Azotobacter vinelandii produces the biopolymer alginate, which has a wide range of industrial and pharmaceutical applications. A random transposon insertion mutant library was constructed from A. vinelandii ATCC12518Tc in order to identify genes and pathways affecting alginate biosynthesis, and abou...

Thraustochytrids of the genera Schizochytrium and Aurantiochytrium accumulate oils rich in the essential, marine n3 fatty acid docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). DHA production in Aurantiochytrium sp T66 was studied with the aim to provide more knowledge about factors that affect the DHA-productivities and...

Bioactive chemicals produced by microorganisms isolated from nature have been the source of most antibiotics in medical use today. However, many antibiotics are currently losing their potency due to rapidly spreading antibiotic resistance among pathogenic bacteria. Coincidently, very few new antibio...

Bioactive chemicals produced by microorganisms isolated from nature have been the source of most antibiotics in medical use today. However, many antibiotics are currently losing their potency due to rapidly spreading antibiotic resistance among pathogenic bacteria. Coincidently, very few new antibio...

BACKGROUND: Polysaccharides often are necessary components of bacterial biofilms and capsules. Production of these biopolymers constitutes a drain on key components in the central carbon metabolism, but so far little is known concerning if and how the cells divide their resources between cell growth...

Thraustochytrids have been applied for industrial production of the omega-3 fatty acid docosahexaenoic (DHA) since the 1990s. During more than 20 years of research on this group of marine, heterotrophic microorganisms, considerable increases in DHA productivities have been obtained by process and me...