharma PK,Fu J,Zhang X,Fristensky B,Sparling R,Levin DB

更新日期：2014-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus thuringiensis is a Gram-positive soil bacterium that is known to be a bacterial biopesticide that produces insecticidal proteins called crystal proteins (Cry). In the insecticidal process, chitinases are suggested to perforate the peritrophic membrane barrier to facilitate the invasion of the Cry proteins int...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Honda S,Kunii T,Nohara K,Wakita S,Sugahara Y,Kawakita M,Oyama F,Sakaguchi M

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During industrial fermentation, Streptomyces clavuligerus F613-1 simultaneously produces primary product clavulanic acid (CA) and cephamycin C. The cephamycin C biosynthetic gene cluster and pathway have been basically elucidated and the CcaR positive regulator was found to control the cephamycin genes expression. How...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Fu J,Qin R,Zong G,Zhong C,Zhang P,Kang N,Qi X,Cao G

更新日期：2019-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Most whole cell biocatalysts have some problems with yields and productivities because of various metabolites produced as byproducts and limitations of substrate uptake. We propose a psychrophile-based simple biocatalyst for efficient bio-production using mesophilic enzymes expressed in psychrophilic Shewanella living...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Tajima T,Fuki K,Kataoka N,Kudou D,Nakashimada Y,Kato J

更新日期：2013-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:High-performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) was used for comprehensive metabolomic fingerprinting of vanilla fruits prepared from the curing process. In this study, the metabolic changes of vanilla pods and vanilla beans were characterized using MS-based metabolomics to elucidate the biosynthesis ...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Gu F,Chen Y,Hong Y,Fang Y,Tan L

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycolata form a group of Gram-positive bacteria with unique cell envelope structures that are known for their high tolerance against antibiotics and both aromatic and aliphatic hydrocarbons. An important part of the unique surface structure of the mycolata is the presence of long chain α-alkyl-β-hydroxy fatty acids, t...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： de Carvalho CCCR,Fischer MA,Kirsten S,Würz B,Wick LY,Heipieper HJ

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactobacillus panis strain PM1 is an obligatory heterofermentative and aerotolerant microorganism that also produces 1,3-propanediol from glycerol. This study investigated the metabolic responses of L. panis PM1 to oxidative stress under aerobic conditions. Growth under aerobic culture triggered an early entrance of L...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Kang TS,Korber DR,Tanaka T

更新日期：2013-01-31 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：: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：:In this paper, we demonstrate that the antimicrobial activity of L. plantarum PBS067 strain against antagonist microorganisms was mediated by the production of a bacteriocin-like compound secreted at the stationary phase of the growth. The novel bacteriocin-like compound, designed plantaricin P1053, was identified by ...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： De Giani A,Bovio F,Forcella M,Fusi P,Sello G,Di Gennaro P

更新日期：2019-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Sponges are primitive metazoans that are known to harbour diverse and abundant microbes. All over the world attempts are being made to exploit these microbes for their biotechnological potential to produce, bioactive compounds and antimicrobial peptides. However, the majority of the studies are focussed on the marine ...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Gaikwad S,Shouche YS,Gade WN

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00