A novel thiazolidinedione derivative TD118 showing selective algicidal effects for red tide control.

abstract：:Alkaliphilic halotolerant cyanobacterium Aphanothece halophytica showed optimal growth in the medium containing 0.5 M NaCl. The increase of exogenously added glycine to the medium up to 10 mM significantly promoted cell growth under both normal (0.5 M NaCl) and salt stress (2.0 M NaCl) conditions. Salt stress imposed ...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Bualuang A,Incharoensakdi A

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobic degradation of organic matter follows similar pathways in digesters and anaerobic freshwater sediments. The responsible microorganisms are linked in a complex food web, where short chain fatty acids and H2 are important intermediates. Degradation of short-chain fatty acids is endothermic under standard condi...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Westermann P

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shikimic acid (SA) is the key synthetic material of Oseltamivir, which is an effective drug for the prevention and treatment of influenza. In this study, to block the downstream metabolic pathway of SA, the shikimate kinase isoenzyme genes aroK and aroL were deleted by Red recombination. Moreover, the key enzyme genes...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Liu X,Lin J,Hu H,Zhou B,Zhu B

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies were carried out to screen and identify strains that are able to directly produce ferulic oligosaccharides (FOs) from wheat bran (WB). The inducement and distribution of hemicellulases from strain 2012, which was identified as a non-melanin secreting strain of Aureobasidium pullulans (A. pullulans), were also ...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Yu XH,Gu ZX

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extensive usage of antibiotics has led to the emergence of drug-resistant strains of pathogens and hence, there is an urgent need for alternative antimicrobial agents. Antimicrobial Peptides (AMPs) of bacterial origin have shown the potential to replace some conventional antibiotics. In the present study, an AMP was i...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Taggar R,Jangra M,Dwivedi A,Bansal K,Patil PB,Bhattacharyya MS,Nandanwar H,Sahoo DK

更新日期：2021-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilm formation can make significant effects on bacteria habits and biological functions. In this study, diketopiperazines (DKPs) produced by strain of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens Q-426 was found to inhibit biofilm formed in the gas-liquid interface. Four kinds of DKPs were extracted from B. amyloliquefaciens Q-426, ...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Wang JH,Yang CY,Fang ST,Lu J,Quan CS

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prebiotic Fructooligosaccharides (FOS) escape metabolism in upper GI tract undergo microbial metabolism in colon and thereby influence the nature, type and number of intestinal microbiota to improve host's health. The present study focuses on the ability of Lactobacillus plantarum CFR 2194 to utilize FOS as a selectiv...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Arenahalli Ningegowda M,Siddalingaiya Gurudutt P

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Screening for spore-forming bacteria to use against dipterous insects, namelyMusca domestica, Aedes aegypti andCulex pipiens from Egypt, led to two isolates, M1 and S128, being found which were highly toxic to bothAedes andCulex strains. They had calculated international Toxicity Units (ITU) valdes of 17,467 and 20,06...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Abdel-Hameed A,Carlberg G,El-Tayeb OM

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Higher Basidiomycota have been used in natural medicine throughout the world for centuries. One of such fungi is Fomitopsis betulina (formerly Piptoporus betulinus), which causes brown rot of birch wood. Annual white to brownish fruiting bodies of the species can be found on trees in the northern hemisphere but F. bet...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Pleszczyńska M,Lemieszek MK,Siwulski M,Wiater A,Rzeski W,Szczodrak J

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus subtilis, isolated from tannery waste, produced an alkaline protease at optimal activity when grown in a casein/gelatine medium in a stirred tank fermenter at 37°C with the dissolved oxygen tension at 40% air saturation. Optimum protease activity (223 U ml(-1)) was at pH 8.5 and was stable for 1 h up to 45°C ...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Hameed A,Natt MA,Evans CS

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fermentation of industrial bacteria encounters a serious problem in continuous culture, i.e. the production traits lose. However, current research on the mechanism of strain degeneration is not clear enough, and there are few methods to effectively control the degeneration. Under growth restriction, the mutation r...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Peng M,Liang Z

更新日期：2020-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:At 5 g/l, ferulic acid, a plant cell-wall phenolic, severely repressed growth of the lignocellulose-degrading fungi Trichoderma harzianum, Chaetomium cellulolyticum, Phanaerochaete chrysosporium, Trametes versicolor and Pleurotus sajor-caju. At 0.5 g/l, howerver, it slightly stimulated growth of the latter two organis...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Asiegbu FO,Paterson A,Smith JE

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many important food and fibre crops have attained close to their maximum yields as a result of conventional breeding approaches and advances in agronomic and horticultural practices. The manipulation of cell and tissue cultures to produce somatic embryos efficiently is one of the keystones of the new technologies that...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Litz RE,Gray DJ

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a survey of endophytic fungal biodiversity, an antimicrobial endophytic isolate zjwcf069 was obtained from twigs of Forsythia viridissima, Zhejiang Province, Southeast China. Zjwcf069 was then identified as Pezicula sp. through combination of morphological and phylogenetic analysis based on ITS-rDNA. Zjwcf069 here ...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Wang J,Wang G,Zhang Y,Zheng B,Zhang C,Wang L

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was conducted to report the richness of endophytic Penicillium and Talaromyces species isolated from Tillandsia catimbauensis, a bromeliad endemic in the Brazilian tropical dry forest (Caatinga), to verify their ability to produce the enzyme L-asparaginase and to partially optimise the production of biomass...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Silva LF,Freire KTLS,Araújo-Magalhães GR,Agamez-Montalvo GS,Sousa MA,Costa-Silva TA,Paiva LM,Pessoa-Junior A,Bezerra JDP,Souza-Motta CM

更新日期：2018-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydroxy long-chain fatty acids occur widely in animals and plants and have important physiological activities in these eukaryotes. There are indications that these compounds are also common and important in fungi. The occurrence of hydroxy-polyunsaturated fatty acids (hydroxy-PUFAs) is of biotechnological importance, ...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Van Dyk MS,Kock JL,Botha A

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The new transcription factor Sge1 has garnered much attention in filamentous fungi recently, which highlights its role in pathogenicity, conidiation, and the production of secondary metabolites. In this study, we demonstrated that FgSge1 is localized in the nucleus in Fusarium graminearum using fluorescent protein GFP...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Yu FW,Zhang XP,Yu MH,Yin YN,Ma ZH

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biomass production of Cellulomonas was optimal with 1% (w/v) bagasse pith pre-treated with either 0.2 M NaOH for 1 h at 80°C or 0.4 M NaOH for 40 h at 28 to 30°C. Growth was similar to that obtained with a more severe treatment used as control and compared well with other reports for cellulolytic bacteria cultivated o...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Rodríguez H,Alvarez R,Enríquez A

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laccase enzymes produced by both soil bacteria and fungi play important roles in refractory organic matter turnover in terrestrial ecosystems. We investigated the abundance and diversity of fungal laccase genes and bacterial laccase-like genes in soil from subtropical arable lands, and identified which microbial group...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Feng S,Su Y,Dong M,He X,Kumaresan D,O'Donnell AG,Wu J,Chen X

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichoderma asperellum parasitizes a large variety of phytopathogenic fungi. The mycoparasitic activity of T. asperellum depends on the secretion of complex mixtures of hydrolytic enzymes able to degrade the host cell wall and proteases which are a group of enzymes capable of degrading proteins from host. In this stud...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Yang X,Cong H,Song J,Zhang J

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variant ofLactobacillus hilgardii was immobilized by its own production of dextran gel, forming grains. The best rate of weight increase of the gel in continuous fermentation was 16.3±3.3%/h, at pH 4.8±0.1 and with a dilution rate of 0.22 to 0.26/h. Observation by scanning electron microscopy located most of the bac...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Pidoux M,Pilet MF,Ripoche V

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fungal isolate, Arthrographis sp. strain F4, when grown in shake-flask culture, produced cellulolytic and xylanolytic enzymes optimally at 30°C with an initial pH of 5.0 to 6.0. Coarsely-ground filter paper was the most suitable carbon substrate for production of the enzymes. Inorganic nitrogen sources gave higher a...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Okeke BC,Obi SK

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ergosterol is the predominant nature sterol constituent of plasma membrane in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Herein, the biosynthetic pathway of ergosterol was proposed to be metabolically engineered for the efficient production of ergosta-5,7-dien-3β-ol, which is the precursor of vitamin D4. By target disruption of erg5, ...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Ma BX,Ke X,Tang XL,Zheng RC,Zheng YG

更新日期：2018-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial activity of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) has been well documented in earlier studies. As their efficient role in combating phytopathogens has begun recently, there is a huge scope to explore their effectiveness in agriculture. Considering the strong antifungal activity of biosynthesized AgNPs (as reporte...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Mishra S,Yang X,Ray S,Fraceto LF,Singh HB

更新日期：2020-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Cr(VI) is a highly toxic metal produced by anthropogenic activity which may impact the environment, affecting plants and animals. In plants, chromium both as Cr(III) or Cr(VI) can be absorbed by roots, is poorly translocated and affects negatively plant growth. Plants used in phytoremediation need to cope with chromiu...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Francisco R,Branco R,Schwab S,Baldani JI,Morais PV

更新日期：2017-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The microbial community of artisanal corn fermentation called Chicha were isolated, purified and then identified using protein profile by Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (MALDI-TOF) and confirmed by partial ribosomal gene sequencing. Samples from Chicha beverage were chemic...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Resende LV,Pinheiro LK,Miguel MGDCP,Ramos CL,Vilela DM,Schwan RF

更新日期：2018-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A strain of Pleurotus ostreatus was grown in tomato pomace as sole carbon source for production of laccase. The culture of P. ostreatus revealed a peak of laccase activity (147 U/L of fermentation broth) on the 4th day of culture with a specific activity of 2.8 U/mg protein. Differential chromatographic behaviour of l...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Freixo Mdo R,Karmali A,Arteiro JM

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethanol tolerance, osmotolerance and sugar conversion efficiency were used to screen yeasts for potential ethanol production from sweet-stem sorghum juice. Of the ten strains of Saccharomyces sp. that produced ethanol from the sorghum juice or from yeast extract/phosphate/sucrose (YEPS) media, the best sugar conversio...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Bulawayo B,Bvochora JM,Muzondo MI,Zvauya R

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas strains were isolated from the rhizosphere of maize grown in yellow-red latosol from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to serve as a delivery system for heterologous genes and for risk assessment studies in tropical soils. Selected strains were modified by insertion of the cryIVB gene from Bacillus thuringiensis and...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Araújo MA,Mendonça-Hagler LC,Hagler AN,van Elsas JD

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As an interspecies and interkingdom signaling molecule, indole has recently received attention for its diverse effects on the physiology of both bacteria and hosts. In this study, indole increased the tetracycline resistance of Vibrio splendidus. The minimal inhibitory concentration of tetracycline was 10 μg/mL, and t...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Zhang S,Shao Y,Zhao X,Li C,Guo M,Lv Z,Zhang W

更新日期：2020-02-22 00:00:00