BACKGROUND L-Glutamate is an important precursor in the L-arginine (L-Arg) biosynthetic pathway. Various methods, including polyoxyethylene sorbitan monopalmitate (Tween 40) addition and dtsR1 disruption, have been widely used to induce L-glutamate overproduction in Corynebacterium glutamicum. In this study, a novel strategy for L-Arg overproduction through Tween 40 trigger and ΔdtsR1 mutant we...

BACKGROUND Liquid hot water (LHW) pretreatment is an effective and environmentally friendly method to produce bioethanol with lignocellulosic materials. In our previous study, high ethanol concentration and ethanol yield were obtained from water-insoluble solids (WIS) of reed straw and corn stover pretreated with LHW by using fed-batch semi-simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (S-SSF)...

an isolated fusarium anthophilum (a. braun) wollenweber (isolate 16c) has been considered as a candidate for microbial control of barnyard grass [echinochloa crus-galli (l.) p. beauv]. the effects of nutrition on conidiation, germination rate and germ-tube elongation of conidia of the fungus were evaluated. conidia yield, conidial germination and conidial germ-tube elongation of the fungus grow...

Epidemiological evidence suggests that dietary intake of carotenoids and tocopherols may influence the risk of certain chronic diseases, such as cancer and CVD. In vitro studies investigating the synergistic effects of mixtures of carotenoids and tocopherols have been hindered due to the difficulty of solubilising these lipophilic compounds. The objective of the present study was to develop a s...

The Span 40 (sorbitan monooleate)/Tween (polyoxyethylene sorbitan monolaurate) system gives faceted vesicles with angular surfaces, rather than spherical vesicles. Herein, a continuous and facile preparation method, based on the subcritical water-assisted emulsification solvent diffusion, was presented to yield two major minor axes (Type A) closer polyhedron B). Type A, B, were likely be formed...

A simple and green ultra-high-performance micellar liquid chromatography (MLC) method was developed here, comparing Tween 20 40 for the first time as only mobile phase modifiers with a C18 column. Its application to separation of nine hydroxycinnamic acid (HCA) derivatives (cinnamic, caffeic, ferulic, sinapic, o-, m-, p-coumaric, 3,4-dihydroxyhydrocinnamic, chlorogenic acids) made, due their im...

This report shows that, of the Tween series (Tween 20, Tween 40, Tween 60 and Tween 80) of nonionic surfactants adsorbed on gold nanoparticles (NPs), Tween 80 makes the NPs most stably dispersed in aqueous solutions with or without the presence of representative biological molecules, such as nucleic acids or proteins of different sizes, isoelectric points (pIs) and shapes. In addition, the stab...

When Streptococcus salivarius was grown in batch culture in the presence of various Tween detergents, the fatty acid moiety of the detergent was incorporated into the lipids of its membrane. Tween 80 (containing primarily oleic acid) markedly stimulated the production of extracellular glucosyltransferase and also increased the degree of unsaturation of the membrane lipid fatty acids. The possib...