He, Peixin Yu, Miao Wang, Ke Cai, Yingli Li, Bin Liu, Wei
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World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
The commercial production of Morchella mushrooms calls for urgent breeding of excellent varieties or strains with appropriate tools, such as protoplast fusion. However, the protoplast fusion in morels has not been studied. In this paper, interspecific hybridization between cultivated morels of M. importuna and M. sextelata by PEG-induced protoplast...
Manow, Ryan Wang, Can Garza, Erin Zhao, Xiao Wang, Jinhua Grayburn, Scott Zhou, Shengde
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World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
An endogenous homoethanol pathway (glucose/1.2 xylose => 2 pyruvate => 2 ethanol) was previously engineered in Escherichia coli SZ410 via eliminating acid-producing pathways and anaerobic expression of the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (aceEF-lpd operon). This ethanologenic derivative was subsequently engineered through adaptive evolution and part...
Oda, Shinobu
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World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
Although microbial transformation has been expected as a substitution technology for organic synthesis, microbial toxicity and water-insolubility of synthetic substrates prevent the practical application of the technology. For these problems, the authors have developed two types of interfacial bioprocesses, solid–liquid and liquid–liquid interface ...
NanGong, Ziyan Guo, Xiaoxiao Yang, Qing Song, Ping Wang, Qinying Parajulee, Megha N.
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World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
AbstractPirAB toxin was initially found in the Photorhabdus luminescens TT01 strain and is a demonstrated binary toxin with high insecticidal activity. In this paper, we co-expressed the pirAB gene of Xenorhabdus nematophila HB310 in a prokaryotic expression system, and we found that the PirAB protein showed high hemocoel insecticidal activity agai...
Mishra, Sandhya Yang, Xiaodong Ray, Shatrupa Fraceto, Leonardo Fernandes Singh, H. B.
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World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
Antimicrobial activity of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) has been well documented in earlier studies. As their efficient role in combating phytopathogens has begun recently, there is a huge scope to explore their effectiveness in agriculture. Considering the strong antifungal activity of biosynthesized AgNPs (as reported in our previous study), our m...
Doti, N. Caporale, A. Monti, Alessandra Sandomenico, A. Selis, Fabio Ruvo, M.
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World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
The recent scientific progresses on the use of enzyme–mediated reactions in organic, non-aqueous and aqueous media have significantly supported the growing demand of new biotechnological and/or pharmacological products. Today, a plethora of microbial enzymes, used as biocatalysts, are available. Among these, microbial transglutaminases (MTGs) are b...
Giese, Ellen Cristine
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World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
Rare earth elements (REE) have great demand for sustainable energy and the high-end technology sector. The high similarity of REE owing to the nature of their electronic configurations increases the difficulty and costs of the development of chemical processes for their separation and recovery. In this way, the development of green technologies is ...
Cui, Jingwen Duan, Mengting Sun, Qing Fan, Wei
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World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
Enterococcus faecalis (E. faecalis) is a Gram-positive bacterium closely related to many refractory infections of human and shows the resistant ability against the antibacterial effects of silver. Simvastatin is a semisynthetic compound derived from lovastatin and a hydroxymethyl glutaryl coenzyme A(HMG-COA) reductase inhibitor showing certain inhi...
Song, Chen Yue, Sheng-Jie Liu, Wen-Hui Zheng, Yi-Fan Zhang, Cheng-Hao Feng, Tong-Tong Hu, Hong-Bo Wang, Wei Zhang, Xue-Hong
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World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
Glycerol is a by-product of biodiesel, and it has a great application prospect to be transformed to synthesize high value-added compounds. Pseudomonas chlororaphis GP72 isolated from the green pepper rhizosphere is a plant growth promoting rhizobacteria that can utilize amount of glycerol to synthesize phenazine-1-carboxylic acid (PCA). PCA has bee...
Casalone, Enrico Cavalieri, Duccio Daly, Giulia Vitali, Francesco Perito, Brunella
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World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
Despite the deep knowledge of the honey bee (Apis mellifera) gut microbiome, information on the microbial communities of other hive components is still scarce. Propolis originates from a natural resinous mixture that honeybees collect from different plants sources and modify; it is used mainly to ensure the hygiene of the hive. By virtue of its ant...
