Acidic pH conditions induce dissociation of the haem from the protein and destabilise the catalase isolated from Aspergillus terreus.

abstract：:Fluctuating light intensity had a more significant impact on growth of gametophytes of transgenic Laminaria japonica in a 2500 ml bubble-column bioreactor than constant light intensity. A fluctuating light intensity between 10 and 110 microE m(-2) s(-1), with a photoperiod of 14 h:10 h light:dark, was the best regime ...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Gao J,Zhang Y,Zhang W,Wu S,Qin S,Zhang W,Yu X

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bioreactors are essential in tissue engineering, not only because they provide an in vitro environment mimicking in vivo conditions for the growth of tissue substitutes, but also because they enable systematic studies of the responses of living tissues to various mechanical and biochemical cues. The basic principles o...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Chen HC,Hu YC

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigated the potential of a novel dendrosomal nanoformulation of curcumin (DNC) in blocking radiation-induced changes in irradiated human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs), and their adhesion to human THP-1 monocytoid cells. RESULTS:Co60 gamma rays reduced viability, raised the expression of ...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Soltani B,Bodaghabadi N,Mahpour G,Ghaemi N,Sadeghizadeh M

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Breast cancer is a popular fatal malignant tumor for women with high of rates incidence and mortality. Development of the new approaches for breast cancer targeted diagnosis and chemotherapy is emergently needed by the current clinical practice, the important first step is finding a breast cancer specificall...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Jin H,Gao X,Xiao L,He H,Cheng S,Zhang C,Hou Y,Song F,Su X,Gao Q,Lu Z,Yang R,Song X,Yang J,Duan W,Hou Y

更新日期：2021-01-01 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：: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 ion-exchange chromatography behavior of recombinant glucose dehydrogenase harboring pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQGDH) was modified to greatly simplify its purification. The surface charge of PQQGDH was engineered by either fusing a three-arginine tail to the C-terminus of PQQGDH (PQQGDH+Arg3) or by substituting th...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Koh H,Igarashi S,Sode K

更新日期：2003-10-01 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：OBJECTIVES:To acquire a thermostable xylanase, that is suitable for xylooligosaccharide production from pretreated corncobs, the metagenomic method was used to obtain the gene from an uncultured environmental microorganism. RESULTS:A thermostable xylanase-encoding gene (xyn10CD18) was cloned directly from the metageno...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Sun MZ,Zheng HC,Meng LC,Sun JS,Song H,Bao YJ,Pei HS,Yan Z,Zhang XQ,Zhang JS,Liu YH,Lu FP

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of several types of chemical surfactants and biosurfactants, only the culture broth of Bacillus subtilis C1 containing surfactin at 10 mg l(-1) completely inhibited the growth of Microcystis aeruginosa, a bloom-forming cyanobacterium in highly eutrophic lakes. The broth with 10 mg surfactin l(-1) also removed 85% of t...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Ahn CY,Joung SH,Jeon JW,Kim HS,Yoon BD,Oh HM

更新日期：2003-07-01 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：:The gene, xynB, from Streptomyces olivaceoviridis A1 encoding xylanase, XYNB, with a high specific activity for xylan, was transformed into potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) by Agrobacterium tumefaciens. The integration of xynB into genomic DNA was confirmed by PCR and reverse transcriptase-PCR. The gene was expressed und...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Yang P,Wang Y,Bai Y,Meng K,Luo H,Yuan T,Fan Y,Yao B

更新日期：2007-04-01 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：:Genomic DNA was isolated from as little as 2 mg dry biomass of Magnaporthe grisea by microwave treatment within 30 s. The quantity of DNA was good enough for PCR analysis and Dot blot hybridization. This technique can be used for various studies, such as DNA fingerprinting to study the population structure of the phyt...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Tendulkar SR,Gupta A,Chattoo BB

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The profiles of carotenoids and production of β-carotene by six eustigmatophytes, Eustigmatos magnus, Eustigmatos polyphem, Eustigmatos vischeri, Vischeria helvetica, Vischeria punctata and Vischeria stellata, grown in a bubble column photobioreactor were measured. All eustigmatophytes contained β-carotene, violaxanth...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Li Z,Sun M,Li Q,Li A,Zhang C

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Keratinase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa KS-1 was expressed constitutively as an extracellular protein in Escherichia coli with high specific activity of 3.7 kU/mg. It was purified fourfold as a 33 kDa monomeric protein by Q-Sepharose ion exchange chromatography with a recovery of 95%. It is a serine protease with optim...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Sharma R,Gupta R

更新日期：2010-12-01 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：: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：:The construction and testing of a unique instrument, the Paleobiosphere, which mimics some of the conditions of the ancient earth, is described. The instrument provides an experimental testing system for determining if certain microbes, when provided an adequate environment, can degrade biological materials to produce...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Strobel G,Booth E,Schaible G,Mends MT,Sears J,Geary B

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of biosensors have been developed for phosphate analysis particularly, concerning its negative impact within the environmental and biological systems. Enzymatic biosensors comprising either a single or multiple enzymatic system have been extensively used for the direct and indirect analysis of phosphate ions....

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Upadhyay LS,Verma N

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To find a novel host for the production of 4-vinylphenol (4VPh) by screening Streptomyces species. RESULTS:The conversion of p-coumaric acid (pHCA) to 4VPh in Streptomyces mobaraense was evaluated using a medium containing pHCA. S. mobaraense readily assimilated pHCA after 24 h of cultivation to produce 4VP...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Fujiwara R,Noda S,Kawai Y,Tanaka T,Kondo A

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two genes, MGFc (40) and MGFc (24), encoding different E peptides of mechano-growth factor (MGF), were obtained by a four-step PCR strategy and subcloned into pRSETC and pGEX-6p-1. Recombinant MGFc(40) protein (4 mg l(-1)) was expressed and purified by affinity chromatog...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Song L,Zhu WS,Dong JL,Li ZY,Liu XH

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our current knowledge of protein unfolding is overwhelmingly related to reversible denaturation. However, to engineer thermostable enzymes for industrial applications and medical diagnostics, it is necessary to consider irreversible denaturation processes and/or the entire quaternary structure. In this study we have u...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Kaneko H,Minagawa H,Shimada J

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To improve heterologous proteins production, we constructed a maltose-inducible expression system in Bacillus subtilis. RESULTS:An expression system based on the promoter for maltose utilization constructed in B. subtilis. Successively, to improve the performance of the P malA -derived system, mutagenesis w...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Yue J,Fu G,Zhang D,Wen J

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We examined the importance of aptamer usage under the same condition as the selection process by employing the previously selected aptamers for calmodulin (CaM) which includes a non-natural fluorogenic amino acid, 7-nitro-2,1,3-benzoxadiazole. RESULTS:We added five amino acids at the N-terminus which was em...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Manandhar Y,Wang W,Inoue J,Hayashi N,Uzawa T,Ito Y,Aigaki T,Ito Y

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ramoplanin is a lipopeptide antibiotic active against multi-drug-resistant, Gram-positive pathogens. Structurally, it contains a di-mannose moiety attached to the peptide core at Hpg(11). The biosynthetic gene cluster of ramoplanin has already been reported and the assembly of the depsipeptide has been elucidated but ...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Chen JS,Wang YX,Shao L,Pan HX,Li JA,Lin HM,Dong XJ,Chen DJ

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biotransformation of 1,3-dichloro-2-propanol (DCP) to epichlorohydrin (ECH) by the whole cells of recombinant Escherichia coli expressing halohydrin dehalogenase was limited by product inhibition. To solve this problem and improve the ECH yield, a biotransformation strategy using resin-based in situ product removal (I...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Zou SP,Du EH,Hu ZC,Zheng YG

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decrystallized chitosan was produced from shrimp shells with a low degree of crystallinity (10%) and a high anionic dye binding capacity. Raw, mixed dye wastewater from a textile factory was efficiently decolorized using decrystallized chitosan that was more efficient than using normal chitosan and activated carbon. D...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Trung TS,Ng CH,Stevens WF

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although resistance of microorganisms to Hg(II) salts has been widely investigated and resistant strains have been reported from many eubacterial genera, there are few reports of mercuric ion resistance in extremophilic microorganisms. Moderately thermophilic mercury resistant bacteria were selected by growth at 62 de...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Glendinning KJ,Macaskie LE,Brown NL

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Semliki forest virus (SFV) is a pathogen causing lethal encephalitis in laboratory mice. In this study, we obtained three short hairpin RNAs (shRNAs) which could specifically target SFV sequence in GFP reporting systems and effectively suppress SFV replication in luciferase-containing reporter virus system. At a multi...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Zhang K,Chen Y,Pan J,Ahola T,Guo D

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00