Engineering yeasts for raw starch conversion

WH Van Zyl, M Bloom, MJ Viktor - Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2012 - Springer
Next to cellulose, starch is the most abundant hexose polymer in plants, an import food and
feed source and a preferred substrate for the production of many industrial products. Efficient …

Physiological adaptations of yeasts living in cold environments and their potential applications

J Alcaíno, V Cifuentes, M Baeza - World Journal of Microbiology and …, 2015 - Springer
Yeasts, widely distributed across the Earth, have successfully colonized cold environments
despite their adverse conditions for life. Lower eukaryotes play important ecological roles …

An anti-infective synthetic peptide with dual antimicrobial and immunomodulatory activities

ON Silva, C De La Fuente-Núñez, EF Haney… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Antibiotic-resistant infections are predicted to kill 10 million people per year by 2050, costing
the global economy $100 trillion. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop alternative …

Screening and characterization of amylase and cellulase activities in psychrotolerant yeasts

M Carrasco, P Villarreal, S Barahona, J Alcaíno… - BMC microbiology, 2016 - Springer
Background Amylases and cellulases have great potential for application in industries such
as food, detergent, laundry, textile, baking and biofuels. A common requirement in these …

AmyZ1: a novel α-amylase from marine bacterium Pontibacillus sp. ZY with high activity toward raw starches

W Fang, S Xue, P Deng, X Zhang, X Wang… - Biotechnology for …, 2019 - Springer
Background Starch is an inexpensive and renewable raw material for numerous industrial
applications. However, most starch-based products are not cost-efficient due to high-energy …

An Alkalothermophilic Amylopullulanase from the Yeast Clavispora lusitaniae ABS7: Purification, Characterization and Potential Application in Laundry Detergent

S Dakhmouche Djekrif, L Bennamoun, FZK Labbani… - Catalysts, 2021 - mdpi.com
In the present study, α-amylase and pullulanase from Clavispora lusitaniae ABS7 isolated
from wheat seeds were studied. The gel filtration and ion-exchange chromatography …

Enzyme stability, thermodynamics and secondary structures of α-amylase as probed by the CD spectroscopy

BA Kikani, SP Singh - International journal of biological macromolecules, 2015 - Elsevier
An amylase of a thermophilic bacterium, Bacillus sp. TSSC-3 (GenBank Number,
EU710557) isolated from the Tulsi Shyam hot spring reservoir (Gujarat, India) was purified to …

Cold-active detergent-stable extracellular α-amylase from Bacillus cereus GA6: Biochemical characteristics and its perspectives in laundry detergent formulation.

M Kuddus - Journal of Biochemical Technology, 2013 - search.ebscohost.com
A psychro-halo-tolerant Bacillus cereus GA6 was isolated from soil of Gangotri glacier,
Western Himalaya that produced maximum cold-active α-amylase at 20±1 C after 96 h of …

Characteristics and thermodynamics of α-amylase from thermophilic actinobacterium, Laceyella sacchari TSI-2

RJ Shukla, SP Singh - Process Biochemistry, 2015 - Elsevier
A thermophilic actinobacterium, Laceyella sacchari TSI-2 from a hot spring was
characterized for its morphological and cultural features. It optimally produced α-amylase at …

Heat, acid and chemically induced unfolding pathways, conformational stability and structure-function relationship in wheat α-amylase

K Singh, M Shandilya, S Kundu, AM Kayastha - PLoS One, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Wheat α-amylase, a multi-domain protein with immense industrial applications, belongs to
α+ β class of proteins with native molecular mass of 32 kDa. In the present study, the …