abstract：:This study investigated the applicability of dynamic membrane filter (DMF) technology in an upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) and DMF-coupled process for the treatment of municipal wastewater. The overall treatment performance and effects of hydraulic retention time (HRT), operating flux, and mesh pore size on th...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Quek PJ,Yeap TS,Ng HY

更新日期：2017-08-01 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：:Ginsenosides are believed to be the principal components behind the pharmacological actions of ginseng, and their bioactive properties are closely related to the type, position, and number of sugar moieties attached to the aglycone; thus, modification of the sugar chains may markedly change their biological activities...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Tan JS,Yeo CR,Popovich DG

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agar is a major cell wall carbohydrate of red macroalgae (Rhodophyta). Sugars derived from agar, such as agarooligosaccharides (AOSs), neoagarooligosaccharides (NAOSs), neoagarobiose (NAB), and 3,6-anhydro-L-galactose (L-AHG), possess various physiological activities. These agar-derived sugars can be produced by hydro...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Yun EJ,Yu S,Kim KH

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycosyltransferases (GTs)-mediated glycodiversification studies have drawn significant attention recently, with the goal of generating bioactive compounds with improved pharmacological properties by diversifying the appended sugars. The key to achieving glycodiversification is to identify natural and/or engineered fl...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Li L,Pan G,Zhu X,Fan K,Gao W,Ai G,Ren J,Shi M,Olano C,Salas JA,Yang K

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Even though salbutamol (SAL) had remarkable effects on the enhancement of growth rate and carcass composition in different livestock species such as cattle, pigs, sheep and poultry, it was banned as a growth promoter because of its adverse effects on health. However, the specific mechanism by which salbutamol enhances...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Lu C,Zhou J,Li Y,Zhang D,Wang Z,Li Y,Cheong L,Zhang C,Su X

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The white button mushroom Agaricus bisporus is economically the most important commercially produced edible fungus. It is grown on carbon- and nitrogen-rich substrates, such as composted cereal straw and animal manure. The commercial mushroom production process is usually performed in buildings or tunnels under highly...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Kabel MA,Jurak E,Mäkelä MR,de Vries RP

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Starting from mature vegetable compost, four bacterial strains were selected using a lignin-rich medium. 16S ribosomal RNA identification of the isolates showed high score similarity with Pseudomonas spp. for three out of four isolates. Further characterization of growth on mixtures of six selected lignin model compou...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Ravi K,García-Hidalgo J,Gorwa-Grauslund MF,Lidén G

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytoplankton blooms are predictable features of marine and freshwater habitats. Despite a good knowledge base of the environmental factors controlling blooms, complex interactions between the bacterial and archaeal communities and phytoplankton bloom taxa are only now emerging. Here, the current research on bacterial...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Song L

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unravelling the mechanisms of how antibiotics influence growth performance through changes in gut microbiota can lead to the identification of highly productive microbiota in animal production. Here we investigated the effect of zinc bacitracin and avilamycin on growth performance and caecal microbiota in chickens and...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Crisol-Martínez E,Stanley D,Geier MS,Hughes RJ,Moore RJ

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Avian influenza virus (AIV) is spreading worldwide and is a serious threat to the health of poultry and humans. In many countries, low pathogenic AIVs, such as H9N2, have become an enormous economic burden on the commercial poultry industry because they cause mild respiratory disease and decrease egg production. A rec...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Yang WT,Yang GL,Shi SH,Liu YY,Huang HB,Jiang YL,Wang JZ,Shi CW,Jing YB,Wang CF

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycerol is used by the cosmetic, paint, automotive, food, and pharmaceutical industries and for production of explosives. Currently, glycerol is available in commercial quantities as a by-product from biodiesel production, but the purity and the cost of its purification are prohibitive. The industrial production of g...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Semkiv MV,Dmytruk KV,Abbas CA,Sibirny AA

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of pH control strategy and fermentative operation modes on the biosynthesis of pyrroloquinoline quinine (PQQ) were investigated systematically with Methylobacillus sp. CCTCC M2016079 in the present work. Firstly, the shake-flask cultivations and benchtop fermentations at various pH values ranging from 5.3 ...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Si Z,Machaku D,Wei P,Huang L,Cai J,Xu Z

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sheep rumen microbial community plays an important role in animal performance and the environment. Few studies have paid close attention to the impact of different levels of dietary nutrition on rumen microbial populations. A total of 112 healthy Tan sheep were selected and randomly allotted to one of four dietary...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Wang Y,Cao P,Wang L,Zhao Z,Chen Y,Yang Y

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conductive materials can facilitate syntrophic methane (CH4) production by improving direct interspecies electron transfer. The effect of a conductive material, ferroferric oxide (Fe3O4), on the anaerobic treatment of tryptone-based high-strength wastewater was investigated in two anaerobic sequencing batch reactors (...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Yin Q,He K,Liu A,Wu G

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Levan is a functional homopolymer of fructose with considerable applications in food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries. To improve the levan production in Bacillus amyloliquefaciens, the regulatory elements of sacB (encoding levansucrase) expression and levansucrase secretion were optimized. Four heterologous pr...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Gu Y,Zheng J,Feng J,Cao M,Gao W,Quan Y,Dang Y,Wang Y,Wang S,Song C

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thiabendazole (TBZ) is a fungicide used in fruit-packaging plants. Its application leads to the production of wastewaters requiring detoxification. In the absence of efficient treatment methods, biological depuration of these effluents could be a viable alternative. However, nothing is known regarding the microbial de...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Perruchon C,Chatzinotas A,Omirou M,Vasileiadis S,Menkissoglou-Spiroudi U,Karpouzas DG

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium tyrobutyricum is a promising organism for butyrate and n-butanol production, but cannot grow on sucrose. Three genes (scrA, scrB, and scrK) involved in the sucrose catabolic pathway, along with an aldehyde/alcohol dehydrogenase gene, were cloned from Clostridium acetobutylicum and introduced into C. tyrobu...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Zhang J,Yu L,Xu M,Yang ST,Yan Q,Lin M,Tang IC

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-surface functional groups (amino, carboxyl, hydroxyl, as well as phosphate) were chemically modified in various ways to enhance the demulsification capability of the demulsifying bacteria Alcaligenes sp. S-XJ-1. Results demonstrated that the demulsifying activity was significantly inhibited by amino enrichment wi...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Zhang Y,Liu J,Huang X,Lu L,Peng K

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coastal sediments contaminated by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) can be candidates for remediation via an approach like land farming. Land farming converts naturally anaerobic sediments to aerobic environments, and the response of microbial communities, in terms of community structure alterations and correspo...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Obi CC,Adebusoye SA,Amund OO,Ugoji EO,Ilori MO,Hedman CJ,Hickey WJ

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent, rapid increase in bacterial antimicrobial resistance has become a major public health concern. One approach to generate new classes of antibacterials is targeting virulence rather than the viability of bacteria. Proteins of the Dsb system, which play a key role in the virulence of many pathogenic microorga...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Bocian-Ostrzycka KM,Grzeszczuk MJ,Banaś AM,Jagusztyn-Krynicka EK

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human intestine hosts various complex microbial communities that are closely associated with multiple health and disease processes. Determining the composition and function of these microbial communities is critical to unveil disease mechanisms and promote human health. Recently, meta-omic strategies have been dev...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Xiao M,Yang J,Feng Y,Zhu Y,Chai X,Wang Y

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclosporin A (CyA) has received meticulous attention owing to its immunosuppressive and biological activities. In this study, a soil isolate, capable of producing CyA, was named Zag1 strain and identified as Aspergillus fumigatus based on macroscopic and microscopic characteristics, 18S rDNA sequence, and phylogeneti...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Ismaiel AA

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophages are bacterial viruses that infect the host after successful receptor recognition and adsorption to the cell surface. The irreversible adherence followed by genome material ejection into host cell cytoplasm must be preceded by the passage of diverse carbohydrate barriers such as capsule polysaccharides (...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Latka A,Maciejewska B,Majkowska-Skrobek G,Briers Y,Drulis-Kawa Z

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterokinase is one of the most frequently used enzymes for the removal of affinity tags from target recombinant proteins. In this study, several fermentation strategies were assayed for the production of human enterokinase in Pichia pastoris under constitutive GAP promoter. Two of them with controlled specific growth...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Melicherová K,Krahulec J,Šafránek M,Lišková V,Hopková D,Széliová D,Turňa J

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated the effect of inorganic mercury (Hg) on bacterial community and diversity in different soils. Three soils-neutral, alkaline and acidic-were spiked with six different concentrations of Hg ranging from 0 to 200 mg kg-1 and aged for 90 days. At the end of the ageing period, 18 samples from three diff...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Mahbub KR,Subashchandrabose SR,Krishnan K,Naidu R,Megharaj M

更新日期：2017-03-01 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：:A metabolic heat-based model was used for estimating the growth of Kluyveromyces marxianus, and the modified Luedeking-Piret kinetic model was used for describing the inulinase production kinetics. For the first time, a relationship was developed to relate inulinase production kinetics directly to metabolic heat gener...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Santharam L,Samuthirapandi AB,Easwaran SN,Mahadevan S

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, several endophytic fungi have been demonstrated to produce volatile organic compounds (VOCs) with properties similar to fossil fuels, called "mycodiesel," while growing on lignocellulosic plant and agricultural residues. The fact that endophytes are plant symbionts suggests that some may be able to produce l...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Wu W,Davis RW,Tran-Gyamfi MB,Kuo A,LaButti K,Mihaltcheva S,Hundley H,Chovatia M,Lindquist E,Barry K,Grigoriev IV,Henrissat B,Gladden JM

更新日期：2017-03-01 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：:In this study, we investigated the use of Illumina high-throughput sequencing of 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) amplicons to explore microbial diversity and community structure in raw and secondary treated wastewater (WW) samples from four municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs A-D) across Australia. Sequence reads we...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Ahmed W,Staley C,Sidhu J,Sadowsky M,Toze S

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psc-AFP, isolated from the seeds of Psoralea corylifolia L., is an antimicrobial protein with trypsin inhibitor activity. Its encoding gene was cloned by 3'- rapid amplification of cDNA ends (RACE) combined with Y-shaped adaptor-dependent extension (YADE) method. The gene Psc-AFP encodes a protein of 203 amino acids w...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Luo XM,Xie CJ,Wang,Wei YM,Cai J,Cheng SS,Yang X-,Sui A-

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phylum Basidiomycota includes filamentous fungi and yeast species with different ecological and genomic characteristics. Transposable elements (TEs) are abundant components of most eukaryotic genomes, and their transition from being genomic parasites to key drivers of genomic architecture, functionality, and evolu...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Castanera R,Borgognone A,Pisabarro AG,Ramírez L

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soluble expression of recombinant therapeutic proteins in Escherichia coli (E. coli) has been a challenging task in biopharmaceutical development. In this study, a novel self-cleavable tag Zbasic-intein has been constructed for the soluble expression and purification of a recombinant cytokine, human interleukin-15 (IL...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Shi S,Chen H,Jiang H,Xie Y,Zhang L,Li N,Zhu C,Chen J,Luo H,Wang J,Feng L,Lu H,Zhu J

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Freezing lactic acid bacteria often leads to cell death and loss of technological properties. Our objective was to provide an in-depth characterization of the biophysical properties of the Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus membrane in relation to its freeze resistance. Freezing was represented as a combinati...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Meneghel J,Passot S,Dupont S,Fonseca F

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cupriavidus basilensis is a species with diverse metabolic capabilities, including degradation of xenobiotics and heavy metal resistance. Although the genomes of several strains of this species have been sequenced, no plasmid has yet been constructed for genetic engineering in this species. In this study, we identifie...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Wang S,Zhang MN,Bai NL,Ding HT,Zhu XF,Zhao YH

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytidine diphosphate choline (CDP-choline) has been applied for treating acute craniocerebral injury and allowing recovery of consciousness after brain surgery. In this study, an acetate kinase (ACK)/acetyl phosphate system was used to supply ATP and combined with Escherichia coli-overexpressed CMP kinase (CMK), NDP k...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Liu Y,Wang J,Xu C,Chen Y,Yang J,Liu D,Niu H,Jiang Y,Yang S,Ying H

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physico-chemical parameters, hydrological conditions, and microbial interactions can affect the growth and persistence of cyanobacteria, but the interacting effects among these bloom-forming factors are still poorly known. This hampers our capacity to predict the occurrence of cyanobacterial bloom accurately. Here, we...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Song H,Xu J,Lavoie M,Fan X,Liu G,Sun L,Fu Z,Qian H

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main carbohydrate of red macroalgae is agarose, a heterogeneous polysaccharide composed of D-galactose and 3,6-anhydro-L-galactose. When saccharifying agarose by enzymes, the unique physical properties of agarose, namely the sol-gel transition and the near-insolubility of agarose in water, limit the accessibility ...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Kim JH,Yun EJ,Seo N,Yu S,Kim DH,Cho KM,An HJ,Kim JH,Choi IG,Kim KH

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L-tryptophan (L-trp) is a biosynthetic precursor of various bioactive components with pharmaceutical interest. The development of an efficient L-trp production strain using targeted molecular engineering approaches is challenging due to the requirement of several precursors and the complex regulations of the pathways ...

journal_title：Applied microbiology and biotechnology

authors： Chen L,Zeng AP

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00