Optimizing biodegradation of phenanthrene dissolved in nonaqueous-phase liquids.

abstract：:Yeast artificial chromosomes (YAC) splitting technology was developed as a means to subclone any desired region of eukaryotic chromosomes from one YAC into new YACs. In the present study, the conventional YAC splitting technology was improved by incorporating PCR-mediated chromosome splitting technique and by adding a...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Kim Y,Sugiyama M,Yamagishi K,Kaneko Y,Fukui K,Kobayashi A,Harashima S

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genes encoding two conjugated polyketone reductases (CPR-C1, CPR-C2) of Candida parapsilosis IFO 0708 were cloned and sequenced. The genes encoded a total of 304 and 307 amino acid residues for CPR-C1 and CPR-C2, respectively. The deduced amino acid sequences of the two enzymes showed high similarity to each other...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Kataoka M,Delacruz-Hidalgo AR,Akond MA,Sakuradani E,Kita K,Shimizu S

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An engineered yeast with emission of fluorescence from the cell surface was constructed. Cell surface engineering was applied to display a visible reporter molecule, green fluorescent protein (GFP). A glucose-inducible promoter GAPDH as a model promoter was selected to control the expression of the reporter gene in re...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Ye K,Shibasaki S,Ueda M,Murai T,Kamasawa N,Osumi M,Shimizu K,Tanaka A

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic resistance is a global challenge and represents a growing threat on human health worldwide. Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are generally considered as hotspots for control and/or dissemination of antibiotic resistance. The role of antibiotics, antibacterial residues, and heavy metals played on the evol...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Gao P,He S,Huang S,Li K,Liu Z,Xue G,Sun W

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), both synthetic and from natural sources, have raised interest recently as potential alternatives to antibiotics. Cyto-insectotoxin (Cit1a) is a 69-amino-acid antimicrobial peptide isolated from the venom of the central Asian spider Lachesana tarabaevi. The synthetic gene Cit1a fused with...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Ali MP,Yoshimatsu K,Suzuki T,Kato T,Park EY

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been modified successfully for production of numerous metabolites and therapeutic proteins through metabolic engineering, but has not been utilized to date for the production of lipid-derived compounds. We developed a lipid metabolic engineering strategy in S. cerevisiae based up...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Dyer JM,Chapital DC,Kuan JW,Mullen RT,Pepperman AB

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:D-allose has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years due to its many pharmaceutical activities, which include anti-cancer, anti-tumor, anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidative, anti-hypertensive, cryoprotective, and immunosuppressant activities. D-allose has been produced from D-psicose using D-allose-producing e...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Lim YR,Oh DK

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent use of photosynthetic organisms such as Chlamydomonas reinhardtii in biomedical applications has demonstrated their potential for the treatment of acute and chronic tissue hypoxia. Moreover, transgenic microalgae have been suggested as an alternative in situ drug delivery system. In this study, we set out t...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Jarquín-Cordero M,Chávez MN,Centeno-Cerdas C,Bohne AV,Hopfner U,Machens HG,Egaña JT,Nickelsen J

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we used the non-carotenogenic yeast Pichia pastoris X33 as a receptor for β-carotene-encoding genes, in order to obtain new recombinant strains capable of producing different carotenoidic compounds. We designed and constructed two plasmids, pGAPZA-EBI* and pGAPZA-EBI*L*, containing the genes encoding ly...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Araya-Garay JM,Feijoo-Siota L,Rosa-dos-Santos F,Veiga-Crespo P,Villa TG

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The oxidizing activity of CYP109B1 from Bacillus subtilis was reconstituted in vitro with various artificial redox proteins including putidaredoxin reductase and putidaredoxin from Pseudomonas putida, truncated bovine adrenodoxin reductase and adrenodoxin, flavodoxin reductase and flavodoxin from Escherichia coli, and...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Girhard M,Klaus T,Khatri Y,Bernhardt R,Urlacher VB

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently described the biocatalytic characterization of a self-sufficent biosynthetic alkane hydroxylase based on CYP153A13a from Alcanivorax borkumensis SK2 (thereafter A13-Red). Despite remarkable regio- and chemo-selectivity, A13-Red suffers of a difficult-to-reproduce expression and moderate operational st...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Bordeaux M,de Girval D,Rullaud R,Subileau M,Dubreucq E,Drone J

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to develop a new cell modification method to facilitate the cell separation from broth. In order to reduce the transfer limitation of substrate and product caused by general immobilization methods in the following biotransformation of glycerol, the carboxyl-functioned superparamagnetic...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Chen G,Chen J

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein translation, translocation, folding, processing, and secretion in eukaryotic cells are complex and not always straightforward processes, e.g., different routes of secretion and degradation exist. Formation of malfolded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) can be one of the major bottlenecks for recombina...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Pfeffer M,Maurer M,Stadlmann J,Grass J,Delic M,Altmann F,Mattanovich D

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Baeyer-Villiger monooxygenases represent useful biocatalytic tools, as they can catalyze reactions which are difficult to achieve using chemical means. However, only a limited number of these atypical monooxygenases are available in recombinant form. Using a recently described protein sequence motif, a putative Baeyer...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Fraaije MW,Wu J,Heuts DP,van Hellemond EW,Spelberg JH,Janssen DB

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) play an important role in the formation and activity of biofilms in wastewater treatment (WWT). The EPS of the denitrifying biomarker Comamonas denitrificans strain 110, produced in different culture media and growth modes, were characterized. The EPS mainly contained protein (...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Andersson S,Dalhammar G,Land CJ,Kuttuva Rajarao G

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to variations in the production levels, a full-scale sequencing batch reactor (SBR) for post-treatment of tannery wastewater was exposed to low and high ammonia load periods. In order to study how these changes affected the N-removal capacity, the microbiology of the reactor was studied by a diverse set of techniq...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Cabezas A,Draper P,Etchebehere C

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the Streptomyces species, Streptomyces lividans has often been used for the production of heterologous proteins as it can secrete target proteins directly into the culture medium. Streptomyces rimosus, on the other hand, has for long been used at an industrial scale for oxytetracycline production, and it holds '...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Carrillo Rincón AF,Magdevska V,Kranjc L,Fujs Š,Müller R,Petković H

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyanobacterial mutants defective in acyl-acyl carrier protein synthetase (Aas) secrete free fatty acids (FFAs) into the external medium and hence have been used for the studies aimed at photosynthetic production of biofuels. While the wild-type strain of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 is highly sensitive to exogenously ad...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Kojima K,Keta S,Uesaka K,Kato A,Takatani N,Ihara K,Omata T,Aichi M

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Betalamic acid is the structural unit of all the natural pigments betalains. These are nitrogen-containing water-soluble compounds with high colorant and bioactive properties, characteristic of plants of the order Caryophyllales. The formation of betalamic acid from the precursor amino acid 3,4-dihydroxy-L-phenylalani...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Gandía-Herrero F,García-Carmona F

更新日期：2014-02-01 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 dibenzothiophene (DBT) desulfurizing bacterium metabolizes DBT to form 2-hydroxybiphenyl without breaking the carbon skeleton. Of the DBT desulfurization enzymes, DszC and DszA catalyze monooxygenation reactions, both requiring flavin reductase. We searched for non-DBT-desulfurizing microorganisms producing a flav...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Ohshiro T,Aoi Y,Torii K,Izumi Y

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biotechnological production of vanillin is gaining momentum as the natural synthesis of vanillin that is very expensive. Ferulic acid (FA), a costly compound, is used as the substrate to produce vanillin biotechnologically and the making process is still expensive. Therefore, this study investigated the practical use ...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Chakraborty D,Selvam A,Kaur B,Wong JWC,Karthikeyan OP

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actinomycetes isolated from Iran soil habitats were tested for the capacity to produce compounds which can protect neurons from cell death generated by oxidative stress in NT2 neurons. Confirmation of our initial hit was accomplished via the determination of amyloid beta level using the enzyme-linked immunosorbent ass...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Eftekharzadeh B,Hamedi J,Mohammadipanah F,Khodagholi F,Maghsoudi N,Klenk HP

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The microbial production of biofuels is a promising avenue for the development of viable processes for the generation of fuels from sustainable resources. In order to become cost and energy effective, these processes must utilize organisms that can be optimized to efficiently produce candidate fuels from a variety of ...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Clomburg JM,Gonzalez R

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:α-Galacto-oligosaccharides (α-GOS) are produced by transgalactosylation reactions of α-galactosidase (α-Gal) or by conversion of raffinose family oligosaccharides by levansucrase. Similarly to β-GOS, α-GOS have the potential to mimic glycan receptors on eukaryotic cells and act as molecular decoys to prevent bacterial...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Wang Y,Black BA,Curtis JM,Gänzle MG

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a pheromone-based inter-species communication system, allowing for a controlled cell-cell communication between the two species Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Schizosaccharomyces pombe as a proof of principle. It exploits the mating response pathways of the two yeast species employing the pheromones, α- or ...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Hennig S,Clemens A,Rödel G,Ostermann K

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) is known to be involved in modulating production of styrylpyrone polyphenols in the basidiomycete Inonotus obliquus. However, it remains unknown how NO orchestrates fungal styrylpyrone biosynthesis. Here, we show that a transient NO burst correlated with an enhanced expression of phenylalanine ammoni...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Zhao Y,He M,Xi Q,Ding J,Hao B,Keller NP,Zheng W

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aminotransferases (ATs) are important biocatalysts for the synthesis of chiral amines because of their capability of introducing amino group into ketones or keto acids as well as their high enantioselectivity, high regioselectivity. Among all ATs, branched-chain amino acid aminotransferase (BCAT) can use branched-chai...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Zheng X,Cui Y,Li T,Li R,Guo L,Li D,Wu B

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gratuitous strain was developed by disrupting the GAL1 gene (galactokinase) of recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae harboring the antithrombotic hirudin gene in the chromosome under the control of the GAL10 promoter. A series of glucose-limited fed-batch cultures were carried out to examine the effects of glucose su...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Kim MD,Lee TH,Lim HK,Seo JH

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Batch experiments were conducted to assess the biotransformation potential of four hydrocarbon monoterpenes (d-limonene, alpha-pinene, gamma-terpinene, and terpinolene) and four alcohols (arbanol, linalool, plinol, and alpha-terpineol) under aerobic conditions at 23 degrees C. Both forest-soil extract and enriched cul...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Misra G,Pavlostathis SG,Perdue EM,Araujo R

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00