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Open AccessDisease-induced changes in bacterial and fungal communities from plant below- and aboveground compartments
The plant microbes are an integral part of the host and play fundamental roles in plant growth and health. There is evidence indicating that plants have the ability to attract beneficial microorganisms through...
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Open AccessImproving the production of carbamoyltobramycin by an industrial Streptoalloteichus tenebrarius through metabolic engineering
Tobramycin is an essential and extensively used broad-spectrum aminoglycoside antibiotic obtained through alkaline hydrolysis of carbamoyltobramycin, one of the fermentation products of Streptoalloteichus tenebra...
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Optimization of welan gum extraction and purification using lysozyme and alkaline protease
Welan gum, a natural polysaccharide produced by Sphingomonas sp. ATCC 31555, has attracted considerable attention in the scientific community due to its desirable properties. However, challenges, such as high vis...
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Open AccessPreparation of a Klebsiella pneumoniae conjugate nanovaccine using glycol-engineered Escherichia coli
Engineered strains of Escherichia coli have been used to produce bioconjugate vaccines using Protein Glycan Coupling Technology (PGCT). Nanovaccines have also entered the vaccine development arena with advances i...
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New two-stage pH combined with dissolved oxygen control strategy for cyclic β-1,2 glucans synthesis
On the basis of a novel two-stage pH combined with dissolved oxygen (DO) control strategy in fed-batch fermentation, this research addresses the influence of pH on cyclic β-1,2-glucans (CβGs) biosynthesis and ...
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New high-density fermentation method for producing high molecular weight polysialic acid based on the combination fermentation strategy
Polysialic acid (PSA) is a long-chain linear amino polysaccharide with broad application prospects; however, its relatively low molecular weight limits its application range. This study aims to explore a new f...
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Open AccessManipulating the position of DNA expression cassettes using location tags fused to dCas9 (Cas9-Lag) to improve metabolic pathway efficiency
Deactivated Cas9 (dCas9) led to significant improvement of CRISPR/Cas9-based techniques because it can be fused with a variety of functional groups to form diverse molecular devices, which can manipulate or mo...
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A novel third chromosomal locus controls susceptibility to Autographa californica multiple nucleopolyhedrovirus in the silkworm, Bombyx mori
Baculovirus demonstrates specific infection spectrums and thus one certain host exhibits particular response to single baculovirus isolate. Autographa californica multiple nucleopolyhedrovirus (AcMNPV) is conside...
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Establishment of a soaking RNA interference and Bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrovirus (BmNPV)-hypersensitive cell line using Bme21 cell
The double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) mediated RNA interference (RNAi) is widely employed in silkworm and its tissue-derived cell lines for gene function analysis. Baculovirus expression vector system (BEVS) has an ...
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A new effective process for production of curdlan oligosaccharides based on alkali-neutralization treatment and acid hydrolysis of curdlan particles in water suspension
Biologically active β-1,3-oligosaccharides with rapidly growing biomedical applications are produced from hydrolysis of curdlan polysaccharide. The water-insoluble curdlan impedes its hydrolysis efficiency whi...
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Soaking RNAi-mediated modification of Sf9 cells for baculovirus expression system by ectopic expression of Caenorhabditis elegans SID-1
RNA interference (RNAi) is a biological phenomenon that silences the expression of genes of interest. Passive double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) uptake has been uniquely observed in Caenorhabditis elegans due to the exp...
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A new polysialic acid production process based on dual-stage pH control and fed-batch fermentation for higher yield and resulting high molecular weight product
To determine the factors influencing the resulting molecular weight of polysialic acid (PSA), batch fermentations by using Escherichia coli were conducted. It was found that temperature and pH were significant fa...
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Removal of l-alanine from the production of l-2-aminobutyric acid by introduction of alanine racemase and d-amino acid oxidase
l-2-Aminobutyric acid can be synthesized in a transamination reaction from l-threonine and l-aspartic acid as substrates by the action of threonine deaminase and aromatic aminotransferase, but the by-product l-al...