Saline Mussels Cooking Wastewater was valorised to produce PHA with Mixed Microbial Cultures (MMC). Due the high protein content (1.8–5.7 g CODPROT/L), accumulating capacity below 10%, so several strategies were tested. In acidification unit, Na(HCO3) added, increasing conversion into Volatile Fatty Acids (VFA) from 10.3% 69.2% and subsequent accumulation 6.9 14.7%. enrichment incorporation of ...

lactoferrin (lf) is an iron-binding multi-functional glycoprotein which has numerous physiological functions such as iron transportation, anti-microbial activity and immune response. in this study, different in silico approaches were exploited to investigate lf protein properties in a number of mammalian species. results showed that the iron-binding site, dna and rna-binding sites, signal pepti...

The innate immune response is evolutionary conserved among organisms. The complement system forms an important and efficient immune defense mechanism. It consists of plasma proteins that participate in microbial detection, which ultimately results in the production of various molecules with antimicrobial activity. Thioester-containing proteins (TEPs) are a superfamily of secreted effector prote...

Since the approval of recombinant insulin from Escherichia coli for its clinical use in the early 1980s, the amount of recombinant pharmaceutical proteins obtained by microbial fermentations has significantly increased. The recent advances in genomics together with high throughput analysis techniques (the so-called-omics approaches) and integrative approaches (systems biology) allow the develop...

BACKGROUND Establishment of the human gut microbiota begins at birth. This early-life microbiota development can impact host physiology during infancy and even across an entire life span. However, the functional stability and population structure of the gut microbiota during initial colonization remain poorly understood. Metaproteomics is an emerging technology for the large-scale characterizat...

In microbial ecology, researchers have started to use a great variety of methods initially developed by molecular biologists. Mostly, these studies have dealt with microbial diversity in specific environments. Recently, new questions have been raised, e.g. what changes occur within a microbial community during competition or after a change in the surrounding environment? For this, molecular too...

Ecological stoichiometry (ES) uses organism-specific elemental content to explain differences in species life histories, species interactions, community organization, environmental constraints and even ecosystem function. Although ES has been successfully applied to a range of different organisms, most emphasis on microbial ecological stoichiometry focuses on lake, ocean, and soil communities. ...