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A novel clostridia bacterial species (Clostridium coskatii ATCC No. PTA-10522, “PS02”) is provided. Under anaerobic conditions C. coskatii can convert CO and/or H₂ and/or CO₂ to ethanol or acetate. Thus, this novel bacterium is capable of transforming waste gases (e.g. syngas and refinery wastes) into useful products.

The invention relates to the methods for modifying the methylation pattern of bacteriophage DNA and phagemid DNA and to methods for selective killing of bacteria using lysogenic bacteriophages comprising bacteriophage DNA or phagemid DNA comprising components of an engineered CRISPR-Cas system.

The invention discloses a porcine pseudorabies virus virulent strain, and a gene deletion vaccine strain thereof and applications thereof. The porcine pseudorabies virus virulent strain is named as HeN1, the microbial preservation number of the porcine pseudorabies virus virulent strain is CGMCC NO.6656, the deleted gE gene obtaines the gene deletion vaccine strain rPRV-gE-EGFP+ on the basis of the virulent strain HeN1, and the microbial preservation number is CGMCC NO.6657. The virulent strain can be prepared into inactivated vaccine (single vaccine or combined vaccine), the gene deletion vaccine strain rPRV-gE-EGFP+ can be prepared into activated vaccine or inactivated vaccine (single vaccine or combined vaccine) and the like, so that porcine pseudorabies can be effectively prevented or cured, or the gene deletion vaccine strain rPRV-gE-EGFP+ can be prepared into a diagnosis reagent for diagnosing the porcine pseudorabies. The gene deletion vaccine strain rPRV-gE-EGFP+ has the advantages of being good in safety, high in protection efficiency, beneficial to differential diagnosis.

The present invention provides Cephem compounds which have a wide antimicrobial spectrum and have potent antimicrobial activity against beta-lactamase producing Gram negative bacteria as follows:

A compound of the formula:

wherein,

• • X is N, CH or C—Cl;
  • T is S or the like;
  • A and G are lower alkylene or the like;
  • B is a single bond or the like;
  • D is a single bond, —NR⁷—, —CO—, —CO—NR⁷—, —NR⁷—CO—, —NR⁷—CO—NR⁷—, or the like;
  • E is optionally substituted lower alkylene;
  • F is a single bond or optionally substituted phenylene;
  • R³, R⁴, R⁵ and R⁶ each is independently hydrogen, halogene, nitrile, or the like;

or an ester, a compound protected at the amino on the ring in the 7-side chain, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, or a solvate thereof.

A feed additive composition comprising a direct fed microbial (DFM), in combination with a xylanase (e.g. endo-1,4-β-d-xylanase) and a β-glucanase (and optionally a further fibre degrading enzyme), wherein the DFM is selected from the group consisting of an enzyme producing strain; a C5 sugar-fermenting strain; a short-chain fatty acid-producing strain; a fibrolytic, endogenous microflora-promoting strain; or combinations thereof. The DFM may be selected from the group consisting of: Bacillus subtilis AGTP BS3BP5, Bacillus subtilis AGTP BS442, B. subtilis AGTP BS521, B. subtilis AGTP BS918, Bacillus subtilis AGTP BS1013, B. subtilis AGTP BS1069, B. subtilis AGTP 944, B. pumilus AGTP BS 1068 or B. pumilus KX11-1, Enterococcus faecium ID7, Propionibacterium acidipropionici P169, Lactobacillus rhamnosus CNCM-1-3698, Lactobacillus farciminis CNCM-1-3699, a strain having all the characteristics thereof, any derivative or variant thereof, and combinations thereof and the further fibre degrading enzyme may be selected from the group consisting of a cellobiohydrolase (E.C. 3.2.1.176 and E.C. 3.2.1.91), a β-glucosidase (E.C. 3.2.1.21), a β-xylosidase (E.C. 3.2.1.37), a feruloyl esterase (E.C. 3.1.1.73), an α-arabinofuranosidase (E.C. 3.2.1.55), a pectinase (e.g. an endopolygalacturonase (E.C. 3.2.1.15), an exopolygalacturonase (E.C. 3.2.1.67) or a pectate lyase (E.C. 4.2.2.2)), or combinations thereof.

The invention discloses a Bdellovibrio strain for preventing and treating mastitis and applications thereof. A Bdellovibrio BDS01 is obtained by separation, and is unicellular, arced and 0.9-0.25 micrometer in size; the end of the Bdellovibrio BDS01 has flagellum which is 4 micrometers long. When cultured by a two-layer plating method at 28 DEG C for four days, the Bdellovibrio BDS01 can form transparent round plaques with the diameter of 1-2 mm. The microbial preparation prepared by using the Bdellovibrio BDS01 plastid has favorable effects for preventing cow mastitis. Compared with the telotroch, the plastid has the characteristics of convenient preparation and storage, strong environmental resistance, slightly slow sterilization action, longer sterilization action time, and the like, and does not have toxic or side effect on cows. Therefore, the microbial preparation containing the Bdellovibrio BDS01 plastid is suitable for large-size factory culture of cows, and a novel method forgreen processing and production of milk and for preventing and treating mastitis can be provided.

Disclosed is an isolated bacterial strain Candidatus Brocadia caroliniensis strain, having Accession Deposit Number NRRL B-50286. The strain is capable of oxidizing ammonium and releasing di-nitrogen gas.

Process for the preparation of O-sulfated K4, K5 and K40 polysaccharides useful for the treatment of tumoral, HIV-1 and coagulation pathologies and in cosmetic preparations, wherein the K4, K5 or K40 polysaccharide in the form of sodium salt is suspended in an aprotic solvent and directly submitted to the reaction of O-sulfation with a pyridine-sulphur trioxide or trimetylamine-sulphur trioxide adduct or with chlorosulfonic acid.

An Escherichia coli recombinant strain producing shikimic acid, and a construction method and application thereof belong to the technical field of microbial gene engineering. The invention firstly utilizes a molecular biology technique to delete shikimic acid kinase I gene (aroK) and shikimic acid kinase II gene (aroL) of Escherichia coli CICIMB0013, and a gene (ptsG) of a key protein EIIBC<Glc> and a quinin acid/shikimic acid dehydrogenase gene (ydiB) of a glucose phosphotransferase system to obtain an Escherichia coli mutant strain CICIMB0013.SA4 (delta aroK, delta aroL, delta ptsG, delta ydiB). The invention also constructs a recombinant expression plasmid pTHGAA containing key genes comprising aroG*,ppsA and tktA in a metabolic pathway of shikimic acid; and the recombinant expression plasmid pTHGAA is transferred into the recombinant strain CICIMB0013.SA4 to obtain a recombinant Escherichia coli B0013 (SA4/pTHGAA) capable of producing shikimic acid efficiently. The Escherichia coli recombinant strain provided by the invention can realize efficient accumulation of shikimic acid in a fermentation process.

The invention discloses identification and application of a biocontrol bacillus strain, and belongs to the technical field of agricultural microorganisms. Biocontrol bacillus is bacillus velezensis YJC-9, the strain is already reserved in The China Typical Culture Collection Center of Wuhan university at 11thApril in 2018, and the preservation serial number of the strain is CCTCC NO.M 2018196. Thebiocontrol bacillus strain can prevent and control wheat sharp eyespot, wheat scab, sclerotinia rot of colza, gray mold of strawberries, pepper root rot, kidney bean blight and tobacco alternariaalternata, is a biocontrol bacterium having broad-spectrum resistance, and has good application prospects in agricultural disease prevention and control.

An engineered nitrile hydratase-producing bacterium and its construction method as well as its applications, wherein the engineered nitrile hydratase-producing bacterium is a mutant strain of an original nitrile hydratase-producing bacterium strain obtained by knocking-out or inhibiting the amidase gene in the original strain. The construction method of the engineered bacterium is to block the expression of the amidase gene by inserting the large fragment of a recombinant suicide plasmid carrying an amidase gene fragment into a wild-type strain through the homologous recombination between the recombinant suicide plasmid and the amidase gene of the wild-type strain. Compared to the corresponding wild-type bacterium strain, both the cell growth and the nitrile hydratase expression of the engineered nitrile hydratase-producing bacterium according to the invention are increased. In the process of catalyzing the hydration of acrylonitrile to produce acrylamide, the yield of the product, acrylamide, is significantly increased, while the yield of the by-product acrylic acid is significantly decreased. The engineered nitrile hydratase-producing bacterium of the present invention has wide application prospect in the production of acrylamide by microbiological process.

The invention discloses lactobacillus plantarum JM113, wherein a strain JM113 is preserved in China Center for Type Culture Collection (CCTC) on November 18th, 2015 with a preservation number of CCTC M2015680, and is called simply the JM113. The lactobacillus plantarum JM113 disclosed by the invention can better tolerate factors such as acid and cholate which are unbeneficial to bacterial growth in a gastrointestinal tract and has a good inhibiting action for enteropathogetic bacteria; the lactobacillus plantarum JM113 has better fermentability and potential for mass production. The lactobacillus plantarum JM113 disclosed by the invention is prepared into lactococus lactis powder which is added into broiler diet, so that the production performance of broilers can be remarkably improved.

Inhibition of RNA function, and treatment or control of diseases or conditions, e.g. infectious diseases such as viruses and viral infections (including HIV) and microbial infections, by the contacting of the RNA with a compound having a central or core structure comprising three fused rings containing from 12 to 15 ring atoms, the central ring including at least one heteroatom selected from nitrogen, oxygen and sulfur, the atoms of the three-ring core structure being optionally substituted with substituents such as halogens, cyano, and/or various substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic and/or heteroaliphatic moieties, or contacting the RNA with yohimbine, usnic acid or N-{4-[2,5-Dioxo-1-(4-trifluoromethoxy-phenyl)-pyrrolidin-3-yl]-phenyl}-2,2,2-trifluoro-acetamide. Preferred compounds are various phenothiazines, including both known and novel compounds.

The invention discloses pediococcus pentosaceus and application thereof. The Latin name of the pediococcus pentosaceus is Pediococcus pentosaceus LI05, and the pediococcus pentosaceus is preserved in the China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center and has a preservation number of CGMCC No.7049. The pediococcus pentosaceus disclosed by the invention has the morphological characteristics that the thallus is rod-shaped, dose not generate spores, does not have motility, and has masculine Gram staining. The whole-cell fatty acid of the pediococcus pentosaceus disclosed by the invention comprises the following main components in percentage by weight: about 1.45% of 14:0, about 3.26% of 16:1w7c/16:1w6c, about 31.25% of 16:0, about 6.31% of 18:1w9c, about 38.59% of 18:1w7c, about 1.37% of 18:0 and about 14.59% of un18.846/19:1w6c. The invention also discloses a complete sequence of 16S ribosome DNA (16SrDNA) of the pediococcus pentosaceus. The pediococcus pentosaceus and a preparation thereof disclosed by the invention can be used for adjusting the micro-ecological balance of intestinal tracts of human or animals, promoting digestive absorption and slowing down the happening and development of liver failure of experimental animals.

The present invention relates to methods for preparing an isolated biological sample containing at least one of DNA and RNA, such that the DNA and/or RNA is preserved in the sample at ambient temperatures for at least thirty days, the method comprising: contacting the isolated biological sample with a composition comprising a chaotropic agent, and subjecting the contacted sample to microbial cell lysis; and optionally, contacting the lysed biological sample with a slurry of size-selected silicon dioxide to form at least one of DNA-silicon dioxide complexes or RNA-silicon dioxide complexes in the sample; isolating at least one of DNA-silicon dioxide complexes or RNA-silicon dioxide complexes from the sample; and, separating at least one of DNA and RNA from the silicon dioxide and collecting at least one of the DNA and RNA.

The present invention further relates to methods for preparing an isolated biological sample, the method comprising, separating the components in an isolated biological sample according to their size, wherein the components are at least one of DNA and RNA; purifying and isolating SSU rRNA from the biological sample using a composition comprising a ribonuclease inhibitor and a deoxyribonuclease to remove DNA from the sample, reverse transcribing the SSU rRNA into ds cDNA using random primers for SSU rRNA.

The present invention also relates to computer implemented methods comprising, receiving an isolated sample prepared according to the methods of the invention, sequencing the sample, and providing the sequence with a sequence identifier (ID), the sequence comprising a plurality of groups of k-mers, each group of k-mers defining a node in a multi-level hierarchy which defines the relationship between the groups of k-mers; providing each group of k-mers with a respective group identifier (ID), determining the frequency of the k-mers in each group; generating a group signature array for each group of k-mers, each group signature array comprising the k-mers in each group that have the most increased frequency compared with the sibling k-mers; generating a signature map comprising each group signature array and at least one of the identifiers, the identifier of at least one parent group and the identifier of at least one child group; and outputting the signature map to be used to classify the sequence.

The present invention relates to a construction method of high-yield pantothenic-acid genetically engineered bacterium and the bacterium strain, and an application of the genetically engineered bacterium in preparation of D-pantothenic acid by microbial fermentation. The construction method is as follows: (1) enhancing expression of lpd gene; (2) knocking out glk and galP, destroying a glucose non-PTS transport system, enhancing expression of ptsG gene and enhancing a glucose PTS transport system; (3) knocking out yfbQ and ppsA genes; (4) knocking out poxB, pflB and ldhA genes; (4) knocking out ilvE gene; (5) introducing heterologous acetolactate synthase gene alsS; and (6) introducing heterologous pantothenic-acid transporter panT into plasmids and finally obtaining the optimal D-pantothenic acid high-yield escherichia coli genetically engineered bacterium strain. D-pantothenic acid potency increases from 2.76 g/L to 6.33 g/L.

The present invention provides synthetic antibacterial peptides comprising a sequence at least 80% identical to a sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 2 or the diastereomer thereof with a sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 3 or pharmaceutical compositions thereof. Also provided are methods for reducing the severity of microbe-induced inflammation and for stimulating wound healing via the synthetic antibacterial peptides. Further provided is a device having a surface with a coating comprising the synthetic antibacterial peptides.

The invention relates to recombinant escherichia coli for producing 2'-fucosyllactose and application thereof, and belongs to the field of microbial metabolic engineering. According to a regulation and control strategy for the expression level of 2'-fucosyllactose de novo synthesis route key enzyme, different enzymes are subjected to regulation and control of genome overexpression or plasmid overexpression, the efficiency of a metabolic pathway can be greatly improved, compared with the prior art, the efficiency of a genetic engineering strain constructed through related strategies is improvedby 13 times or above, and a foundation is laid for industrial production of the 2'-fucosyllactose.

The invention belongs to the biochemical field and discloses a 1, 3-propylene glycol genetic engineering bacterium and a preparation method and application thereof. The strain is classified and named as Klebsiella pneumoniae ATCC 25955-pUC18-yqhD-Tet<R>, and is obtained by connection of a 3-propylene redoxase isozyme gene yqhD from Escherichia coli and a tetracycline resistant gene Tet<R> from a plasmid pHY300PLK, insertion of a carrier pUC18 and conversion of Klebsiella pneumoniae ATCC 25955. The bacterium can obviously improve the capacity for conversion of glycerol into 1, 3-propylene glycol, improve the utilization ability and the conversion rate of the substrate glycerol and the final concentration of the final offspring 1, 3-propylene glycol, simultaneously shorten the fermentation time, and is convenient for industrial production of the 1, 3-propylene glycol through the microbial fermentation method.

The present invention discloses one kind of human Ochrobactrum anthropi IBL01 (Ochrobactrum anthropi CCTCC M 206046) and its application in degrading plant stalks. Ochrobactrum anthropi IBL01 has high plant stalk degrading effect and can produce high activity cellulase, hadromse and hemicellulase. The present invention also discloses the preparation process of cellulose, xylanase, lignin peroxidase, laccase and manganese peroxidase with the human Ochrobactrum anthropi. The human Ochrobactrum anthropi of the present invention is bacterium with short growth period of about one week, and can produce fiber degrading enzyme as well as hemicellulose degrading enzyme and lignin degrading enzyme.

The invention discloses a Bacillus velezensis LfF-1 strain and application thereof in protease production. The Bacillus velezensis LfF-1 strain is separated for a first time, the strain is preserved in the Guangdong Microbiological Culture Collection Center in August 16, 2019, and the preservation number is GDMCC NO: 60741. The strain has a remarkable capability for producing protease through fermentation, and types of cultures produced through protease fermentation can be enriched; a protease preparation can be produced by using the strain through a fermentation tank replenishing on-batch fermentation process, the activity of the protease is as high as 17.84 ten thousand U/g, the enzyme activity recovery rate is as high as 96.8%, types of conventional commercial protease can be greatly enriched, and the production efficiency of the protease preparation can be improved; and in addition, the method for producing the protease from the strain through fermentation is simple and feasible, and has wide application prospects in producing protein foods, functional peptide products or feed additives.