Huët, Marie Andrea Laetitia Wong, Li Wen Goh, Calvin Bok Sun Hussain, Md Hamed Muzahid, Nazmul Hasan Dwiyanto, Jacky Lee, Shaun Wen Huey Ayub, Qasim Reidpath, Daniel Lee, Sui Mae
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World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
AbstractAlthough several studies have already been carried out in investigating the general profile of the gut mycobiome across several countries, there has yet to be an officially established baseline of a healthy human gut mycobiome, to the best of our knowledge. Microbial composition within the gastrointestinal tract differ across individuals wo...
Dutra-Silva, Lorena Pereira, Giuliano E. Batista, Luís Roberto Matteoli, Filipe P.
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World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
Grapevine cultivars are distributed worldwide, nevertheless the fermentation of its grape berries renders distinct wine products that are highly associated to the local fungal community. Despite the symbiotic association between wine and the fungal metabolism, impacting both the terroir and mycotoxin production, few studies have explored the vineya...
Rajbongshi, Amarjit Gogoi, Subrata Borgohain
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World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
AbstractThe Role of microorganisms in the petroleum industry is wide-ranging. To understand the role of microorganisms in hydrocarbon transformation, identification of such microorganisms is vital, especially the ones capable of in situ degradation. Microorganisms play a pivotal role in the degradation of hydrocarbons and remediation of heavy metal...
Suzuki, Erika Urushidani, Tomoka Maeda, Sumio
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Persister cells, or persisters, are a fraction of bacterial cells that have become temporarily tolerant to antibiotics despite their lack of typical antibiotic-resistant genes. In a previous study, we found that colony–biofilm culture (i.e., biofilm formed at an air–solid interface) promoted the formation and phenotype memory retention of persister...
Zhang, Hong Han, Lizhen Jiang, Biao Long, Changmei
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Phosphate solubilizing microorganisms widely exist in plant rhizosphere soil, but report about the P solubilization and multiple growth-promoting properties of rare actinomycetes are scarce. In this paper, a phosphate solubilizing Tsukamurella tyrosinosolvens P9 strain was isolated from the rhizosphere soil of tea plants. Phosphorus-dissolving abil...
Mba, Ifeanyi E. Nweze, Emeka I.
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World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
Resistance to antimicrobial agents has been alarming in recent years and poses a huge public health threat globally according to the WHO. The increase in morbidity and mortality resulting from microbial infections has been attributed to the emergence of multidrug-resistant microbes. Associated with the increase in multidrug resistance is the lack o...
Runguphan, Weerawat Sae-Tang, Kittapong Tanapongpipat, Sutipa
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As the effects of climate change become increasingly severe, metabolic engineers and synthetic biologists are looking towards greener sources for transportation fuels. The design and optimization of microorganisms to produce gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel compounds from renewable feedstocks can significantly reduce dependence on fossil fuels and th...
Becerril-Varela, Karina Serment-Guerrero, Jorge H. Manzanares-Leal, Gauddy Lizeth Ramírez-Durán, Ninfa Guerrero-Barajas, Claudia
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An iron reducing enrichment was obtained from sulfate reducing sludge and was evaluated on the capability of reducing Fe3+ coupled to acetate oxidation in a microbial fuel cell (MFC). Three molar ratios for acetate/Fe3+ were evaluated (2/16, 3.4/27 and 6.9/55 mM). The percentages of Fe3+ reduction were in a range of 80–90, 60–70 and 40–50% for the ...
Shin, Kyung-Chul Oh, Deok-Kun
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AbstractBiotransformation is a selective, stereospecific, efficient, and environment friendly method, compared to chemical synthesis, and a feasible tool for industrial and pharmaceutical applications. The design of biocatalysts using enzyme engineering and metabolic engineering tools has been widely reviewed. However, less importance has been give...
Gao, Haofeng Zhu, Runtao Li, Zelong Wang, Wanyi Liu, Ziduo Hu, Nan
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A novel esterase (EstKa) from marine Klebsiella aerogenes was characterized with hydrolytic activity against p-nitrophenyl caprylate (pNPC, C8) under optimum conditions (50 °C and pH 8.5). After two rounds of mutagenesis, two highly potential mutants (I6E9 and L7B11) were obtained with prominent activity, substrate affinity and thermostability. I6E...
