Cofactor regeneration in phototrophic cyanobacteria applied for asymmetric reduction of ketones.

abstract：:Scenedesmus is a genus of microalgae employed for several industrial uses. Industrial cultivations are performed in open ponds or in closed photobioreactors (PBRs). In the last years, a novel type of PBR based on immobilized microalgae has been developed termed porous substrate photobioreactors (PSBR) to achieve signi...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Carbone DA,Olivieri G,Pollio A,Gabriele,Melkonian M

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acid phosphatase production by recombinant Arxula adeninivorans was carried out in submerged fermentation. Using the Plackett-Burman design, three fermentation variables (pH, sucrose concentration, and peptone concentration) were identified to significantly affect acid phosphatase and biomass production, and these wer...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Minocha N,Kaur P,Satyanarayana T,Kunze G

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humus as an electron mediator is recognized as an effective strategy to improve the biological transformation and degradation of toxic substances, yet the action of humus in microbial detoxification of chromate is still unknown. In this study, a humus-reducing strain 3C(3) was isolated from mangrove sediment. Based on...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Hong Y,Wu P,Li W,Gu J,Duan S

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cephalosporin deacetylating acetyl xylan esterase was cloned from the genomic DNA of Bacillus subtilis CICC 20034 and functionally expressed in Escherichia coli. Its gene contained an open reading frame of 957 bp encoding 318 amino acids with a calculated mass of 35,607 Da, and it displayed significant identity to a...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Tian Q,Song P,Jiang L,Li S,Huang H

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microalgal starch is a potential feedstock for biofuel production. Nutrient stress is widely used to stimulate starch accumulation in microalgae. Cell growth and starch accumulation in the marine green microalga Tetraselmis subcordiformis were evaluated under extracellular phosphorus deprivation with initial cell dens...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Yao CH,Ai JN,Cao XP,Xue S

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oleate hydratases (Ohys, EC 4.2.1.53) are a class of enzymes capable of selective water addition reactions to a broad range of unsaturated fatty acids leading to the respective chiral alcohols. Much research was dedicated to improving the applications of existing Ohys as well as to the identification of undescribed Oh...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Busch H,Tonin F,Alvarenga N,van den Broek M,Lu S,Daran JM,Hanefeld U,Hagedoorn PL

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human antimicrobial peptide LL-37 is a cationic peptide with antimicrobial activity against both Gram-positive and Gram-negative microorganisms. This work describes the development of an expression system based on Escherichia coli capable of high production of the recombinant LL-37. The fusion protein Trx-LL-37 wa...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Krahulec J,Hyrsová M,Pepeliaev S,Jílková J,Cerný Z,Machálková J

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Artificial cold adaptation of a mesophilic protease, subtilisin BPN' was attempted by means of random mutagenesis of its entire gene coupled with screening of cleared-zone-forming colonies on skim-milk plates at a low temperature. Out of sixty clones screened at 10 degrees C, one mutant enzyme (termed M-15) was found ...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Kano H,Taguchi S,Momose H

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the organism of choice for many food and beverage fermentations because it thrives in high-sugar and high-ethanol conditions. However, the conditions encountered in bioethanol fermentation pose specific challenges, including extremely high sugar and ethanol concentrations, high temperature,...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Mukherjee V,Steensels J,Lievens B,Van de Voorde I,Verplaetse A,Aerts G,Willems KA,Thevelein JM,Verstrepen KJ,Ruyters S

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene therapy, i.e., the expression in cells of genetic material with therapeutic activity, holds great promise for the treatment of human diseases. A delivery vehicle (vector), of either viral or non-viral origin, must be used to carry the foreign gene into a cell. Viral vectors take advantage of the facile integratio...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Thomas M,Klibanov AM

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shikimic acid is an industrially important chiral compound used as a key ingredient in formulation of drug Oseltamivir phosphate (Tamiflu) for the treatment of swine/avian flu. The high cost and limited availability of shikimic acid isolated from plants has detained the use of this valuable building block of the drug....

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Rawat G,Tripathi P,Saxena RK

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to evaluate the effects of partial reducing rumen-protected Lys (RPLys) on rumen fermentation and microbial composition in heifers. Three ruminal fistulated Holstein Friesian bulls were used to determine the effective degradability of RPLys using an in situ method at incubation times of 0, 2, 6, 12, 1...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Kong F,Gao Y,Tang M,Fu T,Diao Q,Bi Y,Tu Y

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel fluoro-containing jasmonate derivative was chemically synthesized and evaluated as a potential elicitor with respect to the induction of plant defense responses and the biosynthesis of plant secondary metabolites. A bioactive taxuyunnanine C (Tc)-producing cell line of Taxus chinensis was taken as a model plan...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Qian ZG,Zhao ZJ,Xu Y,Qian X,Zhong JJ

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paddy fields are a significant source of methane and contribute up to 20% of total methane emissions from wetland ecosystems. These inundated, anoxic soils featuring abundant nitrogen compounds and methane are an ideal niche for nitrate-dependent anaerobic methanotrophs. After 2 years of enrichment with a continuous s...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Vaksmaa A,Guerrero-Cruz S,van Alen TA,Cremers G,Ettwig KF,Lüke C,Jetten MSM

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A biosynthetic pathway for the production of (S)-3-hydroxybutyric acid (S3HB) from glucose was established in recombinant Escherichia coli by introducing the beta-ketothiolase gene from Ralstonia eutropha H16, the (S)-3-hydroxybutyryl-CoA dehydrogenase gene from R. eutropha H16, or Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC824, ...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Lee SH,Park SJ,Lee SY,Hong SH

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional genomics of filamentous fungi has gradually uncovered gene information for constructing 'cell factories' and controlling pathogens. Available gene manipulation methods of filamentous fungi include random integration methods, gene targeting technology, gene editing with artificial nucleases and RNA technolog...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Wang S,Chen H,Tang X,Zhang H,Chen W,Chen YQ

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical mutagenesis of the phototrophic green microalga Parietochloris incisa, producing high amounts of arachidonic acid (ARA), resulted in selection of a mutant deficient in ARA and rich in dihomo-γ-linolenic acid (DGLA) and thus ∆5 desaturase defective. The mutagenesis produced a nonsense mutation in the ∆5 desatu...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Iskandarov U,Khozin-Goldberg I,Cohen Z

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To meet the demand for sustainable energy, aquifer thermal energy storage (ATES) is widely used in the subsurface in urban areas. However, contamination of groundwater, especially with chlorinated volatile organic compounds (CVOCs), is often being encountered. This is commonly seen as an impediment to ATES implementat...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Ni Z,van Gaans P,Smit M,Rijnaarts H,Grotenhuis T

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This research develops a safe, inexpensive, and more accessible source for synthesis of silver nanoparticles. The bioactive silver composites synthesized by Lactococcus lactis 56 KY484989 (LCLB56-AgCs) were characterized by various physico-chemical techniques and investigated for their antimicrobial activity and cytot...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Viorica RP,Pawel P,Kinga M,Michal Z,Katarzyna R,Boguslaw B

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Batch experiments were conducted to assess the biotransformation potential of four hydrocarbon monoterpenes (d-limonene, alpha-pinene, gamma-terpinene, and terpinolene) and four alcohols (arbanol, linalool, plinol, and alpha-terpineol) under aerobic conditions at 23 degrees C. Both forest-soil extract and enriched cul...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Misra G,Pavlostathis SG,Perdue EM,Araujo R

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bifidobacterium bifidum NCIMB41171 carries four genes encoding different beta-galactosidases. One of them, named bbgIII, consisted of an open reading frame of 1,935 amino acid (a.a.) residues encoding a protein with a multidomain structure, commonly identified on cell wall bound enzymes, having a signal peptide, a mem...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Goulas TK,Goulas AK,Tzortzis G,Gibson GR

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guanosine 5'-triphosphate (GTP) is the key substrate for biosynthesis of guanosine 5'-diphosphate (GDP)-L-fucose. In this study, improvement of GDP-L-fucose production was attempted by manipulating the biosynthetic pathway for guanosine nucleotides in recombinant Escherichia coli-producing GDP-L-fucose. The effects of...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Lee WH,Shin SY,Kim MD,Han NS,Seo JH

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wild-type Corynebacterium glutamicum produced 0.6 g l(-1) xylitol from xylose at a productivity of 0.01 g l(-1) h(-1) under oxygen deprivation. To increase this productivity, the pentose transporter gene (araE) from C. glutamicum ATCC31831 was integrated into the C. glutamicum R chromosome. Consequent disruption of it...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Sasaki M,Jojima T,Inui M,Yukawa H

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The saprotrophic fungus Penicillium griseofulvum was chosen as model organism to study responses to a mixture of hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) isomers (α-HCH, β-HCH, γ-HCH, δ-HCH) and potentially toxic metals (vanadium, lead) in solid and liquid media. The P. griseofulvum FBL 500 strain was isolated from polluted soil c...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Ceci A,Pinzari F,Riccardi C,Maggi O,Pierro L,Petrangeli Papini M,Gadd GM,Persiani AM

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biodegradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the environment is often limited due to unfavorable nutrient conditions for the bacteria that use these PAHs as sole source of carbon and energy. Mycobacterium and Sphingomonas are 2 PAH-degrading specialists commonly present in PAH-polluted soil, but not mu...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Leys NM,Bastiaens L,Verstraete W,Springael D

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytophaga hutchinsonii is a Gram-negative gliding bacterium, which can rapidly degrade crystalline cellulose via a novel strategy without any recognizable processive cellulases. Its mechanism of cellulose binding and degradation is still a mystery. In this study, the mutagenesis of C. hutchinsonii with the mariner-bas...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Ji X,Xu Y,Zhang C,Chen N,Lu X

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low-energy ions exist widely in the natural world. People had neglected the interaction between low-energy ions and material; it was even more out of the question to study the relation of low-energy ions and the complicated organism until the biological effects of low-energy ion implantation were discovered in 1989. N...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Gu SB,Li SC,Feng HY,Wu Y,Yu ZL

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased pentose phosphate pathway flux, relative to total substrate uptake flux, is shown to enhance succinic acid (SA) yields under continuous, non-growth conditions of Actinobacillus succinogenes biofilms. Separate fermentations of glucose and xylose were conducted in a custom, continuous biofilm reactor at four d...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Bradfield MF,Nicol W

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Culture conditions favouring the simultaneous formation of soluble protein and inclusion bodies (IBs) were chosen for producing the cytoplasmic protein beta-galactosidase or the periplasmic protein TEM-beta-lactamase. Soluble and insoluble cell fractions of Escherichia coli producing either beta-galactosidase or TEM-b...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Rinas U,Bailey JE

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polygalacturonases (PG) have evolved in the past years from a pectinase "simply" being used for food processing to an important parameter in plant-fungal interaction. PG-inhibiting proteins (PGIP) that are synthesised in plants as a specific response to PGs of pathogenic fungi, have become a focus as a possible target...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Lang C,Dörnenburg H

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00