Nigella A ameliorates inflammation and intestinal flora imbalance in DSS induced colitis mice.

abstract：:An exhaustive screening program was applied for scoring a promising L-asparaginase producing-isolate. The recovered isolate was identified biochemically and molecularly and its L-asparaginase productivity was optimized experimentally and by Response Surface Methodology. The produced enzyme was characterized experiment...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Abdelrazek NA,Elkhatib WF,Raafat MM,Aboulwafa MM

更新日期：2020-04-15 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：: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：: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：: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：:Cardiac arrhythmia is an irregular heart rhythm that can lead to serious heart conditions and various organ disorders, and may cause sudden cardiac death. Catalpol belongs to the iridoid glycoside family and is highly abundant in Rehmannia glutinosa Libosch. The study included five groups such as group I (normal contr...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Yang L,Feng X,Li Y,Zhang S,Ying Y

更新日期：2020-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：: Hydroquinone-1,2-dioxygenase, an enzyme involved in the degradation of alkylphenols in Sphingomonas sp. strain TTNP3 was purified to apparent homogeneity. The extradiol dioxygenase catalyzed the ring fission of hydroquinone to 4-hydroxymuconic semialdehyde and the degradation of chlorinated and several alkylated hydr...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Kolvenbach BA,Lenz M,Benndorf D,Rapp E,Fousek J,Vlcek C,Schäffer A,Gabriel FL,Kohler HP,Corvini PF

更新日期：2011-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The bioprospection for cellulase and protease producers is a promise strategy for the discovery of potential biocatalysts for use in hydrolysis of lignocellulosic materials as well as proteic residues. These enzymes can increment and turn viable the production of second generation ethanol from different and alternativ...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： da Cruz Ramos GF,Ramos PL,Passarini MRZ,Vieira Silveira MA,Okamoto DN,de Oliveira LCG,Zezzo LV,Marem A,Santos Rocha RC,da Cruz JB,Juliano L,de Vasconcellos SP

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRs) have shown tremendous potential to act as therapeutic targets for cancer treatment. In this context, the present study was designed to investigate the potential of miR-143 in the treatment of breast cancer. Results showed that miR-143 to be significantly (P < 0.05) downregulated in breast cancer tissu...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Du Y,Zhang J,Meng Y,Huang M,Yan W,Wu Z

更新日期：2020-07-31 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：:Spinal cord injury (SCI) is involved with abnormal expression of miRNAs (miRs) which are responsible for some IIry injury responses which include apoptosis, inflammation and oxidative stress. Mechanisms involving miRs induced apoptosis still needs to be investigated. In the present work we developed a rat model of SCI...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： An Y,Li J,Yuan Q,Fan M

更新日期：2020-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Geniposide is an iridoid glycoside, which is abundant in Gardeniae Fructus. Despite the various pharmaceutical effects of geniposide on a human body, its hydrolysis into a smaller molecule, genipin, by β-glucosidase produced by bacteria in the intestines is particularly important to improve geniposide uptake into the ...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Kim YS,Lee CJ,Ma JY

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Origanum vulgare L. (Lamiaceae) is a widespread flavoring culinary and medicinal herb. The present study aimed at investigating the antimicrobial activity of Origanum vulgare (OV) essential oil (EO) through illustrating its biostatic, biocidal and the dynamics of the biocidal activity against 11 different microorganis...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Fikry S,Khalil N,Salama O

更新日期：2019-03-26 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：:The potential of Lactobacillus johnsonii NCC 533 to metabolize chlorogenic acids from green coffee extract was investigated. Two enzymes, an esterase and a hydroxycinnamate decarboxylase (HCD), were involved in this biotransformation. The complete hydrolysis of 5-caffeoylquinic acid (5-CQA) into caffeic acid (CA) by L...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Bel-Rhlid R,Thapa D,Kraehenbuehl K,Hansen CE,Fischer L

更新日期：2013-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclophosphamide (CPA) represents a widely used anti-cancer prodrug that is converted by liver cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes into the primary metabolite 4-hydroxycyclophosphamide (4-OH-CPA), followed by non-enzymatic generation of the bioactive metabolites phosphoramide mustard and acrolein. The use of human drug meta...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Steinbrecht S,Kiebist J,König R,Thiessen M,Schmidtke KU,Kammerer S,Küpper JH,Scheibner K

更新日期：2020-07-18 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：: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：:Phasins are amphiphilic proteins involved in the regulation of the number and size of polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) granules. The plant growth promoting bacterium Azospirillum brasilense Sp7 accumulates high quantities of bioplastic PHB as carbon and energy source. By analyzing the genome, we identified six genes that cod...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Martínez-Martínez MLA,González-Pedrajo B,Dreyfus G,Soto-Urzúa L,Martínez-Morales LJ

更新日期：2019-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The 70-kD heat shock proteins (Hsp70s) have been proved to be important for stress tolerance and protein folding and unfolding in almost all organisms. However, the functions of Hsp70s in mushroom are not well understood. In the present study, a hsp70 gene from Hypsizygus marmoreus, hmhsp70, was cloned and transferred...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Xu L,Gao J,Guo L,Yu H

更新日期：2020-01-18 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：: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：: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：:Denitrifying anaerobic methane oxidation (damo) bioprocesses can remove nitrate using methane as the electron donor, which gains great concern due to the current stringent discharge standard of nitrogen in wastewater treatment plants. To obtain an engineering acceptable nitrogen removal rate (NRR) and demonstrate the ...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Li W,Lu P,Chai F,Zhang L,Han X,Zhang D

更新日期：2018-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) enriched in brain can yield many important degradation products after the attack of hydroxyl radicals, which is known to serve as a nutraceutical and neuroprotective effects. Oxidative stress is a commonly observed feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Therefore, uniformly radiolabeled DHA pl...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Song P,Kuryatov A,Axelsen PH

更新日期：2020-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:As the group II LEA (late embryogenesis abundant) proteins, dehydrins (DHNs) play an important role in plant growth and development, as well as in response to abiotic or biotic stress challenges. In this study, a DHN gene named CsLEA11 was identified and characterized from Cucumis sativus. Sequence analysis of CsLEA11...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Zhou Y,He P,Xu Y,Liu Q,Yang Y,Liu S

更新日期：2017-09-29 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：:Lactobacilli, as the largest group of lactic acid bacteria, produce large amounts of antimicrobial metabolites such as organic acids, fatty acids, ammonia, hydrogen peroxide, diacetyl and bacteriocin, which inhibit the growth of pathogenic bacteria and increase shelf life of food. The aim of this study was to identify...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Azizi F,Habibi Najafi MB,Edalatian Dovom MR

更新日期：2017-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：: In this study manganese peroxidase (MnP) enzymes from selected white-rot fungi were isolated and compared for potential future recombinant production. White-rot fungi were cultivated in small-scale in liquid media and a simplified process was established for the purification of extracellular enzymes.Five lignin degra...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Järvinen J,Taskila S,Isomäki R,Ojamo H

更新日期：2012-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal microorganisms have been shown to be important factors affecting the growth performance of pigs. Therefore, to investigate the effect of the intestinal microflora structure on the growth performance of pigs, samples from Duroc (n = 10), Landrace (n = 9) and Yorkshire (n = 21) pigs under the same diet and fe...

journal_title：AMB Express

authors： Li XJ,Wang M,Xue Y,Duan D,Li C,Han X,Wang K,Qiao R,Li XL

更新日期：2020-10-29 00:00:00