Grape skins (Vitis vinifera L.) catalyze the in vitro enzymatic hydroxylation of p-coumaric acid to caffeic acid.

abstract：:Virus-induced gene silencing is based on the sequence-specific degradation of RNA. Here, a gene silencing vector derived from EuMV-YP, named pEuMV-YP:ΔAV1, was used to silence ChlI and NPR1 genes in Nicotiana benthamiana. The silencing of the ChlI transcripts was efficient in the stems, petioles and leaves as reflecte...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Villanueva-Alonzo HJ,Us-Camas RY,López-Ochoa LA,Robertson D,Guerra-Peraza O,Minero-García Y,Moreno-Valenzuela OA

更新日期：2013-05-01 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 maltose-binding protein (MBP), which possesses a large number of exposed hydrophobic zones, can be used as a link for the immobilization of growth factors. The amount of immobilized MBP-vascular endothelial growth factors (VEGFs) for polystyrene surface was increased with respect to increasing protein, showing 101...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Han M,Park IS,Kim SH,Kim BS,Kim SH

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A morphological parameter of polygonal index was defined as the ratio of cell adhesion area versus the square of the major cell axis, and cells that had an adhesion area larger than 4000 mum(2) and a polygonal index larger than 0.3 were considered large polygonal cells. Cell morphology tended to change from fibroblast...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Takagi M,Kitabayashi T,Koizumi S,Hirose H,Kondo S,Fujiwara M,Ueno K,Hiroaki M,Hosokawa Y,Masuhara H,Wakitani S

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Classical purification of the glycoprotein equine chorionic gonadotropin (eCG) from serum includes pH fractionation with metaphosphoric acid, two ethanol precipitation steps as well as dialysis followed by fixed-bed chromatography. A simplified process requiring only 1/3 of the solvent and improving the yield from 53 ...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Müller C,Wagner K,Frankenfeld K,Franzreb M

更新日期：2011-05-01 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 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：:Nitrogenous derivatives of the two orange pigments from Monascus sp. with anti-melanogenic activities were prepared using fermentation and chemical synthesis. The pigments were produced in a 5 l jar fermentor. A total of 33 derivatives were synthesized via incorporation of L-amino acids and amines into the pigments. T...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Jo D,Choe D,Nam K,Shin CS

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The objective of this study was to discover unknown differentially expressed genes (DEGs) associated with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), analyze their functions and enriched signaling pathways, and identify hub genes correlating with BPD incidence and evolvement. RESULTS:Of 1289 DEGs identified, 568 were...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Yan W,Jiang M,Zheng J

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To identify and characterize a novel antimicrobial peptide, catesbeianin-1. RESULTS:Catesbeianin-1 is 25 amino acids long and is α-helical, cationic and amphipathic. It had antimicrobial activity against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. It was resistant against trypsin and pepsin. Catesbeianin-1 ex...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Xu H,Zhang Y,Feng X,Tie K,Cao Y,Han W

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A purified recombinant enzyme from Spirochaeta thermophila, that is suggested to be a cellobiose 2-epimerase, was a 47 kDa monomer with a specific activity of 29.2 U min(-1) for mannobiose. The epimerization activity of the recombinant enzyme for mannobiose was maximal at pH 7.0 and 60 °C with a half-life of 124 h. Th...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Park CS,Kim JE,Lee SH,Kim YS,Kang LW,Oh DK

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:An easy-to-operate method of using R-ω-transaminase has been developed by fusing it to an elastin-like polypeptide and forming a complex with D-amino acid oxidase. RESULTS:R-ω-Transaminase (R-ω-TA) was fused to an elastin-like polypeptide (ELP) through genetic engineering of the enzyme. The enzyme was purif...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Gao Q,Fu Y,Peng Y,Liu W,Feng W

更新日期：2016-03-01 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

abstract：:Microbial desulfurization is potentially an alternative process to chemical desulfurization of fossil fuels and their refined products. The dibenzothiophene desulfurizing system of Rhodococcus erythropolis includes DszD which is an NADH-dependent FMN oxidoreductase with 192 residues that is responsible for supplying r...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Kamali N,Tavallaie M,Bambai B,Karkhane AA,Miri M

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1,3-Propanediol production by Klebsiella pneumoniae was studied in batch cultures under N2 flow and four airflow systems. Different byproducts were formed under different aeration conditions. An anaerobic/aerobic combined fed-batch culture was developed giving 70 g 1,3-propanediol l(-1) and 16 g 2,3-butanediol l(-1) w...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Cheng KK,Liu DH,Sun Y,Liu WB

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

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：OBJECTIVES:To investigate the effects of operational process conditions on expression of MHC class II protein from a stable Drosophila S2 cell line. RESULTS:When the Drosophila S2 cells were grown in vented orbitally shaken TubeSpin bioreactor 600 containers, cell growth was improved three-fold and the yield of recomb...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Shen X,Dojcinovic D,Baldi L,Hacker DL,Luescher IF,Wurm FM

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lipase-catalyzed reaction is useful to obtain sugar esters with chemically defined structures and will contribute to the synthesis of sugar-based compounds by a chemo-enzymatic pathway. The synthesis of sugar esters in nonaqueous media has been attempted for a quarter century. To facilitate the reactions, they hav...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Kobayashi T

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Potato (Solanum tuberosum) hairy root cultures, established by infecting potato tuber discs with Agrobacterium rhizogenes, were used as a model system for the production of antimicrobial sesquiterpenes and lipoxygenase (LOX) metabolites. Of the four sesquiterpene phytoalexins (rishitin, lubimin, phytuberin and phytube...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Komaraiah P,Reddy GV,Reddy PS,Raghavendra AS,Ramakrishna SV,Reddanna P

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth of Ruta graveolens shoots was induced when Bacillus sp. cell lysates were added to the culture medium. Elicitation of coumarin by this lysate was also very effective; the concentrations of isopimpinelin, xanthotoxin and bergapten increased to 610, 2120 and 1460 microg g(-1) dry wt, respectively. It also had a s...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Orlita A,Sidwa-Gorycka M,Malinski E,Czerwicka M,Kumirska J,Golebiowski M,Lojkowska E,Stepnowski P

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The exploded bast, branch and stem of cotton stalk were degraded by alkalophilic Bacillus NT-19, with weight losses of 24%, 20% and 14%, respectively, after 14 d. Compared with a white-rot fungus (Phanerochaete chrysosporium), Bacillus NT- 19 preferentially degraded the non-cellulose components of cotton stem. The rel...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Zheng L,Han X,Du Y

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A propanol-rinsed enzyme preparations (PREP) of papain showed an activity of 59 nmol min(-1) (mg powder)(-1) in tert-butanol at the optimal water activity of 0.2. The immobilized papain was stable in aqueous media for 3 d at 4 degrees C. Solid-state buffers (bases and their HCl salts) suspended in the organic medium d...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Theppakorn T,Kanasawud P,Halling PJ

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Avian myeloblastosis virus reverse transcriptase (AMV RT) is a heterodimer consisting of a 63 kDa α-subunit and a 95 kDa β subunit. Moloney murine leukaemia virus reverse transcriptase (MMLV RT) is a 75 kDa monomer. These two RTs are the most extensively used for conversion of RNA to DNA. We previously developed sever...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Konishi A,Yasukawa K,Inouye K

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant human interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (rHuIL-1ra) was produced in E. coli as an inclusion body. rHuIL-1ra was purified to Over 98% purity by anion exchange chromatography after on-column refolding. The optimized processes produced more than 2 g pure refolded rHuIL-1ra per 1 l culture, corresponding to a ...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Tan H,Dan G,Gong H,Cao L

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:β-Xylosidase from Thermoanaerobacterium thermosaccharolyticum was purified by His-trap affinity chromatography giving a specific activity of 5.15 U mg(-1). From gel-filtration chromatography, the purified enzyme was a tetramer with a total molecular mass of 245 kDa. Maximal enzyme activity using o-nitrophenyl(NP)-β-D-...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Shin KC,Seo MJ,Oh DK

更新日期：2014-11-01 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：: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：OBJECTIVE:The growth characteristics and intracellular hemin concentrations of Lactococcus lactis grown under different culture pH and aeration conditions were examined to investigate the effect of culture pH on the respiration efficiency of L. lactis NZ9000 (pZN8148). RESULTS:Cell biomass and biomass yield of L. lact...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Shi W,Li Y,Gao X,Fu R

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blakeslea trispora is used commercially to produce β-carotene. Isopentenyl pyrophosphate isomerase (IPI) and geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate synthase (GGPS) are key enzymes in the biosynthesis of carotenoids. The cDNAs of genes ipi and carG were cloned from the fungus and expressed in Escherichia coli. Greater GGPS activ...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Sun J,Sun XX,Tang PW,Yuan QP

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlorella protothecoides, a lutein-producing microalga, was grown aerobically in a mineral medium prepared with 70% (v/v) deuterated water. HPLC/atmospheric pressure chemical ionization-mass spectrometry (HPLC/APCI-MS) analysis revealed approximately 58% replacement of hydrogen by deuterium atoms as indicated by the m...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Bhosale P,Serban B,Bernstein PS

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00