Cloning, expression and characterization of a new ι-carrageenase from marine bacterium, Cellulophaga sp.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To prepare (R)-phenyl-1,2-ethanediol ((R)-PED) with high enantiomeric excess (ee p) and yield from racemic styrene oxide (rac-SO) at high concentration by bi-enzymatic catalysis. RESULTS:The bi-enzymatic catalysis was designed for enantioconvergent hydrolysis of rac-SO by a pair of novel epoxide hydrolases ...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Wang R,Hu D,Zong X,Li J,Ding L,Wu M,Li J

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial consortia obtained from soil samples of gasoline-polluted sites were individually enriched with pentane, hexane, isooctane and toluene. Cometabolism with methyl tert-butyl ether, (MTBE), gave maximum degradation rates of 49, 12, 32 and 0 mg g(-1)protein h(-1), respectively. MTBE was fully degraded even when ...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Morales M,Velázquez E,Jan J,Revah S,González U,Razo-Flores E

更新日期：2004-02-01 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：:Clostridium spp. produce n-butanol in the acetone/butanol/ethanol process. For sustainable industrial scale butanol production, a number of obstacles need to be addressed including choice of feedstock, the low product yield, toxicity to production strain, multiple-end products and downstream processing of alcohol mixt...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Jurgens G,Survase S,Berezina O,Sklavounos E,Linnekoski J,Kurkijärvi A,Väkevä M,van Heiningen A,Granström T

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Passiflora garckei cell cultures were used as a model to describe a reproducible sample preparation method. Solid phase extraction (SPE) was employed to isolate the plant metabolites for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) analysis and to subsequently detect the differences between yeast extract elicited and control cell...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Fraccaroli M,Nicoletti S,Maltese F,Choi YH,Guzzo F,Levi M,Verpoorte R

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conventional method of transketolase (TKT) activity assay uses ribose 5-phosphate and xylulose 5-phosphate as substrates. However, a new method of TKT assay is currently required since xylulose 5-phosphate is no longer commercially available and is difficult to synthesize chemically. Although there are effective a...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Lee JY,Cheong DE,Kim GJ

更新日期：2008-05-01 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

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The growth characteristics and intracellular hemin concentrations of Lactococcus lactis grown under different culture pH and aeration conditions were examined to investigate the effect of culture pH on the respiration efficiency of L. lactis NZ9000 (pZN8148). RESULTS:Cell biomass and biomass yield of L. lact...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Shi W,Li Y,Gao X,Fu R

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among single-site mutations of L-arabinose isomerase derived from Geobacillus thermodenitrificans, two mutants were produced having the lowest and highest activities of D-tagatose production. Site-directed mutagenesis at these sites showed that the aromatic ring at amino acid 164 and the size of amino acid 475 were im...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Oh HJ,Kim HJ,Oh DK

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An alginate lyase gene, algA, encoding a new poly β-D-mannuronate (polyM)-specific alginate lyase AlgA, was cloned from Pseudomonas sp. E03. The recombinant AlgA with (His)6-tag, consisting of 364 amino acids (40.4 kDa),was purified using Ni-NTA Sepharose. The purified lyase had maximal activity (222 EU/mg) at pH 8 an...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Zhu BW,Huang LS,Tan HD,Qin YQ,Du YG,Yin H

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligo-chitosans were chemically modified with dinitrophenyl groups for selective and rapid adsorption of amitriptyline by forming pi-pi complexes. 1H-NMR was utilized not only for characterization of modified chitosans but also for monitoring the aromatic-aromatic interaction. The variation in the chemical shift of ar...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Lee DW,Baney R

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A single-compartmented microbial fuel cell composed of a graphite felt anode modified with Neutral Red (NR-anode) and a porous Fe(II)-carbon cathode (FeC-cathode) were compared for electricity generation from Microbacterium sp. and Pseudomonas sp. under identical conditions. Pseudomonas sp. was more than four times th...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Lee SW,Jeon BY,Park DH

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tempe was prepared using mixtures of natural soybean and genetically modified Roundup Ready (RUR) soybean fermented with natural Rhizopus sp. The amount of RUR soybean was quantified using an ELISA plate test. The RUR signal decreased during fermentation. In the control experiments on fermentation of non-RUR soybean, ...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Prakoso B,Nitisinprasert S,Stevens WF

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro biocatalysis with cytochrome P450 BM-3 was investigated aiming for the substitution of the expensive natural cofactor NADPH by electrochemistry. The monooxygenase was immobilized on electrodes by entrapment in polypyrrole as a conductive polymer for electrochemically wiring the enzyme. Electropolymerization o...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Holtmann D,Mangold KM,Schrader J

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the role of miR-124a in LPS-induced septic cardiac insufficiency where underlying mechanism is unclear. RESULTS:Expression of miR-124a was decreased in myocardium of LPS-induced septic cardiac dysfunction model. miR-124a antagomiR or agomiR were injected via tail vein to induce miR-124a-dysregulat...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Diao X,Sun S

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dielectric barrier discharge plasma was used to generate a stable strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae (designated to as Kp-M2) with improved 1,3-propanediol production. The specific activities of glycerol dehydrogenase, glycerol dehydratase and 1,3-propanediol oxidoreductase in the crude cell extract increased from 0.11, ...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Dong XY,Xiu ZL,Li S,Hou YM,Zhang DJ,Ren CS

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial fuel cells can be designed to remove nitrogenous compounds out of wastewater, but their performance is at present limited to 0.33 kg NO(3) (-)-Nm(-3) net cathode compartment (NCC) d(-1). By maintaining the pH in the cathode at 7.2, nitrogen removal was increased from 0.22 to 0.50 kg NO(3) (-)-Nm(-3) NCC d(-1...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Clauwaert P,Desloover J,Shea C,Nerenberg R,Boon N,Verstraete W

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The astaxanthin biosynthesis gene cluster in Paracoccus haeundaensis consists of six genes: crtW, crtZ, crtY, crtI, crtB, and crtE contain 726, 486, 1158, 1503, 912, and 879 base pairs, respectively. Individual carotenoid biosynthesis genes of P. haeundaensis have now been expressed in E. coli and each gene product ha...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Lee JH,Kim YT

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To develop recombinant factor IX (FIX) variants with augmented clotting activity. RESULTS:We generated three new variants, FIX-YKALW, FIX-ALL and FIX-LLW, expressed in SK-Hep-1 cells and characterized in vitro and in vivo. FIX-YKALW showed the highest antigen expression level among the variants (2.17 µg-mL),...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Sousa Bomfim A,Corrêa de Freitas MC,Picanço Castro V,Abreu Soares Neto M,Pádua R,Covas DT,Sousa Russo EM

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhizopus nigricans was cultivated in a liquid medium using lemon, mandarin, orange, pear and melon peel or artichoke bracts as the carbon source. In all cultures, a carbohydrate polymer fraction remained resistant to fermentation. These fractions were isolated in gram amounts and characterised. The molecular weight di...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Hellín P,Laencina J,Ros JM

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hybrid baculovirus, a hybrid of the Autographa californica nuclear polyhedrosis virus and the Bombyx mori nuclear polyhedrosis virus, was used for the large-scale production of bovine interleukin-21 (IL-21) in silkworms. A recombinant hybrid baculovirus containing the full length of the cDNA of bovine interleukin-21...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Muneta Y,Nagaya H,Minagawa Y,Enomoto C,Matsumoto S,Mori Y

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Chiral building blocks [(S)-1-(3-methylphenyl)ethanol, (S)-1-(3,4-dimethylphenyl)ethanol and (S)-1-(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)ethanol] for drug synthesis were prepared using two green approaches: (1) the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae as the biocatalyst and (2) the natural deep eutectic solvents (NADES) as the al...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Panić M,Delač D,Roje M,Radojčić Redovniković I,Cvjetko Bubalo M

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding Schwanniomyces occidentalis alpha-amylase (AMY) was introduced into the chromosomal delta sequences of an industrial strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. To obtain a strain suitable for commercial use, an delta-integrative cassette devoid of bacterial DNA sequences was constructed that contains the AM...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Kang NY,Park JN,Chin JE,Lee HB,Im SY,Bai S

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

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：:Non-viral vector, pCMV-Pth, with full-length human parathyroid hormone (prepro-hPTH) cDNA was constructed and delivered into the ovariectomized mouse quadriceps to explore the effects of electroporational gene transfer of PTH on the bone. The expression of hPTH in the transfected mice was detected by RT-PCR and radioi...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Liu B,Tang J,Ji J,Gu J

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To exploit cold-inducible biochemical processes beneficial for foreign mRNA transcription, translation and storage, as well as protein product stability, during Agrobacterium-mediated transient expression. RESULTS:The efficiency of three different 5'-regulatory sequences to achieve transient expression of t...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Gerasymenko IM,Sheludko YV

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The thermostablility and enzymatic activity of 1,3-1,4-β-glucanase (BglA) from Bacillus amyloliquefaciens was improved by modifying five (out of 12) ε-amino groups in lysine residues with nitrous acid. The optimal modification condition for BglA was determined as 30 mM nitrous acid at, 40 °C for 30 min. The optimally-...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Niu C,Zhu L,Wang J,Li Q

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three previously established cell lines (yellow, red and white) of Saussurea medusa were investigated for jaceosidin and hispidulin production. Maximum yields of the jaceosidin and hispidulin were obtained in the red cell line at 75+/-0.41 and 6.4+/-0.31 mg l-1. Production of jaceosidin and hispidulin correlated with ...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Fu CX,Zhao DX,Huang Y,Ma FS

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Error-prone PCR was used to create more thermoactive and/or thermostable variants of thermoalkalophilic lipases. A variant of the α6 helix (lid domain), with an 189E to V substitution at residue 189, lost its thermostability but exhibited higher activity than that of its wild-type predecessor (r03Lip). Site-saturation...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Shih TW,Pan TM

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To construct effective genetic expression parts controlling transcription and translation initiation for synthetic biology and heterologous expression in Corynebacterium glutamicum. RESULT:Twelve highly expressed genes were identified from the proteomic data of C. glutamicum. Their related sequences were use...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Zhao Z,Liu X,Zhang W,Yang Y,Dai X,Bai Z

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00