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  1. Protoplast fusion is one of the most reliable methods of introducing desirable traits into industrially-promising fungal strains. It harnesses the entire genomic repertoire of fusing microorganisms by routing ...

    Authors: Atim Asitok, Maurice Ekpenyong, Andrew Amenaghawon, Ernest Akwagiobe, Marcus Asuquo, Anitha Rao, David Ubi, Juliet Iheanacho, Joyce Etiosa, Agnes Antai, Joseph Essien and Sylvester Antai
    Citation: AMB Express 2023 13:2
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  3. Anaerobic digestion (AD) has recently been studied to obtain products of greater interest than biogas, such as volatile fatty acids (VFAs) and phytoregulators. The effect of the initial pH of cow manure and th...

    Authors: Job Jonathan Castro-Ramos, Aida Solís-Oba, Myrna Solís-Oba, Carlos Ligne Calderón-Vázquez, Jesús Mireya Higuera-Rubio and Rigoberto Castro-Rivera
    Citation: AMB Express 2022 12:162
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  4. Glutamate dehydrogenase (Gdh), catalyzing the reversible conversion between 2-oxoglutarate and glutamate, plays an important role in the connection of nitrogen and carbon metabolism. Yet little is known about ...

    Authors: Fanglan Ge, Jingkun Sun, Yao Ren, Bing He, Jiao Li, Sen Yang and Wei Li
    Citation: AMB Express 2022 12:161
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  5. Human enterokinase light chain (hEKL) cDNA sequence was designed with the help of codon optimization towards Escherichia coli codon preference and ribosome binding site design and artificially synthesized with a ...

    Authors: Mohammad Ebrahimifard, Mohammad Mahdi Forghanifard, Ahad Yamchi, Vajiheh Zarrinpour and Mahrokh Sharbatkhari
    Citation: AMB Express 2022 12:160
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  7. The gut microbiota plays an important role in pig health and performance, particularly in host growth and fecundity. In present study, the characteristics and diversity of gut microbiota in fine purebred boars...

    Authors: Jiawei Li, Yuhang Li, Meixia Cheng, Fengchun Ye, Wen Li, Cong Wang, Yuxuan Huang, Yan Wu, Rui Xuan, Guanyuan Liu and Jianhua Huang
    Citation: AMB Express 2022 12:158
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  9. Acacia hydaspica possesses varied pharmacological attributes. We aimed to examine the antimicrobial potential and isolate the active antimicrobial metabolites. The plant extract was fractionated and the antimicro...

    Authors: Tayyaba Afsar, Suhail Razak, Ali Almajwal, Maria Shabbir, Khushbukhat Khan, Janeen Trembley and Nawaf W. Alruwaili
    Citation: AMB Express 2022 12:156
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  10. Consistent production of bioactives from microbial sources remains a big challenge for fermentation based bio-processes. Setomimycin, a rare 9,9'-bianthrylanthracene antibiotic reported to be active against Gr...

    Authors: Ravi Singh Manhas, Amit Kumar and Asha Chaubey
    Citation: AMB Express 2022 12:155
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  11. Streptococcus mutans, whose main virulence factor is glucosyltransferase (Gtf), has a substantial impact on the development of dental caries. S. mutans membrane vesicles (MVs), which are rich in Gtfs, have been s...

    Authors: Guxin Cui, Pengpeng Li, Ruixue Wu and Huancai Lin
    Citation: AMB Express 2022 12:154
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  12. Control of Infectious diseases such as; bacteria and viruses, has become a globally critical issue, since the appearance of COVID-19 virus in 2020. In addition to the microbial resistance of the currently avai...

    Authors: Nevein Gharbia, Sabha Elsabbagh, Ali Saleh and Hoda Hafez
    Citation: AMB Express 2022 12:153
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  13. Chicory (Cichorium intybus L.) is an important industrial crop that produces large quantities of the dietary fiber inulin in its roots. Following inulin extraction, the bagasse is typically used as animal feed, b...

    Authors: Suvi Tuulikki Häkkinen, Katarina Cankar, Liisa Nohynek, Marjut Suomalainen, Jeroen van Arkel, Matti Siika-Aho, Anna Twarogowska, Bart Van Droogenbroeck and Kirsi-Marja Oksman-Caldentey
    Citation: AMB Express 2022 12:152
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  14. High incidences of urinary tract infection (UTI) of aminoglycosides-resistant E.coli causes a severe burden for public health. A new therapeutic strategy to ease this crisis is to repurpose non-antibacterial comp...

    Authors: Shasha Liu, Pengfei She, Zehao Li, Yimin Li, Linhui Li, Yifan Yang, Linying Zhou and Yong Wu
    Citation: AMB Express 2022 12:151
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  15. According to a 2019 report from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) was listed as one of the “serious threats” that had become a global public c...

    Authors: Shasha Liu, Pengfei She, Zehao Li, Yimin Li, Yifan Yang, Linhui Li, Linying Zhou and Yong Wu
    Citation: AMB Express 2022 12:150
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  16. The milk-clotting enzyme (MCE) is a crucial ingredient in cheese manufacture. Due to the limits of traditional MCE, finding viable substitute is a pressing issue. This study aims to isolate and identify a wild...

    Authors: Yao Zhang, Jiayun Hu, Xiaofeng Liu, Chunmin Jiang, Juan Sun, Xinjie Song and Yuanfeng Wu
    Citation: AMB Express 2022 12:149
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  17. The importance and need of renewable-based, sustainable feedstocks increased in recent years. Lignin-derived monomers have high potential, energetic and economic value in the microbial bioconversion to valuabl...

    Authors: Caroline Poyntner, Thomas Marek Ludwikowski, Andreas Otto Wagner and Rosa Margesin
    Citation: AMB Express 2022 12:148
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  18. Giardia duodenalis (G. duodenalis) is an infectious protozoan that has a global distribution especially in the hot climate. Around 200 million people are infected worldwide annually by Giardia, but infection is n...

    Authors: Ahmed Maher, Donia Atallah, Mahmoud Hassan, Mariam Hammad, Mohaned Galal, Saif-Eldin Mohamed, Yara Abdelkafy and Alyaa Farid
    Citation: AMB Express 2022 12:147
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  19. Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) represent a global challenge and an even more staggering concern when related to microorganisms capable of resisting and surviving for long periods in the environment, s...

    Authors: Cláudia Justin Blehm, Marina Silveira Gregis Monteiro, Marjo Cadó Bessa, Mariana Leyser, Amanda Simão Dias, Juliana Sumienski, Stephanie Wagner Gallo, Anelise Baptista da Silva, Andressa Barros, Roberta Marco, Camila Piuco Preve, Carlos Alexandre Sanchez Ferreira, Fabiano Ramos and Sílvia Dias de Oliveira
    Citation: AMB Express 2022 12:146
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  20. The suitable structural characteristics of magnetic nanoparticles have resulted in their widespread use in magnetic hyperthermia therapy. Moreover, they are considered a proper and operational choice for pharm...

    Authors: Sajedeh Hajiali, Sara Daneshjou and Somayeh Daneshjoo
    Citation: AMB Express 2022 12:145
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  22. αL-rhamnosidase (EC 3.2.1.40) has been widely used in food processing and pharmaceutical preparation. The recombinant α-L-rhamnosidase N12-Rha from Aspergillus niger JMU-TS528 had significantly higher catalytic a...

    Authors: Bo Yu, Shiyu Luo, Yuhan Ding, Zijie Gong and Ting Nie
    Citation: AMB Express 2022 12:143
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  23. Leishmaniasis is a tropical disease that leads to various clinical phenotypes. This study aimed to investigate protein expression changes in metacyclic and amastigote-like stages of L. tropica isolated from Irani...

    Authors: Marzieh Ashrafmansouri, Nasrin Amiri-Dashatan and Nayebali Ahmadi
    Citation: AMB Express 2022 12:142
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  24. Exploring innovative methods to provide essential nutrients and reducing ruminant greenhouse gas emission is crucial for animal production and diminishing global warming. This study was conducted to examine th...

    Authors: Vandana Kumari Leitanthem, Parul Chaudhary, Mukesh Bhakat, Madhu Mohini and Goutam Mondal
    Citation: AMB Express 2022 12:141
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  26. Marine bacterium Microbulbifer sp. ALW1 was revealed to be able to effectively degrade Laminaria japonica thallus fragments into fine particles. Polysaccharide substrate specificity analysis indicated that ALW1 c...

    Authors: Zhipeng Li, Zeping Du, Hebin Li, Yanhong Chen, Mingjing Zheng, Zedong Jiang, Xiping Du, Hui Ni and Yanbing Zhu
    Citation: AMB Express 2022 12:139
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  28. As a consequence of Covid-19 pandemic, the basic lab consumables are in shortage, especially in the low-income countries. Thus, the main objective of the present study is to develop and evaluate homemade solut...

    Authors: Mohamed A. Elnagar, Mohamed F. Ibrahim, Magdy Albert, Maya M.Talal, Mahmoud M. Abdelfattah, Ehab El-Dabaa and Reham Helwa
    Citation: AMB Express 2022 12:137
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  29. A novel endoglucanase (BcelFp) was identified from Fervidobaterium pennivorans DSM9078 which had biotransformation activity for protopanaxadiol (PPD)-type ginsenosides. Sequence analysis of BcelFp revealed that i...

    Authors: Fei Zheng, Huanxi Zhao, Nan Wang, Peng Zhong, Kailu Zhou and Shanshan Yu
    Citation: AMB Express 2022 12:136
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  31. The enzymatic recycling of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) can be a promising approach to tackle the problem of plastic waste. The thermostability and activity of PET-hydrolyzing enzymes are still insufficien...

    Authors: Fusako Kawai, Yoshitomo Furushima, Norihiro Mochizuki, Naoki Muraki, Mitsuaki Yamashita, Akira Iida, Rie Mamoto, Takehiko Tosha, Ryo Iizuka and Sakihito Kitajima
    Citation: AMB Express 2022 12:134
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  32. Bacillus is a genus of microorganisms (bacteria) and contains many important commercial species used in industry, agriculture and healthcare. Many different Bacilli are relatively well understood at the single-ce...

    Authors: Yan Liu, Polonca Štefanič, Youzhi Miao, Yansheng Xue, Weibing Xun, Nan Zhang, Qirong Shen, Ruifu Zhang, Zhihui Xu and Ines Mandic-Mulec
    Citation: AMB Express 2022 12:133
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  34. Various PCR-based genome-walking methods have been developed to acquire unknown flanking DNA sequences. However, the specificity and efficacy levels, and the operational processes, of the available methods are...

    Authors: Tianyi Sun, Mengya Jia, Lingqin Wang, Zhaoqin Li, Zhiyu Lin, Cheng Wei, Jinfeng Pei and Haixing Li
    Citation: AMB Express 2022 12:131
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  35. Alkaline pectate lyase has developmental prospects in the textile, pulp, paper, and food industries. In this study, we selected BacPelA, the pectin lyase with the highest expression activity from Bacillus clausii

    Authors: Pi-Wu Li, Jun Ma, Xiao-Feng Wei, Zi-Yang Zhang, Rui-Ming Wang, Jing Xiao and Jun-Qing Wang
    Citation: AMB Express 2022 12:130
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  36. Dendrobium nobile Lindl. has been used as a traditional Chinese medicine for a long time, in which the most important compound is dendrobine functioning in a variety of pharmacological activities. Farnesyl diphos...

    Authors: Daoyong Gong, Bin Wu, Hongting Qin, Dezhao Fu, Shunxing Guo, Bochu Wang and Biao Li
    Citation: AMB Express 2022 12:129
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  37. The gastrointestinal tract is one of the most complex microbiological niches containing beneficial and non-pathogenic bacterial strains of which some may evolve into virulent under specific conditions. Lactobacil...

    Authors: Pamela Hindieh, Joseph Yaghi, André El Khoury, Ali Chokr, Ali Atoui, Nicolas Louka and Jean Claude Assaf
    Citation: AMB Express 2022 12:128
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  38. Influenza B virus circulates yearly with lower activity than that of influenza A virus in China. During winter 2017 to 2018, a sharp surge of influenza activity dominated by type B/Yamagata lineage virus cause...

    Authors: Yao Yao, Lingling Chen, Dong Zhu, Runqing Li, Zhipeng Zhao, Wenqi Song, Xiuying Zhao and Kun Qin
    Citation: AMB Express 2022 12:127
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  39. Carbon catabolite repression (CCR) enables preferential utilization of easily metabolizable carbon sources, implying the presence of mechanisms to ensure discriminatory gene repression depending on the ambient...

    Authors: Emi Kunitake, Ryota Uchida, Keisuke Asano, Kyoko Kanamaru, Makoto Kimura, Tetsuya Kimura and Tetsuo Kobayashi
    Citation: AMB Express 2022 12:126
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  40. A growing body of evidence has confirmed that inflammatory mechanisms are involved in the formation and treatment of coronary atherosclerotic disease (CAD). An increase in circulatory levels of inflammatory cy...

    Authors: Zhenyang Fu, Xiaolei Song, Anna Shen and Tao Zhou
    Citation: AMB Express 2022 12:125
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  41. Design of experiment (DOE) is a statistical approach for designing, performing, and interpreting a large set of data with the minimum number of tests. In our previous study, we developed a novel Hsp27 SILEX sy...

    Authors: Fatemeh Sadat Shariati, Malihe Keramati and Reza Ahangari Cohan
    Citation: AMB Express 2022 12:124
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  42. Anaerobic fungus–methanogen co-cultures from rumen liquids and faeces can degrade lignocellulose efficiently. In this study, 31 fungus–methanogen co-cultures were first obtained from the rumen of yaks grazing ...

    Authors: Yaqin Wei, Hui Yang, Zhiye Wang, Jiang Zhao, Hongshan Qi, Chuan Wang, Jingrong Zhang and Tao Yang
    Citation: AMB Express 2022 12:123
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  43. Infectious bacteria in biofilm mode are involved in many persistent infections. Owing to its importance in clinical settings, many in vitro and in vivo studies are being conducted to study the structural and f...

    Authors: Sudarshan Singh Rathore, Lalitha Cheepurupalli, Jaya Gangwar, Thiagarajan Raman and Jayapradha Ramakrishnan
    Citation: AMB Express 2022 12:122
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  44. Nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) infections are growing worldwide especially in immunocompromised individuals. Since treatment of NTM infections is species-specific, the precise identification of NTM to spec...

    Authors: Azar Dokht Khosravi, Mohammad Hashemzadeh and Parisa Rokhfirooz
    Citation: AMB Express 2022 12:121
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  45. The search and discovery of new natural products with antifeedant and larvicidal potentials to mitigate harmful insects are scientific pressing issues in the modern agriculture. In this paper, the antifeedant ...

    Authors: Magdia A. Hazaa, Magdy M. Shebl, El-Sayed R. El-Sayed, Samar R. Mahmoud, Abeer A. Khattab and Mahmoud M. Amer
    Citation: AMB Express 2022 12:120
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  46. The high cost of cellulase is one of the main obstacles hindering the large-scale biorefining of lignocellulosic biomass. Therefore, developing efficient method for preparation of cellulase is promising. In th...

    Authors: Cha Cao, Zuohua Zhu, Chao Xu, Wenbing Gong, Yingjun Zhou, Li Yan, Zhenxiu Hu, Chunliang Xie and Yuande Peng
    Citation: AMB Express 2022 12:119
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  47. The current study is aimed to evaluate the effect of host-specific probiotics on the gut microbiome, performance, and select fecal biomarkers of gut health in preruminant buffalo calves. Eight Murrah buffalo c...

    Authors: Vinay Venkatesh Varada, Sachin Kumar, Supriya Chhotaray and Amrish Kumar Tyagi
    Citation: AMB Express 2022 12:118
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  48. Contaminated surfaces are vehicles for the spread of infectious disease-causing microorganisms. A strategy to prevent their spread is applying antimicrobial coatings to surfaces. Both nanostructured anatase ru...

    Authors: Alibe Wasa, Jack Aitken, Hyunwoo Jun, Catherine Bishop, Susan Krumdieck, William Godsoe and Jack A. Heinemann
    Citation: AMB Express 2022 12:117
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  49. In this paper, gamma-irradiation was successfully used to intensify the yield of Zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnONPs) produced by the fungus Alternaria tenuissima as a sustainable and green process. The obtained dat...

    Authors: Mervat M. Anwar, Sanaa S. H. Aly, Essam H. Nasr and El-Sayed R. El-Sayed
    Citation: AMB Express 2022 12:116
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  50. β-1,3/1,6-glucan as a prebiotic improves immune performance in animals. These functions are closely related to the effect of β-1,3/1,6-glucan on gut microbiota structure. However, the effect of β-1,3/1,6-gluca...

    Authors: Jingge Wang, Zibin Zheng, Hua Yang, Jie Chen, Yingping Xiao, Xiaofeng Ji, Zhenming Zhang, Hailian He, Baoan Ding and Biao Tang
    Citation: AMB Express 2022 12:115
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