Search results for: METAGENOMICS

• Cloning and characterization of a novel cold-active glycoside hydrolase family 1 enzyme with beta-glucosidase, beta-fucosidase and beta-galactosidase activities.

  Publication

  • A. Wierzbicka-Woś
  • P. Bartasun
  • H. Cieśliński
  • J. Kur

  - BMC BIOTECHNOLOGY - Year 2013

  Background: Cold-active enzymes, sourced from cold-adapted organisms, are characterized by high catalytic efficiencies at low temperatures compared with their mesophilic counterparts, which have poor activity. This property makes them advantageous for biotechnology applications as it: (i) saves energy costs, (ii) shortens the times for processes operated at low temperatures, (iii) protects thermosensitive substrates or products...

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• The metagenomic approach to characterization of the microbial community shift during the long-term cultivation of anammox-enriched granular sludge

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  • S. Ciesielski
  • K. Czerwionka
  • D. Sobotka
  • T. Dulski
  • J. Mąkinia

  - JOURNAL OF APPLIED GENETICS - Year 2018

  A metagenomic approach was used to investigate how the microbial community composition changes when an anammox-based granular sludge reactor is seeded with nitritation-anammox biomass from a wastewater treatment plant. In the seed sample, the abundance of Candidatus Kuenenia stuttgartiensis was similar to Candidatus Jettenia caeni (12.63 vs. 11.68%). This biomass was typical in terms of microbial nitrogen conversion; both ammonia...

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