Biotechnological implications of filamentation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

abstract：:A maltose-inducible expression vector in Bacillus subtilis has been developed and characterized. The vector permitted beta-galactosidase expression at a high level (maximum activity, 8.16 U/ml) when induced and its expression was markedly repressed by glucose. Using this vector, we successfully expressed the other two...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Ming-Ming Y,Wei-Wei Z,Xi-Feng Z,Pei-Lin C

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell adhesion to extracellular matrices, including fibronectin, results in clustering of integrins in focal adhesions. To promote the clustering of fibronectin and thus enhance its activity at the sites of focal adhesion formation, we have engineered a fusion protein containing recombinant fibronectin fragment (hFN) c...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Chung CP,Jang JH

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethanol, added as a de-emulsifier to separate oil and biocatalyst (or bacterial cells) from a three-phase (oil/biocatalyst/aqueous phase) emulsion, formed in diesel biodesulfurization employing Gordonia nitida, improved oil recovery by centrifugation from about 50% in its absence to almost 100% at 3% (v/v). The biocat...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Choi OK,Choi KS,Ryu HW,Chang YK

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetically-coded, fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) biosensors are widely used to study molecular events from single cells to whole organisms. They are unique among biosensors because of their spontaneous fluorescence and targeting specificity to both organelles and tissues. In this review, we discuss the...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Li IT,Pham E,Truong K

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent progress in knowledge on biochemical properties and functions of phospholipases A(2) in plants paved the way for approving the suitability of these enzymes for commercial use now. The secreted phospholipases A(2), representing one type of phospholipases A(2) occurring in plants, show distinct differences in...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Mansfeld J

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sigma 70-like gene, sigA, has been identified from Corynebacterium ammoniagenes. The sigA gene encodes a polypeptide of 467 amino acids with a calculated molecular mass of 52036 Da. The deduced amino acid sequence preserves the common motifs of the primary sigma factors and shows very high similarity to those of Sig...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Lee BR,Kim JH

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deacetoxy/deacetylcephalosporin C synthase (acDAOC/DACS) from Acremonium chrysogenum is a bifunctional enzyme that catalyzes both the ring-expansion of penicillin N to deacetoxycephalosporin C and the hydroxylation of the latter to deacetylcephalosporin C. The R308 residue located in close proximity to the C-terminus ...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Wu XB,Tian XY,Ji JJ,Wu WB,Fan KQ,Yang KQ

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leymus chinensis is an important grassland perennial grass. However, its drought tolerance requires to be improved. LEA (late embryogenesis abundant) genes are believed to confer resistance to drought and water deficiency. Using Agrobacterium-mediated transformation, a wheat LEA gene, TaLEA(3), was integrated into L. ...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Wang L,Li X,Chen S,Liu G

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brevibacterium linens forms hydrolytic enzymes which can be used to accelerate the ripening of cheese without causing bitterness. B. linens ATCC 9172 was grown to a high cell density (50 g dry wt l-1 after 60 h) in a mineral medium containing lactic acid, soy-peptone and ammonium sulphate by applying a continuous feed...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Adamitsch BF,Karner F,Hampel WA

更新日期：2003-05-01 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：:An on-line device, ORP (oxidation-reduction potential)-stat, was used to control glucose-feeding for enhancing xylitol conversion from D-xylose during an oxygen-limited fermentation by Candida tropicalis. The fermentation was carried out in a 5 l jar fermenter. After glucose in the medium was depleted, a switching to ...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Sheu DC,Duan KJ,Jou SR,Chen YC,Chen CW

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrophobin-fused domain III of dengue envelope proteins serotypes 1 and 2 were expressed in Rachiplusia nu larvae and purified by aqueous two-phase system. This biotechnological approach of hydrophobin-fused proteins, which allowed obtaining 97.7 µg/larva of fusion protein DomIII serotype 1 and 61.4 µg/larva of fusio...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Cerezo J,Targovnik AM,Smith ME,González Maglio D,Luppo VC,Morales MA,Miranda MV,Rodríguez Talou J

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over-expression of the gene, mshA, coding for mycothiol glycosyl transferase improved the robustness of Corynebacterium glutamicum to various stresses. Intracellular mycothiol (MSH) content was increased by 114 % in WT(pXMJ19-mshA) compared to WT(pXMJ19). Survival rates increased by 44, 39, 90, 77, 131, 87, 52, 47, 57...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Liu YB,Chen C,Chaudhry MT,Si MR,Zhang L,Wang Y,Shen XH

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal diseases damage crop plants and affect agricultural production. Transgenic plants have been produced by inserting antifungal genes to confer resistance against fungal pathogens. Genes of fungal cell wall-degrading enzymes, such as chitinase and glucanase, are frequently used to produce fungal-resistant transgen...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Ceasar SA,Ignacimuthu S

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene for beta-agarase of an Agarivorans sp. JA-1 was expressed in Bacillus subtilis strain DB104 for efficient and economical mass-production of the enzyme. We isolated 360 mg protein with a specific activity of 201 U/mg from the culture broth. The efficiency of production was approximately 130-fold higher than th...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Lee DG,Jang MK,Lee OH,Kim NY,Ju SA,Lee SH

更新日期：2008-05-01 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：: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：: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：:Human beta-amyloid (Abeta) is believed to be one of the main components of Alzheimer's disease, so reduction of Abeta is considered a key therapeutic target. Using Agrobacterium-mediated nuclear transformation, we generated transgenic tomatoes for Abeta with tandem repeats. Integration of the human Abeta gene into the...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Youm JW,Jeon JH,Kim H,Kim YH,Ko K,Joung H,Kim H

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of the study is to generate a spherical three-dimensional (3D) aggregate of hepatocyte-like cells (HLCs) differentiated from human embryonic stem cells and to investigate the effect of the 3D environment on hepatic maturation and drug metabolism. RESULTS:Quantitative real-time PCR analysis indicated...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Choi YJ,Kim H,Kim JW,Yoon S,Park HJ

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fermentation kinetics of Penicillium aculeatum ATCC 10409 demonstrated that fungal growth and dextranase release are decoupled. Inoculation by conidia or mycelia resulted in identical kinetics. Two new isoenzymes of the dextranase were characterized regarding their kinetic constants, pI, MW, activation energy and stab...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Erhardt FA,Stammen S,Jördening HJ

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lipase of Pseudomonas cepacia was immobilized onto electrospun polyacrylonitrile (PAN) fibers and used for the conversion of (S)-glycidol with vinyl n-butyrate to glycidyl n-butyrate in isooctane. The rate of reaction with the adsorbed lipase was 23-fold higher than the initial material. After 10 recyclings, the i...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Sakai S,Liu Y,Yamaguchi T,Watanabe R,Kawabe M,Kawakami K

更新日期：2010-08-01 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：OBJECTIVES:To use molecular docking and dynamic simulation to investigate the inhibitory action of chlorogenic acid (CHA) and its analogues against sortase A of Staphylococcus aureus. RESULTS:Five novel, natural inhibitors with different activities were discovered for sortase A (SrtA). The inhibition mechanism of the ...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Bi C,Wang L,Niu X,Cai H,Zhong X,Deng X,Wang T,Wang D

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of a hyperthermophilic enzyme, alkaline phosphatase from Pyrococcus furiosus (PfuAP), with EDTA completely deactivated PfuAP, indicating that the presence of one or more divalent metal ions is essential for its catalytic activity. Subsequent addition of various divalent metal ions to the apoprotein recovered...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Minamihata K,Goto M,Kamiya N

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study aimed to assess the inhibitory effect of a DNA aptamer (Apt17) which targeted Salmonella invasion proteinA (SipA). The effect of Apt17, on biofilm formation by two Salmonella enteritidis strains, was tested either separately or in combination with ampicillin at different Sub MIC concentrations. Maxim...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Shatila F,Yaşa İ,Yalçın HT

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of a water-miscible ionic liquid, 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate ([BMIM][BF(4)]), on both thermodynamics and kinetic mechanism of the horseradish peroxidase (HRP)-catalyzed oxidation of guaiacol (2-methoxyphenol) by H(2)O(2) were investigated. The ionic liquid stabilized the ground state of ...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Hong ES,Kwon OY,Ryu K

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To develop a rapid, dual-parameter, plate-based screening process to improve production and secretion rate of glucose oxidase simultaneously in Aspergillus niger. RESULTS:A morphology engineering based on CaCO3 was implemented, where the yield of GOD by A. niger was increased by up to 50%. Analysis of extra...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Zhu X,Sun J,Chu J

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of glycerol and the oxygen transfer rate on the xylitol production rate by a xylitol dehydrogenase gene (XYL2)-disrupted mutant of Candida tropicalis were investigated. The mutant produced xylitol near the almost yield of 100% from D: -xylose using glycerol as a co-substrate for cell growth and NADPH regen...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Ko BS,Rhee CH,Kim JH

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene-specific, metagenomic PCR method has led to the discovery of a novel esterase subfamily consisting of five homologous members. Sequence analysis of this esterase subfamily, named the ArmEst subfamily, revealed a unique conserved pattern with a significant variable interior sequence flanked by two symmetric and ...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Zhang A,Zhao R,Jin P,Ma L,Xiong X,Xie T,Pei X,Yu L,Yin X,Wang Q

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00