Rapid and efficient isolation of high quality nucleic acids from plant tissues rich in polyphenols and polysaccharides.

abstract：:Alternaria blight caused by Alternaria brassicicola (Schwein.) Wiltshire and A. brassicae (Berk.) Sacc., is one of the most important disease of rapeseed-mustard, characterized by the formation of spots on leaves, stem, and siliquae with premature defoliation and stunting of growth. These two species are very difficul...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Singh R,Kumar S,Kashyap PL,Srivastava AK,Mishra S,Sharma AK

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:D-Glucosamine is a commonly used dietary supplement that promotes cartilage health in humans. Metabolic flux analysis showed that D-glucosamine production could be increased by blocking three pathways involved in the consumption of glucosamine-6-phosphate and acetylglucosamine-6-phosphate. By homologous single-exchang...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Li P,Li X,Wen Z,Dong R,Li K,Fan H,Wang R,Wang J,Lv M

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-quality RNA preparations are critical for further applications such as reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) transcript amplifications, and elaboration of cDNA and expressed sequence tag libraries. Melanins are phenolic compounds present in many fungi and apparently play key roles in fungi path...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Islas-Flores I,Peraza-Echeverría L,Canto-Canché B,Rodríguez-García CM

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, human alpha-1,4-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase (alpha4GnT) fused with GFP(uv) (GFP(uv)-alpha4GnT) was expressed using both a transformed cell system and silkworm larvae. A Tn-pXgp-GFP(uv)-alpha4GnT cell line, isolated after expression vector transfection, produced 106 mU/ml of alpha4GnT activity in sus...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Nakajima M,Kato T,Kanamasa S,Park EY

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adipose tissue-derived mesenchymal stromal cells (ADSCs) are a prominent cellular source for regenerative medicine. We tested whether transplantation of ADSCs into the ischemic muscular tissue of diabetic animals would attenuate impaired cell metabolism and microcirculatory function. We induced unilateral hind limb is...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Madonna R,Delli Pizzi S,Tartaro A,De Caterina R

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Production of monoclonal antibodies and pharmaceutical proteins in transgenic plants has been the focus of many research efforts for close to 30 years. Use of plants as bioreactors reduces large-scale production costs and minimizes risk for human pathogens contamination. Stable nuclear transformation of the plant geno...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Zvirin T,Magrisso L,Yaari A,Shoseyov O

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a rapid and simple method for isolating the 5'-end of plant genes from genomic DNA by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with TATA-box-based degenerate primers (TDPs). The TDPs were specially designed according to the TATA box, which is conserved in the promoter region of most plant genes. The unknown 5'-ends o...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Guo Y,Ma L,Ji Y,Pu G,Liu B,Du Z,Li G,Ye H,Wang H

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IMGT, the International ImMunoGeneTics information system ( http://imgt.cines.fr ), was created in 1989 by the Laboratoire d'ImmunoGénétique Moléculaire (LIGM) (Université Montpellier 2 and CNRS) at Montpellier, France, in order to standardize and manage the complexity of immunogenetics data. IMGT is recognized as the...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Lefranc MP

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The significance of actin cytoskeleton on cell growth was historically studied using toxic drugs, such as cytochalasin. However, it is possible that unpredictable effects of these agents may have influenced the reported observations. In our study, we have established a drug-free system using cofilin overexpression to ...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Lee YJ,Keng PC

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IgG class antibodies express catalytic activities rarely and at very low levels. Here, we studied polyclonal IgA and IgG preparations from healthy human sera and saliva for the ability to hydrolyze model peptidyl-aminomethylcoumarin (peptide-AMC) substrates. These substrates permit objective evaluation of the catalyti...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Mitsuda Y,Planque S,Hara M,Kyle R,Taguchi H,Nishiyama Y,Paul S

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mapping of genetic loci within organisms has been accelerated by the advent of Radiation Hybrid (RH) panels. These panels are available for humans and non-humans including mice, baboon, rat, and canine. This article contains a general protocol for the use of the Genebridge 4 whole genome RH panel to map a human lo...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Friedman JS,Walter MA

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenoviral dodecahedron (Dd) is a virus-like particle composed of twelve pentameric penton base (Pb) proteins, responsible for adenovirus cell penetration. It is generated spontaneously in the baculovirus system upon expression of the Pb gene of adenovirus serotype 3. This particle shows remarkable cell penetration ab...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Szurgot I,Jedynak M,Podsiadla-Bialoskorska M,Piwowarski J,Szolajska E,Chroboczek J

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosome display is a powerful engineering research tool for the high-throughput selection of peptides or proteins, which results in the generation of high-performance binders against nearly any antigen of interest. As a cell-free display system, ribosome display has been well developed with many outstanding achieveme...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Li R,Kang G,Hu M,Huang H

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the use of adenoviral vectors in gene therapy protocols increases, there is a corresponding need for rapid, accurate, and reproducible titer methods. Multiple methods currently exist for determining titers of recombinant adenoviral vector, including optical absorbance, electron microscopy, fluorescent focus assay, ...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Hitt DC,Booth JL,Dandapani V,Pennington LR,Gimble JM,Metcalf J

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclooxygenase (COX)-2 plays an important role in the development of cancer and has been recognized as a potential therapeutic target. Because nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are able to inhibit the activity of this enzyme, the potential efficacy of such drugs for purposes of cancer prevention or therapy...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Liu YT,Kardosh A,Cooc J,Schönthal AH

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Artificial microRNA (amiRNA) has become a powerful tool for gene silencing in plants. A new method for easy and rapid construction of rice artificial miRNA vector is described. The procedure involved modification of the pCAMBIA1300-UR vector by insertion of a 'vector modification fragment'. This was prepared from the ...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Wang X,Yang Y,Yu C,Zhou J,Cheng Y,Yan C,Chen J

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immobilized-metal-ion affinity chromatography (IMAC) is used extensively for phosphopeptide enrichment in phosphoproteomics. However, the effect of nucleic acids in protein samples on phosphopeptide enrichment by IMAC has not yet been well clarified. In this study, we demonstrate that IMAC beads possess a strong adsor...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Li Y,Luo Y,Wu S,Gao Y,Liu Y,Zheng D

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major online single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) databases freely available as research tools for genetic analysis are explained, reviewed, and compared. An outline is given of the search strategies that can be used with the most extensive current SNP databases: National Centre for Biotechnology Information (NCBI...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Phillips C

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L-Cysteine desulfhydrase (DES; EC 4.4.1.1) is the most important enzyme that catalyzes the decomposition of L-cysteine to pyruvate, ammonia, and hydrogen sulfide (H2S), the latter of which has recently been recognized as the third gasotransmitter for multiple signaling events in plants. Previous results showed the exi...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Xie Y,Lai D,Mao Y,Zhang W,Shen W,Guan R

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modern sugarcane cultivars have complex genetic characteristics and low fertility that render their genetic improvement through traditional breeding difficult. Genetic engineering methodology to introduce foreign genes provides new opportunities for the genetic improvement of sugarcane cultivars. One of prerequisites ...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Santosa DA,Hendroko R,Farouk A,Greiner R

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tall fescue plants are widely exposed to white grubs. Regarding the rate of damage caused by the white grubs to tall fescue and difficulty of its ecological and economical control, production of resistant cultivars is a priority. In this experiment, for the first time, we report production of transgenic lines resistan...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Hosseini HR,Salehi H,Alichi M

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sensitive method for staining proteins after transfer from polyacrylamide gels to nitrocellulose paper is described. Transferred proteins are first derivatized by reaction of the nitrocellulose replica with sulfosuccinimidobiotin and are then reacted sequentially with streptavidin, rabbit anti-streptavidin, and hors...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Santora KE,Nelson SA,Lewis KA,LaRochelle WJ

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The filamentous fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum produces a complete set of cellulolytic enzymes needed for efficient solubilization of native cellulose, the major component of plants. In this work, we reported the molecular characterization of an important glycosyl-hydrolase enzyme classified as endo-β-1,4-glucanase. ...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Chahed H,Ezzine A,Mlouka AB,Hardouin J,Jouenne T,Marzouki MN

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are generally sensitive to hydrogen peroxide (H(2)O(2)), Lactobacillus sakei YSI8 is one of the very few LAB strains able to degrade H(2)O(2) through the action of a heme-dependent catalase. Lactobacillus rhamnosus strains are very important probiotic starter cultures in meat product ferment...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： An H,Zhou H,Huang Y,Wang G,Luan C,Mou J,Luo Y,Hao Y

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene reporter systems play a key role in gene expression and regulation studies. This review describes the ideal reporter systems, including reporter expression vector design. It summarizes the many uses of genetic reporters and outlines the currently available and commonly used reporter systems. Each system is descri...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Schenborn E,Groskreutz D

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A synthetic gene encoding a single chain Fv fragment of an antibody directed against the nuclear inclusion a (NIa) protein of potato virus Y (PVY) was used to transform two commercial potato cultivars (Claustar and BF15). The NIa protease forms the nuclear inclusion body A and acts as the major protease in the cleavag...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Gargouri-Bouzid R,Jaoua L,Rouis S,Saïdi MN,Bouaziz D,Ellouz R

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent human clinical trials results demonstrated successful treatment for certain genetic forms of cystic fibrosis (CF). To extend treatment opportunities to those afflicted with other genetic forms of CF disease, structural and biophysical characterization of CF transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) is urgently...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Hildebrandt E,Mulky A,Ding H,Dai Q,Aleksandrov AA,Bajrami B,Diego PA,Wu X,Ray M,Naren AP,Riordan JR,Yao X,DeLucas LJ,Urbatsch IL,Kappes JC

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical management of immunocompromised patients depends on the rapid identification of infectious agents such as fungal pathogens. The procedure described here for accomplishing this uses a sensitive polymerase chain reaction method, previously reported, combined with restriction-enzyme digestion to distinguish ...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Isik N,White L,Barnes R,Poynton CJ,Mills KI

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Considering the fact that Prays oleae is one of the most pathogenic insects to the olive tree in the Mediterranean basin, particularly in Tunisia, the mode of action of Cry insecticidal toxins of Bacillus thuringiensis kurstaki in Prays oleae midgut was investigated. The proteolysis of Bacillus thuringiensis delta-end...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Rouis S,Chakroun M,Saadaoui I,Jaoua S

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) is a hematopoietic growth factor, that has been used as a therapeutic agent in facilitating bone marrow and stem cell transplantation and in other clinical cases like neutropenia. Although biologically active recombinant GM-CSF has been successfully produced in...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Bhattacharya P,Pandey G,Srivastava P,Mukherjee KJ

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00