Section edited by Peter J Punt & Dennis Claessen
This section will consider studies that focus on the genetic manipulation and synthetic/systems biology of bacteria, fungi, yeasts and algae in the context of bioproduction, fermentation, metabolic engineering, biocatalysis, bioremediation and biodegradation.
Research article
Second-generation ethanol production is a clean bioenergy source with potential to mitigate fossil fuel emissions. The engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for xylose utilization is an essential step towards t...
BMC Biotechnology 2017 17:71
Published on: 9 September 2017
Research article
Arachidonic acid (ARA, C20:4, n-6), which belongs to the omega-6 series of polyunsaturated fatty acids and has a variety of biological activities, is commercially produced in Mortierella alpina. Dissolved oxygen ...
BMC Biotechnology 2017 17:68
Published on: 30 August 2017
Research article
Acetic acid is a predominant by-product of lignocellulosic biofuel process, which inhibits microbial biocatalysts. Development of bacterial strains that are tolerant to acetic acid is challenging due to poor u...
BMC Biotechnology 2017 17:63
Published on: 1 August 2017
Methodology article
Direct manipulation of the genome is a widespread technique for genetic studies and synthetic biology applications. The tyrosine and serine site-specific recombination systems of bacteriophages HK022 and ΦC31 ...
BMC Biotechnology 2017 17:62
Published on: 14 July 2017
Research article
Dissolved oxygen tension (DOT) is hardly constant and homogenously distributed in a bioreactor, which can have a negative impact in the metabolism and product synthesis. However, the effects of DOT on plasmid ...
BMC Biotechnology 2017 17:60
Published on: 4 July 2017
Research article
The environmental gliding bacteria Lysobacter are emerging as a new group of biocontrol agents due to their prolific production of lytic enzymes and potent antibiotic natural products. These bacteria are intrinsi...
BMC Biotechnology 2017 17:59
Published on: 4 July 2017
Research article
The discharge of poorly treated effluents into the environment has far reaching, consequential impacts on human and aquatic life forms. Thus, we evaluated the flocculating efficiency of our test bioflocculant ...
BMC Biotechnology 2017 17:51
Published on: 12 June 2017
Research article
Whey permeate is a lactose-rich effluent remaining after protein extraction from milk-resulting cheese whey, an abundant dairy waste. The lactose to ethanol fermentation can complete whey valorization chain by...
BMC Biotechnology 2017 17:48
Published on: 2 June 2017
Research article
Traditional submerged fermentation mainly accumulates intracellular orange pigments with absorption maxima at 470 nm, whereas extractive fermentation of Monascus spp. with Triton X-100 can promote the export of i...
BMC Biotechnology 2017 17:46
Published on: 25 May 2017
Research article
Endo-xylanases are essential in degrading hemicellulose of various lignocellulosic substrates. Hemicellulose degradation by Geobacillus spp. is facilitated by the hemicellulose utilization (HUS) locus that is pre...
BMC Biotechnology 2017 17:44
Published on: 18 May 2017
Research Article
At first glance, there appears to be a high degree of similarity between the metabolism of yeast (the Crabtree effect) and human cancer cells (the Warburg effect). At the root of both effects is accelerated me...
BMC Biotechnology 2017 17:41
Published on: 8 May 2017
Research article
Propionate is widely used as an important preservative and important chemical intermediate for synthesis of cellulose fibers, herbicides, perfumes and pharmaceuticals. Biosynthetic propionate has mainly been p...
BMC Biotechnology 2017 17:38
Published on: 14 April 2017
Research article
N-Butanol has favorable characteristics for use as either an alternative fuel or platform chemical. Bio-based n-butanol production using microbes is an emerging technology that requires further development. Al...
BMC Biotechnology 2017 17:36
Published on: 11 April 2017
Research article
Calcineurin (CaN) is a Ca2+- and calmodulin (CaM)-dependent serine/threonine phosphatase. Previous studies have found that CaN is involved in the regulation of the stress responses.
BMC Biotechnology 2017 17:35
Published on: 29 March 2017
Methodology article
Restriction-free (RF) cloning, a PCR-based method for the creation of custom DNA plasmids, allows for the insertion of any sequence into any plasmid vector at any desired position, independent of restriction s...
BMC Biotechnology 2017 17:32
Published on: 17 March 2017
Research article
Contamination of agricultural commodities with multiple trichothecene mycotoxins, produced by toxigenic Fusarium species, is a food safety issue, which greatly affects grain production and marketing worldwide. Im...
BMC Biotechnology 2017 17:30
Published on: 15 March 2017
Research article
Oleaginous organisms are a promising, renewable source of single cell oil. Lipid accumulation is mainly induced by limitation of nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorus or sulfur. The oleaginous yeast Trichosporon...
BMC Biotechnology 2017 17:27
Published on: 7 March 2017
Research article
Recent researches have been focusing on mucosal immune adjuvants, which play the key roles in mucosal immunization and have become the limitation for non-injected vaccine development. Escherichia coli heat-labile...
BMC Biotechnology 2017 17:25
Published on: 6 March 2017
Research article
poly(L-malic acid) (PMA) is a water-soluble polyester with many attractive properties in medicine and food industries, but the high cost of PMA fermentation has restricted its further application for large-sca...
BMC Biotechnology 2017 17:20
Published on: 23 February 2017
Research article
Manganese peroxidase (MnP) of white rot basidiomycetes, an extracellular heme enzyme, is part of a peroxidase superfamily that is capable of degrading the different phenolic compounds. Ganoderma, a white rot basi...
BMC Biotechnology 2017 17:19
Published on: 23 February 2017
