abstract：:Economical production of medium-chain length polyhydroxyalkanoates (mcl-PHA) is dependent on efficient cultivation processes. This work describes growth and mcl-PHA synthesis characteristics of Pseudomonas putida LS46 when grown on medium-chain length fatty acids (octanoic acid) and lower-cost long-chain fatty acids (...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Blunt W,Dartiailh C,Sparling R,Gapes D,Levin DB,Cicek N

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In industry, filamentous fungi have a prominent position as producers of economically relevant primary or secondary metabolites. Particularly, the advent of genetic engineering of filamentous fungi has led to a growing number of molecular tools to adopt filamentous fungi for biotechnical applications. Here, we summari...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Kluge J,Terfehr D,Kück U

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some bacterial cultures are capable of growth on caprolactam as sole carbon and nitrogen source, but the enzymes of the catabolic pathway have not been described. We isolated a caprolactam-degrading strain of Pseudomonas jessenii from soil and identified proteins and genes putatively involved in caprolactam metabolism...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Otzen M,Palacio C,Janssen DB

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial deterioration accounts for a significant percentage of the degradation processes that occur on archeological/historical objects and artworks, and identifying the causative agents of such a phenomenon should therefore be a priority, in consideration of the need to conserve these important cultural heritage it...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Mazzoli R,Giuffrida MG,Pessione E

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biobutanol can be indigenously synthesized by solventogenic Clostridium species; however, these microorganisms possess inferior capability of utilizing abundant and renewable organic wastes, such as starch, lignocellulose, and even syngas. The common strategy to achieve direct butanol production from these organic was...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Jiang Y,Zhang T,Lu J,Dürre P,Zhang W,Dong W,Zhou J,Jiang M,Xin F

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wetlands contribute to 30% of global methane emissions due to an imbalance between microbial methane production and consumption. Methanogenesis and methanotrophy have mainly been studied separately, and little is known about their potential interactions in aquatic environments. To mimic the interaction between methane...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： In 't Zandt MH,van den Bosch TJM,Rijkers R,van Kessel MAHJ,Jetten MSM,Welte CU

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Site-saturation mutagenesis (SSM) has been used in directed evolution of proteins for a long time. As a special form of saturation mutagenesis, it involves individual randomization at a given residue with formation of all 19 amino acids. To date, the most efficient embodiment of SSM is a one-step PCR-based approach us...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Li A,Acevedo-Rocha CG,Reetz MT

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial transglutaminase (MTG) from Streptomyces mobaraensis has been widely used for crosslinking proteins in order to acquire products with improved properties. To improve the yield and enable a facile and efficient purification process, recombinant vectors, harboring various heterologous signal peptide-encoding f...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Mu D,Lu J,Qiao M,Kuipers OP,Zhu J,Li X,Yang P,Zhao Y,Luo S,Wu X,Jiang S,Zheng Z

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that the choice of yeast used to perform wine fermentation significantly influences the sensory attributes of wines; different yeast species and strains impart different profiles of esters, volatile fatty acids, higher alcohols, and volatile sulphur compounds. Indeed, choice of yeast remains one...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Cordente AG,Solomon M,Schulkin A,Leigh Francis I,Barker A,Borneman AR,Curtin CD

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intricate patterning of diatom silica frustules at nanometer-to-micrometer scales makes them of interest for a wide range of industrial applications. For some of these applications, a specific size range in nanostructure is required and may be achieved by selecting species with the desired properties. However, as ...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Su Y,Lundholm N,Ellegaard M

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of biogas by anaerobic digestion (AD) of agricultural residues, organic wastes, animal excrements, municipal sludge, and energy crops has a firm place in sustainable energy production and bio-economy strategies. Focusing on the microbial community involved in biomass conversion offers the opportunity to...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Hassa J,Maus I,Off S,Pühler A,Scherer P,Klocke M,Schlüter A

更新日期：2018-06-01 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：:Termitomyces is a genus of edible mushrooms commonly consumed in Africa and Asia among the mushrooms collected from the wild. Termitomyces mushrooms grow as symbionts in the termite nests, where they produce various enzymes to help termites digest lignocellulosic substrates. Many species of Termitomyces are used by di...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Hsieh HM,Ju YM

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:(-)-vibo-Quercitol is a deoxyinositol (1L-1,2,4/3,5-cyclohexanepentol) that occurs naturally in low concentrations in oak species, honeydew honey, and Gymnema sylvestre. The author's research group recently reported that (-)-vibo-quercitol and scyllo-quercitol (2-deoxy-myo-inositol, 1,3,5/2,4-cyclohexanepentol), a ste...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Itoh N

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of crude aqueous extracts of Cynara cardunculus flowers as coagulants in the production of high-quality sheep and goat cheeses-as are the cases of several Portuguese and Spanish cheese varieties with Protected Designation of Origin status-has been maintained since ancient times. The unique rheological attribut...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Almeida CM,Simões I

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial production of solvents like acetone and butanol was a couple of the first industrial fermentation processes to gain global importance. These solvents are important feedstocks for the chemical and biofuel industry. Ralstonia eutropha is a facultatively chemolithoautotrophic bacterium able to grow with organic...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Chakravarty J,Brigham CJ

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human neutrophil peptide 1 (HNP1) is a small (3.44 kDa) cationic peptide that is a distinct member of the defensin family. HNP1 plays a crucial role in controlling bacterial infections, particularly by antibiotic-resistant bacteria, through membrane perforation patterns. The structural characteristics of HNP1's three ...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Zhang X,Jiang A,Qi B,Yu H,Xiong Y,Zhou G,Qin M,Dou J,Wang J

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tacrolimus (FK506), an effective immunosuppressant, is widely used in the treatment of autoimmune diseases. In this study, we identified that BulZ, a Streptomyces antibiotic regulatory protein (SARP) family regulator, acted as a positive regulator for spore differentiation and tacrolimus production. A knockout of bulZ...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Ma D,Wang C,Chen H,Wen J

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Time-resolved analysis assays of receptor-ligand interactions are fundamental in basic research and drug discovery. Adequate methods are well developed for the analysis of recombinant proteins such as antibody-antigen interactions. However, assays for time-resolved ligand-binding processes on living cells are still ra...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Encarnação JC,Schulte T,Achour A,Björkelund H,Andersson K

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulatable promoters are important genetic tools, particularly for assigning function to essential and redundant genes. They can also be used to control the expression of enzymes that influence metabolic flux or protein secretion, thereby optimizing product yield in bioindustry. This review will focus on regulatable ...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Fuller KK,Dunlap JC,Loros JJ

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleoprotein of infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV) is considered as the main target antigen for detection of IHNV infection in salmonid fish. This study aimed at improving the expression and solubility of IHNV nucleoprotein (IHNV-NP) in E. coli expression system. The effects of several expression stra...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Mohammadinezhad R,Farahmand H,Jalali SAH,Mirvaghefi A

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-model yeasts within basidiomycetes have considerable importance in agriculture, industry, and environment, but they are not as well studied as ascomycetous yeasts. Serving as a basic technique, nuclear DNA staining is widely used in physiology, ecology, cell biology, and genetics. However, it is unclear whether th...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Zhang N,Fan Y,Li C,Wang Q,Leksawasdi N,Li F,Wang S

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:α-L-Rhamnosyl-β-D-glucosidase (rutinosidase) hydrolyzes the glycosidic linkage between the disaccharide 6-O-α-L-rhamnosyl-β-D-glucoside (rutinose) and the aglycone. We identified a hypothetical protein (annotated as AO090012000917) encoded in the Aspergillus oryzae genome that exhibits sequence similarity with Aspergi...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Ishikawa M,Kawasaki M,Shiono Y,Koseki T

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biotin (Vitamin B7) is a critical enzyme co-factor in metabolic pathways important for bacterial survival. Biotin is obtained either from the environment or by de novo synthesis, with some bacteria capable of both. In certain species, the bifunctional protein BirA plays a key role in biotin homeostasis as it regulates...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Satiaputra J,Eijkelkamp BA,McDevitt CA,Shearwin KE,Booker GW,Polyak SW

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface sediments are the inner source of contaminations in aquatic systems and usually maintain aerobic conditions. As the key participators of nitrification process, little is known about the activities and contributions of ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) and bacteria (AOB) in the surface sediments. In this study, w...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Dang C,Liu W,Lin Y,Zheng M,Jiang H,Chen Q,Ni J

更新日期：2018-04-01 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：:Nervonic acid (NA) is a major very long-chain monounsaturated fatty acid found in the white matter of mammalian brains, which plays a critical role in the treatment of psychotic disorders and neurological development. In the nature, NA has been synthesized by a handful plants, fungi, and microalgae. Although the metab...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Fan Y,Meng HM,Hu GR,Li FL

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dengue viruses are emerging mosquito-borne pathogens belonging to Flaviviridae family which are transmitted to humans via the bites of infected mosquitoes Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. Because of the wide distribution of these mosquito vectors, more than 2.5 billion people are approximately at risk of dengue inf...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Fahimi H,Mohammadipour M,Haddad Kashani H,Parvini F,Sadeghizadeh M

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH) is one of the most important dehydrogenases responsible for generating reduced NADPH for anabolism and is also the rate-limiting enzyme in the Entner-Doudoroff pathway. For in vitro biocatalysis, G6PDH must possess both high activity and good thermostability due to requirement...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Huang R,Chen H,Zhou W,Ma C,Zhang YP

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The six- and seven-subunit Na+/H+ antiporters (Mrp) are widely distributed in bacteria. They are reported to be integral for pH homeostasis in alkaliphilic bacteria when adapting to high pH environments. In this study, operons encoding for the six-subunit Na+/H+ antiporters were found in the genomes of all studied Die...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Fang H,Qin XY,Zhang KD,Nie Y,Wu XL

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trehalose (α-D-glucopyranosyl-(1 → 1)-α-D-glucopyranoside) is a non-reducing disaccharide composed of two glucose molecules linked by an α,α-1,1-glycosidic bond. It possesses physicochemical properties, which account for its biological roles in a variety of prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms and invertebrates. Inten...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Cai X,Seitl I,Mu W,Zhang T,Stressler T,Fischer L,Jiang B

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lab-scale systems modelling the spontaneous cocoa bean fermentation process are useful tools to research the influence of process parameters on the fermentation and the final bean quality. In this study in Honduras, a 1-kg lab-scale fermentation (LS-F) was compared to a 300-kg on-farm fermentation (OF-F) in a multipha...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Romanens E,Näf R,Lobmaier T,Pedan V,Leischtfeld SF,Meile L,Schwenninger SM

更新日期：2018-04-01 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：:Yarrowia lipolytica is an industrial yeast that has been used in the sustainable production of fatty acid-derived and lipid compounds due to its high growth capacity, genetic tractability, and oleaginous properties. This investigation examines the possibility of utilizing urea or urine as an alternative to ammonium su...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Brabender M,Hussain MS,Rodriguez G,Blenner MA

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic improvement of winemaking yeasts is a virtually infinite process, as the design of new strains must always cope with varied and ever-evolving production contexts. Good wine yeasts must feature both good primary traits, which are related to the overall fermentative fitness of the strain, and secondary trait...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Bonciani T,De Vero L,Mezzetti F,Fay JC,Giudici P

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:LI-F type peptides are a family of cyclic lipodepsipeptide antibiotics isolated from Paenibacillus polymyxa and display potent activities against positive bacteria including methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA). In this study, we investigated the mechanism of action of LI-F type peptide AMP-jsa9 against a MRSA (S. a...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Han J,Ma Z,Gao P,Lu Z,Liu H,Gao L,Lu W,Ju X,Lv F,Zhao H,Bie X

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adhesion properties of 14 Streptococcus salivarius strains to mucus (HT29-MTX) and non-mucus secreting (Caco-2/TC7) human intestinal epithelial cells were investigated. Ability to adhere to these two eukaryotic cell lines greatly differs between strains. The presence of mucus played a major factor in adhesion, lik...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Chaffanel F,Charron-Bourgoin F,Soligot C,Kebouchi M,Bertin S,Payot S,Le Roux Y,Leblond-Bourget N

更新日期：2018-03-01 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：:Drug resistance occurrence is a global healthcare concern responsible for the increased morbidity and mortality in hospitals, time of hospitalisation and huge financial loss. The failure of the most antibiotics to kill "superbugs" poses the urgent need to develop innovative strategies aimed at not only controlling bac...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Bassegoda A,Ivanova K,Ramon E,Tzanov T

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immobilization has been reported as an efficient technique to address the bacterial vulnerability for application in bio self-healing concrete. In this study, for the first time, magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (IONs) are being practically employed as the protective vehicle for bacteria to evaluate the self-healing ...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Seifan M,Sarmah AK,Ebrahiminezhad A,Ghasemi Y,Samani AK,Berenjian A

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00