Plate in situ hybridization (PISH) as a time and cost effective RNA expression assay to study phenotypic heterogeneity in a population of cultured murine cells at single cell resolution.

abstract：:The ability of Aspergillus strains to utilize thin stillage to produce malic acid was compared. The highest malic acid was produced by Aspergillus niger ATCC 9142 at 17 g l(-1). Biomass production from thin stillage was similar with all strains but ATCC 10577 was the highest at 19 g l(-1). The highest malic acid yield...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： West TP

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapies for high-grade gliomas (HHG) that have strong tendency of infiltration and resistance to chemotherapies are currently unavailable. Here, we report that lower-dose combination therapy of Buthus martensii Karsch (BmK) CT, a type of scorpion toxin peptide, and LiCl, clinically used as mo...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Fu Y,Zheng S,Huang R,An N,Zheng Y,Zhang Z,Liang A

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The open reading frame of the Δ(6)-desaturase gene was isolated from Mortierella alpina W15 and the gene was cloned into a pPIC3.5K vector. The vector was transformed into Pichia pastoris GS115 and expression was induced with methanol. The Δ(6)-desaturase expressed in P. pastoris GS115 catalyzed the conversion of lino...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Liu J,Li D,Yin Y,Wang H,Li M,Yu L

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Potato (Solanum tuberosum) hairy root cultures, established by infecting potato tuber discs with Agrobacterium rhizogenes, were used as a model system for the production of antimicrobial sesquiterpenes and lipoxygenase (LOX) metabolites. Of the four sesquiterpene phytoalexins (rishitin, lubimin, phytuberin and phytube...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Komaraiah P,Reddy GV,Reddy PS,Raghavendra AS,Ramakrishna SV,Reddanna P

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To acquire a thermostable xylanase, that is suitable for xylooligosaccharide production from pretreated corncobs, the metagenomic method was used to obtain the gene from an uncultured environmental microorganism. RESULTS:A thermostable xylanase-encoding gene (xyn10CD18) was cloned directly from the metageno...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Sun MZ,Zheng HC,Meng LC,Sun JS,Song H,Bao YJ,Pei HS,Yan Z,Zhang XQ,Zhang JS,Liu YH,Lu FP

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial and fungal contaminants of enset (Ensete ventricosum) cultures and microbes associated with surface-sterilized field material were identified by 16S/26S rDNA sequencing. Ten bacterial species were identified in 16 isolates from in vitro cultures and seven in 10 isolates from field clones. Three yeast species...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Birmeta G,Passoth V,Roos S,Welander M

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Enhancement of the potential ability of biomacromolecules to cross cell membranes is a critical step for development of effective therapeutic vaccine especially DNA vaccine against human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) infection. The supercharged proteins were known as powerful weapons for delivery of diffe...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Kardani K,Bolhassani A,Agi E,Hashemi A

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To develop a peptide probe that could be used for gastric cancer detection via binding to CD44 protein with specificity and affinity. RESULTS:A 12-mer phage peptide library was screened against immobilized CD44 protein. Bound phage counts using ELISA were performed to identify phage clones carrying the most ...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Zhang D,Jia H,Wang Y,Li WM,Hou YC,Yin SW,Wang TD,He SX,Lu SY

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF WORK:To apply a fluorescent dye as an alternative technique to evaluate the survival of potentially probiotic lactobacilli to bile acids (BA) as first step in the design of probiotic functional foods. The use of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) in the functional food design depends on their ability to survive in t...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Bustos AY,Raya R,Bru E,de Valdez GF,Taranto MP

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decrystallized chitosan was produced from shrimp shells with a low degree of crystallinity (10%) and a high anionic dye binding capacity. Raw, mixed dye wastewater from a textile factory was efficiently decolorized using decrystallized chitosan that was more efficient than using normal chitosan and activated carbon. D...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Trung TS,Ng CH,Stevens WF

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An index [kv: average isolation rate of viable protoplast (number/ml min)] was established to evaluate the optimal conditions for protoplast isolation from cultured plant cells. The optimal conditions for protoplasts isolation from Nicotiana tabacum BY2 cultured cells could be determined on the basis of the kv [31.7 x...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Aoyagi H

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrophobin-fused domain III of dengue envelope proteins serotypes 1 and 2 were expressed in Rachiplusia nu larvae and purified by aqueous two-phase system. This biotechnological approach of hydrophobin-fused proteins, which allowed obtaining 97.7 µg/larva of fusion protein DomIII serotype 1 and 61.4 µg/larva of fusio...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Cerezo J,Targovnik AM,Smith ME,González Maglio D,Luppo VC,Morales MA,Miranda MV,Rodríguez Talou J

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylokinase (SAK) is a promising thrombolytic agent for treating blood-clotting disorders. Recombinant SAK (rSAK) was produced after integration of the gene into Pichia pastoris genome. The recombinant Pichia carrying multiple insertions of the SAK gene yielded high-level (approximately 1 g/l) of extracellular glyc...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Apte-Deshpnade A,Mandal G,Soorapaneni S,Prasad B,Kumar J,Padmanabhan S

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two genes, MGFc (40) and MGFc (24), encoding different E peptides of mechano-growth factor (MGF), were obtained by a four-step PCR strategy and subcloned into pRSETC and pGEX-6p-1. Recombinant MGFc(40) protein (4 mg l(-1)) was expressed and purified by affinity chromatog...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Song L,Zhu WS,Dong JL,Li ZY,Liu XH

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the quantity of Spirulina cultured in seawater, salt-tolerant strains were screened out and their growth and antioxidant accumulation were studied in different salt concentrations RESULTS:Salt tolerance of five Spirulina strains were investigated with modified Zarrouk medium (with 200-800 mM NaCl...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Liu C,Li LJ,Wu CY,Guo KN,Li JH

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The dye-decolorizing peroxidase from Bacillus amyloliquefaciens, BaDyP, was identified to be an efficient catalyst for the degradation of phenolic β-ether lignin model dimer guaiacylglycerol-β-guaiacyl ether (GGE) and dyes. RESULTS:Efeb gene encoding BaDyP from B. amyloliquefaciens MN-13 consisted of 1257 bp...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Yang J,Gao T,Zhang Y,Wang S,Li H,Li S,Wang S

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Catalytic efficiency of a nitrogen-doped, mesoporous carbon aerogel cathode catalyst was investigated in a two-chambered microbial fuel cell (MFC) applying graphite felt as base material for cathode and anode, utilizing peptone as carbon source. RESULTS:This mesoporous carbon aerogel containing catalyst lay...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Tardy GM,Lóránt B,Lóka M,Nagy B,László K

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene therapy is based on the principle of the genetic manipulation of DNA or RNA for treating and preventing human diseases. The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats/CRISPR associated nuclease9 (CRISPR/Cas9) system, derived from the acquired immune system in bacteria and archaea, has provided a ne...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Mollanoori H,Teimourian S

更新日期：2018-06-01 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：:GERI-155 is a macrolide antibiotic containing two deoxyhexose molecules which has antimicrobial activities against gram-positive bacteria. The deoxyhexose biosynthetic gene cluster of GERI-155 from Streptomyces sp. GERI-155 genome has now been isolated. Four orf were identified and a putative orf, supposed to code for...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Sohng JK,Kim HJ,Nam DH,Lim DO,Han JM,Lee HJ,Yoo JC

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pleurotus eryngii was transformed using a polyethylene glycol-mediated method. A plasmid, pEPUGH, containing a reporter gene (enhanced green fluorescent protein gene, egfp) and a positive selectable marker gene (hygromycin phosphotransferase gene, hph) was constructed. The fused egfp-hph gene was placed under the cont...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Yin Y,Liu Y,Jin H,Wang S,Zhao S,Geng X,Li M,Xu F

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virus-induced gene silencing is based on the sequence-specific degradation of RNA. Here, a gene silencing vector derived from EuMV-YP, named pEuMV-YP:ΔAV1, was used to silence ChlI and NPR1 genes in Nicotiana benthamiana. The silencing of the ChlI transcripts was efficient in the stems, petioles and leaves as reflecte...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Villanueva-Alonzo HJ,Us-Camas RY,López-Ochoa LA,Robertson D,Guerra-Peraza O,Minero-García Y,Moreno-Valenzuela OA

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:A bio-based process is appealing for purification of L-lactic acid, the major enantiomer of polylactic acid syrup, generated by thermochemical processes at the end of life of PLA-based plastics, from its chiral impurity, D-lactic acid, before reuse. RESULTS:Polylactic acid (PLA), a renewable alternative to p...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Chauliac D,Pullammanappallil PC,Ingram LO,Shanmugam KT

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two new strains of Escherichia coli B were engineered for the production of lactate with no detectable chiral impurity. All chiral impurities were eliminated by deleting the synthase gene (msgA) that converts dihydroxyacetone-phosphate to methylglyoxal, a precursor for both L: (+)- and D: (-)-lactate. Strain TG113 con...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Grabar TB,Zhou S,Shanmugam KT,Yomano LP,Ingram LO

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extracellular domains (ECD) of epidermal growth factor receptors, ErbB1, 2, 3 and 4, were designed as soluble dimeric forms. Each ECD was fused to a short hinge region derived from IgG, such that the stable dimer could be formed with disulfide bridges. This hinge-tagged design minimized the molecular weight to app...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Otani T,Hashizume T,Nagaoka T,Fukuda T,Tang CK,Salomon DS,Seno M

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virus-like particles (VLPs) are a promising and developing option for vaccination and gene therapy. They are also interesting as shuttles for drug targeting. Currently, several different gene expression systems are available, among which the silkworm expression system is known for its mass production capacity. However...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Minkner R,Park EY

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycine soja is a species of soybean that survives in adverse environments including high salt and drought conditions. We constructed a cDNA library from G. soja seedlings treated with NaCl and isolated a glutathione S-transferase gene (GsGST: GQ265911) from the library. The cDNA encoding GsGST contains an open readin...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Ji W,Zhu Y,Li Y,Yang L,Zhao X,Cai H,Bai X

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen yeast strains were screened for production of 2-phenylethanol from L-phenylalanine with molasses as carbon source. Up to 1 g 2-phenylethanol l-1 was obtained. Using oleyl alcohol as a second phase for in situ product removal to enhance the production of 2-phenylethanol increased the yield to about 3 g 2-pheny...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Etschmann MM,Sell D,Schrader J

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells are the leading cell factories for producing recombinant proteins in the biopharmaceutical industry. In this regard, constraint-based metabolic models are useful platforms to perform computational analysis of cell metabolism. These models need to be regularly updated in order...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Fouladiha H,Marashi SA,Li S,Li Z,Masson HO,Vaziri B,Lewis NE

更新日期：2021-01-01 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