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Volume 8;  2009
Commentaries
Learning about protein solubility from bacterial inclusion bodies
Mónica Martínez-Alonso, Nuria González-Montalbán, Elena García-Fruitós, and Antonio Villaverde
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 4. Published online 2009 January 8. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-4.
PMCID: PMC2630952
Open access to sequence: Browsing the Pichia pastoris genome
Diethard Mattanovich, Nico Callewaert, Pierre Rouzé, Yao-Cheng Lin, Alexandra Graf, Andreas Redl, Petra Tiels, Brigitte Gasser, and Kristof De Schutter
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 53. Published online 2009 October 16. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-53.
PMCID: PMC2768684
Reviews
Pediocins: The bacteriocins of Pediococci. Sources, production, properties and applications
Maria Papagianni and Sofia Anastasiadou
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 3. Published online 2009 January 8. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-3.
PMCID: PMC2634753
Use of folding modulators to improve heterologous protein production in Escherichia coli
Olga Kolaj, Stefania Spada, Sylvain Robin, and J Gerard Wall
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 9. Published online 2009 January 27. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-9.
PMCID: PMC2642769
Microbial factories for recombinant pharmaceuticals
Neus Ferrer-Miralles, Joan Domingo-Espín, José Luis Corchero, Esther Vázquez, and Antonio Villaverde
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 17. Published online 2009 March 24. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-17.
PMCID: PMC2669800
Medical bioremediation of age-related diseases
Jacques M Mathieu, John Schloendorn, Bruce E Rittmann, and Pedro JJ Alvarez
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 21. Published online 2009 April 9. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-21.
PMCID: PMC2674406
Process development in Hansenula polymorpha and Arxula adeninivorans, a re-assessment
Christoph Stöckmann, Marco Scheidle, Barbara Dittrich, Armin Merckelbach, Grit Hehmann, Georg Melmer, Doris Klee, Jochen Büchs, Hyun Ah Kang, and Gerd Gellissen
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 22. Published online 2009 April 15. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-22.
PMCID: PMC2676251
Strategies for successful recombinant expression of disulfide bond-dependent proteins in Escherichia coli
Ario de Marco
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 26. Published online 2009 May 14. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-26.
PMCID: PMC2689190
Bacillus subtilis as potential producer for polyhydroxyalkanoates
Mamtesh Singh, Sanjay KS Patel, and Vipin C Kalia
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 38. Published online 2009 July 20. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-38.
PMCID: PMC2719590
Sugar metabolism, redox balance and oxidative stress response in the respiratory yeast Kluyveromyces lactis
M Isabel González-Siso, Ana García-Leiro, Nuria Tarrío, and M Esperanza Cerdán
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 46. Published online 2009 August 30. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-46.
PMCID: PMC2754438
Technical Note
Facile promoter deletion in Escherichia coli in response to leaky expression of very robust and benign proteins from common expression vectors
Martin Kawe, Uwe Horn, and Andreas Plückthun
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 8. Published online 2009 January 26. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-8.
PMCID: PMC2655282
Editorial
Yeast cell factory: fishing for the best one or engineering it?
Danilo Porro and Paola Branduardi
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 51. Published online 2009 October 12. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-51.
PMCID: PMC2768682
Research
Novel expression hosts for complex secondary metabolite megasynthetases: Production of myxochromide in the thermopilic isolate Corallococcus macrosporus GT-2
Olena Perlova, Klaus Gerth, Silvia Kuhlmann, Youming Zhang, and Rolf Müller
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 1. Published online 2009 January 6. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-1.
PMCID: PMC2636758
Metabolic engineering of a reduced-genome strain of Escherichia coli for L-threonine production
Jun Hyoung Lee, Bong Hyun Sung, Mi Sun Kim, Frederick R Blattner, Byoung Hoon Yoon, Jung Hoe Kim, and Sun Chang Kim
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 2. Published online 2009 January 7. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-2.
PMCID: PMC2634754
Isolation and characterisation of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) degrading fungi from a historically contaminated soil
Valeria Tigini, Valeria Prigione, Sara Di Toro, Fabio Fava, and Giovanna C Varese
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 5. Published online 2009 January 12. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-5.
PMCID: PMC2636759
Microbial nar-GFP cell sensors reveal oxygen limitations in highly agitated and aerated laboratory-scale fermentors
Jose R Garcia, Hyung J Cha, Govind Rao, Mark R Marten, and William E Bentley
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 6. Published online 2009 January 15. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-6.
PMCID: PMC2630296
A novel Ecotin-Ubiquitin-Tag (ECUT) for efficient, soluble peptide production in the periplasm of Escherichia coli
Michael Paal, Thomas Heel, Rainer Schneider, and Bernhard Auer
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 7. Published online 2009 January 21. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-7.
PMCID: PMC2649888
Altering the ribosomal subunit ratio in yeast maximizes recombinant protein yield
Nicklas Bonander, Richard AJ Darby, Ljuban Grgic, Nagamani Bora, Jikai Wen, Saverio Brogna, David R Poyner, Michael AA O'Neill, and Roslyn M Bill
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 10. Published online 2009 January 29. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-10.
PMCID: PMC2654770
Export of recombinant proteins in Escherichia coli using ABC transporter with an attached lipase ABC transporter recognition domain (LARD)
Chan Woo Chung, Jinsun You, Kyeongyeon Kim, Yuseok Moon, Hoeon Kim, and Jung Hoon Ahn
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 11. Published online 2009 January 29. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-11.
PMCID: PMC2642768
Metabolite profiling studies in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: an assisting tool to prioritize host targets for antiviral drug screening
Konstantin Schneider, Jens Olaf Krömer, Christoph Wittmann, Isabel Alves-Rodrigues, Andreas Meyerhans, Juana Diez, and Elmar Heinzle
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 12. Published online 2009 January 30. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-12.
PMCID: PMC2658664
Simple high-cell density fed-batch technique for high-level recombinant protein production with Pichia pastoris: Application to intracellular production of Hepatitis B surface antigen
Chandrasekhar Gurramkonda, Ahmad Adnan, Thomas Gäbel, Heinrich Lünsdorf, Anton Ross, Satish Kumar Nemani, Sathyamangalam Swaminathan, Navin Khanna, and Ursula Rinas
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 13. Published online 2009 February 10. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-13.
PMCID: PMC2646686
Surface displaced alfa-enolase of Lactobacillus plantarum is a fibronectin binding protein
Cristiana Castaldo, Valeria Vastano, Rosa Anna Siciliano, Marco Candela, Manuela Vici, Lidia Muscariello, Rosangela Marasco, and Margherita Sacco
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 14. Published online 2009 February 16. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-14.
PMCID: PMC2654425
Bioreactor mixing efficiency modulates the activity of a prpoS::GFP reporter gene in E. coli
Frank Delvigne, Mathieu Boxus, Sophie Ingels, and Philippe Thonart
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 15. Published online 2009 February 25. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-15.
PMCID: PMC2650683
Synthesis of rhamnolipid biosurfactant and mode of hexadecane uptake by Pseudomonas species
Swaranjit Singh Cameotra and Pooja Singh
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 16. Published online 2009 March 11. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-16.
PMCID: PMC2664780
Phenotypes and gene expression profiles of Saccharopolyspora erythraea rifampicin-resistant (rif) mutants affected in erythromycin production
Elisabetta Carata, Clelia Peano, Salvatore M Tredici, Francesco Ferrari, Adelfia Talà, Giorgio Corti, Silvio Bicciato, Gianluca De Bellis, and Pietro Alifano
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 18. Published online 2009 March 30. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-18.
PMCID: PMC2667423
Metabolic engineering for improving anthranilate synthesis from glucose in Escherichia coli
Víctor E Balderas-Hernández, Andrea Sabido-Ramos, Patricia Silva, Natividad Cabrera-Valladares, Georgina Hernández-Chávez, José L Báez-Viveros, Alfredo Martínez, Francisco Bolívar, and Guillermo Gosset
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 19. Published online 2009 April 2. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-19.
PMCID: PMC2671490
Optimization of physical factors affecting the production of thermo-stable organic solvent-tolerant protease from a newly isolated halo tolerant Bacillus subtilis strain Rand
Randa A Abusham, Raja Noor Zaliha RA Rahman, Abu Bakar Salleh, and Mahiran Basri
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 20. Published online 2009 April 9. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-20.
PMCID: PMC2671491
Homolactic fermentation from glucose and cellobiose using Bacillus subtilis
Susana Romero-Garcia, Claudia Hernández-Bustos, Enrique Merino, Guillermo Gosset, and Alfredo Martinez
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 23. Published online 2009 April 21. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-23.
PMCID: PMC2680810
Identification of potentially safe promising fungal cell factories for the production of polyketide natural food colorants using chemotaxonomic rationale
Sameer AS Mapari, Anne S Meyer, Ulf Thrane, and Jens C Frisvad
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 24. Published online 2009 April 27. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-24.
PMCID: PMC2680811
OpenFLUX: efficient modelling software for 13C-based metabolic flux analysis
Lake-Ee Quek, Christoph Wittmann, Lars K Nielsen, and Jens O Krömer
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 25. Published online 2009 May 1. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-25.
PMCID: PMC2689189
Factors affecting plasmid production in Escherichia coli from a resource allocation standpoint
Drew S Cunningham, Richard R Koepsel, Mohammad M Ataai, and Michael M Domach
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 27. Published online 2009 May 22. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-27.
PMCID: PMC2702362
Heme and menaquinone induced electron transport in lactic acid bacteria
Rob Brooijmans, Bart Smit, Filipe Santos, Jan van Riel, Willem M de Vos, and Jeroen Hugenholtz
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 28. Published online 2009 May 29. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-28.
PMCID: PMC2696406
Genome, secretome and glucose transport highlight unique features of the protein production host Pichia pastoris
Diethard Mattanovich, Alexandra Graf, Johannes Stadlmann, Martin Dragosits, Andreas Redl, Michael Maurer, Martin Kleinheinz, Michael Sauer, Friedrich Altmann, and Brigitte Gasser
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 29. Published online 2009 June 2. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-29.
PMCID: PMC2702363
Overexpression and simple purification of the Thermotoga maritima 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase in Escherichia coli and its application for NADPH regeneration
Yiran Wang and Y-H Percival Zhang
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 30. Published online 2009 June 4. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-30.
PMCID: PMC2701922
Validation of a high-throughput fermentation system based on online monitoring of biomass and fluorescence in continuously shaken microtiter plates
Frank Kensy, Emerson Zang, Christian Faulhammer, Rung-Kai Tan, and Jochen Büchs
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 31. Published online 2009 June 4. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-31.
PMCID: PMC2700080
Components of the E. coli envelope are affected by and can react to protein over-production in the cytoplasm
Riccardo Villa, Marina Lotti, and Pietro Gatti-Lafranconi
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 32. Published online 2009 June 5. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-32.
PMCID: PMC2701923
PimT, an amino acid exporter controls polyene production via secretion of the quorum sensing pimaricin-inducer PI-factor in Streptomyces natalensis
Cláudia M Vicente, Javier Santos-Aberturas, Susana M Guerra, Tamara D Payero, Juan F Martín, and Jesús F Aparicio
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 33. Published online 2009 June 8. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-33.
PMCID: PMC2698837
Molecular cloning and expression of a novel trehalose synthase gene from Enterobacter hormaechei
Ming Yue, Xiu Li Wu, Wei Na Gong, and Hong Biao Ding
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 34. Published online 2009 June 12. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-34.
PMCID: PMC2701924
Developing a scalable model of recombinant protein yield from Pichia pastoris: the influence of culture conditions, biomass and induction regime
William J Holmes, Richard AJ Darby, Martin DB Wilks, Rodney Smith, and Roslyn M Bill
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 35. Published online 2009 July 1. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-35.
PMCID: PMC2717918
Regioselective biooxidation of (+)-valencene by recombinant E. coli expressing CYP109B1 from Bacillus subtilis in a two-liquid-phase system
Marco Girhard, Kazuhiro Machida, Masashi Itoh, Rolf D Schmid, Akira Arisawa, and Vlada B Urlacher
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 36. Published online 2009 July 10. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-36.
PMCID: PMC2717049
Interactive visualization of clusters in microarray data: an efficient tool for improved metabolic analysis of E. coli
Theresa Scharl, Gerald Striedner, Florentina Pötschacher, Friedrich Leisch, and Karl Bayer
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 37. Published online 2009 July 15. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-37.
PMCID: PMC2717919
A novel bacterial isolate Stenotrophomonas maltophilia as living factory for synthesis of gold nanoparticles
Yogesh Nangia, Nishima Wangoo, Nisha Goyal, G Shekhawat, and C Raman Suri
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 39. Published online 2009 July 20. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-39.
PMCID: PMC2719591
Arabinose and xylose fermentation by recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae expressing a fungal pentose utilization pathway
Maurizio Bettiga, Oskar Bengtsson, Bärbel Hahn-Hägerdal, and Marie F Gorwa-Grauslund
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 40. Published online 2009 July 24. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-40.
PMCID: PMC2720912
Rare codon content affects the solubility of recombinant proteins in a codon bias-adjusted Escherichia coli strain
Germán L Rosano and Eduardo A Ceccarelli
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 41. Published online 2009 July 24. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-41.
PMCID: PMC2723077
Robo-Lector – a novel platform for automated high-throughput cultivations in microtiter plates with high information content
Robert Huber, Daniel Ritter, Till Hering, Anne-Kathrin Hillmer, Frank Kensy, Carsten Müller, Le Wang, and Jochen Büchs
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 42. Published online 2009 August 1. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-42.
PMCID: PMC2731075
Development and experimental verification of a genome-scale metabolic model for Corynebacterium glutamicum
Yohei Shinfuku, Natee Sorpitiporn, Masahiro Sono, Chikara Furusawa, Takashi Hirasawa, and Hiroshi Shimizu
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 43. Published online 2009 August 3. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-43.
PMCID: PMC2728707
Comparisons of optically monitored small-scale stirred tank vessels to optically controlled disposable bag bioreactors
Michael A Hanson, Kurt A Brorson, Antonio R Moreira, and Govind Rao
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 44. Published online 2009 August 5. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-44.
PMCID: PMC2731076
Yeast artificial chromosomes employed for random assembly of biosynthetic pathways and production of diverse compounds in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Michael Naesby, Søren VS Nielsen, Curt AF Nielsen, Trine Green, Thomas Ø Tange, Ernesto Simón, Philipp Knechtle, Anders Hansson, Markus S Schwab, Olca Titiz, Christophe Folly, Roberto E Archila, Milena Maver, Stephan van Sint Fiet, Thiamo Boussemghoune, Michael Janes, A S Sathish Kumar, Shailendra P Sonkar, Partha P Mitra, V Ajai Kumar Benjamin, Nimitha Korrapati, Inala Suman, Esben H Hansen, Tanja Thybo, Neil Goldsmith, and Alexandra Santana Sorensen
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 45. Published online 2009 August 13. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-45.
PMCID: PMC2732597
Complete PHB mobilization in Escherichia coli enhances the stress tolerance: a potential biotechnological application
Qian Wang, Hongmin Yu, Yongzhen Xia, Zhen Kang, and Qingsheng Qi
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 47. Published online 2009 August 31. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-47.
PMCID: PMC2746179
Surface display of heterologous proteins in Bacillus thuringiensis using a peptidoglycan hydrolase anchor
Xiaohu Shao, Mengtian Jiang, Ziniu Yu, Hao Cai, and Lin Li
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 48. Published online 2009 September 16. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-48.
PMCID: PMC2754439
Increased expression of the oxidative pentose phosphate pathway and gluconeogenesis in anaerobically growing xylose-utilizing Saccharomyces cerevisiae
David Runquist, Bärbel Hahn-Hägerdal, and Maurizio Bettiga
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 49. Published online 2009 September 24. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-49.
PMCID: PMC2760498
Expression of active human sialyltransferase ST6GalNAcI in Escherichia coli
Georgios Skretas, Sean Carroll, Shawn DeFrees, Marc F Schwartz, Karl F Johnson, and George Georgiou
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 50. Published online 2009 September 30. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-50.
PMCID: PMC2762462
An insight into the role of phosphotransacetylase (pta) and the acetate/acetyl-CoA node in Escherichia coli
Sara Castaño-Cerezo, José M Pastor, Sergio Renilla, Vicente Bernal, José L Iborra, and Manuel Cánovas
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 54. Published online 2009 October 24. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-54.
PMCID: PMC2774668
Tetrapisispora phaffii killer toxin is a highly specific β-glucanase that disrupts the integrity of the yeast cell wall
Francesca Comitini, Ilaria Mannazzu, and Maurizio Ciani
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 55. Published online 2009 October 27. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-55.
PMCID: PMC2779178
Characterization of the amyloid bacterial inclusion bodies of the HET-s fungal prion
Raimon Sabaté, Alba Espargaró, Sven J Saupe, and Salvador Ventura
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 56. Published online 2009 October 28. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-56.
PMCID: PMC2774669
Engineering an efficient secretion of leech carboxypeptidase inhibitor in Escherichia coli
Juan-Miguel Puertas and Jean-Michel Betton
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 57. Published online 2009 October 29. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-57.
PMCID: PMC2775724
High yield recombinant thermostable α-amylase production using an improved Bacillus licheniformis system
Dandan Niu, Zhirui Zuo, Gui-Yang Shi, and Zheng-Xiang Wang
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 58. Published online 2009 October 31. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-58.
PMCID: PMC2776586
Cloning, expression in Pichia pastoris, and characterization of a thermostable GH5 mannan endo-1,4-β-mannosidase from Aspergillus niger BK01
Do Bien-Cuong, Dang Thi-Thu, Jean-Guy Berrin, Dietmar Haltrich, To Kim-Anh, Jean-Claude Sigoillot, and Montarop Yamabhai
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 59. Published online 2009 November 13. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-59.
PMCID: PMC2780388
Overexpression and characterization of medium-chain-length polyhydroxyalkanoate granule bound polymerases from Pseudomonas putida GPo1
Qun Ren, Guy de Roo, Bernard Witholt, Manfred Zinn, and Linda Thöny-Meyer
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 60. Published online 2009 November 19. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-60.
PMCID: PMC2788523
Selectively improving nikkomycin Z production by blocking the imidazolone biosynthetic pathway of nikkomycin X and uracil feeding in Streptomyces ansochromogenes
Guojian Liao, Jine Li, Lei Li, Haihua Yang, Yuqing Tian, and Huarong Tan
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 61. Published online 2009 November 23. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-61.
PMCID: PMC2787493
Functional analysis of conserved aromatic amino acids in the discoidin domain of Paenibacillus β-1,3-glucanase
Yueh-Mei Cheng, Feng-Chia Hsieh, and Menghsiao Meng
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 62. Published online 2009 November 25. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-62.
PMCID: PMC2789033
Bacillus amyloliquefaciens GA1 as a source of potent antibiotics and other secondary metabolites for biocontrol of plant pathogens
Anthony Arguelles-Arias, Marc Ongena, Badre Halimi, Yannick Lara, Alain Brans, Bernard Joris, and Patrick Fickers
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 63. Published online 2009 November 26. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-63.
PMCID: PMC2787494
Retraction
Retraction: A novel bacterial isolate Stenotrophomonas maltophilia as living factory for synthesis of gold nanoparticles
Yogesh Nangia, Nishima Wangoo, Nisha Goyal, G Shekhawat, and C Raman Suri
Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 52. Published online 2009 October 15. doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-52.
PMCID: PMC2768683
Retracts: Yogesh Nangia, et al. A novel bacterial isolate Stenotrophomonas maltophilia as living factory for synthesis of gold nanoparticles. Microb Cell Fact. 2009; 8: 39.
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