Recent research progress on microbial L-asparaginases.

abstract：:Photothermal cancer therapy, as a prospective approach for local cancer treatment, is attracting increasing interests. In this paper, gold nanorods were conjugated with folate (folate/AuNRs), and their photothermal effects on hepatocellular carcinoma cell line (HepG2) using MTT assay, flow cytometry, as well as on the...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Jin H,Yang P,Cai J,Wang J,Liu M

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new rapid and sensitive method for the detection of antibacterial activities was based on luminescent indicator strains. Listeria innocua 8811 and Enterococcus faecalis 32 were transformed with plasmid carrying bacterial luciferase genes. Subsequent strains became capable to emit light during the exponential growth ...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Simon L,Fremaux C,Cenatiempo Y,Berjeaud JM

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mannosylerythritol lipids (MELs) are a type of glycolipid biosurfactant produced by basidiomycetous yeasts, most notably those belonging to the genera Pseudozyma and Ustilago. Mannosylerythritol lipids are environmentally friendly and possess many unique functions, such as gene delivery, bio-activation, and human skin...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Saika A,Koike H,Fukuoka T,Morita T

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endophytic actinobacteria, which exist in the inner tissues of living plants, have attracted increasing attention among taxonomists, ecologists, agronomists, chemists and evolutionary biologists. Numerous studies have indicated that these prolific actinobacteria appear to have a capacity to produce an impressive array...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Qin S,Xing K,Jiang JH,Xu LH,Li WJ

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The successful conversion of plant production systems from conventional resource-exhausting to sustainable strategies depends on knowledge-based management of environmental factors. Root-inhabiting fungi came more and more into focus because their hyphae connect in ideal manner resources and challenges of the surround...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Franken P

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulfide detoxification can be catalyzed by ancient membrane-bound flavoproteins, sulfide:quinone oxidoreductases (Sqr), which have important roles in sulfide homeostasis and sulfide-dependent energy conservation processes by transferring electrons from sulfide to respiratory or photosynthetic membrane electron flow. S...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Duzs Á,Tóth A,Németh B,Balogh T,Kós PB,Rákhely G

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By damaging DNA molecules, genotoxicants cause genetic mutations and also increase human susceptibility to cancers and genetic diseases. Over the past four decades, several assays have been developed in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae to screen potential genotoxic substances and provide alternatives to anim...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Eki T

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenotypic plasticity is the capacity to change the phenotype in response to different environments without alteration of the genotype. Despite sufficient evidence that microorganisms have a major role in the fitness and sickness of eukaryotes, there has been little research regarding microbial phenotypic plasticity. ...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Zheng X,Bai J,Ye M,Liu Y,Jin Y,He X

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present work created an esterase variant from Rhodobacter sphaeroides (RspE) with enhanced selectivity in hydrolytic kinetic resolutions by directed evolution. A "model" substrate, methyl mandelate, was introduced in the high-throughput screening procedure. E values of a variant CH (Asn62Cys/Leu145His) for six dif...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Ma J,Wu L,Guo F,Gu J,Tang X,Jiang L,Liu J,Zhou J,Yu H

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The morbidity and mortality associated with bacterial infections have remained significant despite chemotherapeutic advances. With the emergence of drug-resistant bacterial strains, the situation has become a serious threat to the public health. Thus, there is an urgent need to identify novel antibacterials. The major...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Akbar N,Siddiqui R,Sagathevan KA,Khan NA

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By using immobilized baker's yeast repeatedly in isooctane with occasional reactivation by cultivation, we succeeded in the preparation of an organic solvent-tolerant strain, named KK21, which could grow in the presence of isooctane. This is the first report on an organic solvent-tolerant strain from baker's yeast. St...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Kawamoto T,Kanda T,Tanaka A

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptomyces tendae Tü 901 produces the nucleoside peptide antibiotic nikkomycin. In shot-gun cloning experiments using pIJ699 as vector we isolated a 9.4-kb DNA fragment from S. tendae which complemented the nikkomycin nonproducing mutant NP9 to the formation of nikkomycin C/Cx and Kx. Nikkomycins were identified by ...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Bormann C,Aberle K,Fiedler HP,Schrempf H

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human intestine hosts various complex microbial communities that are closely associated with multiple health and disease processes. Determining the composition and function of these microbial communities is critical to unveil disease mechanisms and promote human health. Recently, meta-omic strategies have been dev...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Xiao M,Yang J,Feng Y,Zhu Y,Chai X,Wang Y

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three different mechanisms can be envisaged that are used by fungi to solubilize coal: the production of alkaline substances, the extrusion of chelators and, of special interest in the scope of biotechnology, the action of enzymes. Whether these mechanisms are operating separately or in various combinations has not ye...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Holker U,Ludwig S,Scheel T,Hofer M

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyphosphosphate kinases (PPKs) catalyse the reversible transfer of the γ-phosphate group of a nucleoside-triphosphate to a growing chain of polyphosphate. Most known PPKs are specific for ATP, but some can also use GTP as a phosphate donor. In this study, we describe the properties of a PPK2-type PPK of the β-proteo...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Hildenbrand JC,Teleki A,Jendrossek D

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel and efficient screening method for pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ) high-yielding methylotrophic strains was developed by using glucose dehydrogenase apoenzyme (GDHA) which depended on PQQ as the cofactor. Using this high-throughput method, PQQ high-yielding strains were rapidly screened out from thousands of me...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Si Z,Zhu J,Wang W,Huang L,Wei P,Cai J,Xu Z

更新日期：2016-12-01 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：:In order to understand the role of N1 domain (1-257 aa) in the amylopullulanase (gt-apu) of the extremely thermophilic bacterium Geobacillus thermoleovorans NP33, N1 deletion construct (gt-apuΔN) has been generated and expressed in Escherichia coli. The truncated amylopullulanase (gt-apuΔN) exhibits similar pH and tem...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Nisha M,Satyanarayana T

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemoenzymatic process involving biocatalytic resolution of rac-2-carboxyethyl-3-cyano-5-methylhexanoic acid ethyl ester (CNDE, 1) has been the most competitive and attractive route for pregabalin. A new esterase-producing strain ZJB-09203, which exhibited high hydrolytic activity, excellent enantioselectivity, an...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Zheng RC,Wang TZ,Fu DJ,Li AP,Li XJ,Zheng YG

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ferulic acid was efficiently released from a wheat bran preparation by a ferulic acid esterase from Aspergillus niger (FAE-III) when incubated together with a Trichoderma viride xylanase (a maximum of 95% total ferulic acid released after 5 h incubation). FAE-III by itself could release ferulic acid but at a level alm...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Faulds CB,Williamson G

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sophorolipids are surface-active compounds synthesized by a selected number of yeast species. They have been known for over 40 years, but because of growing environmental awareness, they recently regained attention as biosurfactants due to their biodegradability, low ecotoxicity, and production based on renewable reso...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Van Bogaert IN,Saerens K,De Muynck C,Develter D,Soetaert W,Vandamme EJ

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein turnover through de novo synthesis is critical for sustainable cellular functions. We previously found that glucose consumption rate in Corynebacterium glutamicum under anaerobic conditions increased at temperature higher than the upper limit of growth temperature. Here, we showed that production of lactic and...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Uchikura H,Ninomiya K,Takahashi K,Tsuge Y

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biodegradation of petroleum compounds in saline environments seems intricate and needs more attention. In this study, tetracosane was used to enrich alkane-degrading bacteria from oil-contaminated saline soils. Among the isolates, strain Qtet3, with the highest 16s rRNA gene sequence similarity to Alcanivorax dieselol...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Dastgheib SM,Amoozegar MA,Khajeh K,Ventosa A

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Steroid phosphate esters are very rare natural lipids that have been comparatively recently isolated from fractions of polar lipids of marine sponges and starfish. These steroids exhibit interesting biological activities. When using the PASS computer program, we showed that many of steroid phosphate esters showed anti...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Dembitsky VM,Gloriozova TA,Savidov N

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus thuringiensis bacteria show insecticidal activities that rely upon the production of insecticidal crystal proteins, which are encoded by cry or cyt genes and can target a variety of insect pests. It has been shown that cry1Ac is the only cry gene in B. thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki HD73 (B. thuringiensis HD73...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Zhang X,Gao T,Peng Q,Song L,Zhang J,Chai Y,Sun D,Song F

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The alkali-soluble glucan of the yeast cell wall contains beta-(1,3)- and (1,6)-D-linkages and systemically enhances the immune system. To isolate Saccharomyces cerevisiae mutants producing glucan with a high degree of beta-(1,6)-D-glycosidic bonds, a wild-type strain was mutagenized with ultraviolet light. The mutant...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Ha CH,Lim KH,Kim YT,Lim ST,Kim CW,Chang HI

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:5-Hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP) is the precursor of the neurotransmitter serotonin and has been used for the treatment of various diseases such as depression, insomnia, chronic headaches, and binge eating associated obesity. The production of 5-HTP had been achieved in our previous report, by the development of a recombin...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Xu D,Fang M,Wang H,Huang L,Xu Q,Xu Z

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Possessing three circular chromosomes is a distinct genomic characteristic of Burkholderia cenocepacia AU 1054, a clinically important pathogen in cystic fibrosis. In this study, base composition, codon usage and functional role category were analyzed in the B. cenocepacia AU 1054 genome. Although no bias in the base ...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Yuan J,Yang M,Ren J,Fu B,Jiang F,Zhang X

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The novel influenza A virus (IAV) defective interfering particle "OP7" inhibits IAV replication in a co-infection and was previously suggested as a promising antiviral agent. Here, we report a batch-mode cell culture-based production process for OP7. In the present study, a seed virus containing standard virus (STV) a...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Hein MD,Kollmus H,Marichal-Gallardo P,Püttker S,Benndorf D,Genzel Y,Schughart K,Kupke SY,Reichl U

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilms of selected bacteria strains were previously used on metal coupons as a protective layer against microbiologically influenced corrosion of metals. Unlike metal surfaces, concrete surfaces present a hostile environment for growing a protective biofilm. The main objective of this research was to investigate whe...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Soleimani S,Ormeci B,Isgor OB

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00