abstract：:Bioethanol produced from lignocellulosic materials has been considered a sustainable alternative fuel. Such type of raw materials have a huge potential, but their hydrolysis into mono-sugars releases toxic compounds such as weak acids, which affect the microorganisms' physiology, inhibiting the growth and ethanol prod...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Freitas C,Neves E,Reis A,Passarinho PC,da Silva TL

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of thidiazuron (TDZ) has been investigated in shoot multiplication for a simple, efficient, rapid, and commercially applicable regeneration protocol of an important medicinal plant, Vitex trifolia. Multiple shoots were induced in nodal explants obtained from a mature tree on Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium ...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Ahmed MR,Anis M

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The native Celluclast BG cellulase enzyme complex consists of different enzymes which can also degrade great substrate molecules as native celluloses. This enzyme complex has been covered by a very thin, a few nanometers thick, polymer layer, in order to improve its stability. It has been proved that the polymer layer...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Hegedüs I,Hancsók J,Nagy E

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We applied a ribosome display technique to a mouse single chain variable fragment (scFv) library to select scFvs specific for the inducible costimulator (ICOS). mRNA was isolated from the spleens of BALB/c mice immunized with ICOS protein. Heavy and κ chain genes (VH and κ) were amplified separately by reverse transcr...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Pan Y,Mao W,Liu X,Xu C,He Z,Wang W,Yan H

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chitosan/hydroxyapatite composite microparticles were prepared by a solid-in-water-in-oil emulsification cross-linking method. The characteristics and activity in presence of simulated body fluid for 14 and 21 days were investigated. The size distribution, surface morphology, and microstructure of these biomaterials w...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Maachou H,Bal K,Bal Y,Chagnes A,Cote G,Aliouche D

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work reports the isolation of a serum lectin from cobia fish (Rachycentron canadum) named RcaL. Immunomodulatory activity on mice splenocyte experimental cultures through cytotoxic assays and cytokine production were also performed. RcaL was obtained through precipitation with ammonium sulphate and affinity chrom...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Coriolano MC,Silva CD,Melo CM,Bezerra Rde S,Santos AJ,Pereira VR,Coelho LC

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluates the potential for using different effluents for simultaneous H(2) and CH(4) production in a two-stage batch fermentation process with mixed microflora. An appreciable amount of H(2) was produced from parboiled rice wastewater (23.9 mL g(-1) chemical oxygen demand [COD]) and vinasse (20.8 mL g(-1) ...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Peixoto G,Pantoja-Filho JL,Agnelli JA,Barboza M,Zaiat M

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A newly isolated bacterial strain, Bacillus sp. MX47, was actively producing extracellular xylanase only in xylan-containing medium. The xylanase was purified from the culture broth by two chromatographic steps. The xylanase had an apparent molecular weight of 26.4 kDa with an NH(2)-terminal sequence (Gln-Gly-Gly-Asn-...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Chi WJ,Park DY,Chang YK,Hong SK

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cis-epoxysuccinic acid hydrolase (CESH) is an enzyme that catalyzes cis-epoxysuccinic acid to produce enantiomeric L(+)-tartaric acid. The production of tartaric acid by using CESH would be valuable in the chemical industry because of its high yield and selectivity, but the low stability of CESH hampers its applicatio...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Wang S,Cui GZ,Song XF,Feng Y,Cui Q

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ovarian cancer lacks clear syndromes at an early stage and could result in serious problem in woman's health status. The current diagnostic approach relies on physical examination, ultrasound examination, and blood test for CA125. These approaches could not diagnose early stage ovarian cancer with high sensitivity and...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Zhang Y,Guo B,Bi R

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, immobilization conditions and bioethanol production characteristics of immobilized Saccharomyces bayanus were investigated into sodium alginate-graft-poly(N-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone; NaAlg-g-PVP) matrix. The matrix that crosslinked with calcium clorid was used for immobilization of S. bayanus. Bioethanol pro...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： İnal M,Yiğitoğlu M

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycerol metabolism is a typical biological oxidoreductive reaction. 1,3-Propanediol (1,3-PD) is the final product of the reductive branch, while acetate, succinate, lactate, 2,3-butanediol (2,3-BD), and ethanol were produced in the oxidative branch. 2,3-BD, which has similar properties of high boiling point and water...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Zhang G,Yang G,Wang X,Guo Q,Li Y,Li J

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesoporous materials possess a hexagonal array of uniform mesopores, high surface areas, and moderate acidity. They are one of the important catalysts in the field of catalytic pyrolysis. In this paper, mesoporous materials of Al-MCM-41, La-Al-MCM-41, and Ce-Al-MCM-41 were synthesized, characterized, and tested as cat...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Yu FW,Ji DX,Nie Y,Luo Y,Huang CJ,Ji JB

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ovary-specific acidic protein (OSAP) is an important reproduction-related gene. In this study, we cloned the full-length cDNA sequence of porcine OSAP gene through the rapid amplification of cDNA ends method. The porcine OSAP gene encodes a protein of 238 amino acids which shares high homology with the OSAP of five sp...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Lei Y,Yonggang L

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concentrated dilute acid hydrolysate was obtained from hot water extracts of Acer saccharum (sugar maple) and was fermented to ethanol by Pichia stipitis in a 1.3-L-benchtop bioreactor. The conditions under which the highest ethanol yield was achieved were when the air flow rate was set to 100 cm(3) and the agitation ...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Shupe AM,Liu S

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arabidopsis transcription factor APETALA2 (AP2) controls multiple aspects of plant growth and development, including seed development, stem cell maintenance, and specification of floral organ identity. Based on sequence similar of Arabidopsis AP2 and its homologues genes from other plant species, degenerate RT-PCR and...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Liu Z,Gu C,Chen F,Jiang J,Yang Y,Li P,Chen S,Zhang Z

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) is one of the leading types of malignant disorder seen in children. Viral infections, genetic factors and exposure to chemical carcinogens are some of the factors responsible for causing ALL. Treatment strategies followed for curing ALL include chemotherapy or radiation therapy, whe...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Ramya LN,Doble M,Rekha VP,Pulicherla KK

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the expression of the phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC) gene from marine bacteria in Escherichia coli using codon optimization. The codon-optimized PEPC gene was expressed in the E. coli K-12 strain W3110. SDS-PAGE analysis revealed that the codon-optimized PEPC gene was only expressed in E. coli, and...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Park S,Pack SP,Lee J

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer is one of the killer diseases in humans and needs alternate curative measures despite recent improvement in modern treatment modalities. Oncolytic virotherapy seems to be a promising nonconventional way to treat cancers. Newcastle disease virus (NDV), a poultry virus, is nonpathogenic to human and domestic anim...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Kumar R,Tiwari AK,Chaturvedi U,Kumar GR,Sahoo AP,Rajmani RS,Saxena L,Saxena S,Tiwari S,Kumar S

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study represents the development of a new batch method by consortium GG-BL using two microbial cultures viz., Galactomyces geotrichum MTCC 1360 and Brevibacillus laterosporus MTCC 2298, by varying environmental conditions for the decolorization and biodegradation of Rubine GFL. Consortium was found to give better...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Waghmode TR,Kurade MB,Lade HS,Govindwar SP

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The significant challenges presented by the April 20, 2010 explosion, sinking, and subsequent oil spill of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform in Canyon Block 252 about 52 miles southeast of Venice, LA, USA greatly impacted Louisiana's coastal ecosystem including the sea food industry, recreational fishing, and to...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Boopathy R,Shields S,Nunna S

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rheological behavior of a sulfated galactan extracted from Halymenia durvillei, a red seaweed collected in the coastal waters of a small island of Madagascar (Nosy-be in Indian Ocean), was investigated in dilute and semi-dilute solutions. In dilute solution with NaCl at 0.3 M, the polysaccharide adopted a coil con...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Fenoradosoa TA,Laroche C,Delattre C,Dulong V,Le Cerf D,Picton L,Michaud P

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Residue of chili plants left in the field after harvesting is a major lignocellulosic resource that is underexploited. India has over 0.6 million tons of this residue available as surplus annually which projects it as a potent feedstock for conversion to bioethanol. The cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin content of t...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Preeti VE,Sandhya SV,Kuttiraja M,Sindhu R,Vani S,Kumar SR,Pandey A,Binod P

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dimethyl sulfide (DMS) is one of the sulfurous pollutants present in the waste gas generated from the pulp and paper industry. DMS has environmental health implications; therefore, it is necessary to treat the waste gas containing DMS prior to discharge into the environment. A bench-scale biofilter was operated in the...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Giri BS,Juwarkar AA,Satpute DB,Mudliar SN,Pandey RA

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study presents the production of bacterial cellulose (BC) by a bacterium isolated from a rotten fruit and its process optimization. Here, isolation and screening of potent cellulose producers were carried out from different natural sources, viz., soil, rotten fruits, and vegetables and vinegar. A total of 200 bac...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Jahan F,Kumar V,Rawat G,Saxena RK

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tannase production by newly isolated Penicillium purpurogenum PAF6 was investigated by 'one variable at a time' (OVAT) approach followed by response surface methodology (RSM). Tannin-rich plant residues were used as supporting solid substrate and sole carbon source and, among them, tamarind seed was found to be the mo...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Jana A,Maity C,Halder SK,Mondal KC,Pati BR,Mohapatra PK

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a part of a natural biological N-cycle, nitrification is one of the steps included in the conception of artificial ecosystems designed for extraterrestrial life support systems (LSS) such as Micro-Ecological Life Support System Alternative (MELiSSA) project, which is the LSS project of the European Space Agency. Ni...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Farges B,Poughon L,Roriz D,Creuly C,Dussap CG,Lasseur C

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work aimed at setting up a fully instrumented, laboratory-scale bioreactor enabling anaerobic valorization of solid substrates through hydrogen and/or volatile fatty acid (VFA) production using mixed microbial populations (consortia). The substrate used was made of meat-based wastes, especially from slaughterhous...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Pessiot J,Nouaille R,Jobard M,Singhania RR,Bournilhas A,Christophe G,Fontanille P,Peyret P,Fonty G,Larroche C

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacteriocins of lactic acid bacteria have considerable potential for biopreservation. The Lactococcus lactis strain PSY2 (GenBank account no. JF703669) isolated from the surface of marine perch Perca flavescens produced antibacterial activity against pathogenic and spoilage-causing Gram-positive and Gram-negative ...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Sarika AR,Lipton AP,Aishwarya MS,Dhivya RS

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enhancement of the biomass productivity of Escherichia coli cells harbouring the truncated 903 bp gene designated as glycoside hydrolase family 43 (GH43) from Clostridium thermocellum showing hemicellulase activity along with its further use in simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (SSF) process is descri...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Das SP,Ravindran R,Ahmed S,Das D,Goyal D,Fontes CM,Goyal A

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To meet the increasing demands of sophorolipids as biosurfactants and bioactive compounds, it is necessary to obtain higher and more specific sophorolipid-producing strains. One sophorolipid-producing strain, Wickerhamiella domercqiae var. sophorolipid CGMCC 1576 (Y(2A)), was mutated by low-energy nitrogen ion beam im...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Li H,Ma X,Shao L,Shen J,Song X

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of four synthetic media containing glucose (initial concentration 30 g l(-1)) on mycelial growth, exopolysaccharides (EPS) and cellular lipids production was examined in 11 mushroom species after 12 and 16 days of culture in static- and shake-flasks. Fatty acid analysis of cellular lipids produced was also ...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Diamantopoulou P,Papanikolaou S,Kapoti M,Komaitis M,Aggelis G,Philippoussis A

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oseltamivir (Tamiflu) is the preferred anti-viral drug employed to fight the flu virus in infected individuals. The principal target for this drug is a virus surface glycoprotein, neuraminidase (NA), which facilitates the release of nascent virus and thus spreads infections. Until recently, only a low prevalence of ne...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Karthick V,Shanthi V,Rajasekaran R,Ramanathan K

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An efficient metabolic control approach was developed to improve the industrial anaerobic fermentation of adenosylcobalamin (ado-cbl) by Propionibacterium freudenreichii. The effects of 5,6-dimethylbenzimidazole (DMB) on cell growth and ado-cbl biosynthesis were investigated. Subsequently, the results obtained from th...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Wang P,Wang Y,Su Z

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis heat shock protein 70 (MAPHsp70) is an immunodominant antigen, which can be used as a subunit vaccine against bovine paratuberculosis. In the present study, we evaluated the immunogenic activities of MAPHsp70 expressed by DNA vaccine in chicken and the use of prepared specif...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Brujeni GN,Gharibi D

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The common view of amyloids and prion proteins is that they are associated with many currently incurable diseases and present a great danger to an organism. This danger comes from the fact that not only prion proteins, but also the infectious form(s) of amyloids, as it has been shown recently, are able to transmit the...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Pulawski W,Ghoshdastider U,Andrisano V,Filipek S

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:meso-2,3-Butanediol (meso-2,3-BDO) is essential for the synthesis of various economically valuable biosynthetic products; however, the production of meso-2,3-BDO from expensive carbon sources is an obstacle for industrial applications. In this study, genes involved in the synthesis of 2,3-BDO in Klebsiella pneumoniae ...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Lee S,Kim B,Park K,Um Y,Lee J

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multi-method protocol previously proposed for the extraction of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) from flocculated sludges was investigated on dense aerobic granules. The protocol combines mechanical disruption by sonication and chemical extraction using the Tween detergent and the cation chelator, EDTA. Poly...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Caudan C,Filali A,Lefebvre D,Spérandio M,Girbal-Neuhauser E

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), horseradish peroxidase (HRP)-catalyzed fluorescent reaction, and oxalate chemiluminescence analysis have been combined to develop a highly sensitive, simple, and rapid method for analysis of bovine serum albumin (BSA) based on a pair of specific monoclonal antibodies in vacci...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Xue P,Zhang K,Zhang Z,Li Y,Liu F,Sun Y,Zhang X,Song C,Fu A,Jin B,Yang K

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the effect of pH and temperature on the cell growth and bacteriocin production of Pediococcus acidilactici PA003, a lactic acid bacterium isolated from traditionally fermented cabbage, the kinetic behaviour of P. acidilactici PA003 was simulated in vitro during laboratory fermentations by making use of ...

journal_title：Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

authors： Zhang J,Zhang Y,Liu SN,Han Y,Zhou ZJ

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00