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Open AccessRationally designed bacterial consortia to treat chronic immune-mediated colitis and restore intestinal homeostasis
Environmental factors, mucosal permeability and defective immunoregulation drive overactive immunity to a subset of resident intestinal bacteria that mediate multiple inflammatory conditions. GUT-103 and GUT-1...
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Potential of willow and its genetically engineered associated bacteria to remediate mixed Cd and toluene contamination
The purpose of this study was to investigate if bacteria with beneficial properties that were isolated from willow growing on a metal-contaminated site can be further equipped with genes coding for a specific ...
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Contrasting colonization and plant growth promoting capacity between wild type and a gfp-derative of the endophyte Pseudomonas putida W619 in hybrid poplar
This study aims to investigate the colonization of poplar by the endophyte Pseudomonas putida W619 and its capacity to promote plant growth. Poplar cuttings were inoculated with P. putida W619 (wild-type or gfp-l...
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Soil solid phases effects on the proteomic analysis of Cupriavidus metallidurans CH34
Cupriavidus metallidurans CH34 is a completely sequenced soil-borne beta-proteobacterium with known genome and proteome. Comparative 2-D electrophoresis and protein mass spectrometry were used to...
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Bioprospecting Metagenomics for New Glycoside Hydrolases
To efficiently deconstruct recalcitrant plant biomass to fermentable sugars in industrial processes, biocatalysts of higher performance and lower cost are required. The genetic diversity found in the metagenom...
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Open AccessBioprospecting metagenomics of decaying wood: mining for new glycoside hydrolases
To efficiently deconstruct recalcitrant plant biomass to fermentable sugars in industrial processes, biocatalysts of higher performance and lower cost are required. The genetic diversity found in the metagenom...
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Improved Phytoremediation of Organic Contaminants Through Engineering of Bacterial Endophytes of Trees
This chapter describes the possibilities of using engineered plant- associated endophytic bacteria to improve phytoremediation of organic contaminants by complementing the metabolic properties of their host pl...
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Bacteria associated with oak and ash on a TCE-contaminated site: characterization of isolates with potential to avoid evapotranspiration of TCE
Along transects under a mixed woodland of English Oak (Quercus robur) and Common Ash (Fraxinus excelsior) growing on a trichloroethylene (TCE)-contaminated groundwater plume, sharp decreases in TCE concentrations...
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ArsR arsenic-resistance regulatory protein from Cupriavidus metallidurans CH34
The Cupriavidus metallidurans CH34 arsR gene, which is part of the arsRIC 2 BC 1 ...
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Lead(II) resistance in Cupriavidus metallidurans CH34: interplay between plasmid and chromosomally-located functions
Proteome and transcriptome analysis, combined with mutagenesis, were used to better understand the response of Cupriavidus metallidurans CH34 against lead(II). Structural Pb(II)-resistance genes of the pMOL30-enc...
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The versatility and adaptation of bacteria from the genus Stenotrophomonas
Stenotrophomonas spp. are found throughout the environment, particularly in close association with plants.
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Open AccessBioprospecting metagenomes: glycosyl hydrolases for converting biomass
Throughout immeasurable time, microorganisms evolved and accumulated remarkable physiological and functional heterogeneity, and now constitute the major reserve for genetic diversity on earth. Using metagenomi...
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Microbial community dynamics in uranium contaminated subsurface sediments under biostimulated conditions with high nitrate and nickel pressure
The subsurface at the Oak Ridge Field Research Center represents an extreme and diverse geochemical environment that places different stresses on the endogenous microbial communities, including low pH, elevate...
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Engineered endophytic bacteria improve phytoremediation of water-soluble, volatile, organic pollutants
Phytoremediation of highly water soluble and volatile organic xenobiotics is often inefficient because plants do not completely degrade these compounds through their rhizospheres. This results in phytotoxicity...
