Yanbin Liu,Xixian Chen,Congqiang Zhang
Yanbin Liu
Diterpenes, or diterpenoids, are the most abundant and diverse subgroup of terpenoids, the largest family of secondary metabolites. Most diterpenes possess broad biological activities including anti-inflammatory, antiviral, anti-tumoral, an...
Synergistic antifungal mechanism of effective components from essential oil against Penicillium roqueforti [0.03%]
抑制扩展和生物被膜形成的协同抗真菌机制
Fangyuan Zhao,Qianyu Li,Hao Wu et al.
Fangyuan Zhao et al.
Essential oil (EO) has significant antifungal activity. However, there is limited information on the mechanism of the synergistic antifungal effect of the effective components of EO against fungi. In the present study, molecular electrostat...
Two-component system GacS/GacA, a global response regulator of bacterial physiological behaviors [0.03%]
双组分系统GacS/GacA：细菌生理行为的全球响应调控因子
Huihui Song,Yuying Li,Yan Wang
Huihui Song
The signal transduction system of microorganisms helps them adapt to changes in their complex living environment. Two-component system (TCS) is a representative signal transduction system that plays a crucial role in regulating cellular com...
Oxidative modification of free-standing amino acids by Fe(II)/αKG-dependent oxygenases [0.03%]
Fe(II)/αKG依赖型氧气酶对游离氨基酸的氧化修饰作用
Hui Tao,Ikuro Abe
Hui Tao
Fe(II)/α-ketoglutarate (αKG)-dependent oxygenases catalyze the oxidative modification of various molecules, from DNA, RNA, and proteins to primary and secondary metabolites. They also catalyze a variety of biochemical reactions, including...
Next-generation synthetic biology approaches for the accelerated discovery of microbial natural products [0.03%]
下一代合成生物学方法加速发现微生物天然产物
Lei Li
Lei Li
Microbial natural products (NPs) and their derivates have been widely used in health care and agriculture during the past few decades. Although large-scale bacterial or fungal (meta)genomic mining has revealed the tremendous biosynthetic po...
Junkai Tuo,Said Nawab,Xiaoyan Ma et al.
Junkai Tuo et al.
Microbial fermentation has contributed to 80% of global amino acid production. The key to microbial fermentation is to obtain fermentation strains with high performance to produce target amino acids with a high yield. These strains are prim...
Andrea Aparicio,Yang-Yu Liu
Andrea Aparicio
Predicting biodiversity and dynamics of complex communities is a fundamental challenge in ecology. Leveraging bacterial microcosms with well-controlled laboratory conditions, Hu et al. recently performed a direct test of theory predicting t...
Constitutive overexpression of cellobiohydrolase 2 in Trichoderma reesei reveals its ability to initiate cellulose degradation [0.03%]
构巢曲霉中漆酶过量表达揭示了漆酶降解纤维素的潜能
Yubo Wang,Meibin Ren,Yifan Wang et al.
Yubo Wang et al.
Cellulose degradation results from the synergistic effect of different enzymes, but which enzyme is involved in the initial stage of cellulose degradation is still not well understood. Cellobiohydrolase 2 (CBH2) attached to the conidial sur...
Challenges and opportunities for third-generation ethanol production: A critical review [0.03%]
第三代乙醇生产面临的挑战与机遇：批判性评论
Caroline Müller,Thamarys Scapini,Alan Rempel et al.
Caroline Müller et al.
In recent decades, third-generation (3G) biofuels have become a more attractive method of fuel production, as algae cultivation does not infringe on resources needed for food production. Additionally, algae can adapt to different environmen...