Description of a PCR-based technique for DNA splicing and mutagenesis by producing 5' overhangs with run through stop DNA synthesis utilizing Ara-C.

abstract：BACKGROUND:CRISPR/Cas9 is widely used for precise genetic editing in various organisms. CRISPR/Cas9 editing may in many plants be hampered by the presence of complex and high ploidy genomes and inefficient or poorly controlled delivery of the CRISPR/Cas9 components to gamete cells or cells with regenerative potential. ...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Petersen BL,Möller SR,Mravec J,Jørgensen B,Christensen M,Liu Y,Wandall HH,Bennett EP,Yang Z

更新日期：2019-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dissolved oxygen tension (DOT) is hardly constant and homogenously distributed in a bioreactor, which can have a negative impact in the metabolism and product synthesis. However, the effects of DOT on plasmid DNA (pDNA) production and quality have not been thoroughly investigated. In the present study, the e...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Jaén KE,Sigala JC,Olivares-Hernández R,Niehaus K,Lara AR

更新日期：2017-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nanoparticles appear to be promising devices for application in the agriculture and food industries, but information regarding the response of plants to contact with nano-devices is scarce. Toxic effects may be imposed depending on the type and concentration of nanoparticle as well as time of exposure. A num...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Santos AR,Miguel AS,Macovei A,Maycock C,Balestrazzi A,Oliva A,Fevereiro P

更新日期：2013-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In vivo use of monoclonal antibodies has become routine clinical practice in the treatment of human cancer. CD38 is an attractive target, because it has double roles, as a receptor and an ectoenzyme. Daratumumab, an anti-CD38 antibody, is currently in the clinical trials for multiple myeloma. RESULTS:Here w...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Yu T,Qiao C,Lv M,Tang L

更新日期：2019-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acetyl-xylan esterase (AXE, EC 3.1.1.72) hydrolyses acetate group from the linear chain of xylopyranose residues bound by β-1,4-linkage. The enzyme finds commercial applications in bio-bleaching of wood pulp, treating animal feed to increase digestibility, processing food to increase clarification and conver...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Atta S,Ali S,Akhtar MN,Haq I

更新日期：2011-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:During a global influenza pandemic, the vaccine requirements of developing countries can surpass their supply capabilities, if these exist at all, compelling them to rely on developed countries for stocks that may not be available in time. There is thus a need for developing countries in general to produce t...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Mortimer E,Maclean JM,Mbewana S,Buys A,Williamson AL,Hitzeroth II,Rybicki EP

更新日期：2012-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Expressed Sequence Tag (EST) sequences are widely used in applications such as genome annotation, gene discovery and gene expression studies. However, some of GenBank dbEST sequences have proven to be "unclean". Identification of cDNA termini/ends and their structures in raw ESTs not only facilitates data qu...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Zhou S,Ji G,Liu X,Li P,Moler J,Karro JE,Liang C

更新日期：2012-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nitrilases attract increasing attention due to their utility in the mild hydrolysis of nitriles. According to activity and gene screening, filamentous fungi are a rich source of nitrilases distinct in evolution from their widely examined bacterial counterparts. However, fungal nitrilases have been less explo...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Kaplan O,Bezouška K,Plíhal O,Ettrich R,Kulik N,Vaněk O,Kavan D,Benada O,Malandra A,Sveda O,Veselá AB,Rinágelová A,Slámová K,Cantarella M,Felsberg J,Dušková J,Dohnálek J,Kotik M,Křen V,Martínková L

更新日期：2011-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Insect resistance in crops represents a main challenge for agriculture. Transgenic approaches based on proteins displaying insect resistance properties are widely used as efficient breeding strategies. To extend the spectrum of targeted pathogens and overtake the development of resistance, molecular evolutio...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Prado GS,Bamogo PKA,de Abreu JAC,Gillet FX,Dos Santos VO,Silva MCM,Brizard JP,Bemquerer MP,Bangratz M,Brugidou C,Sérémé D,Grossi-de-Sa MF,Lacombe S

更新日期：2019-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To deal with the increasingly severe energy crisis and environmental consequences, biofuels and biochemicals generated from renewable resources could serve as a promising alternative for replacing petroleum as a source of fuel and chemicals, among which isoprene (2-methyl-1,3-butadiene) in particular is of g...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Yang J,Nie Q,Liu H,Xian M,Liu H

更新日期：2016-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the previous study, the cellulolytic Escherichia coli ZH-4 isolated from bovine rumen was found to show extracellular cellulase activity and could degrade cellulose in the culture. The goal of this work was to identify and characterize the secreted cellulase of E. coli ZH-4. It will be helpful to re-under...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Pang J,Wang J,Liu Z,Zhang Q,Qi Q

更新日期：2019-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Arachidonic acid (ARA, C20:4, n-6), which belongs to the omega-6 series of polyunsaturated fatty acids and has a variety of biological activities, is commercially produced in Mortierella alpina. Dissolved oxygen or oxygen utilization efficiency is a critical factor for Mortierella alpina growth and arachidon...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Zhang H,Feng Y,Cui Q,Song X

更新日期：2017-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats/CRISPR associated protein 9 (CRISPR/Cas9) has been wildly used to generate gene knockout models through inducing indels causing frame-shift. However, there are few studies concerning the post-transcript effects caused by CRISPR-mediated genome editing...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Tang JX,Chen D,Deng SL,Li J,Li Y,Fu Z,Wang XX,Zhang Y,Chen SR,Liu YX

更新日期：2018-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cost-effective production of industrially important enzymes is a key for their successful exploitation on industrial scale. Keeping in view the extensive industrial applications of lignin peroxidase (LiP), this study was performed to purify and characterize the LiP from an indigenous strain of Trametes versi...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Asgher M,Iqbal HM,Irshad M

更新日期：2012-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dengue is a public health problem of global significance for which there is neither an effective antiviral therapy nor a preventive vaccine. It is a mosquito-borne viral disease, caused by dengue (DEN) viruses, which are members of the Flaviviridae family. There are four closely related serotypes, DEN-1, DEN...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Khanam S,Rajendra P,Khanna N,Swaminathan S

更新日期：2007-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:More than a dozen of fungal immunomodulatory proteins (FIPs) have been identified to date, most of which are from Ganoderma species. However, little is known about the similarities and differences between different Ganoderma FIPs' bioactivities. In the current study, two FIP genes termed FIP-gap1 and FIP-gap...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Qu ZW,Zhou SY,Guan SX,Gao R,Duan ZW,Zhang X,Sun WY,Fan WL,Chen SS,Chen LJ,Lin JW,Ruan YY

更新日期：2018-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is an increasing need to understand cell-cell interactions for cell and tissue engineering purposes, such as optimizing cell sheet constructs, as well as for examining adhesion defect diseases. For cell-sheet engineering, one major obstacle to sheet function is that cell sheets in suspension are fragil...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Wei Q,Reidler D,Shen MY,Huang H

更新日期：2013-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tetanus neurotoxin (TeNT) is taken up at nerve terminals and undergoes retrograde migration. The toxic properties of TeNT reside in the toxin light chain (L), but like complete TeNT, the TeNT heavy chain (TTH) and the C-terminal domain (TTC) alone can bind and enter into neurons. Here, we explored whether at...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Watanabe Y,Matsuba T,Nakanishi M,Une M,Hanajima R,Nakashima K

更新日期：2018-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A method for inhibiting the expression of particular genes using external guide sequences (EGSs) has been developed in bacteria, mammalian cells and maize cells. RESULTS:To examine whether EGS technology can be used to down-regulate gene expression in Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans), we generated EGS-Ng...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Yan Q,Zhao R,Zheng W,Yin C,Zhang B,Ma W

更新日期：2009-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Engineered proteins, with non-immunoglobulin scaffolds, have become an important alternative to antibodies in many biotechnical and therapeutic applications. When compared to antibodies, tailored proteins may provide advantageous properties such as a smaller size or a more stable structure. RESULTS:Avidin i...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Riihimäki TA,Hiltunen S,Rangl M,Nordlund HR,Määttä JA,Ebner A,Hinterdorfer P,Kulomaa MS,Takkinen K,Hytönen VP

更新日期：2011-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the search for generic expression strategies for mammalian protein families several bacterial expression vectors were examined for their ability to promote high yields of soluble protein. Proteins studied included cell surface receptors (Ephrins and Eph receptors, CD44), kinases (EGFR-cytoplasmic domain, ...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Dyson MR,Shadbolt SP,Vincent KJ,Perera RL,McCafferty J

更新日期：2004-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Social amoeba, Dictyostelium discoideum, is a well-established model organism for studying cellular physiology and developmental pattern formation. Its haploid genome facilitates functional analysis of genes by a single round of mutagenesis including targeted disruption. Although the efficient generation of ...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Mukai A,Ichiraku A,Horikawa K

更新日期：2016-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:New high-throughput sequencing technologies promise a very sensitive and high-resolution analysis of DNA methylation patterns in quantitative terms. However, a detailed and comprehensive comparison with existing validated DNA methylation analysis methods is not yet available. Therefore, a systematic cross-va...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Potapova A,Albat C,Hasemeier B,Haeussler K,Lamprecht S,Suerbaum S,Kreipe H,Lehmann U

更新日期：2011-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Baculovirus, which has a width of 40 nm and a length of 250-300 nm, can display functional peptides, receptors and antigens on its surface by their fusion with a baculovirus envelop protein, GP64. In addition, some transmembrane proteins can be displayed without GP64 fusion, using the native transmembrane do...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Kato T,Suzuki F,Park EY

更新日期：2011-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The use of highly reproducible and spatiallyhomogeneous thin film matrices permits automated microscopy and quantitative determination of the response of hundreds of cells in a population. Using thin films of extracellular matrix proteins, we have quantified, on a cell-by-cell basis, phenotypic parameters of...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Langenbach KJ,Elliott JT,Tona A,McDaniel D,Plant AL

更新日期：2006-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Multi-copy gene integration into microbial genomes is a conventional tool for obtaining improved gene expression. For Penicillium chrysogenum, the fungal producer of the beta-lactam antibiotic penicillin, many production strains carry multiple copies of the penicillin biosynthesis gene cluster. This discover...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Ziemons S,Koutsantas K,Becker K,Dahlmann T,Kück U

更新日期：2017-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Spinal cord injury (SCI) remains a huge medical problem nowadays as there is no hospital providing the versatile strategies for repairing central nervous system and restoring function. Herein, we focused on PC-12 cells as an important research tool and studied the potential role of resveratrol (RSV) in infla...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Zhang G,Liu Y,Xu L,Sha C,Zhang H,Xu W

更新日期：2019-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Analogues of vitamin D3 are extensively used in the treatment of various illnesses, such as osteoporosis, inflammatory skin diseases, and cancer. Functional testing of new vitamin D3 analogues and formulations for improved systemic and topical administration is supported by sensitive screening methods that a...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Staunstrup NH,Sharma N,Bak RO,Svensson L,Petersen TK,Aarenstrup L,Kristiansen K,Bolund L,Mikkelsen JG

更新日期：2011-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ability of cytosine deaminase (CD) to convert the antifungal agent 5-fluorocytosine (5-FC) into one of the most potent and largely used anticancer compound such as 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) raised considerable interest in this enzyme to model gene or antibody - directed enzyme-prodrug therapy (GDEPT/ADEPT) a...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Mallano A,Zamboni S,Carpinelli G,Santoro F,Flego M,Ascione A,Gellini M,Tombesi M,Podo F,Cianfriglia M

更新日期：2008-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Each year, influenza is responsible for hundreds of thousand cases of illness and deaths worldwide. Due to the virus' fast mutation rate, the World Health Organization (WHO) is constantly on alert to rapidly respond to emerging pandemic strains. Although anti-viral therapies exist, the most proficient way to...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Thompson CM,Petiot E,Mullick A,Aucoin MG,Henry O,Kamen AA

更新日期：2015-05-16 00:00:00