Use of a short A/T-rich cassette for enhanced expression of cloned genes in Escherichia coli.

abstract：:Brucellosis, one of the most important re-emerging zoonoses in many countries, is caused by bacteria belonging to the genus Brucella. Furthermore these bacteria represent potential biological warfare agents and the identification of species and biovars of field strains may be crucial for tracing back source of infecti...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： De Santis R,Ancora M,De Massis F,Ciammaruconi A,Zilli K,Di Giannatale E,Pittiglio V,Fillo S,Lista F

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA editing is one of the post-transcriptional RNA processes. RNA editing generates RNA and protein diversity in eukaryotes and results in specific amino acid substitutions, deletions, and changes in gene expression levels. Adenosine-to-inosine RNA editing represents the most important class of editing in human and af...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Tang W,Fei Y,Page M

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) biosensor is a promising technology for its various advantages including the real-time measurement of biomolecular interactions without labeling. A method of hybridizing RNAs on the surface of the streptavidin-coated (SA) sensor chip to study RNA-protein interactions was described in th...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Yang Y,Wang Q,Guo D

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coptotermes curvignathus is a termite that, owing to its ability to digest living trees, serves as a gold mine for robust industrial enzymes. This unique characteristic reflects the presence of very efficient hydrolytic enzyme systems including cellulases. Transcriptomic analyses of the gut of C. curvignathus revealed...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Woon JS,King PJH,Mackeen MM,Mahadi NM,Wan Seman WMK,Broughton WJ,Abdul Murad AM,Abu Bakar FD

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electroporation of cells in the presence of DNA is widely used for the introduction of transgenes either stably or transiently into bacterial, fungal, animal, and plant cells. A review of the literature shows that electroporation parameters are often reported in an incomplete or incorrect manner, forcing researchers t...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Lurquin PF

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, four full-length Dof (DNA-binding with one finger) genes from Sorghum bicolor namely SbDof1, SbDof19, SbDof23, and SbDof24 were PCR amplified, gel eluted, cloned, and sequenced (accession number HQ540084, HQ540085, HQ540086, and HQ540087, respectively). These sequences were further characterized ...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Kushwaha H,Gupta S,Singh VK,Bisht NC,Sarangi BK,Yadav D

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Classic toxicology studies often utilize in vivo animal models. Newer approaches employing in vitro organ-specific cellular models have been developed in recent years to help accelerate the speed and reduce the cost of traditional toxicology testing. Toward the goal of supporting in vitro cellular model research with ...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Mossoba ME,Vohra SN,Bigley E 3rd,Sprando J,Wiesenfeld PL

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolation of RNA from recalcitrant tree tissues has been problematic due to large amounts of secondary metabolites and interfering compounds in their cells. We have developed an efficient RNA extraction method, which yielded high-quality RNA preparations from tissues of the lychee tree. The method reported here utiliz...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Wang X,Tian W,Li Y

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indirubin is a strong inhibitor of several eukaryotic cell signaling pathways and shows promise as a treatment for myelocytic leukemia and Alzheimer's disease. The tmoABCDEF operon, encoding the components of a novel toluene 4-monooxygenase from the paint factory soil isolate, Pseudomonas sp. M4, was cloned and expres...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Wongsaroj L,Sallabhan R,Dubbs JM,Mongkolsuk S,Loprasert S

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary cancers account for approximately 10 % of breast and ovarian cancers. Mutations of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, encoding two proteins involved in DNA repair, underlie most cases of such hereditary cancers. Women with BRCA mutations develop breast cancer in 50-80 % of cases and ovarian cancer in 10-40 % of cas...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Vuttariello E,Borra M,Calise C,Mauriello E,Greggi S,Vecchione A,Biffali E,Chiappetta G

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we report cloning of a pectate lyase gene from Bacillus amyloliquefaciens S6 (pelS6), and biochemical characterization of the recombinant pectate lyase. PelS6 was found to be identical with B. subtilis 168 pel enzyme with 100% amino acid sequence homology. Although these two are genetically very close, ...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Bekli S,Aktas B,Gencer D,Aslim B

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genes are recognized as undergoing genomic imprinting when they are capable of being expressed only from the paternal or only from the maternal chromosome. The process can occur coordinately within large physical domains in mammalian chromosomes. One interesting facet of the study of genomic imprinting is that it offe...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Greally JM

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IgG class antibodies express catalytic activities rarely and at very low levels. Here, we studied polyclonal IgA and IgG preparations from healthy human sera and saliva for the ability to hydrolyze model peptidyl-aminomethylcoumarin (peptide-AMC) substrates. These substrates permit objective evaluation of the catalyti...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Mitsuda Y,Planque S,Hara M,Kyle R,Taguchi H,Nishiyama Y,Paul S

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recombinant acidstable α-amylase (Ba-amy) of acidophilic bacterium Bacillus acidicola TSAS1 has been produced extracellularly using a combination of cloning (E. coli and P. pastoris) and physico-chemical treatment strategies. A total of 150,000 U/L of Ba-amy were attained under constitutive promoter in P. pastoris...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Parashar D,Satyanarayana T

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis of complete genes is becoming a more and more popular approach in heterologous gene expression. Reasons for this are the decreasing prices and the numerous advantages in comparison to classic molecular cloning methods. Two of these advantages are the possibility to adapt the codon usage to the host organ...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Gatter M,Gatter T,Matthäus F

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference (RNAi) efficiently induces sequence-specific gene silencing in mammalian cells through short interfering RNA (siRNA) of 21-23 nucleotides synthesized in vitro or expressed by DNA-based vector. However, introduction of siRNA into mammalian cells by transfection limits the application of RNAi, especiall...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Zhao N,Zu ZX,Liu CM,Dong WJ,Liu DP,Liang CC

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenoviral dodecahedron (Dd) is a virus-like particle composed of twelve pentameric penton base (Pb) proteins, responsible for adenovirus cell penetration. It is generated spontaneously in the baculovirus system upon expression of the Pb gene of adenovirus serotype 3. This particle shows remarkable cell penetration ab...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Szurgot I,Jedynak M,Podsiadla-Bialoskorska M,Piwowarski J,Szolajska E,Chroboczek J

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzyme avian myeloblastosis virus reverse transcriptase (AMV-RT) is routinely used for cDNA synthesis, which is generally carried out at temperatures between 37 degrees C and 42 degrees C. We show that this enzyme can support cDNA synthesis, at temperatures as high as 70 degrees C. We have utilized this property o...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Fuchs B,Zhang K,Rock MG,Bolander ME,Sarkar G

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Baculovirus expression vector system (BEVS) is widely known as a mass-production tool to produce functional recombinant glycoproteins except that it may not be always suitable for medical practice due to the differences in the structure of N-linked glycans between insects and mammalian. Currently, various approaches h...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Morokuma D,Xu J,Hino M,Mon H,Merzaban JS,Takahashi M,Kusakabe T,Lee JM

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immobilized-metal-ion affinity chromatography (IMAC) is used extensively for phosphopeptide enrichment in phosphoproteomics. However, the effect of nucleic acids in protein samples on phosphopeptide enrichment by IMAC has not yet been well clarified. In this study, we demonstrate that IMAC beads possess a strong adsor...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Li Y,Luo Y,Wu S,Gao Y,Liu Y,Zheng D

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adeno-associated virus (AAV) is a small, non-enveloped virus used as vector in gene therapy, mainly produced in human cells and in baculovirus systems. Intense studies on these platforms led to the production of vectors with titers between 103 and 105 viral genomes (vg) per cells. In spite of this, vector yields need ...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Galli A,Iaia I,Milella MS,Cipriani F,Della Latta V,Giacca M,Zentilin L,Cervelli T

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HOX genes are highly conserved transcription factors that determine the identity of cells and tissues along the anterior-posterior body axis in developing embryos. Aberrations in HOX gene expression have been shown in various tumors. However, the correlation of HOX gene expression patterns with tumorigenesis and cance...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Hur H,Lee JY,Yun HJ,Park BW,Kim MH

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lentiviral transduction is a highly efficient DNA delivery method for RNA interference applications. However, obtaining high lentiviral titers of shRNA and miRNA encoding vectors is challenging, since shRNA and miRNA cassettes have been shown to reduce lentiviral titers. In this study, we compare four commercially ava...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Albrecht C,Hosiner S,Tichy B,Aldrian S,Hajdu S,Nürnberger S

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene encoding maltogenic amylase from acidic Bacillus sp. US149 (maUS149) was cloned, sequenced and over-expressed in Escherichia coli. The nucleotide sequence analysis revealed an open reading frame (ORF) of 1749 bp encoding a protein of 582 residues. The alignment of deduced amino acid sequence revealed a relative...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Mabrouk SB,Messaoud EB,Ayadi D,Jemli S,Roy A,Mezghani M,Bejar S

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oenococcus oeni is the main bacterial species that drives malolactic fermentation in wine. Most O. oeni strains produce capsular exopolysaccharides (EPS) that may contribute to protect them in the wine hostile environment. In O. oeni genome sequences, several genes are predicted to encode priming glycosyltransferases ...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Dimopoulou M,Claisse O,Dutilh L,Miot-Sertier C,Ballestra P,Lucas PM,Dols-Lafargue M

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid and effective method for the isolation of RNA from green microalga Ankistrodesmus convolutus based on homogenization in a simple CTAB buffer and selective precipitation of RNA with lithium chloride is developed. This procedure avoids the use of toxic chaotropic agents and phenol while high concentration of d...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Thanh T,Omar H,Abdullah MP,Chi VT,Noroozi M,Ky H,Napis S

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The macrofungus Cordyceps militaris contains many kinds of bioactive ingredients that are regulated by functional genes, but the functions of many genes in C. militaris are still unknown. In this study, to improve the frequency of homologous integration, a genetic transformation system based on a split-marker approach...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Lou H,Ye Z,Yun F,Lin J,Guo L,Chen B,Mu Z

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The induction of several secondary metabolites in plants is one of the most commonly observed effects after the external addition of methyl jasmonate (MeJA). After the elicitation of Catharanthus roseus hairy roots with different concentrations of MeJA, changes in the accumulation of alkaloids such as ajmalicine, serp...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Ruiz-May E,Galaz-Avalos RM,Loyola-Vargas VM

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review outlines the various methods available for submitting sequence data to the EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database. Depending on the type of sequence data and the facilities available to the submitter, one method may be more suitable than another. Recent developments have been the World Wide Web submission tool,...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Tuli MA,Flores TP,Cameron GN

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A protocol has been developed to produce a cholera toxin B subunit (CTB) in tobacco tolerant to the herbicide phosphinothricin (PPT) by means of in vitro selection. The synthetic CTB subunit gene was altered to modify the codon usage to that of tobacco plant genes. The gene was then cloned into a plant expression vect...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Kang TJ,Kim BG,Yang JY,Yang MS

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00