Extended substrate range of thiamine diphosphate-dependent MenD enzyme by coupling of two C-C-bonding reactions.

abstract：:Cultures of Umbelopsis ramanniana (=Mucor ramannianus) were grown in fluid Sabouraud medium for 3 days, dosed with 0.23 mM benzo[f]quinoline, benzo[h]quinoline, or phenanthridine (benzo[c]quinoline), and incubated for another 18 days. Cultures were extracted and metabolites (66-75% of the UV absorbance) were separated...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Sutherland JB,Cross EL,Heinze TM,Freeman JP,Moody JD

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilms are widely used in wastewater treatment for their particular enhancement of nitrogen removal and other significant advantages. In this study, the diversity and potential functions of nitrogen removal bacteria in suspended activated sludge (AS) and biofilm of a full-scale hybrid reactor were uncovered by metag...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Chao Y,Mao Y,Yu K,Zhang T

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis of rhamnosylated compounds has gained great importance since these compounds have potential therapeutic applications. The enzymatic approaches for glycosylation of bioactive molecules have been well developed; however, the enzymatic rhamnosylation has been largely hindered by lacking of the glycosyl dono...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Xu L,Liu X,Li Y,Yin Z,Jin L,Lu L,Qu J,Xiao M

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malate synthase (Mls), a key enzyme in the glyoxylate cycle, is required for virulence in microbial pathogens. In this study, we identified the AoMls gene from the nematode-trapping fungus Arthobotrys oligospora. The gene contains 4 introns and encodes a polypeptide of 540 amino acids. To characterize the function of ...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Zhao X,Wang Y,Zhao Y,Huang Y,Zhang KQ,Yang J

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microalgal based biofuels are discussed as future sustainable energy source because of their higher photosynthetic and water use efficiency to produce biomass. In the context of climate CO2 mitigation strategies, algal mass production is discussed as a potential CO2 sequestration technology which uses CO2 emissions to...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Wilhelm C,Jakob T

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A maltotriose-producing α-amylase, AmyA, from a newly isolated bacterial strain Microbulbifer thermotolerans DAU221 was purified and characterized in the heterologous host, Escherichia coli, using the pCold I vector. The amyA gene encoded a 761-residue protein composed of a 33 amino acid secretion signal peptide. The ...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Lee YS,Park DJ,Choi YL

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new strain, Enterobacter sp. ECU1107, was identified among over 200 soil isolates using a two-step screening strategy for the enantioselective synthesis of (2S,3R)-3-phenylglycidate methyl ester (PGM), a key intermediate for production of a potent anticancer drug Taxol®. An organic-aqueous biphasic system was employ...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Zhou DJ,Pan J,Yu HL,Zheng GW,Xu JH

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fluidized-bed reactor (FBR) was used to enrich an aerobic chlorophenol-degrading microbial culture. Long-term continuous-flow operation with low effluent concentrations selected oligotrophic microorganisms producing good-quality effluent for pentachlorophenol(PCP)-contaminated water. PCP biodegradation kinetics was ...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Melin ES,Ferguson JF,Puhakka JA

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various techniques are used to adjust the flavors of foods and beverages to new market demands. Although synthetic flavoring chemicals are still widely used, flavors produced by biological methods (bioflavors) are now more and more requested by consumers, increasingly concerned with health and environmental problems c...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Vanderhaegen B,Neven H,Coghe S,Verstrepen KJ,Derdelinckx G,Verachtert H

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Empirical approaches to discover anticancer drugs and cancer treatments have made limited progress in the past several decades in finding a cure for cancer. The expanded knowledge of the molecular basis of tumorigenesis and metastasis, together with the inherently vast structural diversity of natural compounds found i...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Zaidman BZ,Yassin M,Mahajna J,Wasser SP

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Lactobacillus brevis strain with the ability to synthesize butanol from glucose was constructed by metabolic engineering. The genes crt, bcd, etfB, etfA, and hbd, composing the bcs-operon, and the thl gene encode the enzymes of the lower part of the clostridial butanol pathway (crotonase, butyryl-CoA-dehydrogenase, ...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Berezina OV,Zakharova NV,Brandt A,Yarotsky SV,Schwarz WH,Zverlov VV

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xenobiotic biodegradation under anaerobic conditions such as in groundwater, sediment, landfill, sludge digesters and bioreactors has gained increasing attention over the last two decades. This review gives a broad overview of our current understanding of and recent advances in anaerobic biodegradation of five selecte...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Zhang C,Bennett GN

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of yeast extract and its less complex substituents on the rate of aerobic dechlorination of 2-chlorobenzoic acid (2-ClBZOH) and 2,5-dichlorobenzoic acid (2,5-Cl2BZOH) by Pseudomonas sp. CPE2 strain, and of 3-chlorobenzoic acid (3-ClBZOH), 4-chlorobenzoic acid (4-ClBZOH) and 3,4-dichlorobenzoic acid (3,4-Cl2...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Fava F,Armenante PM,Kafkewitz D,Marchetti L

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most recombinant proteins in Escherichia coli are not efficiently secreted to the extracellular space. Structural stabilisation of the cell wall is essential for extracellular protein production in E. coli, for which D,D-carboxypeptidases are essential. Herein, we perturbed the peptidoglycan structure of the E. coli c...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Yang H,Hu J,Lu X,Wang F,Shen W,Hu W,Wang L,Chen X,Liu L

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This research investigated the effect of microwave irradiation (MWI) on cell disintegration in municipal secondary sludge (MSS). A representative MSS Gram-positive bacterium (Bacillus subtilis) and Gram-negative bacteria (Acinetobacter calcoaceticus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa) were pure cultured separately and treated...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Zhou BW,Shin SG,Hwang K,Ahn JH,Hwang S

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the niche differentiation of anammox bacteria has been extensively observed in a lab-scale reactor, the inherent mechanism for this ecological phenomenon is still elusive. Here, we combined the long-term reactor operation, genome-centered metagenome, and metatranscriptome analyses to gain insight into the sub...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Zhao Y,Feng Y,Chen L,Niu Z,Liu S

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CYP102A1 is an efficient medium- to long-chain fatty acid hydroxylase that is able to accept a wide range of non-natural substrates which bear no resemblance to the natural ones. 4-Hexylbenzoic acid (HBA) and 4-nonyloxybenzoic acid (NOBA) were identified as CYP102A1 substrates via screening studies using the BD Oxygen...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Gudiminchi RK,Smit MS

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast are important production platforms for the generation of recombinant proteins. Nonetheless, their use has been restricted in the production of therapeutic proteins due to differences in their glycosylation profile with that of higher eukaryotes. The yeast strain Pichia pastoris is an industrially important organ...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Hopkins D,Gomathinayagam S,Lynaugh H,Stadheim TA,Hamilton SR

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clean-up of vinyl chloride (VC)-contaminated groundwater could be enhanced by stimulating aerobic VC-oxidizing bacterial populations (e.g., methanotrophs) with amendments such as molecular oxygen. In addition, ethene gas injection could further stimulate a different group of aerobic ethene- and VC-oxidizing bacteria c...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Mattes TE,Jin YO,Livermore J,Pearl M,Liu X

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas putida KT2440 is the only fully sequenced P. putida strain. Thus, for transcriptomics and proteomics studies with other P. putida strains, the P. putida KT2440 genomic database serves as standard reference. The utility of KT2440 whole-genome, high-density oligonucleotide microarrays for transcriptomics stu...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Ballerstedt H,Volkers RJ,Mars AE,Hallsworth JE,dos Santos VA,Puchalka J,van Duuren J,Eggink G,Timmis KN,de Bont JA,Wery J

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The filamentous fungus Aspergillus flavus is an agriculturally important opportunistic plant pathogen that produces potent carcinogenic compounds called aflatoxins. We identified the A. flavus rtfA gene, the ortholog of rtf1 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and rtfA in Aspergillus nidulans. Interestingly, rtfA has multiple...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Lohmar JM,Harris-Coward PY,Cary JW,Dhingra S,Calvo AM

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have characterized a mutant of Streptomyces clavuligerus NRRL 3585 which is almost completely blocked in cephalosporin biosynthesis and exhibits depressed activities of both the delta(L-alpha-aminoadipyl)-L-cysteinyl-D-valine (ACV) synthetase and cyclase enzymes of the cephalosporin pathway. A wild-type DNA region ...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Piret J,Resendiz B,Mahro B,Zhang JY,Serpe E,Romero J,Connors N,Demain AL

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccination has been regarded as the most effective way to reduce death and morbidity caused by infectious diseases in the livestock industry. In this study, plasma activated water (PAW) was introduced to prepare the inactivated Newcastle disease vaccine. Humoral immune response was tested by hemagglutination inhibiti...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Hongzhuan Z,Ying T,Xia S,Jinsong G,Zhenhua Z,Beiyu J,Yanyan C,Lulu L,Jue Z,Bing Y,Jing F

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Catalytic antibodies are currently being investigated in order to understand their role under physio-pathological situations. To this end, the knowledge of structure-function relationships is of great interest. Recombinant scFv fragments are smaller and easier to genetically manipulate than whole antibodies, making th...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Ben Naya R,Matti K,Guellier A,Matagne A,Boquet D,Thomas D,Friboulet A,Avalle B,Padiolleau-Lefèvre S

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nutritional medium requirement for biomass and triterpenoid production by Antrodia cinnamomea AC0623 strain was optimized. Box-Behnken was applied to optimize biomass and triterpenoid production. According to response surface methodology (RSM), the optimum concentrations of N-source were determined. The results in...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Chang CY,Lee CL,Pan TM

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbes engineered to display heterologous proteins could be useful biotechnological tools for protein engineering, lignocellulose degradation, biocatalysis, bioremediation, and biosensing. Bacillus subtilis is a promising host to display proteins, as this model Gram-positive bacterium is genetically tractable and al...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Huang GL,Gosschalk JE,Kim YS,Ogorzalek Loo RR,Clubb RT

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two putative chitinase genes, lin0153 and lin1996, from the nonpathogenic bacterium Listeria innocua were expressed in Escherichia coli, and the gene products were characterized. The genes were close homologs of chitinases from the pathogenic bacterium Listeria monocytogenes, in which chitinases and chitin-binding pro...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Honda S,Wakita S,Sugahara Y,Kawakita M,Oyama F,Sakaguchi M

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli RNase G is known as an endoribonuclease responsible for the 5'-end maturation of 16S rRNA and degradation of several specific mRNAs such as adhE and eno mRNAs. In this study, we found that an RNase G mutant derived from the MC1061 strain did not grow on a glucose minimal medium. Genetic analysis r...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Sakai T,Nakamura N,Umitsuki G,Nagai K,Wachi M

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new highly scalable microbial fuel cell (MFC) design, consisting of a series of cassette electrodes (CE), was examined for increasing power production from organic matter in wastewater. Each CE chamber was composed of a box-shaped flat cathode (two air cathodes on both sides) sandwiched in between two proton-exchang...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Shimoyama T,Komukai S,Yamazawa A,Ueno Y,Logan BE,Watanabe K

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whey, the main by-product of the cheese industry, is considered as an important pollutant due to its high chemical and biological oxygen demand. Whey, often considered as waste, has high nutritional value and can be used to obtain value-added products, although some of them need expensive enzymatic synthesis. An econo...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Pescuma M,de Valdez GF,Mozzi F

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00