Society for Applied Microbiology
Microbial Biotechnology

Microbial Biotechnology

Microbial Biotechnology publishes papers of original research reporting significant advances in any aspect of microbial applications, including:

  • • Biotechnologies related to chemicals
  • • Pharmaceuticals
  • • Energy
  • • Mining
  • • Materials
  • • Agriculture
  • • Food
  • • Environmental protection

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  • • All articles published in Microbial Biotechnology are freely available to download in 2010!
  • • Microbial Biotechnology is the latest sister journal to existing premier microbiology journals including Environmental Microbiology, Molecular Microbiology and Cellular Microbiology

Editor's Choice

Bioleaching genomics
Roland J. Siezen, Greer Wilson

A molecular key for building hyphae aggregates: the role of the newly identified Streptomyces protei
Ilona Koebsch, Jens Overbeck, Sophie Piepmeyer, Holger Meschke, Hildgund Schrempf

A versatile and scalable strategy for glycoprofiling bifidobacterial consumption of human milk oligo
Riccardo G. LoCascio, Milady R. Niñonuevo, Scott R. Kronewitter, Samara L. Freeman, J. Bruce German,

Nitric oxide-mediated dispersal in single- and multi-species biofilms of clinically and industrially
Nicolas Barraud, Michael V. Storey, Zoe P. Moore, Jeremy S. Webb, Scott A. Rice, Staffan Kjelleberg

Substrate-dependent transcriptomic shifts in Pelotomaculum thermopropionicum grown in syntrophic co-
Souichiro Kato, Tomoyuki Kosaka, Kazuya Watanabe


Current Issue Table of Contents

Volume 3, Issue 1 (January 2010)

Special Issue: Biocatalysis
Guest Editors: Karl-Erich Jaeger, Andreas Schmid and Manuel Ferrer
 

Genomics update
Probiotics genomics 

Roland J. Siezen, Greer Wilson


Highlight
Metabolic engineering, new antibiotics and biofilm viscoelasticity 
Craig Daniels, Manuel Espinosa-Urgel, José-Luis Niqui-Arroyo, Carmen Michán, Juan L. Ramos

 

Minireview

LOVely enzymes – towards engineering light-controllable biocatalysts 
Ulrich Krauss, Jeeyeon Lee, Stephen J. Benkovic, Karl-Erich Jaeger


Research articles

Metabolic engineering of cobalamin (vitamin B12) production in Bacillus megaterium
Rebekka Biedendieck, Marco Malten, Heiko Barg, Boyke Bunk, Jan-Henning Martens, Evelyne Deery, Helen Leech, Martin J. Warren, Dieter Jahn

Directed evolution of the transcription factor XylS for development of improved expression systems
Trond Erik Vee Aune, Ingrid Bakke, Finn Drabløs, Rahmi Lale, Trygve Brautaset, Svein Valla

Inter-conversion of catalytic abilities in a bifunctional carboxyl/feruloyl-esterase from earthworm gut metagenome 
José María Vieites, Azam Ghazi, Ana Beloqui, Julio Polaina, José M. Andreu, Olga V. Golyshina, Taras Y. Nechitaylo, Agnes Waliczek, Michail M. Yakimov, Peter N. Golyshin, Manuel Ferrer

Enantioselective kinetic resolution of phenylalkyl carboxylic acids using metagenome-derived esterases 
Elena Fernández-Álvaro, Robert Kourist, Julia Winter, Dominique Böttcher, Klaus Liebeton, Christian Naumer, Jürgen Eck, Christian Leggewie, Karl-Erich Jaeger, Wolfgang Streit, Uwe T. Bornscheuer

Nature versus nurture in two highly enantioselective esterases from Bacillus cereus and Thermoanaerobacter tengcongensis 
Stephan Grosse, Hélène Bergeron, Akihiro Imura, Jason Boyd, Shaozhao Wang, Kazuo Kubota, Akihiko Miyadera, Traian Sulea, Peter C. K. Lau

Simple enzymatic procedure for l-carnosine synthesis: whole-cell biocatalysis and efficient biocatalyst recycling
Jan Heyland, Nicolai Antweiler, Jochen Lutz, Tobias Heck, Birgit Geueke, Hans-Peter E. Kohler, Lars M. Blank, Andreas Schmid

Hyperthermostable acetyl xylan esterase  

Katharina Drzewiecki, Angel Angelov, Meike Ballschmiter, Klaus-Jürgen Tiefenbach, Reinhard Sterner, Wolfgang Liebl

Pleurotus ostreatus manganese-dependent peroxidase silencing impairs decolourization of Orange II 
Tomer M. Salame, Oded Yarden, Yitzhak Hadar

Sequence- and activity-based screening of microbial genomes for novel dehalogenases 
Wing Yiu Chan, Max Wong, Jennifer Guthrie, Alexei V. Savchenko, Alexander F. Yakunin, Emil F. Pai, Elizabeth A. Edwards

Web alert
Metabolic engineering : An annotated selection of World Wide Web sites relevant to the topics in Microbial Biotechnology
Lawrence P. Wackett

Referees' quotes – 2009

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Top Cited Articles

 

Metabolic engineering to enhance bacterial hydrogen production

Toshinari Maeda, Viviana Sanchez-Torres, Thomas K. Wood

 

Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 virulence factors and poplar tree response in the rhizosphere
Can Attila, Akihiro Ueda, Suat L. G. Cirillo, Jeffrey D. Cirillo, Wilfred Chen, Thomas K. Wood

 

Tracing explosives in soil with transcriptional regulators of Pseudomonas putida evolved for responding to nitrotoluenes
Junkal Garmendia, Aitor de las Heras, Teca Calcagno Galvão, Víctor de Lorenzo

Massively parallel pathogen identification using high-density microarrays
Nicolas Berthet, Philip Dickinson, Ingrid Filliol, Anita K. Reinhardt, Christophe Batejat, Tatiana Vallaeys, Katherine A. Kong, Christopher Davies, Walter Lee, Shenglan Zhang, Yaron Turpaz, Beate Heym, Gilberte Coralie, Laurent Dacheux, Ana Maria Burguière, Hervé Bourhy, Iain G. Old, Jean-Claude Manuguerra, Stewart T. Cole, Giulia C. Kennedy

Natural products genomics
Roland J. Siezen, Barzan I. Khayatt

High shear enrichment improves the performance of the anodophilic microbial consortium in a microbial fuel cell
Hai The Pham, Nico Boon, Peter Aelterman, Peter Clauwaert, Liesje De Schamphelaire, Patrick van Oostveldt, Kim Verbeken, Korneel Rabaey, Willy Verstraete

 

 

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