abstract：:A microbial consortium reducing high level of perchlorate was developed and in a fed batch bioreactor using acetate as substrate perchlorate was reduced at 0.25 g/g vss. day. Under stable performance, the microbial community structure of the reactor was analyzed through molecular and phenotypic methods. The diversity ...

journal_title：Microbiological research

authors： Anupama VN,Prajeesh PV,Anju S,Priya P,Krishnakumar B

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The community and Cd-resistance of endophytic fungi from roots of Salix variegata Franch. collected from the water-level-fluctuation zone of Three Gorges Reservoir Region, China, were investigated. A total of 53 strains were isolated and identified to 13 morphotaxa, in which Chromosporium, Fusarium and Gonatobotrys we...

journal_title：Microbiological research

authors： An H,Liu Y,Zhao X,Huang Q,Yuan S,Yang X,Dong J

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we evaluated the efficiency of six isolates of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in controlling Colletotrichum acutatum, the causal agent of postbloom fruit drop that occur in pre-harvest citrus. We analyzed the mechanisms of action involved in biological control such as: production of antifungal compounds, nutr...

journal_title：Microbiological research

authors： Lopes MR,Klein MN,Ferraz LP,da Silva AC,Kupper KC

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are a lot of bacterial and eukaryotic DNA repair gene homologs among sequenced archaeal genomes but there is little information about DNA repair mechanisms and the interaction of involved repair proteins. In order to study DNA repair mechanisms in the third domain of life, we studied these processes in the model...

journal_title：Microbiological research

authors： Vafadarnejad E,Amoozgar MA,Khansha J,Fallahzade R

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zymography of alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) activity in the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae grown under various conditions revealed that micro-aerobic growth was associated with increased ADH activity. The major ADH protein, AdhIp, was purified to homogeneity by affinity chromatography and has an estimate...

journal_title：Microbiological research

authors： Callejas-Negrete OA,Torres-Guzmán JC,Padilla-Guerrero IE,Esquivel-Naranjo U,Padilla-Ballesteros MF,García-Tapia A,Schrank A,Salazar-Solís E,Gutiérrez-Corona F,González-Hernández GA

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclophosphamide (CP) is the most commonly used drug in autoimmune disease, cancer, blood and marrow transplantation. Recent data revealed that therapy efficacy of CP is gut microbiota-dependent. So, it is very important to understand how CP affects intestinal microbiota and immune function. In this study, the effects...

journal_title：Microbiological research

authors： Xu X,Zhang X

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microorganisms often suffer from oxidative stress created from nutrient starvation and environmental changes. Thioredoxin (Trx) and glutathione (GSH) pathways are believed critical in related protective functions. The roles of Trx in improving abiotic stress resistance in Trichoderma reesei are still unclear. In this ...

journal_title：Microbiological research

authors： Wang G,Wang H,Xiong X,Chen S,Zhang D

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron-sulfur ([Fe-S]) cluster is an essential cofactor of proteins involved in various physiological processes including cellular defense against oxidative stress. In Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris (Xcc), IscR plays a negative role in regulation of the transcription of [Fe-S] assembly genes, iscR-sufBCDS. The ex...

journal_title：Microbiological research

authors： Fuangthong M,Jittawuttipoka T,Wisitkamol R,Romsang A,Duang-nkern J,Vattanaviboon P,Mongkolsuk S

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In present work we described, for the first time, the phylogenic structure of the microbial community in a shallow freshwater lake (Hawk Island Lake, located in the Lower Peninsula of the State of Michigan, U.S.A.) after one season (four times during May to August 2007) of CuSO₄ treatment for algae growth control. The...

journal_title：Microbiological research

authors： Song LY,Wang YQ

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy nine isolates of Botrytis cinerea were collected from different host plants and different locations of India and Nepal. All the isolates were identified as B. cinerea based on morphological features and were confirmed using B. cinerea specific primers. Differentiation among the isolates was assessed using morp...

journal_title：Microbiological research

authors： Kumari S,Tayal P,Sharma E,Kapoor R

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Annual ryegrass is a fast-growing cool-season grass broadly present in the Portuguese "montado", a typically Mediterranean agro-forestry-pastoral ecosystem. A culture-dependent approach was used to investigate natural associations of this crop with potentially beneficial bacteria, aiming to identify strains suitable f...

journal_title：Microbiological research

authors： Castanheira N,Dourado AC,Alves PI,Cortés-Pallero AM,Delgado-Rodríguez AI,Prazeres Â,Borges N,Sánchez C,Barreto Crespo MT,Fareleira P

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigating the entire species composition of the microorganisms is crucial to understand their roles in the biogeochemical cycles. Metagenomic DNA was extracted from six intertidal sediment samples along the Liaodong Bay of Bohai Sea, China, and was sequenced which yielded a total of 64,496 high-quality sequences f...

journal_title：Microbiological research

authors： Zheng B,Wang L,Liu L

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potassium solubilizing microorganisms (KSMs) are a rhizospheric microorganism which solubilizes the insoluble potassium (K) to soluble forms of K for plant growth and yield. K-solubilization is carried out by a large number of saprophytic bacteria (Bacillus mucilaginosus, Bacillus edaphicus, Bacillus circulans, Ac...

journal_title：Microbiological research

authors： Meena VS,Maurya BR,Verma JP

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of aqueous extracts of various medicinal plants in detoxification of aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) was tested in vitro by thin-layer chromatography and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Among the different plant extracts, the leaf extract of Vasaka (Adhatoda vasica Nees) showed the maximum degradation...

journal_title：Microbiological research

authors： Vijayanandraj S,Brinda R,Kannan K,Adhithya R,Vinothini S,Senthil K,Chinta RR,Paranidharan V,Velazhahan R

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Egyptian soils are generally characterized by slightly alkaline to alkaline pH values (7.5-8.7) which are mainly due to its dry environment. In arid and semi-arid regions, salts are less concentrated and sodium dominates in carbonate and bicarbonate forms, which enhance the formation of alkaline soils. Alkaline soils ...

journal_title：Microbiological research

authors： Abd-Alla MH,El-Enany AW,Nafady NA,Khalaf DM,Morsy FM

更新日期：2014-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria promote plant growth by direct and indirect mechanisms. We isolated twelve bacterial strains showing different degrees of phosphate solubilizing activity from maize rhizosphere. Four isolates solubilized over 300 μg mL⁻¹ phosphate from insoluble Ca₃(PO₄)₂, with isolate SCAUK0330 so...

journal_title：Microbiological research

authors： Zhao K,Penttinen P,Zhang X,Ao X,Liu M,Yu X,Chen Q

更新日期：2014-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Cathepsin L (MrCathL) was identified from a constructed cDNA library of freshwater prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii. MrCathL full-length cDNA is 1161 base pairs (bp) with an ORF of 1026bp which encodes a polypeptide of 342 amino acid (aa) long. The eukaryotic cysteine proteases, histidine and asparagine active site res...

journal_title：Microbiological research

authors： Arockiaraj J,Gnanam AJ,Muthukrishnan D,Thirumalai MK,Pasupuleti M,Milton J,Kasi M

更新日期：2013-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Quorum sensing (QS) systems, which depend on N-acylhomoserine lactone (AHL) signal molecules, mediate the production of virulence factors in many pathogenic microorganisms. One hundred and forty-six bacterial strains, isolated from a bivalve hatchery, were screened for their capacity to degrade five synthetic AHLs [N-...

journal_title：Microbiological research

authors： Torres M,Romero M,Prado S,Dubert J,Tahrioui A,Otero A,Llamas I

更新日期：2013-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on the microbial ecology of gut microbiota in bats are limited and such information is necessary in determining the ecological significance of these hosts. Short-nosed fruit bats (Cynopterus brachyotis brachyotis) are good candidates for microbiota studies given their close association with humans in urban are...

journal_title：Microbiological research

authors： Daniel DS,Ng YK,Chua EL,Arumugam Y,Wong WL,Kumaran JV

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD)-binding proteins play a vital role in energy transfer and utilization during fungal growth and mycelia aggregation. We sequenced the genome of Volvariella volvacea, an economically important edible fungus, and discovered 41 genes encoding FAD-binding proteins. Gene expression profiles...

journal_title：Microbiological research

authors： Meng L,Yan J,Xie B,Li Y,Chen B,Liu S,Li D,Yang Z,Zeng X,Deng Y,Jiang Y

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycosyl hydrolase (GH) family 18 chitinases (Chi) and family 33 chitin binding proteins (CBPs) from Bacillus thuringiensis serovar kurstaki (BtChi and BtCBP), B. licheniformis DSM13 (BliChi and BliCBP) and Serratia proteamaculans 568 (SpChiB and SpCBP21) were used to study the efficiency and synergistic action of BtC...

journal_title：Microbiological research

authors： Manjeet K,Purushotham P,Neeraja C,Podile AR

更新日期：2013-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary hemorrhage is an increasing cause of death of leptospirosis patients. Bacterial collagenase has been shown to be involved in lung hemorrhage induced by various infectious agents. According to Leptospira whole genome study, colA, a gene suggested to code for bacterial collagenase has been identified. We inves...

journal_title：Microbiological research

authors： Janwitthayanan W,Keelawat S,Payungporn S,Lowanitchapat A,Suwancharoen D,Poovorawan Y,Chirathaworn C

更新日期：2013-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Three surfactin-producing Bacillus subtilis strains, C4, M1 and G2III, previously isolated from honey and intestines from the Apis mellifera L. bee, were phylogenetically characterized at sub-species level as B. subtilis subsp. subtilis using gyrA gene sequencing. The antagonistic effect of surfactin was studied again...

journal_title：Microbiological research

authors： Sabaté DC,Audisio MC

更新日期：2013-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The enolase EnoA1 of Lactobacillus plantarum is here shown to interact with human plasminogen (Plg). By sequence alignment of EnoA1 with Streptococcus pneumoniae and Bifidobacterium lactis enolases, we identified BS1 and BS2 Plg-binding sites. A structure prediction of EnoA1 showed lysine residues in position 255 (BS2...

journal_title：Microbiological research

authors： Vastano V,Capri U,Candela M,Siciliano RA,Russo L,Renda M,Sacco M

更新日期：2013-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Moderately halophilic bacteria are a kind of extreme environment microorganism that can tolerate moderate salt concentrations ranging from 0.5M to 2.5M. Here, via a metagenomic library screen, we identified four putative Na(+) transporters, designated H7-Nha, H16-Mppe, H19-Cap and H35-Mrp, from moderately halophilic c...

journal_title：Microbiological research

authors： Gao M,Tao L,Chen S

更新日期：2013-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus epidermidis strains were isolated from the expressed human breast milk (EHM) of 14 healthy donor mothers. Genetic diversity was evaluated using RAPD-PCR REP-PCR and pulse-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). PFGE allowed the best discrimination of the isolates, since it provided for the greatest diversity ...

journal_title：Microbiological research

authors： Begović J,Jovčić B,Papić-Obradović M,Veljović K,Lukić J,Kojić M,Topisirović L

更新日期：2013-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Arylsulfatases allow microorganisms to satisfy their sulfur (S) requirements as inorganic sulfate after sulfate ester hydrolysis. Our objectives were to investigate the arylsulfatase activities among soil isolates, especially Streptomyces sp., Microbacterium sp. and Rhodococcus sp., because such investigations are lim...

journal_title：Microbiological research

authors： Cregut M,Piutti S,Slezack-Deschaumes S,Benizri E

更新日期：2013-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Actinomycetes are virtually unlimited sources of novel compounds with many therapeutic applications and hold a prominent position due to their diversity and proven ability to produce novel bioactive compounds. There are more than 22,000 known microbial secondary metabolites, 70% of which are produced by actinomycetes,...

journal_title：Microbiological research

authors： Subramani R,Aalbersberg W

更新日期：2012-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The functions of two long-chain fatty acid CoA ligase genes (facl) in crude oil-degrading Geobacillus thermodenitrificans NG80-2 were characterized. Facl1 and Facl2 encoded by GTNG_0892 and GTNG_1447 were expressed in Escherichia coli and purified as His-tagged fusion proteins. Both enzymes utilized a broad range of f...

journal_title：Microbiological research

authors： Dong Y,Du H,Gao C,Ma T,Feng L

更新日期：2012-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Signal recognition particle (SRP) mediates targeting of proteins to appropriate cellular compartments, which is an important process in all living organisms. In prokaryotes, SRP consists of Ffh, a protein, and 4.5S RNA that recognizes signal peptide emerging from ribosomes. The SRP (Ffh) of one the most successful int...

journal_title：Microbiological research

authors： Palaniyandi K,Veerasamy M,Narayanan S

更新日期：2012-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:FtsH proteins are ubiquitous membrane-bound, ATP-dependent metalloproteases of the AAA family. In eubacteria, FtsH is involved in protein quality control under stress conditions. Lactobacillus plantarum is a widespread lactic acid bacterium that is encountered in several fermented food, including dairy products, veget...

journal_title：Microbiological research

authors： Bove P,Capozzi V,Garofalo C,Rieu A,Spano G,Fiocco D

更新日期：2012-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Araucaria angustifolia, a unique species of this genus that occurs naturally in Brazil, has a high socio-economic and environmental value and is critically endangered of extinction, since it has been submitted to intense predatory exploitation during the last century. Root-associated bacteria from A. angustifolia were...

journal_title：Microbiological research

authors： Ribeiro CM,Cardoso EJ

更新日期：2012-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Nidus Vespae (honeycomb) is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine that has been demonstrated to inhibit the growth and acid-production of oral cariogenic bacteria. Subsequent studies showed that the chloroform/methanol (Chl/MeOH) chemical extraction of Nidus Vespae was the most effective inhibitor of growth and acido...

journal_title：Microbiological research

authors： Guan X,Zhou Y,Liang X,Xiao J,He L,Li J

更新日期：2012-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The classical salicylaldehyde dehydrogenases found in naphthalene-degrading bacteria are denoted as NahF. In addition to NahF, NahV, and its corresponding gene nahV, were found here in multiple naphthalene-degrading bacteria isolated from industrial wastewater polluted with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). In ...

journal_title：Microbiological research

authors： Li S,Li X,Zhao H,Cai B

更新日期：2011-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Actinomadura hibisca P157-2 produces potent antifungal antibiotic pradimicins. To enhance pradimicin production, ACCase from Streptomyces coelicolor and two regulatory genes metK1-sp and afsR-sp from Streptomyces peuticus were overexpressed into A. hibisca using an integration vector pSET152 under the control of the s...

journal_title：Microbiological research

authors： Paudel S,Lee HC,Kim BS,Sohng JK

更新日期：2011-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A mercury-resistant plasmid of pTMJ212 which was able to shuttle between Acidithiobacillus caldus and Escherichia coli was constructed by inserting the mercury resistant determinants, the mer operon of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans, into the IncQ plasmid of pJRD215. pTMJ212 was transferred from Escherichia coli into ...

journal_title：Microbiological research

authors： Chen D,Lin J,Che Y,Liu X,Lin J

更新日期：2011-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it is known that oxalic acid provides a selective advantage to the secreting microbe our understanding of how this acid is biosynthesized remains incomplete. This study reports the identification, cloning, and partial characterization of the oxalic acid biosynthetic enzyme from the animal bacterial pathogen, ...

journal_title：Microbiological research

authors： Nakata PA

更新日期：2011-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of biofilm function, structure and microbial interactions might help to improve our understanding of biofilm wastewater treatment processes. However, few reports specifically address the influence of interactions within multispecies biofilms on microbial activity and biofilm composition. Thus, the relationsh...

journal_title：Microbiological research

authors： Andersson S,Dalhammar G,Kuttuva Rajarao G

更新日期：2011-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A putative sigma factor gene, orf21, was disrupted or overexpressed in the wild-type clavulanic acid (CA) producer Streptomyces clavuligerus NRRL3585 and characterized. An orf21 mutant (Streptomyces clavuligerus HN14) of S. clavuligerus was obtained by insertional inactivation via double-crossover. Although there was ...

journal_title：Microbiological research

authors： Jnawali HN,Liou K,Sohng JK

更新日期：2011-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The ATP-dependent Lon protease is universally distributed in bacteria, eukaryotic organelles and archaea. In comparison with bacterial and eukaryal Lon proteases, the biology of the archaeal Lon has been studied to a limited extent. In this study, the gene encoding the Lon protease of the alkaliphilic haloarchaeon Nat...

journal_title：Microbiological research

authors： Sastre DE,Paggi RA,De Castro RE

更新日期：2011-05-20 00:00:00