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  1. Ginsenoside compound K has been used as a key nutritional and cosmetic component because of its anti-fatigue and skin anti-aging effects. β-Glycosidase from Sulfolobus solfataricus (SS-BGL) is known as the most e...

    Authors: Kyung-Chul Shin, Hye-Yeon Choi, Min-Ju Seo and Deok-Kun Oh
    Citation: AMB Express 2017 7:186
  2. Use of oleaginous microorganisms as “micro-factories” for accumulation of single cell oils for biofuel production has increased significantly to mitigate growing energy demands, resulting in efforts to upgrade...

    Authors: Rosemary K. Le, Parthapratim Das, Kristina M. Mahan, Seth A. Anderson, Tyrone Wells Jr., Joshua S. Yuan and Arthur J. Ragauskas
    Citation: AMB Express 2017 7:185
  3. Heavy metal contamination now a day is one of the major global environmental concerns. Textile effluents of Faisalabad Pakistan are heavily contaminated with heavy metals and demands to explore native microorg...

    Authors: Abuzar Muhammad Afzal, Muhammad Hidayat Rasool, Muhammad Waseem and Bilal Aslam
    Citation: AMB Express 2017 7:184
  4. Microbial assemblages were sampled from an offshore deep sub-surface petroleum reservoir 2.5 km below the ocean floor off the coast of Norway, providing conditions of high temperature and pressure, to identify...

    Authors: Anna Lewin, Jinglie Zhou, Vu Thuy Trang Pham, Tone Haugen, Mohamed El Zeiny, Olav Aarstad, Wolfgang Liebl, Alexander Wentzel and Mark R. Liles
    Citation: AMB Express 2017 7:183
  5. As the group II LEA (late embryogenesis abundant) proteins, dehydrins (DHNs) play an important role in plant growth and development, as well as in response to abiotic or biotic stress challenges. In this study...

    Authors: Yong Zhou, Peng He, Yaping Xu, Qiang Liu, Yingui Yang and Shiqiang Liu
    Citation: AMB Express 2017 7:182
  6. The study was conducted to select the best promising keratinolytic bacterial strain. A good keratinase positive bacterium isolated from the soil samples of Hazaribagh tannery industrial zone, Dhaka was identif...

    Authors: Nirmal Chandra Barman, Fatema Tuj Zohora, Keshob Chandra Das, Md. Golam Mowla, Nilufa Akhter Banu, Md. Salimullah and Abu Hashem
    Citation: AMB Express 2017 7:181
  7. Anthropogenic origin pollutants including pesticides, heavy metals, pharmaceuticals and industry chemicals impose many risks to human health and environment and bioremediation has been considered the strategy ...

    Authors: Davood Azadi, Hasan Shojaei, Sina Mobasherizadeh and Abass Daei Naser
    Citation: AMB Express 2017 7:180
  8. Infected chronic wounds are polymicrobial in nature which include a diverse group of aerobic and anaerobic microorganisms. Majority of these communal microorganisms are difficult to grow in vitro. DNA fingerpr...

    Authors: Ayomi Dilhari, Asanga Sampath, Chinthika Gunasekara, Neluka Fernando, Deepaka Weerasekara, Chris Sissons, Andrew McBain and Manjula Weerasekera
    Citation: AMB Express 2017 7:179

    The Correction to this article has been published in AMB Express 2020 10:209

  9. Chloropicrin is widely used to control ginger wilt in China, which have an enormous impact on soil microbial diversity. However, little is known on the possible legacy effects on soil microbial community compo...

    Authors: Shuting Zhang, Xiaojiao Liu, Qipeng Jiang, Guihua Shen and Wei Ding
    Citation: AMB Express 2017 7:178
  10. A fusion protein SBP-Cap∆41, consisting of Cap∆41 (without 41 amino acids at the N-terminus) protein of porcine circovirus 2 (PCV2) and a streptavidin binding peptide (SBP), was constructed. This fusion protei...

    Authors: Meng Ge, Run-Cheng Li, Tailong Qu, Wenjie Gong, Xing-Long Yu and Changchun Tu
    Citation: AMB Express 2017 7:177
  11. Lactobacilli, as the largest group of lactic acid bacteria, produce large amounts of antimicrobial metabolites such as organic acids, fatty acids, ammonia, hydrogen peroxide, diacetyl and...

    Authors: Fahimeh Azizi, Mohammad B. Habibi Najafi and Mohammad R. Edalatian Dovom
    Citation: AMB Express 2017 7:176
  12. Following publication of the original article (Takahashi et al. 2017), the authors reported that there was a mistake in the legend of Figure 2.

    Authors: Masato Takahashi, Yoshisuke Sawada and Hideki Aoyagi
    Citation: AMB Express 2017 7:175

    The original article was published in AMB Express 2017 7:163

  13. Ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) and bacteria (AOB) play important roles in regulating the nitrification process in lake ecosystems. However, the relative effects of climate, catchment land use and local condit...

    Authors: Xiaoliang Jiang, Yujing Wu, Guihua Liu, Wenzhi Liu and Bei Lu
    Citation: AMB Express 2017 7:173
  14. In the textile industry, ramie stalk is byproducts with a low economic value. The potential use of this leftover as a substrate ingredient for Flammulina velutipes (F. velutipe) cultivation was evaluated. The deg...

    Authors: Chunliang Xie, Wenbing Gong, Li Yan, Zuohua Zhu, Zhenxiu Hu and Yuande Peng
    Citation: AMB Express 2017 7:171
  15. Lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs) can oxidize recalcitrant polysaccharides and boost the conversion of the second most abundant polysaccharide chitin by chitinase. In this study, we aimed to achieve ...

    Authors: Yalin Yang, Juan Li, Xuewei Liu, Xingliang Pan, Junxiu Hou, Chao Ran and Zhigang Zhou
    Citation: AMB Express 2017 7:170
  16. Use of thermophilic organisms has a range of advantages, but the significant lack of engineering tools limits their applications. Here we show that β-galactosidase from Geobacillus stearothermophilus (BgaB) can b...

    Authors: Torbjørn Ølshøj Jensen, Ivan Pogrebnyakov, Kristoffer Bach Falkenberg, Stephanie Redl and Alex Toftgaard Nielsen
    Citation: AMB Express 2017 7:169
  17. Granulation of activated sludge is an increasingly important area within the field of wastewater treatment. Granulation is usually achieved by high hydraulic selection pressure, which results in the wash-out o...

    Authors: Enikö Szabó, Raquel Liébana, Malte Hermansson, Oskar Modin, Frank Persson and Britt-Marie Wilén
    Citation: AMB Express 2017 7:168
  18. Menthol has a considerable cooling effect, but the use range of menthol is limited because of its extremely low solubility in water and inherent flavor. (−)-Menthol β-glucoside was determined to be more solubl...

    Authors: Ha-Young Choi, Bo-Min Kim, Abubaker M. A. Morgan, Joong Su Kim and Won-Gon Kim
    Citation: AMB Express 2017 7:167
  19. The effects of temperature on extracellular secretion of the α-cyclodextrin glucosyltransferase (α-CGTase) from Paenibacillus macerans JFB05-01 by Escherichia coli were investigated. When protein expression was i...

    Authors: Yang Li, Jia Liu, Yinglan Wang, Bingjie Liu, Xiaofang Xie, Rui Jia, Caiming Li and Zhaofeng Li
    Citation: AMB Express 2017 7:165
  20. The coding sequence of a peroxidase from the secretome of Pleurotus sapidus was cloned from a cDNA library. Bioinformatic analyses revealed an open reading frame of 1551 bp corresponding to a primary translation ...

    Authors: Christiane Lauber, Tatiana Schwarz, Quoc Khanh Nguyen, Patrick Lorenz, Guenter Lochnit and Holger Zorn
    Citation: AMB Express 2017 7:164
  21. Monitoring the environmental factors during shake-flask culture of microorganisms can help to optimise the initial steps of bioprocess development. Herein, we developed a circulation direct monitoring and samp...

    Authors: Masato Takahashi, Yoshisuke Sawada and Hideki Aoyagi
    Citation: AMB Express 2017 7:163

    The Erratum to this article has been published in AMB Express 2017 7:175

  22. Methane is the second most important greenhouse gas contributing to about 20% of global warming. Its mitigation is conducted by methane oxidizing bacteria that act as a biofilter using methane as their energy ...

    Authors: Mohammad Ghashghavi, Mike S. M. Jetten and Claudia Lüke
    Citation: AMB Express 2017 7:162
  23. Isoprene represents a key building block for the production of valuable materials such as latex, synthetic rubber or pharmaceutical precursors and serves as basis for advanced biofuel production. To enhance th...

    Authors: Lamis Gomaa, Michael E. Loscar, Haggag S. Zein, Nahed Abdel-Ghaffar, Abdelhadi A. Abdelhadi, Ali S. Abdelaal and Naglaa A. Abdallah
    Citation: AMB Express 2017 7:161
  24. Anaerobic fungi reside in the gut of herbivore and synergize with associated methanogenic archaea to decompose ingested plant biomass. Despite their potential for use in bioconversion industry, only a few natu...

    Authors: Ya-Qin Wei, Hong-Jian Yang, Rui-Jun Long, Zhi-Ye Wang, Bin-Bin Cao, Qin-Chang Ren and Tian-Tian Wu
    Citation: AMB Express 2017 7:160
  25. Contamination of water resources by acetamiprid pesticide is considered one of the main environmental problems. The aim of this study was the optimization of acetamiprid removal from aqueous solutions by TiO2/Fe3

    Authors: Ali Toolabi, Mohammad Malakootian, Mohammad Taghi Ghaneian, Ali Esrafili, Mohammad Hassan Ehrampoush, Maesome Tabatabaei and Mohsen AskarShahi
    Citation: AMB Express 2017 7:159
  26. The successful industrial production of ethanol and fine chemicals requires the development of new biocatalytic reactors and support materials to achieve economically viable processes. In this work, a Stirred-...

    Authors: Amir Hussain, Martin Kangwa and Marcelo Fernandez-Lahore
    Citation: AMB Express 2017 7:158
  27. This study evaluated the influence of three inactivated yeast derivatives (IYDs) used in wine production, namely OptiRed®, OptiWhite® and Noblesse®, on the viability of the probiotic strain Lactobacillus rhamnosu...

    Authors: Mingzhan Toh and Shao Quan Liu
    Citation: AMB Express 2017 7:156
  28. Diarrhea caused by pathogenic Escherichia coli (E. coli) is one of the most serious infectious diseases in humans and animals. Due to antibiotics resistance and the lack of efficient vaccine, more attention shoul...

    Authors: Xiao Wang, Da Teng, Qingfeng Guan, Ruoyu Mao, Ya Hao, Xiumin Wang, Junhu Yao and Jianhua Wang
    Citation: AMB Express 2017 7:155
  29. The purpose of the present study was to increase the proteinase activity of the strain NCU116 by combining ultraviolet irradiation and N-methyl-N′-nitro-N-nitroso guanidine treatment, in order to enhance the effi...

    Authors: Cheng Zeng, Rongbin Zhao, Maomao Ma, Zheling Zeng and Deming Gong
    Citation: AMB Express 2017 7:154
  30. Azospirillum spp. are plant-growth-promoting bacteria used worldwide as inoculants for a variety of crops. Among the beneficial mechanisms associated with Azospirillum inoculation, emphas...

    Authors: Josiane Fukami, Francisco Javier Ollero, Manuel Megías and Mariangela Hungria
    Citation: AMB Express 2017 7:153
  31. dTMP-GH is a chimeric protein containing a tandem dimer of thrombopoietin mimetic peptide (dTMP) fused to human growth hormone (hGH) prepared previously by our team. It shows significant bioactivity in promoti...

    Authors: Song Wang, Mingqiang Shen, Shilei Chen, Cheng Wang, Fang Chen, Mo Chen, Gaomei Zhao, Xinze Ran, Tianmin Cheng, Yongping Su, Yang Xu and Junping Wang
    Citation: AMB Express 2017 7:152
  32. In the storage of Alpinia oxyphylla, growth of mildew (especially toxic fungi, such as Aspergillus flavus) is a potential safety risk. Few reports have investigated how A. oxyphylla storage conditions impact mold...

    Authors: Xiangsheng Zhao, Jianhe Wei, Yakui Zhou, Weijun Kong and Meihua Yang
    Citation: AMB Express 2017 7:151
  33. Natural genetic competence renders bacteria able to take up and, in case there is sufficient homology to the recipient’s chromosome, integrate exogenously supplied DNA. Well studied in Bacillus subtilis, genetic ...

    Authors: Christine Muth, Meike Buchholz, Christina Schmidt, Sonja Volland and Friedhelm Meinhardt
    Citation: AMB Express 2017 7:149
  34. The increasing amount of plastic waste causes significant environmental pollution. In this study, screening of Arctic microorganisms which are able to degrade bioplastics was performed. In total, 313 microorga...

    Authors: Aneta K. Urbanek, Waldemar Rymowicz, Mateusz C. Strzelecki, Waldemar Kociuba, Łukasz Franczak and Aleksandra M. Mirończuk
    Citation: AMB Express 2017 7:148
  35. House fly larvae provide a prolific and sustainable source of proteins used in poultry and fish feed. Wheat bran is a superior diet for house fly larvae and has been widely investigated to exploit its potentia...

    Authors: Yao Zhao, Wanqiang Wang, Fen Zhu, Xiaoyun Wang, Xiaoping Wang and Chaoliang Lei
    Citation: AMB Express 2017 7:147
  36. Recently, the use of phototrophs for wastewater treatment has been revisited because of new approaches to separate them from effluent streams. One manifestation uses oxygenic photogranules (OPGs) which are den...

    Authors: Kristie Stauch-White, Varun N. Srinivasan, W. Camilla Kuo-Dahab, Chul Park and Caitlyn S. Butler
    Citation: AMB Express 2017 7:146
  37. In this study, we examined a novel method of microencapsulation with calcium alginate-chitosan and Eudragit S100 nanoparticles for the improving viability of probiotic bacteria, Lactobacillus acidophilus and Lact...

    Authors: Fereshteh Ansari, Hadi Pourjafar, Vahid Jodat, Javad Sahebi and Amir Ataei
    Citation: AMB Express 2017 7:144
  38. Poly-β-hydroxybutyrate (PHB) production from CO2 has the potential to reduce the production cost of this biodegradable polyesters, and also to make the material more sustainable compared to utilization of sugar f...

    Authors: Donya Kamravamanesh, Stefan Pflügl, Winfried Nischkauer, Andreas Limbeck, Maximilian Lackner and Christoph Herwig
    Citation: AMB Express 2017 7:143
  39. For acceleration of removing toxic metals from acid mine drainage (AMD), the effects of hydraulic retention time (HRT) and pH on the reactor performance and microbial community structure in the depth direction...

    Authors: Tomo Aoyagi, Takaya Hamai, Tomoyuki Hori, Yuki Sato, Mikio Kobayashi, Yuya Sato, Tomohiro Inaba, Atsushi Ogata, Hiroshi Habe and Takeshi Sakata
    Citation: AMB Express 2017 7:142
  40. Candida dubliniensis shares a wide range of phenotypic characteristics with Candida albicans including a common trait called germ tube positivity. Hence, laboratory differentiation of the...

    Authors: Asanga Sampath, Manjula Weerasekera, Ayomi Dilhari, Chinthika Gunasekara, Uditha Bulugahapitiya, Neluka Fernando and Lakshman Samaranayake
    Citation: AMB Express 2017 7:141
  41. Increasing studies have focused on the beneficial effects of Lactobacillus johnsonii in certain diseases. Here, we studied the prevention ability of a probiotic strain, L. johnsonii BS15 on subclinical necrotic e...

    Authors: Xiaodan Qing, Dong Zeng, Hesong Wang, Xueqin Ni, Lei Liu, Jing Lai, Abdul Khalique, Kangcheng Pan and Bo Jing
    Citation: AMB Express 2017 7:139
  42. Root exudates are chemical compounds that are released from living plant roots and provide significant energy, carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus sources for microbes inhabiting the rhizosphere. The exudates shap...

    Authors: Teik Min Chong, Jian-Woon Chen, Wah-Seng See-Too, Choo-Yee Yu, Geik-Yong Ang, Yan Lue Lim, Wai-Fong Yin, Catherine Grandclément, Denis Faure, Yves Dessaux and Kok-Gan Chan
    Citation: AMB Express 2017 7:138
  43. A simple colorimetric assay is presented for detecting bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV)-RNA based on aggregation of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) in the presence of charge-neutral peptide nucleic acids (PNA). F...

    Authors: Maryam Askaravi, Seyedeh Elham Rezatofighi, Saadat Rastegarzadeh and Masoud Reza Seifi Abad Shapouri
    Citation: AMB Express 2017 7:137

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AMBE Call for Editor-in-Chief

Springer Nature announces an opportunity for an exceptional candidate to serve as Editor-in-Chief for the journal AMB Express (AMBE).

AMBE is a high-quality Open Access journal that brings together research in the area of Applied and Industrial Microbiology with a particular interest in 'White Biotechnology' and 'Red Biotechnology'. The emphasis is on processes employing microorganisms, eukaryotic cell cultures or enzymes for the biosynthesis, transformation and degradation of compounds. This includes fine and bulk chemicals, polymeric compounds and enzymes or other proteins. Downstream processes are also considered. Integrated processes combining biochemical and chemical processes are also published.
Reports on the use of new procedures or tools in a clinical setting are only considered for publication if microorganisms, viruses, enzymes or other proteins from microorganisms or metabolites of microorganisms are involved as crucial and central part of the new procedure or tool.

The journal Impact Factor (2022) is 3.7, and it received over a million article downloads in 2023.

The current Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Alexander Steinbüchel, will conclude his term of office in December 2024, and we are looking to recruit a successor who would start working in early autumn 2024 with a gradual handover of duties from the current editor and become fully installed as of January 2025.
The appointment will be for a three-year term and includes an annual editorial stipend. The position is open to highly regarded experts in applied microbiology with international recognition and proven scientific leadership in a renowned academic or research institution. 

Candidates should have a PhD or equivalent degree and be able to demonstrate a strong research and publication record. Prior experience in peer-review activities and other editorial functions is highly desirable. We are searching for a motivated and enthusiastic scientist with a vision of growing and developing the journal to serve the scientific community even better.

Responsibilities include working alongside the Associate Editors to manage the peer review of manuscripts under consideration by the journal, closely collaborating with the publisher to select Editors and the Editorial Board, and commissioning submissions in areas of interest and scope. The Editor-in-Chief will work routinely with Springer Nature on journal development with the goal of furthering the journal’s impact and reach.


Responsibilities of the Editor-in-Chief include:
●    Working in consultation with the Journal Editors or other Editors that may be appointed, the Editor-in-Chief will exercise control of the editorial development and editorial content of the journal and oversees the application of high editorial standards to all published contributions. 

●    Supplying the Publisher with refereed and accepted manuscripts and other editorial material, prepared in accordance with the guidelines to authors.

●    In consultation with Publisher, selecting Editors and an Editorial Board that provides both international representation and diverse expertise.

●    Soliciting high quality reviews and other commissioned content on topics of interest.

●    If they desire, to periodically select Guest Editors who shall be responsible for soliciting and acquiring manuscript for topical collections.

●    To use their best efforts to promote and to assist the Publisher in promoting the journal at relevant meetings, online and within the appropriate scientific communities.

●    Checking the content of the journal with a view to ensuring that there are no material infringing editorial policies. They will also promptly inform the Publisher of any resulting issues, and be available to discuss and support resulting issues.

●    Supporting ongoing diversity and inclusion goals in helping to ensure the journal is reflective of the global community that it serves.

●    Adhering to standards of editorial good practice, as defined in the Publisher’s Code of Conduct for Editors-in-Chief. The Code is based on guidelines and best practice recommendations issued by organizations such as the Committee of Publication Ethics (COPE).

●    Participating in Springer Nature’s Transfer Service by offering the transfer option, where appropriate, to authors whose manuscripts have been rejected from the journal, and considering manuscripts received by through the Transfer Service. 

●    Participating in regular meetings with the Publisher as well as an Annual Editorial Board meeting, to discuss the ongoing development of the journal and to set and accomplish journal development goals.


All applications should be sent to Barbara Zöhrer, Senior Publisher, at barbara.zoehrer@springernature.com by 15 May 2024.


Candidates should include the following documents with their formal application:
•    Cover letter (max. 2 pages) summarizing their qualifications and motivation, including an explanation why they consider themselves suitable for the position. 
•    Curriculum vitae (max. 3 pages) including relevant publications and achievements.
•    Vision statement (max. 3 pages) addressing the following points:
-    Analysis of the current situation of AMB Express
-    Vision and strategy for further enhancing the journal through editorial aspects
-    Strategy on encouraging and building a supportive and inclusive culture based on the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion for the Editorial Board.