abstract：:The thermoacidophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus MT4 encodes a maltooligosyltrehalose synthase (MTS), that catalyzes an intramolecular transglycosylation process converting the glycosidic linkages at the reducing end of dextrins from alpha-1,4 into alpha-1,1. In this research the gene encoding MTS was cloned and...

journal_title：Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Cimini D,De Rosa M,Panariello A,Morelli V,Schiraldi C

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contamination of Lactobacillus sp. in the fermentation broth of bioethanol production decreases ethanol production efficiency. Although the addition of lactate to the broth can effectively inhibit the growth of Lactobacillus sp., it also greatly reduces the fermentation ability of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. To overcome...

journal_title：Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Watanabe I,Nakamura T,Shima J

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptomyces strain LL-P018 produces the phaeochromycins, novel anti-inflammatory polyketides. This organism was identified as a strain of Streptomyces phaeochromogenes by physiological and genetic taxonomic analysis. In order to gain greater taxonomic perspective, LL-P018 was compared to related strains from major cu...

journal_title：Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Ritacco FV,Eveleigh DE

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Penicillium strain isolated from citrus fruit was found to produce thermostable polygalacturonases. Optimization of process parameters resulted in high levels of enzyme production after 3 days of incubation at a pH of 5.0 at 30 degrees C in the presence of 1% pectin. The optimum temperature for enzyme activity was 60 ...

journal_title：Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Mathew A,Eldo AN,Molly AG

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An isolate exhibiting high extracellular lipolytic activity was identified as Bacillus subtilis by 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis. The enzyme activity of the isolate was improved by using different concentrations of lipidic carbon sources such as vegetable oils, fatty acids and triglycerides. Lipolytic activity was a...

journal_title：Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Takaç S,Marul B

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cloud point system, consisting of nonionic surfactant in an aqueous solution, has been developed as a novel medium for whole cell microbial transformation. The basic properties of cloud point system including phase separation and solubilization are introduced. The application of cloud point system for extractive micro...

journal_title：Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Wang Z,Xu JH,Chen D

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant cell walls are comprised of cellulose, hemicellulose and other polymers that are intertwined. This complex structure acts as a barrier to degradation by single enzyme. Thus, a cocktail consisting of bi and multifunctional xylanases and xylan debranching enzymes is most desired combination for the efficient utili...

journal_title：Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Khandeparker R,Numan MT

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimizing the reactivity of cell coatings developed as biosensors or biocatalysts requires measurements of gene expression in the immobilized cells. To quantify and localize gene expression within a latex-based mercury biosensor, a plasmid, pmerGFP, was constructed, which contains the green fluorescent protein (GFP) ...

journal_title：Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Schottel JL,Orwin PM,Anderson CR,Flickinger MC

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To gain insight into the impact of 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) on soil microbial communities, we characterized the bacterial community of several TNT-contaminated soils from two sites with different histories of contamination and concentrations of TNT. The amount of extracted DNA, the total cell counts and the number ...

journal_title：Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology

authors： George I,Eyers L,Stenuit B,Agathos SN

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of pH, aeration and mixing on the growth and production of carbonyl reductase by Candida viswanathii was investigated in a 6.6-l fermentor. Controlling the pH at 8.0 had a very significant effect on the enzyme production. Aeration and agitation influenced the dissolved oxygen concentration which in turn aff...

journal_title：Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Soni P,Kansal H,Banerjee UC

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and twenty-eight Bacillus thuringiensis isolates from fields of different ecological regions of Iran were collected to study the distribution and diversity of Dipteran-specific cry and cyt genes. The percentage of samples with Bt showed significant differences between different regions and also between dif...

journal_title：Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Jouzani GS,Abad AP,Seifinejad A,Marzban R,Kariman K,Maleki B

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A superoxide dismutase (SOD) gene was cloned from the thermophilic bacterium Rhodothermus sp. XMH10 for the first time and highly expressed in Escherichia coli. The Rhodothermus sp. XMH10 SOD (RhSOD) gene encodes 209 amino acids with a putative molecular weight of 23.6 kDa and a pI value of 5.53. The recombinant RhSOD...

journal_title：Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Wang X,Yang H,Ruan L,Liu X,Li F,Xu X

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the present study was to measure the production of cutinase by Fusarium oxysporum in the presence of several carbon and nitrogen sources (glycides, fatty acids and oils, and several organic and inorganic nitrogen sources), trying to find a cost-effective substitute for cutin in the culture medium as a...

journal_title：Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Pio TF,Macedo GA

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aspartate pathway of Streptomyces clavuligerus is an important primary metabolic pathway which provides substrates for beta-lactam synthesis. In this study, the hom gene which encodes homoserine dehydrogenase was cloned from the cephamycin C producer S. clavuligerus NRRL 3585 and characterized. The fully sequenced...

journal_title：Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Yilmaz EI,Caydasi AK,Ozcengiz G

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial contamination of commercial fermentation cultures is a common and costly problem to the fuel ethanol industry. Antimicrobials such as virginiamycin (VIR) and penicillin (PEN) are frequently used to control contamination but there are little data available on the susceptibility of bacterial contaminants to th...

journal_title：Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Bischoff KM,Skinner-Nemec KA,Leathers TD

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of bacteria to attach to surfaces and develop into a biofilm has been of considerable interest to many groups in numerous industries, including the medical and food industry. However, little is understood in the critical initial step seen in all biofilm development, the initial bacterial cell attachment to...

journal_title：Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Palmer J,Flint S,Brooks J

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two on-line probes for biomass measurement in bioreactor cultivations were evaluated. One probe is based on near infrared (NIR) light absorption and the other on dielectric spectroscopy. The probes were used to monitor biomass production in cultivations of several different microorganisms. Differences in NIR probe res...

journal_title：Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Kiviharju K,Salonen K,Moilanen U,Meskanen E,Leisola M,Eerikäinen T

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The new bacteriocin, termed enterocin M, produced by Enterococcus faecium AL 41 showed a wide spectrum of inhibitory activity against the indicator organisms from different sources. It was purified by (NH4)2SO4 precipitation, cation-exchange chromatography and reverse phase chromatography (FPLC). The purified peptide ...

journal_title：Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Mareková M,Lauková A,Skaugen M,Nes I

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acidification behavior of Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Streptococcus thermophilus for yoghurt production was investigated along temperature profiles within the optimal window of 38-44 degrees C. For the optimal acidification temperature profile search, an optimization engine module built on a modular artificial ne...

journal_title：Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Gueguim-Kana EB,Oloke JK,Lateef A,Zebaze-Kana MG

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the purification and characterization of two thermophilic xylanases from the mesophilic bacteria Cellulomonas flavigena grown on sugarcane bagasse (SCB) as the only carbon source. Extracellular xylanase activity produced by C. flavigena was found both free in the culture supernatant and associated with resid...

journal_title：Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Santiago-Hernández A,Vega-Estrada J,del Carmen Montes-Horcasitas M,Hidalgo-Lara ME

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylomonas sp. strain 16a is an obligate methanotrophic bacterium that uses methane or methanol as the sole carbon source. An effort was made to engineer this organism for astaxanthin production. Upon expressing the canthaxanthin gene cluster under the control of the native hps promoter in the chromosome, canthaxant...

journal_title：Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Ye RW,Yao H,Stead K,Wang T,Tao L,Cheng Q,Sharpe PL,Suh W,Nagel E,Arcilla D,Dragotta D,Miller ES

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium sp. 7E1B1W and seven other mycobacterial strains known to degrade hydrocarbons were investigated to determine their ability to metabolize the piperazine ring, a substructure found in many drugs. Cultures were grown at 30 degrees C in tryptic soy broth and dosed with 3.1 mM N-phenylpiperazine hydrochlorid...

journal_title：Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Adjei MD,Deck J,Heinze TM,Freeman JP,Williams AJ,Sutherland JB

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The catechol meta cleavage pathway is one of the central metabolic pathways for the degradation of aromatic compounds. A novel organization of the pathway genes, different from that of classical soil microorganisms, has been observed in Sphingomonas sp HV3 and Pseudomonas sp. DJ77. In a Comamonas sp. JS765, cdoE encod...

journal_title：Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology

authors： He Z,Parales RE,Spain JC,Johnson GR

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A spectrofluorometric assay was developed for quantification of bacterial biofilms grown on a microtiter plate. The method involved staining biofilms formed by gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria with wheat germ agglutinin-Alexa Fluor 488 conjugate, which selectively binds to N-acetylglucosamine residues in biofi...

journal_title：Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Burton E,Yakandawala N,LoVetri K,Madhyastha MS

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the M13 primer was used to distinguish Geotrichum candidum from the anamorphic and teleomorphic forms of other arthrospore-forming species (discriminatory power = 0.99). For intraspecific characterization, the GATA4 primer showed the highest level of discrimination for G. candidum among the 20 microsate...

journal_title：Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Gente S,Sohier D,Coton E,Duhamel C,Gueguen M

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aiming at the industrial production of serogroup C meningococcal vaccine, different experimental protocols were tested to cultivate Neisseria meningitidis C and to investigate the related organic acid release. Correlations were established between specific rates of acetic acid and lactic acid accumulation and specific...

journal_title：Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Baruque-Ramos J,Hiss H,Converti A,Gonçalves VM,Raw I

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of nutrient supplementation of brewery's spent grain (BSG) hydrolysates was evaluated with respect to biomass and xylitol production by Debaryomyces hansenii. For optimal biomass production, supplementation of full-strength BSG hydrolysates required only phosphate (0.5 g l(-1) KH(2)PO(4)), leading to a biom...

journal_title：Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Carvalheiro F,Duarte LC,Lopes S,Parajó JC,Pereira H,Gírio FM

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of several high value steroid drugs, used as progestational, adrenocortical, estrogenic and contraceptive agents, is mostly derived from 4-androstene-dione (AD) and 1,4 androsta-diene-3,17-dione (ADD). Three Vietnamese phytosterols mixtures named VN-1, VN-2 and VN-3, isolated from soybean oil may be eff...

journal_title：Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Pérez C,Falero A,Duc HL,Balcinde Y,Hung BR

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have found a novel fungal genus that produces extremely bioactive volatile organic compounds (VOCs). This fungal isolate was initially discovered as an endophyte in Cinnamomum zeylanicum in a botanical garden in Honduras. This endophytic fungus, Muscodor albus, produces a mixture of VOCs that are lethal to a wide v...

journal_title：Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Strobel G

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various bioactive small molecules produced by microbial cultivation are degraded in the culture broth or may repress the formation of additional product. The inclusion of hydrophobic adsorber resin beads to capture these products in situ and remove them from the culture broth can reduce or prevent this degradation and...

journal_title：Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Frykman S,Tsuruta H,Galazzo J,Licari P

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, polysaccharide-producing bacteria were isolated from slimes collected from two Finnish and one Spanish paper mill and the exopolysaccharides (EPSs) produced by 18 isolates were characterised. Most of the isolates, selected on the bases of slimy colony morphology, were members of the family Enterobacteri...

journal_title：Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Rättö M,Verhoef R,Suihko ML,Blanco A,Schols HA,Voragen AG,Wilting R,Siika-Aho M,Buchert J

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A commercial process was developed for producing a recombinant vaccine against hydatidosis in farm animals. The vaccine antigen consisting of a surface protein of the oncospheres of the hydatid worm (Echinococcus granulosus), was produced as inclusion bodies in Escherichia coli. Fed-batch cultures of E. coli using Ter...

journal_title：Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Manderson D,Dempster R,Chisti Y

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxic heavy metals and metalloids, such as cadmium, lead, mercury, arsenic, and selenium, are constantly released into the environment. There is an urgent need to develop low-cost, effective, and sustainable methods for their removal or detoxification. Plant-based approaches, such as phytoremediation, are relatively i...

journal_title：Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology

authors： LeDuc DL,Terry N

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recycling of office waste paper (photocopy, inkjet, and laser prints) is a major problem due to difficulty in removal of nonimpact ink. Biological deinking of office waste paper is reported using several microorganisms and their enzymes. We report here deinking and decolorization of the dislodged ink particles from in...

journal_title：Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Mohandass C,Raghukumar C

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antifungal-producing potential of actinomycete populations from the rhizosphere of low-altitude sagebrush, Artemisia tridentata, has been examined. In a continued investigation of new sources of antifungal-producing microorganisms, this study examined the antifungal-producing potential of actinomycetes from the rh...

journal_title：Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Jiménez-Esquilín AE,Roane TM

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using genetic engineering, the Vitreoscilla (bacterial) hemoglobin gene (vgb) was integrated stably into the chromosomes of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Burkholderia sp. strain DNT. This was done for both wild type vgb and two site-directed mutants of vgb that produce Vitreoscilla hemoglobin (VHb) with lowered oxygen af...

journal_title：Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Kim Y,Webster DA,Stark BC

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A collection of Pseudomonas corrugata and P. mediterranea strains, two closely related species, was evaluated for the presence and variability of pha loci. Using PCR methods that specifically amplify segments of medium-chain-length poly(hydroxyalkanoate) (mcl-PHA) synthase genes, we demonstrated the presence of phaC1 ...

journal_title：Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Solaiman DK,Catara V,Greco S

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discharge of bromate, a suspected carcinogen, will be restricted in the near future. To assess the possibility of biotechnological treatment of bromate-containing wastewaters, the removal of bromate by chlorate-reducing microorganisms was studied. The removal of bromate and chlorate was studied in laboratory gas-l...

journal_title：Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology

authors： van Ginkel CG,Middelhuis BJ,Spijk F,Abma WR

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many variables and their interactions can affect a biotechnological process. Testing a large number of variables and all their possible interactions is a cumbersome task and its cost can be prohibitive. Several screening strategies, with a relatively low number of experiments, can be used to find which variables have ...

journal_title：Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Soria MA,Gonzalez Funes JL,Garcia AF

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymetallic ocean nodules offer an alternative source for extracting valuable strategic metals like Cu, Co and Ni. A novel biodissolution process was carried out, employing the cell-free spent growth medium from a marine organism ( Bacillus M1) isolated from nodules; and Cu, Co and Ni solubilization from the nodules ...

journal_title：Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology

authors： Mukherjee A,Raichur AM,Modak JM,Natarajan KA

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00