Systematic cross-validation of 454 sequencing and pyrosequencing for the exact quantification of DNA methylation patterns with single CpG resolution.

abstract：BACKGROUND:MicroRNAs are important regulators of gene expression at the post-transcriptional level and play an important role in many biological processes. Due to the important biological role it is of great interest to quantitatively determine their expression level in different biological settings. RESULTS:We descri...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Balcells I,Cirera S,Busk PK

更新日期：2011-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Whole genome amplification (WGA) promises to eliminate practical molecular genetic analysis limitations associated with genomic DNA (gDNA) quantity. We evaluated the performance of multiple displacement amplification (MDA) WGA using gDNA extracted from lymphoblastoid cell lines (N = 27) with a range of start...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Bergen AW,Qi Y,Haque KA,Welch RA,Chanock SJ

更新日期：2005-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a key angiogenic factors. It plays an important role in both physiologic and pathologic angiogenesis and increases permeability across the vessels. Using antibody phage display technology, we obtained a novel anti-VEGFA IgG, named as FD006. In this study, the phar...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Wang Q,Yang J,Tang K,Luo L,Wang L,Tian L,Jiang Y,Feng J,Li Y,Shen B,Lv M,Huang Y

更新日期：2014-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing system has greatly facilitated and expanded our capacity to engineer mammalian genomes, including targeted gene knock-outs. However, the phenotyping of the knock-out effect requires a high DNA editing efficiency. RESULTS:Here, we report a user-friendly strategy based on the ex...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Liesche C,Venkatraman L,Aschenbrenner S,Grosse S,Grimm D,Eils R,Beaudouin J

更新日期：2016-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Serine hydroxymethyltransferase (SHMT) is the key enzyme in L-serine enzymatic production, suggesting the importance of obtaining a SHMT with high activity. RESULTS:Here, a novel SHMT gene, glyA, was obtained through degenerate oligonucleotide-primed PCR and encoded a novel SHMT with 54.3% similarity to the...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Jiang W,Chen L,Hu N,Yuan S,Li B,Liu Z

更新日期：2014-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Natural rubber produced by plants, known as polyisoprene, is the most widely used isoprenoid polymer. Plant polyisoprenes can be classified into two types; cis-polyisoprene and trans-polyisoprene, depending on the type of polymerization of the isoprene unit. More than 2000 species of higher plants produce la...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Chen R,Harada Y,Bamba T,Nakazawa Y,Gyokusen K

更新日期：2012-10-30 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:Transformed cells of Escherichia coli DH5-alpha with pGFPuv, induced by IPTG (isopropyl-beta-d-thiogalactopyranoside), express the green fluorescent protein (gfpuv) during growth phases. E. coli subjected to the combination of selective permeation by freezing/thawing/sonication cycles followed by the three-p...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Vessoni Penna TC,Ishii M

更新日期：2002-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Iron is an essential element in several pathways of microbial metabolism, and therefore low iron toxicity is expected on the usage of Fe nanoparticles (NPs). This study aims to determine the effect of Fe NPs on biosurfactant production by marine actinobacterium Nocardiopsis sp. MSA13A under solid state cultu...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Kiran GS,Nishanth LA,Priyadharshini S,Anitha K,Selvin J

更新日期：2014-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacterial degradation/transformation of steroids is widely investigated to create biotechnologically relevant strains for industrial application. The strain of Nocardioides simplex VKM Ac-2033D is well known mainly for its superior 3-ketosteroid Δ1-dehydrogenase activity towards various 3-oxosteroids and oth...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Shtratnikova VY,Sсhelkunov MI,Fokina VV,Bragin EY,Shutov AA,Donova MV

更新日期：2021-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In spite of a great number of monomeric fluorescent proteins developed in the recent years, the reported fluorescent protein-based FRET pairs are still characterized by a number of disadvantageous features, complicating their use as reporters in cell biology and for high-throughput cell-based screenings. RE...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Shcherbo D,Souslova EA,Goedhart J,Chepurnykh TV,Gaintzeva A,Shemiakina II,Gadella TW,Lukyanov S,Chudakov DM

更新日期：2009-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prostate cancer is the most-diagnosed non-skin cancer among males in the US, and the second leading cause of cancer-related death. Current methods of treatment and diagnosis are not specific for the disease. This work identified an antibody fragment that binds selectively to a molecule on the surface of andr...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Williams RM,Hajiran CJ,Nayeem S,Sooter LJ

更新日期：2014-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We have investigated the possibility and feasibility of producing the HPV-11 L1 major capsid protein in transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana ecotype Columbia and Nicotiana tabacum cv. Xanthi as potential sources for an inexpensive subunit vaccine. RESULTS:Transformation of plants was only achieved with the HPV-1...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Kohl TO,Hitzeroth II,Christensen ND,Rybicki EP

更新日期：2007-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Smoking and tobacco use continue to be the largest preventable causes of death globally. A novel therapeutic approach has recently been proposed: administration of an enzyme that degrades nicotine, the main addictive component of tobacco, minimizing brain exposure and reducing its reinforcing effects. Pre-cl...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Thisted T,Biesova Z,Walmacq C,Stone E,Rodnick-Smith M,Ahmed SS,Horrigan SK,Van Engelen B,Reed C,Kalnik MW

更新日期：2019-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The isothermal amplification of RNA in vitro has been used for the study of in vitro evolution of RNA. Although Qβ replicase has been traditionally used as an enzyme for this purpose, we planned to use norovirus replicase (NV3D(pol)) due to its structural simplicity in the scope of in vitro autonomous evolut...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Arai H,Nishigaki K,Nemoto N,Suzuki M,Husimi Y

更新日期：2013-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ketoisovalerate reductase (EC 1.2.7.7 ) is required for the formation of beauvericin via the nonribosomal peptide synthetase biosynthetic pathway. It catalyzes the NADPH-specific reduction of ketoisovaleric acid to hydroxyisovalerate. However, little is known about the bioinformatics' data about the 2-Ki...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Zhang T,Jia X,Zhuo Y,Liu M,Gao H,Liu J,Zhang L

更新日期：2012-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The proteomics literature has seen a proliferation of publications that seek to apply the rapidly improving technology of 2D gels to study various biological systems. However, there is a dearth of systematic studies that have investigated appropriate statistical approaches to analyse the data from these expe...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Meleth S,Deshane J,Kim H

更新日期：2005-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aldehyde-deformylating oxygenase (ADO) is a key enzyme involved in the biosynthetic pathway of fatty alk(a/e)nes in cyanobacteria. However, cADO (cyanobacterial ADO) showed extreme low activity with the k cat value below 1 min-1, which would limit its application in biofuel production. To identify the activi...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Wang Q,Bao L,Jia C,Li M,Li JJ,Lu X

更新日期：2017-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The photorespiratory nitrogen cycle in C₃ plants involves an extensive diversion of carbon and nitrogen away from the direct pathways of assimilation. The liberated ammonia is re-assimilated, but up to 25% of the carbon may be released into the atmosphere as CO₂. Because of the loss of CO₂ and high energy co...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Carvalho Jde F,Madgwick PJ,Powers SJ,Keys AJ,Lea PJ,Parry MA

更新日期：2011-11-21 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:Xylanase can replace chemical additives to improve the volume and sensory properties of bread in the baking. Suitable baking xylanase with improved yield will promote the application of xylanase in baking industry. The xylanase XYNZG from the Plectosphaerella cucumerina has been previously characterized by h...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Zhan FX,Wang QH,Jiang SJ,Zhou YL,Zhang GM,Ma YH

更新日期：2014-12-16 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:Splicing of DNA molecules is an important task in molecular biology that facilitates cloning, mutagenesis and creation of chimeric genes. Mutagenesis and DNA splicing techniques exist, some requiring restriction enzymes, and others utilize staggered reannealing approaches. RESULTS:A method for DNA splicing ...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Ailenberg M,Goldenberg NM,Silverman M

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cymbidium faberi is one of the oldest cultivars of oriental orchids, with an elegant flower fragrance. In order to investigate the molecular mechanism and the functions of related proteins in the methyl jasmonate (MeJA) signaling pathway, one of the main components of flower fragrance in C. faberi, yeast one...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Xu Y,Zhou J,Liu Q,Li K,Zhou Y

更新日期：2020-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Establishing highly productive clonal cell lines with constant productivity over 2-3 months of continuous culture remains a tedious task requiring the screening of tens of thousands of clonal colonies. In addition, long-term cultivation of many candidate lines derived in the absence of drug selection pressur...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Orlova NA,Kovnir SV,Hodak JA,Vorobiev II,Gabibov AG,Skryabin KG

更新日期：2014-06-14 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:Eleven new human polyomaviruses (HPyVs) have been identified in the last decade. Serological studies show that these novel HPyVs sub-clinically infect humans at an early age. The routes of infection, entry pathways, and cell tropism of new HPyVs remain unknown. VP1 proteins of polyomaviruses can assembly int...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Norkiene M,Stonyte J,Ziogiene D,Mazeike E,Sasnauskas K,Gedvilaite A

更新日期：2015-08-04 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:The safety of mutagenized and genetically transformed plants remains a subject of scrutiny. Data gathered and communicated on the phenotypic and molecular variation induced by gene transfer technologies will provide a scientific-based means to rationally address such concerns. In this study, genomic structur...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Anderson JE,Michno JM,Kono TJ,Stec AO,Campbell BW,Curtin SJ,Stupar RM

更新日期：2016-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plants are increasingly being examined as alternative recombinant protein expression systems. Recombinant protein expression levels in plants from Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV)-based vectors are much higher than those possible from plant promoters. However the common TMV expression vectors are costly, and at ti...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Lindbo JA

更新日期：2007-08-27 00:00:00