• The current knowledge about the genetics and physiology of glycerol uptake and catabolism in the versatile industrial biotechnology production host Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been mainly based on auxotrophic laboratory strains, and carried out in the presence of growth-supporting supplements such as amino acids and nucleic bases. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Heterologous expression of the genes for both uptake and catabolism of D-galacturonic acid and D-glucuronic acid was required to enable growth of C. glutamicum with either aldohexuronic acid as the sole carbon source. (springeropen.com)
  • When transformed with the plasmid for uptake and catabolism of the aldohexuronates, model producer strains were able to grow with and produce from D-galacturonate or D-glucuronate as sole carbon source. (springeropen.com)
  • Chemoorganotrophic with both a respiratory- and fermentative-type metabolism. (datapunk.net)
  • In support of a NOD function, microbial flavoHbs and Hbs catalyze O2-dependent cellular radical dotNO metabolism, protect cells from radical dotNO poisoning, and are induced by radical dotNO exposures. (pharmaceuticalintelligence.com)
  • Phenolic compounds are a group of aromatic compounds known to be inhibitory to fermentative organisms. (chalmers.se)
  • Instead, this process eliminates inhibitory H 2 produced from fermentative growth. (eol.org)
  • Glycerol has attracted attention as a carbon source for microbial production processes due to the large amounts of crude glycerol waste resulting from biodiesel production. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Thus, the use of crude glycerol as feedstock for bioprocesses based on microbial fermentations has emerged as an attractive idea. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Due to its higher reducing power compared to sugars, we consider glycerol is an attractive carbon source for the fermentative production of chemicals. (constructor.university)
  • Acid from the catabolism of d-glucose, without gas. (datapunk.net)
  • T. maritima is one of fermentative bacteria that produces hydrogen to levels that approach the thermodynamic limit (4 mol H 2 / mol glucose). (eol.org)
  • However, similar to other fermentative bacteria, the hydrogen yield in this bacterium does not go beyond 4 mol H 2 / glucose (Thaeur limit) because of its inherent nature to use more energy for its own cell division to grow rapidly than producing H 2 . (eol.org)
  • [1] One of the strains, also known as Tma200, produced 5.77 mol H 2 / mol glucose which is the highest yield so far reported in a fermentative bacterium. (eol.org)
  • Microbial Cell Factories presents the 'Microbial food biotechnology' series to cover the cell factory aspects of the exploitation of microorganisms or their parts and enzymes in food production. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Adaptive laboratory evolution is a frequent method in biological studies to gain insights into the basic mechanisms of molecular evolution and adaptive changes that accumulate in microbial populations during long term selection under specified growth conditions. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Since the recent advent of culture-independent analyses of complete microbial populations, microbe-host-microbiota interactions have opened new avenues for the study of infectious diseases. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Microbial food biotechnology research is critical for advances in food production, food safety, food security, value-added food products, functional foods and human nutrition, as well as furthering fundamental research in biotechnology and the agricultural sciences. (biomedcentral.com)
  • As Shangshu predates 500 BC, the ancient predecessor of xiuqu may be the world's oldest example of biotechnological manufacturing using a cultivated microbial community. (wikipedia.org)
  • Although regularly performed for more than 25 years, the advent of transcript and cheap next-generation sequencing technologies has resulted in many recent studies, which successfully applied this technique in order to engineer microbial cells for biotechnological applications. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Because of these reasons fermentative bacteria have not been thought to produce higher amounts of hydrogen at a commercial scale. (eol.org)
  • Nous cherchons à comprendre les systèmes qu'utilisent C. phytofermentans pour fermenter la biomasse en combinant les mesures à haut débit de l'expression des gènes comme la protéomique ( Tolonen and Haas, 2014 ), la transcriptomique ( Boutard et al, 2014 ), et la métabolomique avec des analyses de la croissance, la fermentation et la microscopie (figure 1A). (cea.fr)
  • This genus contains microbial species that can reside in the human gastrointestinal tract. (datapunk.net)
  • Microbial production of lycopene has been intensively studied. (bvsalud.org)
  • We present important studies on laboratory evolution and evolutionary engineering with the aim of improving microbial growth on relevant substrates and stress resistance. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Microbial cells offer important advantages for ALE studies: (a) most microbial cells have simple nutrient requirements, (b) they can be easily cultivated in the laboratory and (c) microbial cells generally grow very fast and can be cultivated for several hundred generations within several weeks or months (with typical specific growth rates of microbial cells in the range of μ = 0.05 to 1.0 h -1 ). (biomedcentral.com)
  • The obtained results suggest that microbial biodegradation of pollutants can be used to clean up contaminated environments. (omicsonline.org)
  • However, recent studies show how some of the limitations may be overcome in order to successfully incorporate adaptive laboratory evolution in microbial cell factory design. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The yeast amino acid catabolism plays an important role in flavour generation since higher alcohols and acetate esters, amino acid catabolism end products, are key components of overall flavour and aroma in fe. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Microbial flavohemoglobins (flavoHbs) and hemoglobins (Hbs) show large radical dotNO dioxygenation rate constants ranging from 745 to 2900 μM−1 s−1 suggesting a primal radical dotNO dioxygenase (NOD) (EC 1.14.12.17) function for the ancient Hb superfamily. (pharmaceuticalintelligence.com)
  • The ability to manipulate microbial biosynthetic pathways and metabolism using synthetic biology provides unprecedented opportunities to address a wide range of topics related to DOE's mission in sustainable bioenergy development. (energy.gov)
  • Enhanced genomic biology capabilities allow for the development of pathways, strains, and microbial consortia to achieve novel chemistries, reduce barriers, and develop innovative solutions for biomass conversion. (energy.gov)
  • With the immense physiological and genetic diversity across the microbial world, there is potential to develop and engineer novel and model microorganisms with unique capabilities and biosynthetic pathways beyond what is currently used in industry. (energy.gov)
  • Bonnarme P., Psoni L., Spinnler H.E., Diversity of L-methionine catabolism pathways in cheese-ripening bacteria, Appl. (dairy-journal.org)
  • We demonstrate applicability of these candidates for dynamic induction of enforced ATP wasting, a metabolic engineering approach to increase productivity of microbial strains that requires a narrow level of ATPase expression for optimal function. (bvsalud.org)
  • Searching for the best microbial strains having efficient lignin-degrading and polysaccharide-hydrolyzing capabilities is vital to realize industrial-scale biofuel production from lignocellulose biomass. (springeropen.com)
  • Microbial diversity begins within the first few hours after birth and is shaped during childhood and adolescence when the diet becomes more diverse and the immune system matures. (oaepublish.com)
  • Through this portfolio of highly interdisciplinary and integrated research projects, the GSP aims to meet the challenges associated with microbial production of advanced biofuels and bioproducts from plant-derived biomass. (energy.gov)
  • It also has the unique ability to convert sugars to electricity, oxidizing the sugars to carbon dioxide with quantitative electron transfer to graphite electrodes in microbial fuel cells. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The novel ability of R. ferrireducens to oxidize sugars to carbon dioxide with quantitative electron transfer to electrodes in microbial fuel cells is of interest because of the possibility of using sugars as a renewable energy source for power production [ 1 , 8 , 9 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • 2012) The 2012 Inventory of Microbial Species with technological beneficial role in fermented food products. (aimspress.com)
  • It is thus necessary to develop ways to design and control the functional capabilities within living systems to harness the biosynthetic processing power of the microbial world. (energy.gov)
  • Characterization of Anaerobic Microbial Communities That Adapt to 3-Chlorobenzoate and 2-Chlorophenol: An Integrated Approach of Chemical Measurements and Molecular Evaluations [PhD Dissertation]. (nih.gov)
  • One strategy for investigating microbial communities is using honeybees. (elifesciences.org)
  • In addition, scientists can generate bees that lack microbial communities in the gut, allowing them to add specific types of bacteria to study their impact. (elifesciences.org)
  • In this review, we discuss recent findings on the relationship(s) of microbiota signature with severity of NAFLD and the role(s) microbial metabolites in NAFLD progression. (oaepublish.com)