A new screening method for inhibitors of cellulose biosynthesis is described. This method utilized three microbial strains; a cellulose-containing fungus Phytophthora, and a cellulose non-containing fungus Candida, and a bacterial strain of Acetobacter, a cellulose-producing acetic acid bacterium. The primary screen examined microbial cultures for selective growth inhibition against Phytophthor...

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Microbial culture collections aim at collecting, maintaining and distributing microbial strains among microbiologists, and are considered to be a means to preserve microbial diversity ex situ. This article reviews the early history of culture collections, which were first set up in the late nineteenth century, with the introduction of pure culture techniques. It also describes the international...

micro-organisms such as bacteria, yeasts, molds and algae that accumulate lipid more than 20% of their biomass are called oleaginous. microbial lipid has a lot of similarity to the oil obtained from plants and animals. microbial lipids are renewable sources that can use for different purposes such as biodiesel production. production of oil from yeasts has more advantages than plant’s oil. accor...

SUMMARY The microbial protein interaction database (MPIDB) aims to collect and provide all known physical microbial interactions. Currently, 22,530 experimentally determined interactions among proteins of 191 bacterial species/strains can be browsed and downloaded. These microbial interactions have been manually curated from the literature or imported from other databases (IntAct, DIP, BIND, MI...

The aim of this study was to obtain new unsaturated lactones by chemical synthesis and their microbial transformations using fungal strains. Some of these strains were able to transform unsaturated lactones into different hydroxy or epoxy derivatives. Strains of Syncephalastrum racemosum and Absidia cylindrospora gave products with a hydroxy group introduced into a tertiary carbon, while the Pe...

conclusions there are many of different species of lactobacillus probiotics in traditional dairy products of the markazi province, based on the findings of this study. it is recommended for researchers to isolate these strains and investigate their probiotic characteristics in order to reproduce them for use in food production as well as for medical treatment. results nineteen gram-positive and...

This paper summarizes initial microbial adhesion events in dental plaque formation, including the physico-chemistry of the interaction between micro-organisms and solid substrata, detachment phenomena under the fluctuating shear of the oral cavity, co-adhesion between pairs of microbial strains, and biosurfactant release. A hypothesis is forwarded on how these initial events might influence the...

Typical natural microbial ecosystems contain many different member organisms that all interact with each other in a highly nonlinear way. Although historically most work in microbiology has focused on pure cultures of single organisms, the study of groups of organisms (consortia) still forms a major challenge. While genetic algorithms are capable of optimising nonlinear systems and they should ...

During Pecorino Romano PDO cheese production, scotta (residual whey from ricotta manufacturing) or siero (whey) can be integrated with autochthonous starters, natural and composed of an indefinite number species strains, commercial selected starters to obtain scotta/siero-innesto. In this study, three biodiverse starter cultures (SR30, SR56, SR63) belonging the Agris Sardegna BNSS microbial col...