Biocatalytic potential of lipase from Staphylococcus sp. MS1 for transesterification of jatropha oil into fatty acid methyl esters.

abstract：:A chromosomal gene, required for nodule development on Phaseolus bean, was characterized from Rhizobium etli strain TAL182. MLC640 is a Tn5 insertion mutant of TAL182 which shows decreased motility in soft TY agar and is defective in nodule development. The site of Tn5 insertion in MLC640 mapped to a 3.6-kb EcoRI chro...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Pooyan S,George ML,Borthakur D

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil contamination due to cadmium (Cd) is a ubiquitous environmental problem for which inexpensive remediation alternatives are required. Phytoaccumulation, the use of plants to extract and accumulate heavy metals from the contaminated environment, is such an alternative. In this study, we aimed at establishing effect...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Ahsan MT,Tahseen R,Ashraf A,Mahmood A,Najam-Ul-Haq M,Arslan M,Afzal M

更新日期：2019-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Biosurfactants can be widely used in industries as pharmaceutical agents, for microbial enhanced oil recovery, crop biostimulation, among others. Surfactin and rhamnolipids are well-known biosurfactants. These compounds have several advantages over chemical surfactants, however they are not economically competitive, s...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： de Oliveira Schmidt VK,de Souza Carvalho J,de Oliveira D,de Andrade CJ

更新日期：2021-01-11 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 major constraint for expanding biotechnology in developing countries is the tack of appropriate microbial strains and microbial genetic resources. The recently established Microbial Strain Data Network (MSDN) offers the opportunity of, at least partially, llfting these constraints, since even a small institutional c...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Megahed SA,Moneib NA

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tween 80 (0.1%, v/v) added to Thermomonospora curvata growing in minimal medium caused a transient lowering of the dry cell mass, decreased the optimal growth temperature of the thermophile from 62 to 54°C, and increased extracellular esterase activity. Cells grown in the presence of Tween 80 had decreased concentrati...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Thies E,Jenkins T,Stutzenberger F

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two Clostridium thermocellum strains were improved for ethanol tolerance, to 5% (v/v), by gradual adaptation and mutation. The best mutant gave an ethanol yield of 0.37 g/g substrate, with a growth yield 1.5 times more than its parent. Accumulation of acids and reducing sugars by the mutant strain with 5% (v/v) ethano...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Rani KS,Swamy MV,Sunitha D,Haritha D,Seenayya G

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The economics of bioflocculant production is coupled with the use of a low-cost substrate at appropriate culture conditions. The use of a waste substrate for this purpose offers an additional treatment measure to mitigate environmental pollution. We investigated the growth of Aspergillus flavus and its bioflocculant y...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Mohammed JN,Wan Dagang WRZ

更新日期：2019-07-22 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：:Purified cell walls from Bacillus subtilis were repeatedly suspended in 5 mM CuCl2 and, after removing unbound Cu, were suspended in 1% (v/v) HNO3 to release bound Cu. The walls were then regenerated by washing in H2O. After five cycles, copper binding actually increased slightly, probably due to enhanced exposure of ...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： McLean RJ,Campbell AM,Khu PT,Persaud AT,Bickerton LE,Beauchemin D

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rare actinomycetes strain 2EPS was isolated from soil and analysis of cultural, morphological characteristics, diaminopimelic acid content of its cell wall, and 16S rRNA gene sequence indicates that 2EPS belongs to genus Actinomadura. In addition, neighbor-joining phylogenetic tree also confirmed the relationships...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Euanorasetr J,Intra B,Mongkol P,Chankhamhaengdecha S,Tuchinda P,Mori M,Shiomi K,Nihira T,Panbangred W

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactobacillus reuteri DPC16 is a probiotic bacterium that has strong antimicrobial activities on pathogens, mainly due to its ability to produce reuterin, an antimicrobial compound. The objective of this study was to examine the ability of an encapsulation technique to protect the functional properties of cells of L. ...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Zhao Q,Mutukumira A,Lee SJ,Maddox I,Shu Q

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work reports the production of MEL-A using coconut water as the carbon source. Proximate analysis of coconut water indicated the presence of nutrients necessary for growth of the organism and production of desired metabolite. The amount of MEL produced using coconut water was 3.85 g/L (± 0.35) with 74% of it bein...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Madihalli C,Sudhakar H,Doble M

更新日期：2020-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene regulation studies in pseudomonad bacteria are mainly restricted to Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Pseudomonas putida. Constitutive promoters exhibit DNA sequences similar to the σ (70)-dependent constitutive promoters of Escherichia coli. The TOL meta-cleavage pathway operon promoter and the nah operon promoters are...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Ramos JL,Marqués S

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mercury-resistance genes were detected byin situ hybridization using new synthetic oligonucleotide probes specific formerA andmerB genes according to the published sequences of the corresponding enzymes. These DNA probes were used for the detection of specific mercury-resistant microorganisms isolated from the Rhine R...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Mirgain I,Hagnere C,Green GA,Harf C,Monteil H

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soaking seeds of cucumber and pumpkin with an extract of Westiellopsis prolifica, an N2-fixing cyanobacterium, promoted germination and their subsequent growth and development. An extract of Lyngbya sp., a non-N2-fixing cyanobacterium, had no significant effect. ...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Nanda B,Tripathy SK,Padhi S

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endophytes are recognised as potential sources of novel secondary metabolites, including enzymes and drugs, with applications in medicine, agriculture and industry. There is a growing need for new enzymes, including proteases, for use in industry that can function under a variety of conditions. In this study, three fu...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Zaferanloo B,Quang TD,Daumoo S,Ghorbani MM,Mahon PJ,Palombo EA

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutathione (GSH) and S-adenosyl methionine (SAM) have been applied as liver-protective factors to prevent and treat many different liver damages and diseases. Due to their low stability and short half-life, oral administration of GSH or SAM might be replaced by continuous supplying through living lactic bacteria in y...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Xu C,Shi Z,Shao J,Yu C,Xu Z

更新日期：2019-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The gastrointestinal microbiota plays a crucial role in the health and disease of the host through its impact on nutrition. Gut microbial composition is related to different diets, but an association of microbiota with different diets in infant has not yet been shown. In this work, we compared the fecal microbiota of ...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Fan W,Huo G,Li X,Yang L,Duan C,Wang T,Chen J

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutant of Bacillus subtilis AF 1 (an antifungal strain with plant growth-promoting activity, resistant to 100 μg streptomycin/ml) was isolated from pigeon pea rhizosphere and, when used in peanut bacterization, decreased fungal and bacterial numbers and increased the actinomycete population in the rhizosphere. Over ...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Podile AR

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperthermophiles are characterized by a temperature optimum for growth between 80 and 110°C. They are considered to represent the most ancient phenotype of living organisms and thus their metabolic design might reflect the situation at an early stage of evolution. Their modes of metabolism are diverse and include che...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Schönheit P,Schäfer T

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Curious or skeptical friends often ask, "What and why is COBIOTECH? What is it doing?" After serving as president during its formative first years, I attempt here to provide information for the curious and allay concerns of the skeptics about COBIOTECH'S emerging role in biotechnology internationally. ...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Gerhardt P

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori has high global infection rates and can cause other undesirable clinical manifestations such as duodenal ulcer (DU) and gastric cancer (GC). Frequencies of re-infection after therapeutic clearance and rates of DU versus GC vary geographically and differ markedly between developed and developing cou...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Coray DS,Heinemann JA,Tyrer PC,Keenan JI

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aureobasidium pullulans NRRL 6220 synthesized polysaccharide most actively in media containing sucrose, fructose or maltose with (NH4)2SO4 (0.6 g/l) or ammonium acetate giving greatest yields of the polysaccharide. With (NH4)2SO4 at ≥1.2 g/l, production of polysaccharide was decreased considerably. Polysaccharide prod...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Badr-Eldin SM,El-Tayeb OM,El-Masry HG,Mohamad FH,El-Rahman OA

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amylase and pectin methyl esterase activities increased rapidly during the early period of the fermentation of cassava for 'fufu' production, attaining their peak activities after 12 and 24h, respectively. Cellulase activity was lower and approximately constant for most of the fermentation period. ...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Oyewole OB,Odunfa SA

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus coagulans, when grown on casein at 20°C, produced an inducible, metalloprotease of 28 kDa at 1.6 U/mg cell protein. (NH4)2SO4 at 2 g/l decreased enzyme production irrespective of carbon source. ...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Ram MS,Singh L,Alam SI,Aggarwal MK

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caffeine is a naturally occurring alkaloid, where its major consumption occurs with beverages such as coffee, soft drinks and tea. Despite a variety of reports on the effects of caffeine on diverse organisms including yeast, the complex molecular basis of caffeine resistance and response has yet to be understood. In t...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Sürmeli Y,Holyavkin C,Topaloğlu A,Arslan M,Kısakesen Hİ,Çakar ZP

更新日期：2019-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In appropriate environments containing 2-monochloropropionic acid (2MCPA), mutations in a population of nondehalogenatingPseudomonas putida, strain PP40-040 (parent population), resulted in the formation of 2mcpa(+) papillae as a result of the decryptification of adehII gene. Increasing the size of the parent populati...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Slater JH,Hope SJ

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work Talaromyces australis and Penicillium murcianum pigment production in liquid cultures and the cytotoxic effect of such pigments on skin model cells were studied. Response surface methodology (RSM) was used to optimize culture conditions aiming to increase pigment production in malt extract and peptone-glu...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Hernández VA,Machuca Á,Saavedra I,Chavez D,Astuya A,Barriga C

更新日期：2019-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Kaolin is an important industrial raw material and a basis of a range of different products. Microbial spoilage is a detrimental process observed especially in kaolin slurries, leading to low quality products and economic loss. Although the alteration of kaolin slurries in ceramic industry was observed, the process an...

journal_title：World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Papp I,Balázs M,Tombácz E,Babcsán N,Kesserű P,Kiss I,Szvetnik A

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00