Stabilization of quaternary structure of water-soluble quinoprotein glucose dehydrogenase.

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：:D-Allulose is a rare monosaccharide that exists in extremely small quantities in nature, and it is also hard to prepare at a large scale via chemical or enzyme synthetic route due to low conversion and downstream separation complexity. Using D-psicose epimerase and L-rhamnulose kinase, a method enabling high conversio...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Xiao Q,Niu J,Liu H,Liu Y,Zhou X

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenoviruses are attracting increasing attention as general purpose mammalian cell expression vectors, as recombinant vaccines, and potentially as vectors for gene therapy. Not only is the adenovirus genome relatively easy to manipulate by recombinant DNA techniques, but adenovirus vectors are relatively stable, grow ...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Graham FL,Prevec L

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient display of antibody on filamentous phage M13 coat is crucial for successful biopanning selections. We applied a directed evolution strategy to improve the oligovalent display of a poorly behaving Fab fragment fused to phage gene-3 for minor coat protein (g3p). The Fab displaying clones were enriched from a r...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Huovinen T,Sanmark H,Ylä-Pelto J,Vehniäinen M,Lamminmäki U

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Artificial microRNA (amiRNA) has become a powerful tool for gene silencing in plants. A new method for easy and rapid construction of rice artificial miRNA vector is described. The procedure involved modification of the pCAMBIA1300-UR vector by insertion of a 'vector modification fragment'. This was prepared from the ...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Wang X,Yang Y,Yu C,Zhou J,Cheng Y,Yan C,Chen J

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzymes are key molecules in signal-transduction pathways. However, only a small fraction of more than 500 human kinases, 300 human proteases and 200 human phosphatases is characterised so far. Peptide microarray based technologies for extremely efficient profiling of enzyme substrate specificity emerged in the last y...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Thiele A,Stangl GI,Schutkowski M

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pasteurella multocida is the main cause of haemorrhagic septicaemia (HS) outbreak in livestock, such as cattle and buffaloes. Conventional vaccines such as alum-precipitated or oil-adjuvant broth bacterins were injected subcutaneously to provide protection against HS. However, the immunity developed is only for short ...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Chelliah S,Velappan RD,Lim KT,Swee CWK,Nor Rashid N,Rothan HA,Kabir N,Ismail S

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of photoprotection by dietary means is gaining momentum. Plant constituents such as carotenoids and flavonoids are involved in protection against excess light in plants and contribute to the prevention of UV damage in humans. As micronutrients, they are ingested with the diet and are distributed into light...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Stahl W,Sies H

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A synthetic gene encoding a single chain Fv fragment of an antibody directed against the nuclear inclusion a (NIa) protein of potato virus Y (PVY) was used to transform two commercial potato cultivars (Claustar and BF15). The NIa protease forms the nuclear inclusion body A and acts as the major protease in the cleavag...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Gargouri-Bouzid R,Jaoua L,Rouis S,Saïdi MN,Bouaziz D,Ellouz R

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brn-3a, a member of the POU gene family (so-called because of the similarity with the group of transcription factors Pit, Oct, and Unc), was found in neuronal cells engaged in the transcription activity of the p1 and p2 promoters of the most powerful antiapoptotic gene, namely, Bcl-2. The alternative splicing of Brn-3...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Chiarugi V,Del Rosso M,Magnelli L

更新日期：2002-10-01 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：:The low economic profits of feather recycling lead that the large amount of feathers is currently discarded in China. To convert feather hydrolysates into GSH with high values, surface display of the bifunctional glutathione synthetase encoded by gcsgs from Streptococcus thermophilus on Saccharomyces cerevisiae and th...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Qiu Z,Tan H,Zhou S,Cao L

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlorella ellipsoidea is a single-celled eukaryotic green microalgae with high nutritional value. Its value may be further increased if a simple, reliable and cost-effective transformation method for C. ellipsoidea can be developed. In this paper, we describe a novel transformation method for C. ellipsoidea . This sys...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Liu L,Wang Y,Zhang Y,Chen X,Zhang P,Ma S

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Podophyllotoxin (PPT) is a plant natural product that serves as a precursor for the synthesis of many well-known chemotherapeutic drugs. The limited availability and high demand for the source plants of PPT have led to the exploration of alternative sources for this compound. In this study, we utilized the endophytic ...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Arneaud SL,Porter JR

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The significance of actin cytoskeleton on cell growth was historically studied using toxic drugs, such as cytochalasin. However, it is possible that unpredictable effects of these agents may have influenced the reported observations. In our study, we have established a drug-free system using cofilin overexpression to ...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Lee YJ,Keng PC

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The GacS/A system in Azotobacter vinelandii regulates alginate and alkylresorcinols production through RsmZ1, a small regulatory RNA (sRNA) that releases the translational repression of the algD and arpR mRNAs caused by the RsmA protein. In the Pseudomonadaceae family, the Rsm-sRNAs are grouped into three families: Rs...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： López-Pliego L,García-Ramírez L,Cruz-Gómez EA,Domínguez-Ojeda P,López-Pastrana A,Fuentes-Ramírez LE,Núñez C,Castañeda M

更新日期：2018-09-01 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：:Addition of taxol into suspension cultures of Taxus cuspidata induced cell apoptosis, which was confirmed by gel electrophoresis of the DNA ladders indicating the progressive delineation of fragmented nuclear DNA (nDNA) into distinct bodies. The additional taxol not only changed the microtubule assembly of cells, but ...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Yuan YJ,Ma ZY,Wu JC

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgenic rice seed can be utilized as a bioreactor to produce high-value recombinant proteins. Mouse interleukin 4 (mIL-4) and mIL-6 were specifically expressed as secretory proteins in rice endosperm by ligating the N-terminal glutelin B-1 (GluB-1) signal peptide and the C-terminal KDEL endoplasmic reticulum retent...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Fujiwara Y,Yang L,Takaiwa F,Sekikawa K

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major online single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) databases freely available as research tools for genetic analysis are explained, reviewed, and compared. An outline is given of the search strategies that can be used with the most extensive current SNP databases: National Centre for Biotechnology Information (NCBI...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Phillips C

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murraya koenigii (L.) Spreng. (Rutaceae), is an aromatic plant and much valued for its flavor, nutritive and medicinal properties. In this study, three DNA fingerprinting methods viz., random amplification of polymorphic DNA (RAPD), directed amplification of minisatellite DNA (DAMD), and inter-simple sequence repeat (...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Verma S,Rana TS

更新日期：2013-02-01 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：:We have modified the differential display of 3'-end restriction fragments of cDNA technique by combining it with the amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) approach and silver staining. Modified oligo-dT primers were used for a reverse transcription step. ds cDNA was digested with the Mse I restriction enzyme a...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Ivashuta S,Imai R,Uchiyama K,Gau M

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference methodology suppresses specific gene expression, thus mimicking loss-of-function mutation and enabling in vitro and in vivo gene function analysis. Lipofectamine RNAiMAX, a new transfection reagent, has been confirmed high efficiency in delivering small interfering RNA (siRNA) into mesenchymal stem ce...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Zhao M,Yang H,Jiang X,Zhou W,Zhu B,Zeng Y,Yao K,Ren C

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The REDOX-RESPONSIVE TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1 (RRTF1) gene encodes a member of the ERF/AP2 transcription factor family involved in redox homeostasis. The RRTF1 gene shows tissue-specific responsiveness to various abiotic stress treatments including a response to salt stress in roots. An interesting feature of this respo...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Soliman ERS,Meyer P

更新日期：2019-04-01 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 DNA molecular analyses together with ampelography, ampelometry, and biochemistry are essential for grapevine identification and investigation of genetic differences among the Vitis vinifera L. cultivars and clones. Ten Malvasia cultivars (i.e., Istrian Malvasia; M. delle Lipari; M. bianca di Candia; M. di Candia A...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Meneghetti S,Poljuha D,Frare E,Costacurta A,Morreale G,Bavaresco L,Calò A

更新日期：2012-03-01 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：:The use of synthetic genes may constitute a successful approach for the heterologous production and functional expression of bacterial antimicrobial peptides (bacteriocins) by recombinant yeasts. In this work, synthetic genes with adapted codon usage designed from the mature amino acid sequence of the bacteriocin ente...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Jiménez JJ,Borrero J,Gútiez L,Arbulu S,Herranz C,Cintas LM,Hernández PE

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cell-based vaccines are being evaluated in clinical trials to determine their ability to activate clinically relevant tumor antigen-specific immune responses. Although some groups isolate dendritic cells from peripheral blood, most have found it more efficient to generate large numbers from peripheral blood ...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Morse MA,Clay T,Colling K,Lyerly HK

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00