Cytosolic protection against ultraviolet induced DNA damage by blueberry anthocyanins and anthocyanidins in hepatocarcinoma HepG2 cells.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To construct a highly expressed and active MEK1R4F (a constitutively active form of mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase 1) by fusion of soluble adenylate kinase (Adk) tag, resulting in Adk-MEK1R4F protein suitable for preparation of phosphorylated ERK. RESULTS:We fused the Adk to the N-terminus of MEK1R4...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Yang F,Li H

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental factors, such as drought, salinity, extreme temperature, ozone poisoning, metal toxicity etc., significantly affect crops. To study these factors and to design a possible remedy, biological experimental data concerning these crops requires the quantification of gene expression and comparative analyses at...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Gul A,Ahad A,Akhtar S,Ahmad Z,Rashid B,Husnain T

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth and sporulation of Verticillium lecanii on inert and organic carriers (sugar-cane bagasse, corncob, rice straw, polyurethane foam and activated carbon) in a solid-state fermentation process was studied. Sugar-cane bagasse and polyurethane foam produced 10(10) spores g(-1) dry carrier whereas corncob, rice straw...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Xu X,Yu Y,Shi Y

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant Mycobacterium sp. strain MR65 carrying dszABCD genes was used for desulfurization of 10-methylbenzo[b]naphtho[2,1-d]thiophene (10-methyl BNT) in the hexadecane phase. The specific activity was 25% of that of dibenzothiophene (DBT). One of two major metabolites of 10-methyl BNT produced by strain MR65 was i...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Watanabe K,Noda K,Maruhashi K

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new cDNA (Os beta fruct2) encoding an acid beta-D-fructofuranosidase from rice has been cloned, sequenced and expressed in Pichia pastoris. The full-length cDNA is 2453 base pairs long and encodes a pre-pro-protein of 682 amino acids. The cDNA fragment coding for mature enzyme was sub-cloned into vector pPICZalphaA ...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Fu RH,Wang YL,Sung HY

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tributyl phosphate (TBP) is widely used in nuclear fuel processing and other waste generating chemical industries. Although TBP is bacteriostatic, some microbes are resistant to it and may degrade it. Under dark aerobiosis, purple non-sulfur photosynthetic bacteria degraded up to 0.6 mM TBP, initially present at 2 mM,...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Berne C,Allainmat B,Garcia D

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The exposure of CHO DG44 cells to an osmotic shock, after DNA uptake, results in a cellular volume decrease of approx. 55%. Repetitive osmotic shocks targeted different sub-populations of cells as was demonstrated using two different fluorescent reporter genes. Also the exposure of a calcium phosphate-DNA coprecipitat...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Grosjean F,Bertschinger M,Hacker DL,Wurm FM

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rhizosphere is the soil-plant root interphase and in practice consists of the soil adhering to the root besides the loose soil surrounding it. Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) are potential agents for the biological control of plant pathogens. A biocontrol strain should be able to protect the host plant...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Babalola OO

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A computational search was carried out to identify additional binding sites for the manganese response regulator, ManR, in the genome of Anabaena sp. PCC 7120. This approach predicted ManR binding sites: the promoter regions of the genes of all3575-alr3576 and the gene of alr5134 from Anabaena sp. PCC 7120. Electropho...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Huang W,Wu QY

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A brown-rot fungus, Fomitopsis pinicola, degraded polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) in quartz sand but not in liquid culture. From gel permeation chromatography analysis, the high-molecular-weight fraction of PVA was decreased by the action of F. pinicola but the coloration of the culture filtrate with I2 solution increased. Th...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Tsujiyama S,Okada A

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：:A novel epoxide hydrolase (EHase) from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)-degrading bacteria was identified and characterized. EHase activity was identified in four strains of PAH-degrading bacteria isolated from commercial gasoline and oil-contaminated sediment based on their growth on styrene oxide and its deriva...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Woo JH,Kwon TH,Kim JT,Kim CG,Lee EY

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions between ectomycorrhizal fungi (Suillus laricinus, S. tomentosus, Amanita vaginata and Gomphidius viscidus) and the pathogen Rhizoctonia solani in co-culture were studied using both light and scanning electron microscopy. S. laricinus, S. tomentosus and A. vaginata inhibited the growth of the pathogen. Mor...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Tang M,Zhang RQ,Chen H,Zhang HH,Tian ZQ

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene cassette, p35S-CNO, was designed to express three gene products driven by a single constitutive CaMV 35S promoter. The individual coding regions were linked in frame to produce a single polyprotein, using spacer sequences encoding a specific heptapeptide cleavage recognition site (ENLYFQS) for the nuclear-inclu...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Liang H,Gao H,Maynard CA,Powell WA

更新日期：2005-03-01 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：:δ-Integration can improve the expression stability and increase the copy number of exogenous genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Generally, δ-integration vectors employ auxotrophic markers, such as LEU2-d, HIS3, TRP1, and URA3, to screen transformants. In this study, two cellulase genes (β-glucosidase and endoglucanase...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Liu L,Liu C,Zou S,Yang H,Hong J,Ma Y,Zhang M

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human beta-amyloid (Abeta) is believed to be one of the main components of Alzheimer's disease, so reduction of Abeta is considered a key therapeutic target. Using Agrobacterium-mediated nuclear transformation, we generated transgenic tomatoes for Abeta with tandem repeats. Integration of the human Abeta gene into the...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Youm JW,Jeon JH,Kim H,Kim YH,Ko K,Joung H,Kim H

更新日期：2008-10-01 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：: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：:A loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay system was employed for detecting Bacillus anthracis spores in pure cultures as well as in various simulated powder samples. The specificity of the designed LAMP primer sets was validated by assaying 13 B. anthracis strains and 33 non-B. anthracis species. The dete...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Qiao YM,Guo YC,Zhang XE,Zhou YF,Zhang ZP,Wei HP,Yang RF,Wang DB

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF WORK:To increase the bioproduction of L-phenylacetylcarbinol (PAC), a precursor molecule in the synthesis of the decongestants ephedrine and pseudoephedrine and which suffers from substrate, product, and by-product inhibition, by ensuring that the delivery of the substrate, benzaldehyde, is maintained within...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Khan TR,Daugulis AJ

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study aimed to assess the inhibitory effect of a DNA aptamer (Apt17) which targeted Salmonella invasion proteinA (SipA). The effect of Apt17, on biofilm formation by two Salmonella enteritidis strains, was tested either separately or in combination with ampicillin at different Sub MIC concentrations. Maxim...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Shatila F,Yaşa İ,Yalçın HT

更新日期：2020-10-01 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：:Quercetin was methylated with two O-methyltransferases (OMTs) expressed in E. coli. A construct (RSOMT) was designed to express two OMTs: ROMT-9, which methylates specifically at the 3'-hydroxyl group of quercetin and SOMT-2, which methylates at the 4'-hydroxyl group. Both OMT genes were driven by T7 promoters and had...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Kim BG,Shin KH,Lee Y,Hur HG,Lim Y,Ahn JH

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To develop a rapid, dual-parameter, plate-based screening process to improve production and secretion rate of glucose oxidase simultaneously in Aspergillus niger. RESULTS:A morphology engineering based on CaCO3 was implemented, where the yield of GOD by A. niger was increased by up to 50%. Analysis of extra...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Zhu X,Sun J,Chu J

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Efforts to elucidate the relationships between microorganisms and metal corrosion were mainly directed to understanding the formation of biofilm structures grown on corroded surfaces. The emergence of high throughput DNA sequencing techniques has helped in the description of microbial species involved directly and ind...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Procópio L

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the mechanism of phosphate accumulation, a gene encoding polyphosphate kinase (PPK) was cloned from the genomic library of Serratia marcescens by Southern hybridization. From the nucleotide sequence of a 4 kb DNA fragment, an open reading frame of 2063 nucleotides was identified encoding a protein of 686...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Lee SJ,Song OR,Lee YC,Choi YL

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new full-length beta-1,3-glucanase cDNA, MpGlu, was isolated from a plantain (Musa paradisica) by the rapid amplification of cDNA ends (RACE) technique. Recombinant GST-MpGlu protein, expressed in E. coli, hydrolyzed (1-->3),(1-->6)-beta-glucan of Laminaria digitata and inhibited the growth of Fusarium oxysporum fsp...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Jin X,Feng D,Wang H,Wang J

更新日期：2007-09-01 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：:This review concerns basic research on cellulases and cellulose-specific carbohydrate-binding modules (CBMs). As a background, glycosyl hydrolases are also briefly reviewed. The nomenclature of cellulases and CBMs is discussed. The main cellulase-producing organisms and their cellulases are described. Synergy, enantio...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Hildén L,Johansson G

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00