Molecular and absorption properties of 12 soy isoflavones and their structure-activity relationship with selected biological activities.

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：:Two home, blood-glucose monitoring meters, OneTouch Ultra and Ascensia Contour, were used to determine the glucose concentration during fermentations of Trichoderma reesei in both flasks and bioreactors. The results, when compared to those given by the 3,5-dinitrosalicylic acid reducing sugar assay, HPLC and YSI 2700 ...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Choy V,Patel N,Thibault J

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and fluxomics are powerful omics-technologies that play a major role in today's research. For each of these techniques good sample quality is crucial. Major factors contributing to the quality of a sample is the actual sampling procedure itself and the way the sample is stored dir...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： van Eijsden RG,Stassen C,Daenen L,Van Mulders SE,Bapat PM,Siewers V,Goossens KV,Nielsen J,Delvaux FR,Van Hummelen P,Devreese B,Willaert RG

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 4 kb BamHI-HindIlI fragment, corresponding to the cry2A operon of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki strain BNS3, was cloned. The sequencing of the corresponding cry2Aa-type gene, termed crybns3-4, revealed an open reading frame of 1902 bp, encoding a protein of 633 amino-acid residues. Both nucleotide and amino...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Tounsi S,Jaoua S

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Enhancement of the potential ability of biomacromolecules to cross cell membranes is a critical step for development of effective therapeutic vaccine especially DNA vaccine against human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) infection. The supercharged proteins were known as powerful weapons for delivery of diffe...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Kardani K,Bolhassani A,Agi E,Hashemi A

更新日期：2020-10-01 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：OBJECTIVES:To find new metabolic engineering strategies to improve the yield of acetone in Escherichia coli. RESULTS:Results of flux balance analysis from a modified Escherichia coli genome-scale metabolic network suggested that the introduction of a non-oxidative glycolysis (NOG) pathway would improve the theoretical...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Yang X,Yuan Q,Zheng Y,Ma H,Chen T,Zhao X

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:UV-induced DNA damage plays a key role in the etiology of certain diseases. The ability of blueberry anthocyanins and anthocyanidins (BA) to protect cellular DNA from UV-induced damage was investigated. BA were extracted by water (BAW), ethanol (BAE) or methanol (BAM). These extracts partially restored proliferation o...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Liu W,Lu X,He G,Gao X,Li M,Wu J,Li Z,Wu J,Wang J,Luo C

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To improve the production of α-ketoglutaric acid (α-KG) from L-glutamate by whole-cell biocatalysis. RESULTS:A novel and highly active L-glutamate oxidase, SmlGOX, from Streptomyces mobaraensis was overexpressed and purified. The recombinant SmlGOX was approx. 64 kDa by SDS-PAGE. SmlGOX had a maximal activi...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Liu Q,Ma X,Cheng H,Xu N,Liu J,Ma Y

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The addresses given for the authors of this paper were incorrect. The correct assignments of the authors are given in this erratum. ...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Li W,Chen Y,Sheng Y,Xie Z,Tang Y

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare methods for erythroid differentiation of K562 cells that will be promising in the treatment of beta-thalassemia by inducing γ-globin synthesis. RESULTS:Cells were treated separately with: RPMI 1640 medium without glutamine, RPMI 1640 medium without glutamine supplemented with 1 mM sodium butyrate,...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Shariati L,Modaress M,Khanahmad H,Hejazi Z,Tabatabaiefar MA,Salehi M,Modarressi MH

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the therapeutic potential of human umbilical cord blood mesenchymal stem cells (hUCBMSCs) on promoting erectile function in a rat model of bilateral cavernous nerve (CN) crush injury. RESULTS:Fifty male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly assigned to sham + PBS group (n = 10), BCNI (bilateral caver...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Zhu JQ,Lu HK,Cui ZQ,Wang YC,Li YH,Zhao W,Fu Q,Xu YM,Xu Y,Song LJ

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel micro-bioreactor based on the oscillatory flow technology was applied to the scale-down of the biotechnological production of gamma-decalactone. A decrease up to 50% of the time required to obtain the maximum concentration of the compound was observed, when compared with other scaled-down platforms (stirred ta...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Reis N,Gonçalves CN,Aguedo M,Gomes N,Teixeira JA,Vicente AA

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hybridoma cell line, HB-8696, produces a monoclonal antibody, 520C9 (mouse IgG(1)) that recognizes the breast cancer oncoprotein, c-erbB2. The effect of perfusion rate (volume of fresh feed/working volume of reactor/day) on cell growth and mAb production was investigated but perfusion at a constant rate and at an ...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Sen S,Roychoudhury PK

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Error-prone PCR was used to create more thermoactive and/or thermostable variants of thermoalkalophilic lipases. A variant of the α6 helix (lid domain), with an 189E to V substitution at residue 189, lost its thermostability but exhibited higher activity than that of its wild-type predecessor (r03Lip). Site-saturation...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Shih TW,Pan TM

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the mechanism of phosphate accumulation, a gene encoding polyphosphate kinase (PPK) was cloned from the genomic library of Serratia marcescens by Southern hybridization. From the nucleotide sequence of a 4 kb DNA fragment, an open reading frame of 2063 nucleotides was identified encoding a protein of 686...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Lee SJ,Song OR,Lee YC,Choi YL

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel and simple method for detection of mutations in DNA oligonucleotides using a double-stranded DNA specific dye (SYBR Green I) is reported. The SYBR Green I is bound specifically with a duplex DNA oligonucleotide (it tercalation). This intercalation induces fluorescent emission at 525 nm with excitation at 494 n...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Maruyama T,Takata T,Ichinose H,Park LC,Kamaiya N,Goto M

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutant ofS. chrysomallus with a D-glucose isomerase inducible by D-glucose or its catabolites was characterized. In contrast to the wild-type strain it showed a decreased catabolite repression by D-glucose of D-xylose consumption and a constitutive pentose phosphate pathway as well. A hypothesis concerning altered i...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Hänel F,Roth M,Neigenfind M,Gräfe U,Bormann EJ

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cDNA of the starch-branching enzyme I gene (IbSBEI) in the sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) has been cloned and sequenced. The IbSBEI amino acid sequence was 81% identical to that of potato StSBEI. DNA gel-blot analyses demonstrated that at least two copies of IbSBEI are present in the sweet potato genome. IbSBEI wa...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Hamada T,Kim SH,Shimada T

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate the effect of the linker region (LR) on the enzymatic activity, stability, and flexibility of Bacillus subtilis cellulase CelI15, six mutants were constructed that contained increasing numbers of the LR. RESULTS:The CelI15 mutant with three copies of the LR (approx. 57 amino acids) showed the...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Li P,Zhou Y,Li Q,Zhang C,Sun Z,Tian L,Weng H

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dibutyl phthalate (DBP) was more efficiently degraded by cutinase compared to yeast esterase; i.e. almost 80% of initial DBP (500 mg l(-1)) was decomposed within 7.5 h, and nearly 50% of the degraded DBP disappeared within the initial 30 min. The toxicity of the final DBP degradation products were investigated using v...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Kim YH,Lee J

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A brown-rot fungus, Fomitopsis pinicola, degraded polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) in quartz sand but not in liquid culture. From gel permeation chromatography analysis, the high-molecular-weight fraction of PVA was decreased by the action of F. pinicola but the coloration of the culture filtrate with I2 solution increased. Th...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Tsujiyama S,Okada A

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indole-3-butyric acid at 25 microM with methyl jasmonate (MJ) at 100 microM in Panax ginseng synergistically stimulated both root growth and ginsenoside accumulation compared with 100 microM MJ alone. Productivity of ginsenoside was 10 mg l(-1) d(-1) compared to 7.3 mg l(-1) d(-1) with MJ elicitation alone. ...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Kim YS,Yeung EC,Hahn EJ,Paek KY

更新日期：2007-11-01 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：:By combining gene design and heterologous over-expression of Rhodotorula gracilis D-amino acid oxidase (RgDAO) in Pichia pastoris, enzyme production was enhanced by one order of magnitude compared to literature benchmarks, giving 350 kUnits/l of fed-batch bioreactor culture with a productivity of 3.1 kUnits/l h. P. pa...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Abad S,Nahalka J,Winkler M,Bergler G,Speight R,Glieder A,Nidetzky B

更新日期：2011-03-01 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：:Theabrownins (TB) are water-soluble phenolic compounds associated with the various health benefits of Pu-erh tea, a post-fermented Chinese dark tea. This work reports on the production of theabrownins from infusions of sun-dried green tea leaves using a pure culture of Aspergillus fumigatus isolated from a solid-state...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Wang Q,Gong J,Chisti Y,Sirisansaneeyakul S

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To establish an automated high-throughput mimic perfusion scale-down model (SDM) in ambr® 15 system. RESULTS:An optimized SDM for mimic perfusion was developed in ambr® 15 system. Cell retention in ambr® 15 was realized by sedimentation and supernatant removal with a retention rate > 95%. Although the SDM c...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Jin L,Wang ZS,Cao Y,Sun RQ,Zhou H,Cao RY

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial solar biofuels offer great promise for future sustainable food, fuels and chemicals but are limited by low productivities and a requirement for large land areas to harvest sunlight. A 71 % increase in combined photosynthetic activity was achieved by illuminating both Rhodobacter sphaeroides and Arthrospira (...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Redwood MD,Dhillon R,Orozco RL,Zhang X,Binks DJ,Dickinson M,Macaskie LE

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant coagulation factor VII (FVII) is used as a potential therapeutic intervention in hemophilia patients who produce antibodies against the coagulation factors. Mammalian cell lines provide low levels of expression, however, the Spodoptera frugiperda Sf9 cell line and baculovirus expression system are powerful...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Masroori N,Halabian R,Mohammadipour M,Roushandeh AM,Rouhbakhsh M,Najafabadi AJ,Fathabad ME,Salimi M,Shokrgozar MA,Roudkenar MH

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00