Anthocyanic vacuolar inclusions (AVIs) selectively bind acylated anthocyanins in Vitis vinifera L. (grapevine) suspension culture.

abstract：:Although resistance of microorganisms to Hg(II) salts has been widely investigated and resistant strains have been reported from many eubacterial genera, there are few reports of mercuric ion resistance in extremophilic microorganisms. Moderately thermophilic mercury resistant bacteria were selected by growth at 62 de...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Glendinning KJ,Macaskie LE,Brown NL

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biomacromolecule, gelatin, has increasingly been used in biomedicine-beyond its traditional use in food and cosmetics. The appealing advantages of gelatin, such as its cell-adhesive structure, low cost, off-the-shelf availability, high biocompatibility, biodegradability and low immunogenicity, among others, have m...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Su K,Wang C

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipase-catalyzed synthesis of potential multifunctional ribavirin derivatives was performed in acetone. Divinyl dicarboxylates with different chain lengths (C4, C6, C9, C10) were used as acyl donors and the reactions were catalyzed by lipase immobilized on acrylic resin from Candida antarctica (CAL-B). Ribavirin was r...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Liu BK,Wang N,Wu Q,Xie CY,Lin XF

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:3,4-Dihydroxybenzoate decarboxylase in Enterobacter cloacae P241 was induced by adding 3,4-dihydroxybenzoic acid, 3-hydroxybenzoic acid, 3,4,5-trihydroxybenzoic acid or 4-acetamidobenzoic acid to the culture medium. After stabilizing the enzyme activity by adding 5 mM dithiothreitol and 20 mM Na(2)S(2)O(3) to a cell-f...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Yoshida T,Inami Y,Matsui T,Nagasawa T

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:miR-21 is highly expressed in a variety of cancers, suggesting that it might play a role in the process of oncogenesis, as supported by it directly causing pre-B cell lymphomas in transgenic mice. Rm21LG transgenic mice for the conditional co-expression of miR-21 and luciferase (Luc) mediated by Cre/lox P system were ...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Du T,Jia J,Lin X,Xie R,Li J,Xiao D,Xu K

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The exposure of CHO DG44 cells to an osmotic shock, after DNA uptake, results in a cellular volume decrease of approx. 55%. Repetitive osmotic shocks targeted different sub-populations of cells as was demonstrated using two different fluorescent reporter genes. Also the exposure of a calcium phosphate-DNA coprecipitat...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Grosjean F,Bertschinger M,Hacker DL,Wurm FM

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To prepare (R)-phenyl-1,2-ethanediol ((R)-PED) with high enantiomeric excess (ee p) and yield from racemic styrene oxide (rac-SO) at high concentration by bi-enzymatic catalysis. RESULTS:The bi-enzymatic catalysis was designed for enantioconvergent hydrolysis of rac-SO by a pair of novel epoxide hydrolases ...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Wang R,Hu D,Zong X,Li J,Ding L,Wu M,Li J

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Rho1 protein is a GTPase that participates in cell wall biogenesis. We analyzed the transcript levels of laccase genes (lccl, lcc2, lcc3, lcc4, lcc5, and lcc9), and a xylanase gene (xyl3) in Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici strain 4287 (wild type) and two mutant strains; rhol::hyg that lacks a functional Rho1...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Reyes-Medina MA,Macías-Sánchez KL

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF WORK:The biosynthetic pathway of a new antitumor compound, haloroquinone, is elucidated to facilitate metabolic regulation for product accumulation and modification to produce new bioactive structural analogues of the compound. The biosynthetic origin of a novel promising protein kinase B inh...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Niu C,Cai M,Zhang Y,Zhou X

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this study was to develop a facile and efficient method to enhance the stability and activity of lactoperoxidase (LPO) by using its immobilization on graphene oxide nanosheets (GO-NS). METHODS:Following the LPO purification from bovine whey, it was immobilized onto functionalized GO-NS using ...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Shariat SZAS,Borzouee F,Mofid MR,Varshosaz J

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To develop novel antibiotic peptides useful as therapeutic drugs, a number of analogues were designed to increase the hydrophobic helix region either by Trp-substitution or net positive charge increase by Lys-substitution, from HP(2-9)-ME(1-12). The antibiotic activities of these peptides were evaluated using bacteria...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Park Y,Kim HN,Park SN,Jang SH,Choi CH,Lim HT,Hahm KS

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel gene encoding the α-chain of goose immunoglobulin heavy-chain (Igα) was cloned by reverse transcription-PCR. The cDNA had 1,760 bp and encompassed a partial V-D-J region of the heavy chain, a constant region (Cα) and 3'-untranslated region of α-chain. The Cα gene contains four constant region domains (CH1-CH4)...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Guo Y,Gao M,Luo X,Sheng Q,Ma B,Wang J

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant Mycobacterium sp. strain MR65 carrying dszABCD genes was used for desulfurization of 10-methylbenzo[b]naphtho[2,1-d]thiophene (10-methyl BNT) in the hexadecane phase. The specific activity was 25% of that of dibenzothiophene (DBT). One of two major metabolites of 10-methyl BNT produced by strain MR65 was i...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Watanabe K,Noda K,Maruhashi K

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excretion of 1,3-propanediol (1,3-PD) by K. pneumoniae was compared in ammonium- and phosphate-limited chemostat cultures running with an excess of glycerol. 59 and 43% catabolic flux were directed to 1,3-PD in ammonia-limited cultures and phosphate-limited cultures at dilution rate of 0.1 h(-1), respectively. Ammonia...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Zheng ZM,Xu YZ,Wang TP,Dong CQ,Yang YP,Liu DH

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Classical swine fever (CSF) is one of the most important viral diseases of swine worldwide. Although live or attenuated virus vaccines have been used to control CSFV, it is difficult to distinguish vaccinated pigs from infected pigs; this leads to restrictions on import and export. Subunit vaccines based on the CSFV E...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Park Y,Lee S,Kang H,Park M,Min K,Kim NH,Gu S,Kim JK,An DJ,Choe S,Sohn EJ

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth of Streptococcus zooepidemicus in a 10 l bioreactor with 50 g sucrose/l and 10 g casein hydrolysate/l gave 5-6 g hyaluronic acid/l after 24-28 h. Purification of hyaluronic acid gave a recovery of 65% with the final material having an Mr of approximately 4 x 10(6) Da with less than 0.1% protein. ...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Rangaswamy V,Jain D

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An endoxylanase gene, xynA, was cloned from Bacillus pumilus ARA and expressed in Escherichia coli. The open reading frame of the xynA gene was 687 bp encoding a signal peptide and a mature xylanase with a molecular mass of 23 kDa. The enzyme was categorized as a glycosyl hydrolase family 11 member based on the sequen...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Qu W,Shao W

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The basic reactions of the clostridial 1-butanol biosynthesis pathway can be regarded to be the inverted reactions of the fatty acid β-oxidation pathway. A pathway for the biosynthesis of fuels and chemicals was recently engineered by combining enzymes from both aerobic and anaerobic fatty acid β-oxidation as well as ...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Gulevich AY,Skorokhodova AY,Sukhozhenko AV,Shakulov RS,Debabov VG

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bacillus pumilus SG2 chitinase gene (ChiS) and its truncated form lacking chitin binding (ChBD) and fibronectin type III (FnIII) domains were transformed to Arabidopsis plants and the expression, functionality and antifungal activity of the recombinant proteins were investigated. Results showed that while the two ...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Dehestani A,Kazemitabar K,Ahmadian G,Jelodar NB,Salmanian AH,Seyedi M,Rahimian H,Ghasemi S

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of a low-temperature alkalophilic lipase from Acinetobacter johnsonii was improved using genome shuffling. The starting populations, obtained by UV irradiation and diethyl sulfate mutagenesis, were subjected to recursive protoplast fusion. The optimal conditions for protoplast formation and regeneration...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Wang H,Zhang J,Wang X,Qi W,Dai Y

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The industrial-scale production of phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL) mainly uses strains of Rhodotorula. However, the PAL gene from Rhodotorula has not been cloned. Here, the full-length gene of PAL from Rhodotorula glutinis was isolated. It was 2,121 bp, encoding a polypeptide with 706 amino acids and a calculated MW...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Zhu L,Cui W,Fang Y,Liu Y,Gao X,Zhou Z

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among single-site mutations of L-arabinose isomerase derived from Geobacillus thermodenitrificans, two mutants were produced having the lowest and highest activities of D-tagatose production. Site-directed mutagenesis at these sites showed that the aromatic ring at amino acid 164 and the size of amino acid 475 were im...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Oh HJ,Kim HJ,Oh DK

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel glucose-sensing molecule was created based on galactose/glucose-binding protein (GGBP). GGBP mutants at Asp14, a residue interacting with the 4th hydroxyl group of the sugar molecule, were constructed by mutagenesis to improve the ligand specificity of GGBP. The autofluorescence-based analysis of the binding a...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Sakaguchi-Mikami A,Taneoka A,Yamoto R,Ferri S,Sode K

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The maltose-binding protein (MBP), which possesses a large number of exposed hydrophobic zones, can be used as a link for the immobilization of growth factors. The amount of immobilized MBP-vascular endothelial growth factors (VEGFs) for polystyrene surface was increased with respect to increasing protein, showing 101...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Han M,Park IS,Kim SH,Kim BS,Kim SH

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine the synergistic antibacterial activity of violacein and silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) against ATCC bacteria, Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli and two bacteria isolated from bovine mastitis. METHODS:Violacein from Chromobacterium violaceum and biogenic AgNPs from Fusarium oxysporum were eval...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Nakazato G,Gonçalves MC,da Silva das Neves M,Kobayashi RKT,Brocchi M,Durán N

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amberlite XAD 2 resin enhanced the asymmetric reduction of ethyl 4-chloroacetoacetate (ECA) to S-4-chloro-3-hydroxybutyric acid ethyl ester as catalyzed by Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The absorbed ECA was released slowly to the solution during the reaction so that the substrate inhibition and the spontaneous chemical hy...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Houng JY,Liau JS

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The growth characteristics and intracellular hemin concentrations of Lactococcus lactis grown under different culture pH and aeration conditions were examined to investigate the effect of culture pH on the respiration efficiency of L. lactis NZ9000 (pZN8148). RESULTS:Cell biomass and biomass yield of L. lact...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Shi W,Li Y,Gao X,Fu R

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electro-acupuncture (EA) at Fenglong acupoint (ST40) can lower the levels of serum cholesterol and triacylglycerols. To study the hepatic genes responsible for the cholesterol-lowering effect of EA, suppression subtractive hybridization combined with the switch mechanism at the 5'-end of RNA template cDNA synthesis an...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Li L,Tan GH,Zhang YZ

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The thermostablility and enzymatic activity of 1,3-1,4-β-glucanase (BglA) from Bacillus amyloliquefaciens was improved by modifying five (out of 12) ε-amino groups in lysine residues with nitrous acid. The optimal modification condition for BglA was determined as 30 mM nitrous acid at, 40 °C for 30 min. The optimally-...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Niu C,Zhu L,Wang J,Li Q

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To control the genetic quality during the whole process of tissue culture of the traditional Chinese medicinal plant, Saussurea involucrate Kar. et Kir., DNA polymorphisms and genetic variations were investigated using randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) and inter-simple sequence repeats (ISSR) markers. The gene...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Yuan XF,Dai ZH,Wang XD,Zhao B

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00