Evaluation of Thirty Microalgal Isolates as Biodiesel Feedstocks Based on Lipid Productivity and Triacylglycerol (TAG) Content.

abstract：:Two odorless, water-soluble exopolysaccharide (EPS) fractions, EPS-1 and EPS-2, were isolated from a newly isolated Bacillus amyloliquefaciens strain C-1 and purified by ion exchange and gel chromatography. The purified EPS-1 contained glucose/mannose/galactose/arabinose in a relative proportion of 15:4:2:1, and posse...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Yang H,Deng J,Yuan Y,Fan D,Zhang Y,Zhang R,Han B

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 216 bacterial strains were isolated from rice rhizospheric soils in Northern Thailand. The bacterial strains were initially tested for solubilization of inorganic phosphate, indole acetic acid (IAA) production, selected strains were then tested for optimized conditions for IAA production and whether these c...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Chaiharn M,Lumyong S

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bt cotton was the first genetically modified crop approved for use in India. However, only a few studies have been conducted to assess the feasibility of its commercial application. Bt cotton is genetically modified to express a proteinaceous endotoxin (Cry) encoded by cry gene of Bacillus thuringiensis that has speci...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Kapur M,Bhatia R,Pandey G,Pandey J,Paul D,Jain RK

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current status of Helicobacter contamination of laboratory mice, rats, gerbils, and house musk shrews from 47, 10, 4, and 3 colonies, respectively, in Japan was studied. Helicobacter was detected by reverse transcription (RT)-nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with Helicobacter genus-specific primers by using ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Goto K,Ohashi H,Takakura A,Itoh T

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a leading cause of hospital-acquired infections and difficult to treat due to acquired-resistance to multiple antibiotics. A pair of strains, M38100A and M38100B, previously identified from a single clinical isolate of P. aeruginosa was investigated to understand phenotypic and genotypic char...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Mahida K,Kwon DH

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacteria are widely present in diverse aquatic habitats, where they can survive for months or years while some species can even proliferate. The resistance of different mycobacterial species to disinfection methods like chlorination or ozonation could result in their presence in the final tap water of consumers. I...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Klanicova B,Seda J,Slana I,Slany M,Pavlik I

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report presents results from a study on the bacterial diversity of cigarette brands collected from military personnel during the U.S. Army's investigation of a series of cases of acute eosinophilic pneumonitis in military personnel deployed in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Eight species of Bacillus, including five new...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Rooney AP,Swezey JL,Wicklow DT,McAtee MJ

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is an emerging opportunistic pathogen linked not only to bacteremia, sepsis, and pneumonia but also to severe chronic enteritis. Persons with the impaired immune system are prone to be infected by S. maltophilia since its pathogenicity seems to be more associated with the host immune syste...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Okuno NT,Freire IR,Segundo RTRS,Silva CR,Marin VA

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The invertase of Lactobacillus reuteri CRL 1100 is a glycoprotein composed by a single subunit with a molecular weight of 58 kDa. The enzyme was stable below 45 degrees C over a wide pH range (4.5-7.0) with maximum activity at pH 6.0 and 37 degrees C. The invertase activity was significantly inhibited by bivalent meta...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Cuezzo de Ginés S,Maldonado MC,Font de Valdez G

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The facultative anaerobe Pantoea sp. strain A-13, isolated from ornithogenic soil of Dewart Island (Frazier Islands), Antarctica, produced glycolipid biosurfactants when grown on n-paraffins or kerosene as the sole source of carbon and energy. Hemolysis of erythrocytes, growth inhibition of Bacillus subtilis, and thin...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Vasileva-Tonkova E,Gesheva V

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pasteurella haemolytica was isolated from three of 18 grass samples and four of 18 water samples collected from two grazing fields occupied by sheep. This microorganism was also isolated from three of nine straw bedding samples collected from a pen housing ewes affected by mastitis caused by P. haemolytica. The same e...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Burriel AR

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ansamitocins are extraordinarily potent antitumor agents. Ansamitocin P-3 (AP-3), which is produced by Actinosynnema pretiosum, has been developed as a cytotoxic drug for breast cancer. Despite its importance, AP-3 is of limited applicability because of the low production yield. A. pretiosum strain X47 was developed f...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Zhong C,Zong G,Qian S,Liu M,Fu J,Zhang P,Li J,Cao G

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection remains a major health concern with more than 350 million carriers in the world. It is associated with acute and chronic liver diseases including hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The early detection of severe liver diseases related to HBV is crucial for the effective treatment. This wo...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Feng H,Wang M,Chen WN

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, EMA (ethidium monoazide) treatment was applied to a silty-sand reference soil prior to DNA extraction to enable a differentiation between dead and living cells. For this purpose, a reference soil was spiked with Listeria monocytogenes cells or cell equivalents, respectively. With the purpose of e...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Wagner AO,Praeg N,Illmer P

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flagella occur on many prokaryotes, which primarily propel cells to move from detrimental to favorable environments. A variety of species-specific flagellation patterns have been identified. Although it is presumed that for each of these flagellated microorganisms, an evolutionarily fixed flagellation pattern is favor...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Yang RS,Chen YT

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Degradation of n-alkanes in diesel oil by Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain WatG (WatG) was verified in soil microcosms. The total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH) degradation level in two bioaugmentation samples was 51% and 46% for 1 week in unsterilized and sterilized soil microcosms, respectively. The TPH degradation in the...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Ueno A,Hasanuzzaman M,Yumoto I,Okuyama H

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmids play a central role in engineering recombinant bacteria because they are the primary vehicles used to manipulate targeted sequences. In some cases, bacteria of interest are poorly provided with suitable tools for these molecular or genetic manipulations. In this context, we constructed from two shuttle clonin...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Benachour A,Auffray Y,Hartke A

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharopolyspora erythraea, a mycelium-forming actinomycete, produces a clinically important antibiotic erythromycin. Extensive investigations have provided insights into erythromycin biosynthesis in S. erythraea, but knowledge of its morphogenesis remains limited. By gene inactivation and complementation strategies,...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Yin X,Xu X,Wu H,Yuan L,Huang X,Zhang B

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amino acid residues in the active site of quinoline 2-oxidoreductase (Qor) that are deemed important for substrate binding and turnover were replaced by site-directed mutagenesis. The apparent k(cat) values for quinoline were reduced 2.4-, 38-, 40-, and 199-fold in the protein variants QorA259G, QorW331G, QorV373A, an...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Purvanov V,Fetzner S

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilm-forming ability is well established as an important virulence factor. However, there are no studies available regarding biofilm formation of Salmonella Typhimurium 1,4,[5],12:i:-, the new pandemic serovar in Europe. To address this problem, biofilm expression by Salmonella 1,4,[5],12:i:- was evaluated using 13...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Seixas R,Machado J,Bernardo F,Vilela C,Oliveira M

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterovirus 71 (EV71) is the main pathogen of the hand, foot, and mouth disease. It was firstly isolated from sputum specimens of infants with central nervous system diseases in California in 1969, and has been repeatedly reported in various parts of the world, especially in the Asia-Pacific region. EV71 3C protein is...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Wen W,Qi Z,Wang J

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragments of Synechocystis-DNA driving salt-induced gene expression in E. coli were isolated with translational fusions to a 'lacZ gene. One fragment (fragment 19) showed a NaCl-dependent activation of betaGal expression with the maximum of a ninefold increase in enzyme activity. A similar induction was triggered by t...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Milkowski C,Quinones A,Hagemann M

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The taxonomic position of bacterial strain, designated 15J9-4T, recovered from a beach soil sample on Jeju Island, South Korea, was established using a polyphasic approach. Strain 15J9-4T was assigned to phylum Bacteroidetes within the family Cytophagaceae based on 16S rRNA gene similarities. The closest phylogenetic ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Ten LN,Okiria J,Lee JJ,Lee SY,Park S,Lee DS,Kang IK,Kim MK,Jung HY

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunosuppressant leflunomide (LFM) inhibits the growth of cytokine-stimulated proliferation of lymphoid cells in vitro and also inhibits the growth of eukaryotic microorganism, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. As a first step to elucidate the molecular mechanism of LFM action in human, yeast gene which suppresses the an...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Fujimura H

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In November 2007, 450 m(3) of treated wastewater leaked into the drinking water distribution system contaminating the drinking water of over 10,000 inhabitants of Nokia, Southern Finland. Nearly 1,000 people visited the health centre because of gastroenteritis during the following 5 weeks. A wide range of enteric path...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Lienemann T,Pitkänen T,Antikainen J,Mölsä E,Miettinen I,Haukka K,Vaara M,Siitonen A

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of heavy use of antimicrobials, antimicrobial resistance in bacteria has become of great concern. The effect of some widely used food additives such as sucralose on bacteria in the gut and the environment has also drawn increasing attention. In this study, we investigated the interaction between antimicrobials...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Qu Y,Li R,Jiang M,Wang X

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal communities in decaying sapwood and heartwood of K. evelyniana were demonstrated through construction of four 18 S rRNA gene libraries. The 210 sequenced clones were clustered into 11 subgroups, belonging to Basidiomycota (71.9%) and to Ascomycota (22.4%) and unclassified (1 subgroup; 5.7%). The heartwood displ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Zhang HB,Yang MX,Tu R,Gao L,Zhao ZW

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On the basis of the pulsed field gel electrophoresis(PFGE) technique, molecular karyotypes in Amoeboaphelidiumprotococcarum (the endotrophic parasite of chlorophycean algae, whichcombines protozoon- and fungus-type characters) were determined. Molecularkaryotypes in the strains X1, X5, and X31, which differ in the hos...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Pinevich A,Gromov B,Mamkaeva K,Nasonova E

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corrinoids in several diverse species of methanogens were quantified by a bioassay utilizingEscherichia coli 113-3, a corrinoid auxotroph. All five species examined contained >0.65 nmol corrinoid/mg dry cells when grown on H2/CO2 as carbon and energy source. The highest corrinoid levels (4.1 nmol/mg cells) were found ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Krzycki J,Zeikus JG

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of non-tuberculous mycobacteria to form biofilms may allow for their increased resistance to currently used biocides in medical and industrial settings. This study examines the biofilm growth of Mycobacterium fortuitum and Mycobacterium marinum, using the MBEC trade mark assay system, and compares the susc...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Bardouniotis E,Ceri H,Olson ME

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00