@article{UlberPothMonzonetal.2010, author = {Ulber, Roland and Poth, Sebastian and Monzon, Magaly and Tippk{\"o}tter, Nils}, title = {Prozessintegration von Hydrolyse und Fermentation von Cellulose- Faserstoff}, series = {Chemie Ingenieur Technik}, volume = {82}, journal = {Chemie Ingenieur Technik}, number = {1-2}, issn = {1522-2640}, doi = {10.1002/cite.200900103}, pages = {135 -- 139}, year = {2010}, abstract = {Ein viel versprechender erneuerbarer Rohstoff f{\"u}r die Produktion von Chemikalien und Treibstoffen ist Lignocellulose aus pflanzlicher Biomasse. Die darin enthaltenen Zucker k{\"o}nnen mittels enzymatischer Hydrolyse freigesetzt und fermentativ zu Ethanol umgesetzt werden. Ein interessanter Ansatz ist dabei die simultane Verzuckerung und Fermentation. Hefen und Enzyme haben mit 30 °C bzw. 50 °C zwar unterschiedliche Temperaturoptima, es konnte aber gezeigt werden, dass auch bei den niedrigeren Temperaturen eine Umsetzung der Cellulose zu Glucose erfolgt, wenn auch langsamer als bei optimalen Bedingungen. Außerdem konnte in Vorversuchen gezeigt werden, dass Ethanol in den zu erwartenden Konzentrationen keinen Einfluss auf die enzymatische Umsetzung hat.}, language = {de} } @article{SiekerNeunerDimitrovaetal.2010, author = {Sieker, Tim and Neuner, Andreas and Dimitrova, Darina and Tippk{\"o}tter, Nils and Bart, Hans-J{\"o}rg and Heinzle, Elmar and Ulber, Roland}, title = {Grassilage als Rohstoff f{\"u}r die chemische Industrie}, series = {Chemie Ingenieur Technik}, volume = {82}, journal = {Chemie Ingenieur Technik}, number = {8, Special Issue: Industrielle Nutzung nachwachsender Rohstoffe}, publisher = {Wiley-VCH}, address = {Weinheim}, issn = {1522-2640}, doi = {10.1002/cite.201000088}, pages = {1153 -- 1159}, year = {2010}, abstract = {Grassilage stellt einen nachwachsenden Rohstoff mit großem Potenzial dar. Neben Cellulose und Hemicellulose enth{\"a}lt sie auch organische S{\"a}uren, insbesondere Milchs{\"a}ure. In einem Bioraffinerie-Projekt wird die Milchs{\"a}ure aus der Silage isoliert und mit gentechnisch optimierten St{\"a}mmen zu L-Lysin weiterverarbeitet. Die Lignocellulose wird hydrolysiert und zu Ethanol fermentiert. Ein besonderes Augenmerk liegt auf der Integration der unterschiedlichen Prozesse sowie der einzelnen Prozessschritte zu einem Gesamtprozess, der s{\"a}mtliche Inhaltsstoffe der Silage verwertet.}, language = {de} } @article{DegeringEggertPulsetal.2010, author = {Degering, Christian and Eggert, Thorsten and Puls, Michael and Bongaerts, Johannes and Evers, Stefan and Maurer, Karl-Heinz and Jaeger, Karl-Erich}, title = {Optimization of protease secretion in Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus licheniformis by screening of homologous and herologous signal peptides}, series = {Applied and environmental microbiology}, volume = {76}, journal = {Applied and environmental microbiology}, number = {19}, publisher = {American Society for Microbiology}, address = {Washington, DC}, issn = {1098-5336 (E-Journal); 0003-6919 (Print); 0099-2240 (Print)}, doi = {10.1128/AEM.01146-10}, pages = {6370 -- 6378}, year = {2010}, abstract = {Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus licheniformis are widely used for the large-scale industrial production of proteins. These strains can efficiently secrete proteins into the culture medium using the general secretion (Sec) pathway. A characteristic feature of all secreted proteins is their N-terminal signal peptides, which are recognized by the secretion machinery. Here, we have studied the production of an industrially important secreted protease, namely, subtilisin BPN′ from Bacillus amyloliquefaciens. One hundred seventy-three signal peptides originating from B. subtilis and 220 signal peptides from the B. licheniformis type strain were fused to this secretion target and expressed in B. subtilis, and the resulting library was analyzed by high-throughput screening for extracellular proteolytic activity. We have identified a number of signal peptides originating from both organisms which produced significantly increased yield of the secreted protease. Interestingly, we observed that levels of extracellular protease were improved not only in B. subtilis, which was used as the screening host, but also in two different B. licheniformis strains. To date, it is impossible to predict which signal peptide will result in better secretion and thus an improved yield of a given extracellular target protein. Our data show that screening a library consisting of homologous and heterologous signal peptides fused to a target protein can identify more-effective signal peptides, resulting in improved protein export not only in the original screening host but also in different production strains.}, language = {en} } @article{SchroeterHoffmannVoigtetal.2014, author = {Schroeter, Rebecca and Hoffmann, Tamara and Voigt, Birgit and Meyer, Hanna and Bleisteiner, Monika and Muntel, Jan and J{\"u}rgen, Britta and Albrecht, Dirk and Becher, D{\"o}rte and Lalk, Michael and Evers, Stefan and Bongaerts, Johannes and Maurer, Karl-Heinz and Putzer, Harald and Hecker, Michael and Schweder, Thomas and Bremer, Erhard}, title = {Stress responses of the industrial workhorse Bacillus licheniformis to osmotic challenges}, series = {PLoS ONE}, volume = {8}, journal = {PLoS ONE}, number = {11}, publisher = {PLOS}, address = {San Francisco}, issn = {1932-6203}, doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0080956}, pages = {e80956}, year = {2014}, abstract = {The Gram-positive endospore-forming bacterium Bacillus licheniformis can be found widely in nature and it is exploited in industrial processes for the manufacturing of antibiotics, specialty chemicals, and enzymes. Both in its varied natural habitats and in industrial settings, B. licheniformis cells will be exposed to increases in the external osmolarity, conditions that trigger water efflux, impair turgor, cause the cessation of growth, and negatively affect the productivity of cell factories in biotechnological processes. We have taken here both systems-wide and targeted physiological approaches to unravel the core of the osmostress responses of B. licheniformis. Cells were suddenly subjected to an osmotic upshift of considerable magnitude (with 1 M NaCl), and their transcriptional profile was then recorded in a time-resolved fashion on a genome-wide scale. A bioinformatics cluster analysis was used to group the osmotically up-regulated genes into categories that are functionally associated with the synthesis and import of osmostress-relieving compounds (compatible solutes), the SigB-controlled general stress response, and genes whose functional annotation suggests that salt stress triggers secondary oxidative stress responses in B. licheniformis. The data set focusing on the transcriptional profile of B. licheniformis was enriched by proteomics aimed at identifying those proteins that were accumulated by the cells through increased biosynthesis in response to osmotic stress. Furthermore, these global approaches were augmented by a set of experiments that addressed the synthesis of the compatible solutes proline and glycine betaine and assessed the growth-enhancing effects of various osmoprotectants. Combined, our data provide a blueprint of the cellular adjustment processes of B. licheniformis to both sudden and sustained osmotic stress.}, language = {en} } @article{HandtkeSchroeterJuergenetal.2014, author = {Handtke, Stefan and Schroeter, Rebecca and J{\"u}rgen, Britta and Methling, Karen and Schl{\"u}ter, Rabea and Albrecht, Dirk and Hijum, Sacha A. F. T. van and Bongaerts, Johannes and Maurer, Karl-Heinz and Lalk, Michael and Schweder, Thomas and Hecker, Michael and Voigt, Birgit}, title = {Bacillus pumilus reveals a remarkably high resistance to hydrogen peroxide provoked oxidative stress}, series = {PLOS one}, volume = {9}, journal = {PLOS one}, number = {1}, publisher = {PLOS}, address = {San Francisco}, issn = {1932-6203}, doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0085625}, pages = {e85625}, year = {2014}, abstract = {Bacillus pumilus is characterized by a higher oxidative stress resistance than other comparable industrially relevant Bacilli such as B. subtilis or B. licheniformis. In this study the response of B. pumilus to oxidative stress was investigated during a treatment with high concentrations of hydrogen peroxide at the proteome, transcriptome and metabolome level. Genes/proteins belonging to regulons, which are known to have important functions in the oxidative stress response of other organisms, were found to be upregulated, such as the Fur, Spx, SOS or CtsR regulon. Strikingly, parts of the fundamental PerR regulon responding to peroxide stress in B. subtilis are not encoded in the B. pumilus genome. Thus, B. pumilus misses the catalase KatA, the DNA-protection protein MrgA or the alkyl hydroperoxide reductase AhpCF. Data of this study suggests that the catalase KatX2 takes over the function of the missing KatA in the oxidative stress response of B. pumilus. The genome-wide expression analysis revealed an induction of bacillithiol (Cys-GlcN-malate, BSH) relevant genes. An analysis of the intracellular metabolites detected high intracellular levels of this protective metabolite, which indicates the importance of bacillithiol in the peroxide stress resistance of B. pumilus.}, language = {en} } @article{ImmelGrothHuhnetal.2011, author = {Immel, Timo A. and Groth, Ulrich and Huhn, Thomas and {\"O}hlschl{\"a}ger, Peter}, title = {Titanium salan complexes displays strong antitumor properties in vitro and in vivo in mice}, series = {PLoS ONE}, volume = {6}, journal = {PLoS ONE}, number = {3}, publisher = {Plos}, address = {San Francisco, California, US}, doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0017869}, pages = {e17869}, year = {2011}, abstract = {The anticancer activity of titanium complexes has been known since the groundbreaking studies of K{\"o}pf and K{\"o}pf-Maier on titanocen dichloride. Unfortunately, possibly due to their fast hydrolysis, derivatives of titanocen dichloride failed in clinical studies. Recently, the new family of titanium salan complexes containing tetradentate ONNO ligands with anti-cancer properties has been discovered. These salan complexes are much more stabile in aqueous media. In this study we describe the biological activity of two titanium salan complexes in a mouse model of cervical cancer. High efficiency of this promising complex family was demonstrated for the first time in vivo. From these data we conclude that titanium salan complexes display very strong antitumor properties exhibiting only minor side effects. Our results may influence the chemotherapy with metallo therapeutics in the future.}, language = {en} } @article{Berndt1980, author = {Berndt, Heinz}, title = {Zur Reaktion von Iminodithiocarbonaten mit Carbons{\"a}uren. I : Synthese des Modellpeptid-Derivates Z-(L)-Ala-(L/D)-Phe-(L)-Val-OMe}, series = {Tetrahedron letters}, volume = {21}, journal = {Tetrahedron letters}, number = {34}, issn = {0040-4039}, doi = {10.1016/S0040-4039(00)78663-1}, pages = {3265 -- 3268}, year = {1980}, language = {de} }