Design of novel analogues with potent antibiotic activity based on the antimicrobial peptide, HP(2-9)-ME(1-12).

abstract：:Passiflora garckei cell cultures were used as a model to describe a reproducible sample preparation method. Solid phase extraction (SPE) was employed to isolate the plant metabolites for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) analysis and to subsequently detect the differences between yeast extract elicited and control cell...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Fraccaroli M,Nicoletti S,Maltese F,Choi YH,Guzzo F,Levi M,Verpoorte R

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some pest management programs employ PCR to identify cry1 genes from Bacillus thuringiensis to predict bacterial toxicity towards different insect pests. However, due to changes on the mode of action of the Cry proteins, new primers had to be designed to detect the new genes. Therefore, an 'in-silico' study of genetic...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Davolos CC,Guidelli-Thuler AM,de Abreu IL,Sena JA,Lemos MV

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a novel and convenient method for the determination of glycoproteins, especially antibodies, using galactose oxidase (GAO) on the basis of the contents of galactosyl and N-acetylgalactosaminyl residues in carbohydrate chains of glycoproteins. GAO converts galactose residues to their corresponding aldehyde an...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Jeon SI,Hong JW,Yoon HC

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of inducible materials (dexamethasone and ascorbate) on chondrogenic differentiation of rabbit chondrocytes have been examined. A hydrogel construct containing dexamethasone and ascorbate up-regulated gene expression of the cartilage matrix component of collagen to give three times the collagen content per...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Na K,Choi SJ,Kim S,Sun BK,Woo DG,Chung HM,Park KH

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding a novel short-chain alcohol dehydrogenase in the thermophilic bacterium, Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans, was identified and overexpressed in Escherichia coli. The enzyme was thermally stable and displayed the highest activity at 70 °C and pH 6.0. It preferred NAD(H) over NADP(H) as a cofactor and ...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Zhou S,Zhang SC,Lai DY,Zhang SL,Chen ZM

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The promoter of HpMET3, encoding an ATP sulfurylase, was evaluated for its potential as a repressible promoter to downregulate the expression of target genes in the thermotolerant, methylotrophic yeast Hansenula polymorpha. RESULTS:The expression of lacZ under the control of the 0.6 kb HpMET3 promoter was e...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Yoo SJ,Chung SY,Lee DJ,Kim H,Cheon SA,Kang HA

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to characterize the growth of the fungus Leucoagaricus gongylophorus LEU18496, isolated from the fungus garden of the nest of leaf cutter ants Atta mexicana. The fungus garden was cultivated in an artificial laboratory nest and the fungus further grown in submerged (SmC) and solid state (SSC)...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Maya-Yescas ME,Revah S,Le Borgne S,Valenzuela J,Palacios-González E,Terrés-Rojas E,Vigueras-Ramírez G

更新日期：2021-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In the industrial production of bioethanol from lignocellulosic biomass, a strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae that can ferment xylose in the presence of inhibitors is of utmost importance. The recombinant, industrial-flocculating S. cerevisiae strain NAPX37, which can ferment xylose, was used as the parent to delete t...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Li YC,Gou ZX,Liu ZS,Tang YQ,Akamatsu T,Kida K

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucor circinelloides and Mortierella isabellina hydroxylated dehydroabietic acid (DehA). DehA was converted regio- and stereo-selectively by whole cells of Mr. circinelloides to give 2alpha-hydroxydehydroabietic acid in a 75% molar conversion yield (11 mM from 14.7 mM DehA) after 72 h in the cultivation medium contain...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Mitsukura K,Imoto T,Nagaoka H,Yoshida T,Nagasawa T

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The substrate specificity of alpha-chymotrypsin and other serine proteases, trypsin, elastase, proteinase K and subtilisin, towards hydrolysis of various polyesters was examined using poly(L-lactide) (PLA), poly(beta-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB), poly(ethylene succinate) (PES), poly(ethylene adipate) (PEA), poly(butylene su...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Lim HA,Raku T,Tokiwa Y

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium spp. produce n-butanol in the acetone/butanol/ethanol process. For sustainable industrial scale butanol production, a number of obstacles need to be addressed including choice of feedstock, the low product yield, toxicity to production strain, multiple-end products and downstream processing of alcohol mixt...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Jurgens G,Survase S,Berezina O,Sklavounos E,Linnekoski J,Kurkijärvi A,Väkevä M,van Heiningen A,Granström T

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:A bio-based process is appealing for purification of L-lactic acid, the major enantiomer of polylactic acid syrup, generated by thermochemical processes at the end of life of PLA-based plastics, from its chiral impurity, D-lactic acid, before reuse. RESULTS:Polylactic acid (PLA), a renewable alternative to p...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Chauliac D,Pullammanappallil PC,Ingram LO,Shanmugam KT

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sodium butyrate is commonly used in mammalian cell cultures to increase the productivity of recombinant proteins. A Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell line producing recombinant human erythropoietin (rhEPO) was cultured in commercial medium. Addition of 0.5 mM butyrate inhibited the over-growth of the cells after the me...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Liu Y,Zhou X,Song Z,Zhang Y

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:An extracellular protease inhibitor (BTPI-301) of trypsin was purified and characterized from an isolate of Pseudomonas mendocina. RESULTS:BTPI-301was purified to homogeneity by (NH4)2SO4, precipitation, DEAE Sepharose and CNBr-activated Sepharose chromatography. Homogeneity was proved by native PAGE and SD...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Sapna K,Manzur Ali PP,Rekha Mol KR,Bhat SG,Chandrasekaran M,Elyas KK

更新日期：2017-12-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To propose and verify a hypothesis that miR-17-5p knockdown may mitigate atherosclerotic lesions using atherosclerotic ApoE-/- mice as serum microRNA-17-5p (miR-17-5p) is elevated in patients with atherosclerosis. RESULTS:The level of miR-17-5p was higher while the level of very low density lipoprotein recep...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Tan L,Meng L,Shi X,Yu B

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic islet transplantation is used to treat diabetes mellitus that has minimal complications and avoids hypoglycemic shock. Conformal microencapsulation of pancreatic islets improves their function by blocking immunogenic molecules while protecting fragile islets. However, production of empty alginate capsules d...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Shin S,Yoo YJ

更新日期：2013-12-01 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 use of H(2), He and O(2) during batch fermentation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae BRAS291 increased the final intracellular glycogen contents of the cells from 2-fold to 10-fold compared with a gas-free condition, and this depended on the gas applied. Differently, the intracellular trehalose contents increased from 2...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Pham TH,Mauvais G,Vergoignan C,De Coninck J,Cachon R,Feron G

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seeds play essential roles in plant life cycle and germination is a complex process which is associated with different phases of water imbibition. Upon imbibition, seeds begin utilization of storage substances coupled with metabolic activity and biosynthesis of new proteins. Regeneration of organelles and emergence of...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Zaynab M,Kanwal S,Furqan M,Islam W,Noman A,Ali GM,Rehman N,Zafar S,Sughra K,Jahanzab M

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthocyanic vacuolar inclusions (AVIs) appear as dark red-to-purple spheres of various sizes in vacuoles of grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) cell suspension culture due to their interaction with anthocyanins. AVIs were purified and the bound anthocyanins extracted and analysed by HPLC from two lines of V. vinifera isolat...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Conn S,Zhang W,Franco C

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel method to examine the morphology and structure of fungal hyphae in solid pastes used for the production of meat alternative product is presented. A sample of fermentation broth was fluorescently stained with Calcofluor White and added back to the broth, mixed and then a paste made using ultra-filtration. Fibre...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Miri T,Cox PW,Fryer PJ

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF WORK:Thymidine is an important precursor in antiviral drugs. We have enhanced thymidine production in E. coli by eliminating the repressors in the transcription of the gene coding for carbamoyl phosphate synthetase. The operon for carbamoyl phosphate synthetase (CarAB) in the thymidine biosynthesis regulator...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Koo BS,Hyun HH,Kim SY,Kim CH,Lee HC

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rhizosphere is the soil-plant root interphase and in practice consists of the soil adhering to the root besides the loose soil surrounding it. Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) are potential agents for the biological control of plant pathogens. A biocontrol strain should be able to protect the host plant...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Babalola OO

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF WORK:To apply a fluorescent dye as an alternative technique to evaluate the survival of potentially probiotic lactobacilli to bile acids (BA) as first step in the design of probiotic functional foods. The use of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) in the functional food design depends on their ability to survive in t...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Bustos AY,Raya R,Bru E,de Valdez GF,Taranto MP

更新日期：2011-07-01 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：:ECO-orf27 associated with the cluster of ECO-0501 (LW01) from Amycolatopsis orientalis is deduced to encode a type II thioesterase. Disruption of ECO-orf27 reduced LW01 production by 95 %. Complementation of the disrupted mutant with intact ECO-orf27 restored the production of LW01 suggesting that ECO-orf27 is crucial...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Shen Y,Huang H,Zhu L,Luo M,Chen D

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tandem affinity purification (TAP) is a methodology for the isolation of protein complexes from endogenous sources. It involves incorporation of a dual-affinity tag into the protein of interest and introduction of the construct into desired cell lines or organisms. Using the two affinity handles, the protein complex a...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Li Y

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our current knowledge of protein unfolding is overwhelmingly related to reversible denaturation. However, to engineer thermostable enzymes for industrial applications and medical diagnostics, it is necessary to consider irreversible denaturation processes and/or the entire quaternary structure. In this study we have u...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Kaneko H,Minagawa H,Shimada J

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To rationally identify targets for enhancing adenosine production, transcription level of genes involved in adenosine synthesis of Bacillus subtilis XGL was detected during the fermentation process, complemented with metabolite pool analysis. RESULTS:PurR-regulated genes (pur operon and purA) and prs were d...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Zhang C,Du S,Liu Y,Xie X,Xu Q,Chen N

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00