Identification of bacteria and yeasts from in vitro and surface-sterilized field samples of Ensete ventricosum by rDNA analysis.

abstract：:A new aqueous two phase system comprising polyethylene glycol and xanthan is reported together with its phase diagram. The phase composition of the bottom phase did not vary (PEG 1.6-1.8% w/w; xanthan 0.24-0.28% w/w) while that of the top phase varied significantly (PEG 4-5% w/w, xanthan 0.05-1.37% w/w). Unlike conven...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Chethana S,Rastogi NK,Raghavarao KS

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C3H/HeJ mice were sensitized with ovalbumin (OVA) and choleratoxin (CT) for 5 weeks, and then Bifidobacterium bifidum BGN4 was administered continuously for 7 weeks, starting 2 weeks before (pre-treatment group) and 2 weeks after (post-treatment group) the initial sensitization. After sensitization, the OVA-induced (s...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Kim H,Lee SY,Ji GE

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ligation-mediated-PCR was performed followed by the mapping of 177 and 150 integration sites from HepG2 and Hek293 transduced with chimera vector carrying recombinant human Factor IX (rhFIX) cDNA, respectively. The sequences were analyzed for chromosome preference, CpG, transcription start site (TSS), repetitive eleme...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Castilho-Fernandes A,Fontes AM,Abraham KJ,de Freitas MC,da Rosa NG,Picanço-Castro V,de Sousa Russo-Carbolante EM,Covas DT

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a need for a deeper understanding of the biochemical events affecting embryonic stem (ES) cell culture by analyzing the expansion of mouse ES cells in terms of both cell growth and metabolic kinetics. The influence of the initial cell density on cell expansion was assessed. Concomitantly, the biochemical prof...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Fernandes TG,Fernandes-Platzgummer AM,da Silva CL,Diogo MM,Cabral JM

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial consortia obtained from soil samples of gasoline-polluted sites were individually enriched with pentane, hexane, isooctane and toluene. Cometabolism with methyl tert-butyl ether, (MTBE), gave maximum degradation rates of 49, 12, 32 and 0 mg g(-1)protein h(-1), respectively. MTBE was fully degraded even when ...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Morales M,Velázquez E,Jan J,Revah S,González U,Razo-Flores E

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel two-step fermentation process was developed to enhance arachidonic acid (ARA) production by Mortierella alpina ME-1 in a 5 l fermentor. Agitation speed and aeration rate were adjusted from 180 to 40 rpm and from 0.6 to 1 vvm, respectively, after 5 days cultivation, to decrease physical damage to the mycelia an...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Jin MJ,Huang H,Xiao AH,Zhang K,Liu X,Li S,Peng C

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The peptide, Ala-Pro-Ala-Arg (APAR), was selected from the screening of a tetrapeptide combinatorial synthetic library as the ligand for affinity purification of an anti-Granulocyte Macrophage-Colony Stimulating Factor (GM-CSF) monoclonal antibody (Mab) developed in mouse ascitis. The affinity chromatographic matrix o...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Camperi SA,Iannucci NB,Albanesi GJ,Oggero Eberhardt M,Etcheverrigaray M,Messeguer A,Albericio F,Cascone O

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In batch culture for glutathione production with Candida utilis, a higher temperature (30 degrees C) was required to hasten cell growth while a lower temperature (26 degrees C) was needed to increase the production of glutathione. A two-stage temperature control strategy was used to enhance both the yield and the prod...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Wei G,Li Y,Du G,Chen J

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sensitive and convenient "visible SYPRO" staining protocol was developed for visualizing proteins after SDS-PAGE. Gels were sensitized with SYPRO Ruby and then stained with the Coomassie Brilliant Blue G-250 protocol (Blue Silver). This combined protocol had similar or better linearity than staining with only SYPRO ...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Yang Y,Wang J,Bu D,Zhang L,Li S,Zhou L,Wei H

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The open reading frame of the Δ(6)-desaturase gene was isolated from Mortierella alpina W15 and the gene was cloned into a pPIC3.5K vector. The vector was transformed into Pichia pastoris GS115 and expression was induced with methanol. The Δ(6)-desaturase expressed in P. pastoris GS115 catalyzed the conversion of lino...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Liu J,Li D,Yin Y,Wang H,Li M,Yu L

更新日期：2011-10-01 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：OBJECTIVES:To uncover key genes and pathways regulated by SCL3, a GRAS transcription factor, in the context of gibberellin (GA) in the roots of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. RESULTS:Gene expression profiles of ga1-3 mutant and ga1-3 and scl3 double mutant are considerably similar to each other, revealed by Pri...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Weng CY,Zhu MH,Liu ZQ,Zheng YG

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marinomonas sp. NJ522, isolated from Antarctic sea ice, produces a cold-active iron superoxide dismutase (SOD; EC 1.15.1.1). The purified SOD was dimeric and had an approx. Mr of 48 kDa. Highest activity was detected from pH 8 to 10 and at 40 degrees C (assayed over 10 min). Activity at 0 degree C was nearly 35% of th...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Zheng Z,Jiang YH,Miao JL,Wang QF,Zhang BT,Li GY

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial fuel cells can be designed to remove nitrogenous compounds out of wastewater, but their performance is at present limited to 0.33 kg NO(3) (-)-Nm(-3) net cathode compartment (NCC) d(-1). By maintaining the pH in the cathode at 7.2, nitrogen removal was increased from 0.22 to 0.50 kg NO(3) (-)-Nm(-3) NCC d(-1...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Clauwaert P,Desloover J,Shea C,Nerenberg R,Boon N,Verstraete W

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enantioselective hydrolysis of insoluble (R,S)-ketoprofen ethyl ester to the optically active (S)-ketoprofen was carried out in a dispersed aqueous lipase reaction system induced by the inclusion of chiral cyclodextrins for complexation of the substrate. Hydroxypropyl-beta-cyclodextrin was the most effective chira...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Kim SH,Kim TK,Shin GS,Lee KW,Shin HD,Lee YH

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracts of Salvia species are used in traditional medicine to treat various diseases. The economic importance of this genus has increased in recent years due to evidence that some of its secondary metabolites have valuable pharmaceutical and nutraceutical properties.The bioactivity of sage extracts is mainly due to t...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Marchev A,Haas C,Schulz S,Georgiev V,Steingroewer J,Bley T,Pavlov A

更新日期：2014-02-01 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 developmental ability among embryos produced by three different techniques were examined: there were no significant differences in the developmental rate in porcine embryos produced by in vitro fertilization (IVF) and first generation of somatic cell nucleus transfer (SCNT), but the developmental rate dropped shar...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Huang Y,Xie W,Yao C,Han Y,Tan G,Zhou Y,Zhu J,Pang D,Li Z,Tang X

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodococcus sp. CGMCC 4911 transformed 1,3-propanediol cyclic sulfate (1,3-PDS) and its derivatives into corresponding diols. Ethylene sulfate, glycol sulfide, 1,3-PDS, and 1,2-propanediol cyclic sulfate were effectively hydrolyzed with growing cells. (R)-1,2-Propanediol (>99 % e.e.) was obtained at 44 % yield with gr...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： He YC,Tao ZC,Zhang DP,Yang ZX,Gao S,Ma CL

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:The impact of the two adaptation-induced mutations in an improved xylose-fermenting Zymomonas mobilis strain was investigated. The chromosomal mutation at the xylose reductase gene was critical to xylose metabolism by reducing xylitol formation. Together with the plasmid-borne mutation impacting xylose isomerase activ...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Agrawal M,Wang Y,Chen RR

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiogenin, a potent angiogenic factor, was cloned and expressed by Escherichia coli and then purified with gel filtration chromatography. Approximately 90% pure angiogenin was obtained to generate a monoclonal antibody. Using western immunoblotting and ELISA, we confirmed that monoclonal antibody C46 secreted from hy...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Wu J,Zhang HB,Wang J,Yang TC,Xian J,Yang CH,Lai HW

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We prepared ATP photosynthetic vesicles from inside-out membranes of Escherichia coli cells that express delta-rhodopsin (a novel light-driven H(+) transporter) and TF(0)F(1)-ATP synthase (a thermo-stable ATP synthase). These vesicles showed light-dependent ATP synthesis. Furthermore, coupling the ATP photosynthetic v...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Hara KY,Suzuki R,Suzuki T,Yoshida M,Kino K

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTS:To explore the roles of growth factor receptor-bound protein 14 (GRB14) in colorectal cancer (CRC) and its correlation with clinicopathological characteristics and prognosis of CRC patients. RESULTS:GRB14 was localized in the cytoplasm of CRC and benign glandular epithelium cells, showing higher levels in CRC ...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Yang P,Wei J,Li W,He F,Zeng S,Zhang T,Sun Z,Cao J

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microcycle conidiation is a survival mechanism of fungi encountering unfavorable conditions. In this phenomenon, asexual spores germinate secondary spores directly without formation of mycelium. As Penicillium camemberti conidia have the ability to produce conidiophores after germination in liquid culture induced by a...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Boualem K,Gervais P,Cavin JF,Waché Y

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term cell recycle fermentations of Candida tropicalis were performed over 14 rounds of fermentation. The average xylitol concentrations, fermentation times, volumetric productivities and product yields for 14 rounds were 105 g l(-1), 333 h, 4.4 g l(-1) h(-1) and 78%, respectively, in complex medium; and 110 g l(-...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Kim TB,Lee YJ,Kim P,Kim CS,Oh DK

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pleurotus eryngii was transformed using a polyethylene glycol-mediated method. A plasmid, pEPUGH, containing a reporter gene (enhanced green fluorescent protein gene, egfp) and a positive selectable marker gene (hygromycin phosphotransferase gene, hph) was constructed. The fused egfp-hph gene was placed under the cont...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Yin Y,Liu Y,Jin H,Wang S,Zhao S,Geng X,Li M,Xu F

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A chip was developed to store DNA for medical research. The optional restriction site fixed on the chip can randomly ligate with whole human genomic DNA treated by the corresponding restriction enzyme. PCR can then use the chip as template DNA. Moreover, a chip fixing two restriction sites (e.g. EcoRI and HindIII) sho...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Hanaoka T,Takai O,Takahashi K,Tsugane S

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we constructed a genetically modified luciferase of Photinus pyralis that generates more than 10-fold higher luminescence intensity than the wild-type enzyme. In this study, we demonstrate that this modified luciferase enables us to detect ATP at 10(-18) mol, which is almost equal to the quantity contained...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Noda K,Matsuno T,Fujii H,Kogure T,Urata M,Asami Y,Kuroda A

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For most cultivated mammalian cells, glutamine is an essential medium component. However, glutamine consumption results in the production of ammonia, a cytotoxic byproduct. Here we investigated the effect of glutamine reduction on recombinant protein production and ammonia accumulation in transiently transfected CHO a...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Rajendra Y,Kiseljak D,Baldi L,Hacker DL,Wurm FM

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00