Antimicrobial activity, cytotoxicity and chemical analysis of lemongrass essential oil (Cymbopogon flexuosus) and pure citral.

abstract：:Immunostimulatory glucose polymers known as beta-glucans have been studied for many years. Our laboratory has prepared and characterized a novel microparticulate beta-glucan (MG) from the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Because MG particles are rapidly phagocytized by murine peritoneal macrophages and induce t...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Berner VK,Sura ME,Hunter KW Jr

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli 044 K74 grown under anaerobic conditions in the presence of L: (-)-carnitine is able to convert D: (+)-carnitine into the L: (-)-enantiomer. This activity is repressed by electron acceptors such as oxygen and nitrate as well as by glucose. D: (+)-Carnitine shows no effect on the induction or repressio...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Jung H,Kleber HP

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria is a parasitic, mosquito-borne, infectious disease that threatens nearly half of the global population. The last decade has seen a dramatic drop in the number of malaria-related deaths because of vector control methods and anti-malarial drugs. Unfortunately, this strategy is not sustainable because of the emer...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Gregory JA,Mayfield SP

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The basidiomycetous fungus Pseudozyma aphidis is able to convert vegetable oils to abundant amounts of the biosurfactant mannosylerythritol lipid (MEL) with a unique product pattern of MEL-A, MEL-B, MEL-C, and MEL-D. To investigate the metabolism of MEL production, we analyzed the transcriptome of P. aphidis DSM 70725...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Günther M,Grumaz C,Lorenz S,Stevens P,Lindemann E,Hirth T,Sohn K,Zibek S,Rupp S

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agar is a major polysaccharide of red algal cells and is mainly decomposed into neoagarobiose by the co-operative effort of β-agarases. Neoagarobiose is hydrolyzed into monomers, D-galactose and 3,6-anhydro-L-galactose, via a microbial oxidative process. Therefore, the enzyme, 1,3-α-3,6-anhydro-L-galactosidase (α-neoa...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Asghar S,Lee CR,Park JS,Chi WJ,Kang DK,Hong SK

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two novel cyclic hexapeptides designated actinosynneptides A (1) and B (2), together with three tryptophan containing diketopiperazines, namely cyclo(L-Trp-L-Trp) (3), cyclo(L-Trp-N-MeL-Trp) (4), and cyclo(N-MeL-Trp-N-MeL-Trp) (5), were isolated from the culture of the genetically engineered strain HGF052::asm18 deriv...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Lu C,Xie F,Shan C,Shen Y

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2-Hydroxyalkanoates (2HAs) have become the new monomeric constituents of bacterial polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs). PHAs containing 2HA monomers, lactate (LA), glycolate (GL), and 2-hydroxybutyrate (2HB) can be synthesized by engineered microbes in which the broad substrate specificities of PHA synthase and propionyl-CoA...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Matsumoto K,Taguchi S

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biogranulation is a promising biotechnology developed for wastewater treatment. Biogranules exhibit a matrix microbial structure, and intensive research has shown that extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) are a major component of the biogranule matrix material in both anaerobic and aerobic granules. This paper aim...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Liu YQ,Liu Y,Tay JH

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycorrhizal fungi belonging to the genus Tuber produce, after the establishment of a productive interaction with a plant host, hypogeous fruitbodies of great economic value known as ''truffles''. This review summarizes the state of art on life cycle, genetic, and biotechnological investigations of Tuber spp. The ascoc...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Poma A,Limongi T,Pacioni G

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corynebacterium glutamicum, a gram-positive soil bacterium, has been regarded as an aerobe because its growth by fermentative catabolism or by anaerobic respiration has, to this date, not been demonstrated. In this study, we report on the anaerobic growth of C. glutamicum in the presence of nitrate as a terminal elect...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Nishimura T,Vertès AA,Shinoda Y,Inui M,Yukawa H

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The membraneless bioelectrochemical reactor (Ml-BER) is useful for dark hydrogen fermentation. The effect of the electrochemical reaction on microorganisms in the Ml-BER was investigated using glucose as the substrate and compared with organisms in a membraneless non-bioelectrochemical reactor (Ml-NBER) and bioelectro...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Sasaki K,Morita M,Sasaki D,Ohmura N,Igarashi Y

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preparative-scale fermentation of gallic acid (3,4,5-trihydroxybenzoic acid) (1) with Beauveria sulfurescens ATCC 7159 gave two new glucosidated compounds, 4-(3,4-dihydroxy-6-hydroxymethyl-5-methoxy-tetrahydro-pyran-2-yloxy)-3-hydroxy-5-methoxy-benzoic acid (4), 3-hydroxy-4,5-dimethoxy-benzoic acid 3,4-dihydroxy-6-hyd...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Hsu FL,Yang LM,Chang SF,Wang LH,Hsu CY,Liu PC,Lin SJ

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epoxide hydrolases (EHs) of fungal origin have the ability to catalyze the enantioselective hydrolysis of epoxides to their corresponding diols. However, wild type fungal EHs are limited in substrate range and enantioselectivity. Additionally, the production of fungal epoxide hydrolase (EH) by wild-type strains is typ...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Maharajh D,Roth R,Lalloo R,Simpson C,Mitra R,Görgens J,Ramchuran S

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The temporal and spatial distribution of the genus Bacillus and Clostridium histolyticum group in swine manure composting was determined by fluorescent in situ hybridization using fluorescently labeled 16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes LGC353b and Chis150, respectively. The temporal distribution of total bacter...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Yi J,Zheng R,Li F,Chao Z,Deng CY,Wu J

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrazine is transformed to N-isopropylammelide through hydroxyatrazine as an intermediate as indicated by high-performance liquid chromatography/mass spectroscopy in culture filtrates of Frankia alni ACN14a and Frankia sp. EuI1c. Both Frankia strains have the ability to degrade atrazine via dechlorination and dealkyla...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Rehan M,Kluge M,Fränzle S,Kellner H,Ullrich R,Hofrichter M

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inteins are internal protein elements that self-excise from their host protein and catalyze ligation of the flanking sequences (exteins) with a peptide bond. They are found in organisms in all three domains of life, and in viral proteins. Intein excision is a posttranslational process that does not require auxiliary e...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Elleuche S,Pöggeler S

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Overuse of broad-spectrum antibiotics to control human and plant pathogens greatly accelerated the development of antibiotic resistance among bacteria and fungi. Therefore, usage of new approaches is necessary to control outbreaks of phytopathogenic diseases as well as multidrug-resistant human pathogens. Many of the ...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Olishevska S,Nickzad A,Déziel E

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although acetate formation and tolerance are important criteria for various aspects of biotechnological process development, available studies on acetate tolerance in different species are disparate. We evaluate the response of eight bacterial strains, including two variants of Escherichia coli, two variants of Staphy...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Lasko DR,Zamboni N,Sauer U

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tributyl phosphate (TBP) is a toxic organophosphorous compound widely used in nuclear fuel processing and chemical industries. Rhodopseudomonas palustris, one of the most metabolically versatile photosynthetic bacteria, is shown here to degrade TBP efficiently under photosynthetic conditions. This study shows that thi...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Berne C,Pignol D,Lavergne J,Garcia D

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytophthora infestans is the causative agent of potato blight that resulted in the great famine in Ireland in the nineteenth century. This microbe can release large amounts of the C20 very long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids arachidonic acid (ARA; 20:4Δ(5, 8, 11, 14)) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA; 20:5Δ(5, 8, 11...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Sun Q,Liu J,Zhang Q,Qing X,Dobson G,Li X,Qi B

更新日期：2013-09-01 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：:At present, more than 100 strains of Lentinula edodes are cultivated on a commercial scale in China. A simple, reliable, and effective method to distinguish some commercial strains of the superior type from other commercial strains is very important for the Lentinula industry. In this study, 23 commercial strains of L...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Li HB,Wu XQ,Peng HZ,Fu LZ,Wei HL,Wu QQ,Jin QY,Li N

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A beta-lactamase-free penicillin amidase from Alcaligenes sp. active against various beta-lactams was purified to homogeneity. The enzyme can hydrolyze penicillin G to 6-amino penicillanic acid (6-APA) and furnish penicillin G from 6-APA and phenyl acetic acid by condensation. The penicillin amidase is a heterodimer o...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Das S,Gayen JR,Pal A,Ghosh K,Rosazza JP,Samanta TB

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leavening ability in sweet dough is required for the commercial applications of baker's yeast. This property depends on many factors, such as glycolytic activity, sucrase activity, and osmotolerance. This study explored the importance of sucrase level on the leavening ability of baker's yeast in sweet dough. Furthermo...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Zhang CY,Lin X,Feng B,Liu XE,Bai XW,Xu J,Pi L,Xiao DG

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For ethical, technical, regulatory, and cost reasons, in vitro methods are increasingly used as an alternative to in vivo experimentations. The aim of the present study was to validate, according to in vivo data in living animals, a new in vitro model of the piglet colon, the PigutIVM, under both control conditions an...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Fleury MA,Le Goff O,Denis S,Chaucheyras-Durand F,Jouy E,Kempf I,Alric M,Blanquet-Diot S

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the known hazardous effects of antimony (Sb) on human health, Sb monitoring biosensors have not been as actively investigated as arsenic (As) biosensors. Whole-cell bioreporters (WCBs) employing an arsenic-responsive operon and a regulatory protein (ArsR) are reportedly capable of monitoring arsenite, arsenate...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Lee W,Kim H,Jang G,Kim BG,Yoon Y

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fundamental issue in biotechnology is how to breed useful strains of microorganisms for efficient production of valuable biomaterials. On-going and more recent developments in gene manipulation technologies and chromosomal and genomic modifications in particular have facilitated important contributions in this area....

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Sugiyama M,Yamagishi K,Kim YH,Kaneko Y,Nishizawa M,Harashima S

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-four strains of lactic acid bacteria (seven Bifidobacterium, 11 Lactobacillus, six Lactococcus, and 10 Streptococcus thermophilus) were assayed in vitro for antioxidant activity against ascorbic and linolenic acid oxidation (TAA(AA) and TAA(LA)), trolox-equivalent antioxidant capacity (TEAC), intracellular glut...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Amaretti A,di Nunzio M,Pompei A,Raimondi S,Rossi M,Bordoni A

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyranose 2-oxidase (P2O) was purified 43-fold to apparent homogeneity from the basidiomycete Phanerochaete chrysosporium using liquid chromatography on phenyl Sepharose, Mono Q (twice) and phenyl Superose. The native enzyme has a molecular mass of about 250 kDa (based on native PAGE) and is composed of four identical ...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Artolozaga MJ,Kubátová E,Volc J,Kalisz HM

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces bayanus, being of interest for wine-making, is not as well known as S. cerevisiae and, due to many changes in the yeast classification, accurate data concerning its metabolic activity are difficult to find. In order to produce this yeast as an active dry yeast to be used as a starter in wine-making, its ...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Serra A,Strehaiano P,Taillandier P

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00