G-quadruplexes: from guanine gels to chemotherapeutics.

abstract：:A sandwich-type enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was established for monitoring the secretion of ZZ-fusion proteins. Two antibodies, a monoclonal mouse anti-human proinsulin and a rabbit anti-bovine IgG (strongly binding to the ZZ-domain), were used to quantify the secretion of recombinant human ZZ-proinsulin...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Mergulhão FJ,Monteiro GA,Cabral JM,Taipa MA

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Addition of taxol into suspension cultures of Taxus cuspidata induced cell apoptosis, which was confirmed by gel electrophoresis of the DNA ladders indicating the progressive delineation of fragmented nuclear DNA (nDNA) into distinct bodies. The additional taxol not only changed the microtubule assembly of cells, but ...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Yuan YJ,Ma ZY,Wu JC

更新日期：2002-02-01 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：: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：:Coptotermes curvignathus is a termite that, owing to its ability to digest living trees, serves as a gold mine for robust industrial enzymes. This unique characteristic reflects the presence of very efficient hydrolytic enzyme systems including cellulases. Transcriptomic analyses of the gut of C. curvignathus revealed...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Woon JS,King PJH,Mackeen MM,Mahadi NM,Wan Seman WMK,Broughton WJ,Abdul Murad AM,Abu Bakar FD

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to identify disease-associated genes using microarray technology is dependent on isolating high-quality total RNA from the diseased tissue under study. However, it is not always possible to obtain large amounts of affected tissue from patients and therefore the quality and yield of RNA may be compromised. ...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Murray EJ

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference methodology suppresses specific gene expression, thus mimicking loss-of-function mutation and enabling in vitro and in vivo gene function analysis. Lipofectamine RNAiMAX, a new transfection reagent, has been confirmed high efficiency in delivering small interfering RNA (siRNA) into mesenchymal stem ce...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Zhao M,Yang H,Jiang X,Zhou W,Zhu B,Zeng Y,Yao K,Ren C

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brucellosis, one of the most important re-emerging zoonoses in many countries, is caused by bacteria belonging to the genus Brucella. Furthermore these bacteria represent potential biological warfare agents and the identification of species and biovars of field strains may be crucial for tracing back source of infecti...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： De Santis R,Ancora M,De Massis F,Ciammaruconi A,Zilli K,Di Giannatale E,Pittiglio V,Fillo S,Lista F

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgenic rice seed can be utilized as a bioreactor to produce high-value recombinant proteins. Mouse interleukin 4 (mIL-4) and mIL-6 were specifically expressed as secretory proteins in rice endosperm by ligating the N-terminal glutelin B-1 (GluB-1) signal peptide and the C-terminal KDEL endoplasmic reticulum retent...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Fujiwara Y,Yang L,Takaiwa F,Sekikawa K

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant proteins are useful tools in biological research, drug development, and drug screening. Specially designed expression vectors have been developed to introduce cDNA for recombinant protein expression in mammalian cells. We have combined a dicistronic mRNA design for expression of the recombinant protein, us...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Pu H,Cashion LM,Kretschmer PJ,Liu Z

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants synthesize amino acids by collateral metabolic pathways using primary elements carbon and oxygen from air, hydrogen from water in soil and nitrogen from soil. Following synthesis, amino acids are immediately used for metabolism, transient storage or transported to the phloem. Different families of transporters ...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Chakraborty N,Besra A,Basak J

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A protocol has been developed to produce a cholera toxin B subunit (CTB) in tobacco tolerant to the herbicide phosphinothricin (PPT) by means of in vitro selection. The synthetic CTB subunit gene was altered to modify the codon usage to that of tobacco plant genes. The gene was then cloned into a plant expression vect...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Kang TJ,Kim BG,Yang JY,Yang MS

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is difficult to obtain precise and accurate estimates of the true mycotoxin concentration of a bulk lot when using a mycotoxin-sampling plan that measures the concentration in a small portion of the bulk lot. A mycotoxin-sampling plan is defined by a mycotoxin test procedure and a defined accept/reject limit. A myc...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Whitaker TB

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many phytopathogenic micro-organisms such as bacteria and fungi produce pectin methylesterases (PME) during plant invasion. Plants and insects also produce PME to degrade plant cell wall. In the present study, a thermostable pectin methylesterase (CtPME) from Clostridium thermocellum belonging to family 8 carbohydrate...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Rajulapati V,Goyal A

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work describes protocols for the production of single-chain antibody and T-cell receptor fragments in E. coli. A choice of methods is given for the purification of the recombinant fragments that rely on the use of either immunoaffinity or metal chelate affinity chromatography. The TCR fragments may have to be den...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Molloy PE,Graham BM,Cupit PM,Grant SD,Porter AJ,Cunningham C

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The GacS/A system in Azotobacter vinelandii regulates alginate and alkylresorcinols production through RsmZ1, a small regulatory RNA (sRNA) that releases the translational repression of the algD and arpR mRNAs caused by the RsmA protein. In the Pseudomonadaceae family, the Rsm-sRNAs are grouped into three families: Rs...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： López-Pliego L,García-Ramírez L,Cruz-Gómez EA,Domínguez-Ojeda P,López-Pastrana A,Fuentes-Ramírez LE,Núñez C,Castañeda M

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An inexpensive monophasic reagent has been developed for the extraction of total RNA from cells or tissues. The main ingredients of the reagent are Phenol, Isoamyl alcohol, Guanidinium isothiocyanate, and Beta-mercaptoethanol (PIG-B). The quality and yield of RNA obtained by this reagent is at par with that obtained b...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Weber K,Bolander ME,Sarkar G

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat shock proteins (HSPs) are upregulated in response to stress and play a protective function in refolding of cellular proteins. In hypertension, the heart is a vital organ that requires examination and investigation, and primary induction of HSPs is predominantly effected. Hypertension results from osmotic imbalanc...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Mala JG,Takeuchi S

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:D-Stereospecific amidohydrolase (DAH) from Streptomyces sp. 82F2 has potential utility for the synthesis of D/L configuration dipeptides by an aminolysis reaction. Structural comparison of DAH with substrate-bound D-amino acid amidase revealed that three residues located in the active site pocket of DAH (Thr145, Ala26...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Elyas YYA,Miyatani K,Shimizu K,Arima J

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolation of RNA from recalcitrant tree tissues has been problematic due to large amounts of secondary metabolites and interfering compounds in their cells. We have developed an efficient RNA extraction method, which yielded high-quality RNA preparations from tissues of the lychee tree. The method reported here utiliz...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Wang X,Tian W,Li Y

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pasteurella multocida is the main cause of haemorrhagic septicaemia (HS) outbreak in livestock, such as cattle and buffaloes. Conventional vaccines such as alum-precipitated or oil-adjuvant broth bacterins were injected subcutaneously to provide protection against HS. However, the immunity developed is only for short ...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Chelliah S,Velappan RD,Lim KT,Swee CWK,Nor Rashid N,Rothan HA,Kabir N,Ismail S

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzyme avian myeloblastosis virus reverse transcriptase (AMV-RT) is routinely used for cDNA synthesis, which is generally carried out at temperatures between 37 degrees C and 42 degrees C. We show that this enzyme can support cDNA synthesis, at temperatures as high as 70 degrees C. We have utilized this property o...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Fuchs B,Zhang K,Rock MG,Bolander ME,Sarkar G

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Positional cloning of rare disease genes depends on the availability of highly polymorphic markers near the disease loci. The most abundant class of polymorphic markers in the human genome is CA-repeats. We have developed a strategy for the rapid isolation of highly polymorphic CA-repeats from YAC clones. Total DNA of...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Rotman G,Vanagaite L,Collins FS,Shiloh Y

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electroporation of cells in the presence of DNA is widely used for the introduction of transgenes either stably or transiently into bacterial, fungal, animal, and plant cells. A review of the literature shows that electroporation parameters are often reported in an incomplete or incorrect manner, forcing researchers t...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Lurquin PF

更新日期：1997-02-01 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：:Hereditary cancers account for approximately 10 % of breast and ovarian cancers. Mutations of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, encoding two proteins involved in DNA repair, underlie most cases of such hereditary cancers. Women with BRCA mutations develop breast cancer in 50-80 % of cases and ovarian cancer in 10-40 % of cas...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Vuttariello E,Borra M,Calise C,Mauriello E,Greggi S,Vecchione A,Biffali E,Chiappetta G

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polyamines spermine, spermidine, and putrescine are small organic molecules one or more of which are present in all living organisms. Many natural products contain polyamine residues. Polyamines are synthesized by a highly regulated pathway from arginine or ornithine and also can be transported in and out of cells...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Morgan DM

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Derivation of cardiomyocytes directly from patients' own fibroblasts could offer a new therapeutic approach for those with ischemic heart disease. An essential step toward clinical application is to establish safe conversion of human fibroblasts into a cardiac fate. Here we aimed to efficiently and safely generate car...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Ghazizadeh Z,Rassouli H,Fonoudi H,Alikhani M,Talkhabi M,Darbandi-Azar A,Chen S,Baharvand H,Aghdami N,Salekdeh GH

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the context of clinical gene transfer using viral vectors, the risk of memory antivector immunity is often poorly appreciated. The immunological past of the patient, the site of injection, and the vector dose will play intertwined and decisive roles in the safety and efficacy of treatment. To circumvent the drawbac...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Perreau M,Kremer EJ

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virus crystallography can provide atomic resolution structures for intact isometric virus particles and components thereof. The methodology is illustrated by reference to a particularly complex example, the core of the bluetongue virus (700 A). ...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Fry EE,Grimes J,Stuart DI

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00