Enhanced production of branched-chain amino acids by Gluconacetobacter europaeus with a specific regional deletion in a leucine responsive regulator
Naoki Akasaka, Yuri Ishii, Ryota Hidese, Hisao Sakoda, Shinsuke Fujiwara

Reduction of nitric oxide catalyzed by hydroxylamine oxidoreductase from an anammox bacterium
Tatsuya Irisa, Daisuke Hira, Kenji Furukawa, Takao Fujii

Identification, purification and characterization of a novel collagenolytic serine protease from fig (Ficus carica var. Brown Turkey) latex
Brankica Raskovic, Olga Bozovic, Radivoje Prodanovic, Vesna Niketic, Natalija Polovic

Highlights

• Fig latex is characterized as a potent source of collagenolytic enzymes.
• Novel collagenolytic serine protease from fig latex was isolated.
• The collagenase showed collagenolytic and gelatinolytic activity.
• The enzyme is fully stable over a broad range of pH and temperature.
  

Construction of an efficient Escherichia coli whole-cell biocatalyst for d-mannitol production
Shamlan M.S. Reshamwala, Sandip K. Pagar, Vishal S. Velhal, Vijay M. Maranholakar, Vishal G. Talangkar, Arvind M. Lali

Extraction of squalene as value-added product from the residual biomass of Schizochytrium mangrovei PQ6 during biodiesel producing process
Minh Hien Hoang, Nguyen Cam Ha, Le Thi Thom, Luu Thi Tam, Hoang Thi Lan Anh, Ngo Thi Hoai Thu, Dang Diem Hong

Factors affecting phenolic acid liberation from rice grains in the sake brewing process
Toshihiko Ito, Nobukazu Suzuki, Airi Nakayama, Masaya Ito, Katsumi Hashizume

Production of 16.5% v/v ethanol from seagrass seeds
Motoharu Uchida, Tatsuo Miyoshi, Masaki Kaneniwa, Kenji Ishihara, Yutaka Nakashimada, Naoto Urano

Influence of phenolic acids on indole acetic acid production and on the type III secretion system gene transcription in food-associated Pseudomonas fluorescens KM05
Kamila Myszka, Marcin T. Schmidt, Agnieszka K. Olejnik-Schmidt, Katarzyna Leja, Katarzyna Czaczyk

Highlights

• Reduction effect of phenolics on indole acetic acid synthesis of cells was tested.
• Specific genetic primer for TTSS system in P. fluorescens KM05 was designed.
• Effect between indole acetic acid synthesis and TTSS gene expression was tested.
• Ferulic and chlorogenic acids suppressed P. fluorescens KM05 signaling.
• Ferulic and chlorogenic acids are promising interferers of bacterial virulence.

Isolation of lactic acid-tolerant Saccharomyces cerevisiae from Cameroonian alcoholic beverage
Ryosuke Kubo, Keisuke Ohta, Shinya Funakawa, Naofumi Kitabatake, Shigeru Araki, Shingo Izawa

Differentiation of industrial sake yeast strains by a loop-mediated isothermal amplification method that targets the PHO3 gene
Takashi Kuribayashi, Keigo Sato, Daisuke Kasai, Masao Fukuda, Mitsuoki Kaneoke, Ken-ichi Watanabe

Mining biomass-degrading genes through Illumina-based de novo sequencing and metagenomic analysis of free-living bacteria in the gut of the lower termite Coptotermes gestroi harvested in Vietnam
Thi Huyen Do, Thi Thao Nguyen, Thanh Ngoc Nguyen, Quynh Giang Le, Cuong Nguyen, Keitarou Kimura, Nam Hai Truong

Electricity generating capacity and performance deterioration of a microbial fuel cell fed with beer brewery wastewater
Emre Oguz Köroglu, Bestamin Özkaya, Cenk Denktas, Mehmet Çakmakci

Purification of kavalactones from Alpinia zerumbet and their protective actions against hydrogen peroxide-induced cytotoxicity in PC12 cells
Yerra Koteswara Rao, Hui-Nung Shih, Yi-Ching Lee, Wen-Tai Cheng, Hui-Chin Hung, Huang-Chi Wang, Ching Jung Chen, Yew-Min Tzeng, Meng-Jen Lee

Development of industrial yeast strain with improved acid- and thermo-tolerance through evolution under continuous fermentation conditions followed by haploidization and mating
Kanako Mitsumasu, Ze-Shen Liu, Yue-Qin Tang, Takashi Akamatsu, Hisataka Taguchi, Kenji Kida

Hemicellulase production by Aspergillus niger DSM 26641 in hydrothermal palm oil empty fruit bunch hydrolysate and transcriptome analysis
Christoph Ottenheim, Carl Verdejo, Wolfgang Zimmermann, Jin Chuan Wu

Improvement and scale-down of a Trichoderma reesei shake flask protocol to microtiter plates enables high-throughput screening
Heiner Giese, Paulien Kruithof, Kristina Meier, Michaela Sieben, Elena Antonov, Ronald W.J. Hommes, Jochen Büchs

High-quality green tea leaf production by artificial cultivation under growth chamber conditions considering amino acids profile
Shunsuke Miyauchi, Takayuki Yuki, Hiroshi Fuji, Kunio Kojima, Tsutomu Yonetani, Ayako Tomio, Takeshi Bamba, Eiichiro Fukusaki

Maintenance of undifferentiated state of human induced pluripotent stem cells through cytoskeleton-driven force acting to secreted fibronectin on a dendrimer-immobilized surface
Mee-Hae Kim, Masahiro Kino-oka

Enzymatic synthesis of 2′-deoxyuridine by whole cell catalyst co-expressing uridine phosphorylase and thymidine phosphorylase through auto-induction system
Shuli Xiong, Yingbin Wang, Xi Wang, Jie Wang, Jie Li, Guiyou Zhang, Rongqing Zhang, Liping Xie, Hongzhong Wang

Stimulated production of steroids in Inonotus obliquus by host factors from birch
Lian-Xia Wang, Zhen-Ming Lu, Yan Geng, Xiao-Mei Zhang, Guo-Hua Xu, Jin-Song Shi, Zheng-Hong Xu

Highlights

• Aqueous extracts and methanol extracts from birch stimulated steroid production of I. obliquus.
• Aqueous extract from birch bark could simultaneously stimulated biomass and steroid content.
• Methanol extract from birch bark only elevated the steroid content.
• Six steroids in I. obliquus were simultaneously stimulated.

Luciferase reporter cells as a platform to detect SMAD-dependent collagen production
Warangkana Lohcharoenkal, Yuxin Liu, Liying Wang, Yong Yang, Yon Rojanasakul