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  1. Peatlands have acted as C-sinks for millennia, storing large amounts of carbon, of which a significant amount is yearly released as methane (CH4). Sphagnum mosses are a key genus in many peat ecosystems and these...

    Authors: Martine A. R. Kox, Eva van den Elzen, Leon P. M. Lamers, Mike S. M. Jetten and Maartje A. H. J. van Kessel

    Citation: AMB Express 2020 10:61

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  2. In order to achieve high yield of fungal protease in a very cost effective way and to meet its increased market demand, current study deals with the screening of various agro-wastes as carbon source for the pr...

    Authors: Sangeeta Negi, Sapna Jain and Anand Raj

    Citation: AMB Express 2020 10:60

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  4. Anticancer drug like Cisplatin are associated with serious problem like nephrotoxicity. The effect of Kaempferol is a plant-derived flavonoid compound. The present work evaluated the effect of Kaempferol in mo...

    Authors: Zhu Wang, Wansen Sun, Xi Sun, Ye Wang and Meilan Zhou

    Citation: AMB Express 2020 10:58

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  5. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disorder that affects the joint synovium. Anserine is a functional dipeptide containing methylhistidine and β-alanine, and is present in the brain and skeletal muscle...

    Authors: Jiang Minghao Zhao, Xiang Chen, Ke Cheng, Qingming Shi and Kun Peng

    Citation: AMB Express 2020 10:57

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  6. Cardiac arrhythmia is an irregular heart rhythm that can lead to serious heart conditions and various organ disorders, and may cause sudden cardiac death. Catalpol belongs to the iridoid glycoside family and i...

    Authors: Lingchao Yang, Xiangfei Feng, Yigang Li, Song Zhang and Yu Ying

    Citation: AMB Express 2020 10:56

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  7. Cell suspensions of Escherichia coli and Lactobacillus acidophilus were exposed to 600-ns pulsed electric fields (nsPEFs) at varying amplitudes (Low-13.5, Mid-18.5 or High-23.5 kV cm−1) and pulse numbers (0 (sham...

    Authors: Stacey L. Martens, Savannah Klein, Ronald A. Barnes, Patricia TrejoSanchez, Caleb C. Roth and Bennett L. Ibey

    Citation: AMB Express 2020 10:55

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  8. Co-delivery of two different therapeutics (miRNA-1284 and cisplatin (CDDP)) into the cancer cells in a single nanocarrier provides new dimension to the cancer treatment. In this study, we have designed the CD5...

    Authors: Li Wang and Ting-Ting Liang

    Citation: AMB Express 2020 10:54

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  9. Nitrogen source has a vital role for the efficient growth of lactobacilli. The effects of cheese whey, corn steep liquor, and wheat germ extract on the growth of L. plantarum strain RPR42 in cane molasses-based m...

    Authors: Moslem Papizadeh, Mahdi Rohani, Seyed Nezamedin Hosseini, Seyed Abbas Shojaosadati, Hossein Nahrevanian, Malihe Talebi and Mohammad Reza Pourshafie

    Citation: AMB Express 2020 10:53

    Content type: Original article

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  10. A82846B, producing by Kibdelosporangium aridum, is an important precursor of the semi-synthetic glycopeptide antibiotic Oritavancin. K. aridum produces three components A82846A, B and C, so it is essential to inc...

    Authors: Xun Tian, He Huang and Hai-Feng Hu

    Citation: AMB Express 2020 10:52

    Content type: Original article

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  12. Subclinical necrotic enteritis (SNE) caused by Clostridium perfringens (CP), is an important disease in chickens, which causes huge economic losses by damaging the intestinal mucosa, decreasing digestion and abso...

    Authors: Abdul Khalique, Dong Zeng, Muhammad Shoaib, Hesong Wang, Xiaodan Qing, Danish Sharafat Rajput, Kangcheng Pan and Xueqin Ni

    Citation: AMB Express 2020 10:50

    Content type: Mini-Review

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  13. The H3 subtype of avian influenza virus (AIV) is widespread in avian species and is frequently isolated in surveillance projects; thus, we have developed a more effective diagnostic approach of a monoclonal an...

    Authors: Sisi Luo, Xianwen Deng, Zhixun Xie, Jiaoling Huang, Minxiu Zhang, Meng Li, Liji Xie, Dan Li, Qing Fan, Sheng Wang, Tingting Zeng, Yanfang Zhang and Zhiqin Xie

    Citation: AMB Express 2020 10:49

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  14. Root-associated aerobic methanotrophs play an important role in regulating methane emissions from the wetlands. However, the influences of the plant genotype on root-associated methanotrophic structures, espec...

    Authors: Jing Cui, Ji Zhao, Zheng Wang, Weiwei Cao, Shaohua Zhang, Jumei Liu and Zhihua Bao

    Citation: AMB Express 2020 10:48

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  15. Lentinan is a Lentinus edodes secondary metabolite that can regulate human immune function, but yields are low. Here, the effects of Ca2+ and Na+ on L. edodes lentinan content were investigated. Metal ion concent...

    Authors: Bilal Adil, Quanju Xiang, Maolan He, Yuetong Wu, Muhammad Ahsan Asghar, Muhammad Arshad, Peng Qin, Yunfu Gu, Xiumei Yu, Ke Zhao, Xiaoping Zhang, Menggen Ma, Qiang Chen, Xiaoqiong Chen and Yanhong Yan

    Citation: AMB Express 2020 10:47

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  16. Most point-of-care tests (POCT) use swabs for sampling and/or for applying a sample on the test. A variety of swabs differing in tip materials is commercially available. Different tip materials have different ...

    Authors: Aleksandra Anna Zasada, Katarzyna Zacharczuk, Katarzyna Woźnica, Małgorzata Główka, Robert Ziółkowski and Elżbieta Malinowska

    Citation: AMB Express 2020 10:46

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  18. Two novel glycoside hydrolases were cloned from the genomic DNA of alklinphilic bacterium Cellulomonas bogoriensis 69B4T and functionally expressed in Escherichia coli. The two enzymes shared less than 73% of ide...

    Authors: Fan Li, Jiaying Dong, Xue Lv, Yanqiu Wen and Shan Chen

    Citation: AMB Express 2020 10:44

    Content type: Original article

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  19. Insulin has captured researchers’ attention worldwide. There is a rapid global rise in the number of diabetic patients, which increases the demand for insulin. Current methods of insulin production are expensi...

    Authors: Kamini Govender, Tricia Naicker, Johnson Lin, Sooraj Baijnath, Anil Amichund Chuturgoon, Naeem Sheik Abdul, Taskeen Docrat, Hendrik Gerhardus Kruger and Thavendran Govender

    Citation: AMB Express 2020 10:43

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  20. Endocellulase is a key cellulase for cellulosic material pretreatment in the industry by hydrolyzing long cellulose chains into short chains. To investigate the endocellulase characteristics from Bacillus subtili...

    Authors: Lingling Ma, Rakhmanova Aizhan, Xin Wang, Yanglei Yi, Yuanyuan Shan, Bianfang Liu, Yuan Zhou and Xin Lü

    Citation: AMB Express 2020 10:42

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  21. Due to the depletion of fossil fuel resources and concern about increasing atmospheric CO2 levels, the production of microbial oil as source for energy and chemicals is considered as a sustainable alternative. A ...

    Authors: Ruud Heshof, Bram Visscher, Eric van de Zilver, Rick van de Vondervoort, Femke van Keulen, Roy J. B. M. Delahaije and Richèle D. Wind

    Citation: AMB Express 2020 10:41

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  22. In the present study, a Gram-positive bacterium was isolated from the intestine of healthy crucian carp Carassius auratus and named strain R8. It was initially identified as Enterococcus faecium according to its ...

    Authors: Qing Mao, Xueliang Sun, Jingfeng Sun, Feng Zhang, Aijun Lv, Xiucai Hu and Yongjun Guo

    Citation: AMB Express 2020 10:40

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  23. Methylotrophic yeasts such as Komagataella phaffii (syn. Pichia pastoris, Pp), Hansenula polymorpha (Hp), Candida boidinii (Cb) and Pichia methanolica (Pm) are widely used protein production platforms. Typically,...

    Authors: Thomas Vogl, Jasmin Elgin Fischer, Patrick Hyden, Richard Wasmayer, Lukas Sturmberger and Anton Glieder

    Citation: AMB Express 2020 10:38

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  24. In a previous study, we developed Pichia pastoris GS115m, an engineered strain with decreased expression of one key gene, LRA4, in rhamnose metabolism. P. pastoris GS115m/LacB was subsequently constructed via int...

    Authors: Jian Jiao, Shuai Wang, Hui Tian, Xinxin Xu, Yuhong Zhang, Bo Liu and Wei Zhang

    Citation: AMB Express 2020 10:37

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  25. Extracellular polymeric substance (EPS) produced by the microorganisms provides protection and stability to them when they are encased within biofilms. Heterogeneous polysaccharides form a major constituent of...

    Authors: Arashdeep Kaur, Valbha Rishi, Sanjeev Kumar Soni and Praveen Rishi

    Citation: AMB Express 2020 10:36

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  26. Yarrowia lipolytica is an oleaginous yeast species with the ability to grow on a number of substrates types, especially industrial wastes. This paper concerns the statistical optimization of fermentation paramete...

    Authors: Monika Elżbieta Jach, Tomasz Baj, Marek Juda, Robert Świder, Barbara Mickowska and Anna Malm

    Citation: AMB Express 2020 10:35

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  28. Commercially available preparations of methionyl-human BMP-2 and CHO-derived hBMP-2, which belongs to the transforming growth factor β (TGF-β) superfamily, were used for a complete characterization. This prote...

    Authors: Miriam Fussae Suzuki, João Ezequiel Oliveira, Renata Damiani, Eliana Rosa Lima, Kleicy Cavalcante Amaral, Anderson Maikon de Souza Santos, Geraldo Santana Magalhães, Leonardo Perez Faverani, Luis Antonio Violin Dias Pereira, Fabiana Medeiros Silva and Paolo Bartolini

    Citation: AMB Express 2020 10:34

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  29. Burkholderia pyrrocinia JK-SH007 is an important biocontrol strain for the prevention and treatment of poplar canker disease. Its powerful biocontrol function is inseparable from its successful colonization of po...

    Authors: Huanhuan Fu, Feifei Chen, Wanhui Liu, Weiliang Kong, Chaoen Wang, Xueqi Fang and Jianren Ye

    Citation: AMB Express 2020 10:32

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  30. Staphylococcus epidermidis is a Gram-positive saprophytic bacterium found in the microaerobic/anaerobic layers of the skin that becomes a health hazard when it is carried across the skin through punctures or woun...

    Authors: Ulrik Pedroza-Dávila, Cristina Uribe-Alvarez, Lilia Morales-García, Emilio Espinoza-Simón, Ofelia Méndez-Romero, Adriana Muhlia-Almazán, Natalia Chiquete-Félix and Salvador Uribe-Carvajal

    Citation: AMB Express 2020 10:31

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  31. The aim of this study was to evaluate the chitin degradation potential and whole-genome sequence of Streptomyces diastaticus strain CS1801, which had been screened out in our previous work. The results of ferment...

    Authors: Tiantian Xu, Manting Qi, Haiying Liu, Dan Cao, Chenlei Xu, Limei Wang and Bin Qi

    Citation: AMB Express 2020 10:29

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  32. Mechanocatalysis is a promising method for depolymerization of lignocellulosic biomass. Microbial utilization of the resulting oligosaccharides is one potential route of adding value to the depolymerized bioma...

    Authors: Tao Jin, Mats Käldström, Adriana Benavides, Marcelo D. Kaufman Rechulski and Laura R. Jarboe

    Citation: AMB Express 2020 10:28

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  33. In our previous study, a novel genome engineering technology, PCR-mediated chromosome duplication (PCDup), was developed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae that enabled the duplication of any desired chromosomal region,...

    Authors: Naim Hassan, Yu Sasano, Shunta Kimura, Farhana Easmin, Keisuke Ekino, Hisataka Taguchi and Satoshi Harashima

    Citation: AMB Express 2020 10:27

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  34. Monascus can produce many beneficial metabolites; however, it can simultaneously also produce citrinin, which seriously limits its application. Therefore, reducing the production of citrinin is of great interest....

    Authors: Yanling Wang, Heng Gao, Jianhua Xie, Xiujiang Li and Zhibing Huang

    Citation: AMB Express 2020 10:26

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  35. To obtained fungal resources with excellent tolerance and accumulation capacity to rare earth yttrium ions (Y3+), rare earth ore samples were collected and used for microbial screening. A fungus hyper-resistant t...

    Authors: Weiying Wang, Chenglong Xu, Yiqiao Jin, Zhibin Zhang, Riming Yan and Du Zhu

    Citation: AMB Express 2020 10:25

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  36. Acanthamoeba spp. are the causative agent of Acanthamoeba keratitis and granulomatous amoebic encephalitis (GAE). The current options to treat Acanthamoeba infections have limited success. Silver nanoparticles sh...

    Authors: Areeba Anwar, Elaine Lim Siew Ting, Ayaz Anwar, Noor ul Ain, Shaheen Faizi, Muhammad Raza Shah, Naveed Ahmed Khan and Ruqaiyyah Siddiqui

    Citation: AMB Express 2020 10:24

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  37. In the present study, a methanogenic alkane-degrading (a mixture of C9 to C12n-alkanes) culture enriched from production water of a low-temperature oil reservoir was established and assessed. Significant methane ...

    Authors: Jia-Heng Ji, Lei Zhou, Serge Maurice Mbadinga, Muhammad Irfan, Yi-Fan Liu, Pan Pan, Zhen-Zhen Qi, Jing Chen, Jin-Feng Liu, Shi-Zhong Yang, Ji-Dong Gu and Bo-Zhong Mu

    Citation: AMB Express 2020 10:23

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  38. This experiment was conducted to evaluate the impact of yeast and lactic acid bacteria (LAB) on mastitis and milk microbiota composition of dairy cows. Thirty lactating Holstein cows with similar parity, days ...

    Authors: Jing Gao, Yu-Chen Liu, Yu Wang, Han Li, Xiang-Ming Wang, Yan Wu, Ding-Ran Zhang, Si Gao and Zhi-li Qi

    Citation: AMB Express 2020 10:22

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  39. Myrrh is the resinous exudate obtained by the incision in Commiphora molmol trees (Family Burseraceae). The bactericidal activity of its hexane extract was compared to its essential oil (MEO) using viable count t...

    Authors: Noha Khalil, Sahar Fikry and Osama Salama

    Citation: AMB Express 2020 10:21

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  40. The silkworm (Bombyx mori) and its pupae have been used for decades as nutritional additives and applied on the production of high-quality recombinant proteins via the baculovirus expression vector (BEV) system. ...

    Authors: Chia-Yu Chang, Wei-Ting Hsu, Pei-Shiue Tsai, Chi-Min Chen, Ivan-Chen Cheng, Yu-Chan Chao and Hui-Wen Chang

    Citation: AMB Express 2020 10:20

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  41. Laccase is a versatile multicopper oxidase that holds great promise for many biotechnological applications. For such applications, it is essential to explore good biocatalytic systems for high activity and rec...

    Authors: Jie Zhang, Fukun Li, Ruiqi Wang, Xuemei Tan and Peter-Leon Hagedoorn

    Citation: AMB Express 2020 10:19

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  42. Although membrane fouling is a major issue when operating membrane bioreactors (MBRs), information regarding MBR performance and the sludge microbiome after the development of fouling remains limited. For the ...

    Authors: Yuya Sato, Yan-Jie Zhao, Tomoyuki Hori, Tomo Aoyagi, Tomohiro Inaba, Hidenobu Aizawa, Atsushi Ogata and Hiroshi Habe

    Citation: AMB Express 2020 10:18

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  44. Microbial community structure and metabolic activities have profound impacts on biogeochemical processes in marine sediments. Functional bacteria such as nitrate- and sulfate-reducing bacteria respond to redox...

    Authors: Wenxiu Wang, Jianchang Tao, Haodong Liu, Penghui Li, Songze Chen, Peng Wang and Chuanlun Zhang

    Citation: AMB Express 2020 10:16

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  45. Mushroom cultivation is an economically feasible bio-technological process for conversion of various lignocellulosic wastes. The aim of this study was to evaluate the suitability of waste paper supplemented wi...

    Authors: Teklemichael Tesfay, Tesfay Godifey, Roman Mesfin and Girmay Kalayu

    Citation: AMB Express 2020 10:15

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  46. Alcohol dehydrogenases (ADHs) are used in reductive biotransformations for the production of valuable chiral alcohols. In this study, we used a high-throughput screening approach based on the NADPH biosensor p...

    Authors: Alina Spielmann, Yannik Brack, Hugo van Beek, Lion Flachbart, Lea Sundermeyer, Meike Baumgart and Michael Bott

    Citation: AMB Express 2020 10:14

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  47. The study evaluates the protective effect of mangiferin on osteosarcoma cell proliferation and metastasis. Saos-2 and U2OS cells were treated with mangiferin (25, 50, 75 and 100 µM) for 72 h. Mangiferin reduce...

    Authors: Jifeng Wen, Yong Qin, Chao Li, Xiankui Dai, Tong Wu and Wenzhe Yin

    Citation: AMB Express 2020 10:13

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  49. Pullulanase is an important starch-debranching enzyme mostly used in starch processing-related food industries. However, the levels of pullulanase produced from recombinant Bacillus subtilis, a Generally Recogniz...

    Authors: Yu Zhang, Yao Nie, Xia Zhou, Jiahua Bi and Yan Xu

    Citation: AMB Express 2020 10:11

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  50. Blue light is an important environmental factor that induces mushroom primordium differentiation and fruiting body development. Although blue-light treatment has been applied for the production of oyster mushr...

    Authors: Huan Wang, Xidan Tong, Fenghua Tian, Chuanwen Jia, Changtian Li and Yu Li

    Citation: AMB Express 2020 10:10

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