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abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate the effect of the linker region (LR) on the enzymatic activity, stability, and flexibility of Bacillus subtilis cellulase CelI15, six mutants were constructed that contained increasing numbers of the LR. RESULTS:The CelI15 mutant with three copies of the LR (approx. 57 amino acids) showed the...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Li P,Zhou Y,Li Q,Zhang C,Sun Z,Tian L,Weng H

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF WORK:Thymidine is an important precursor in antiviral drugs. We have enhanced thymidine production in E. coli by eliminating the repressors in the transcription of the gene coding for carbamoyl phosphate synthetase. The operon for carbamoyl phosphate synthetase (CarAB) in the thymidine biosynthesis regulator...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Koo BS,Hyun HH,Kim SY,Kim CH,Lee HC

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A carboxylesterase gene from thermophilic bacterium, Alicyclobacillus tengchongensis, was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli BL21 (DE3). The gene coded for a 513 amino acid protein with a calculated molecular mass of 57.82 kDa. The deduced amino acid sequence had structural features highly conserved among serine...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Xie Z,Xu B,Ding J,Liu L,Zhang X,Li J,Huang Z

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterologous expression in Escherichia coli often leads to production of the expressed proteins as insoluble and inactive inclusion bodies. The general strategy for protein recovery includes isolation and washing of inclusion bodies, solubilization of aggregated protein and refolding of solubilized protein. The proces...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Ferreira S,Sousa F,Queiroz JA,Domingues FC

更新日期：2005-08-01 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：:Previously, we constructed a genetically modified luciferase of Photinus pyralis that generates more than 10-fold higher luminescence intensity than the wild-type enzyme. In this study, we demonstrate that this modified luciferase enables us to detect ATP at 10(-18) mol, which is almost equal to the quantity contained...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Noda K,Matsuno T,Fujii H,Kogure T,Urata M,Asami Y,Kuroda A

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene encoding a gamma-butyrolactone autoregulator receptor was cloned in to E. coli from Streptomyces ambofaciens producing spiramycin, a macrolide antibiotic used in both veterinary medicine and human medicine. A 714-bp intact receptor gene (saaR) was obtained by PCR and genomic Southern hybridization with the 100-...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Choi SU,Kim MK,Ha HS,Hwang YI

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Baker's yeast suspensions were incubated at different pressures (from 1 bar to 6 bar) and different gases [air, O(2) and a mixture of 8% (v/v) CO(2), 21% O(2) and N(2)]. Raising the air pressure from 1 bar to 6 bar stimulated cell growth but had no effect on leavening ability or viability of the cells. A 50% reduction...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Campelo AF,Belo I

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fully contained and efficient heterologous protein production system was designed using Brassica rapa rapa (turnip) hairy roots. Two expression cassettes containing a cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) 35S promoter with a duplicated enhancer region, an Arabidopsis thaliana sequence encoding a signal peptide and the CaM...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Huet Y,Ekouna JP,Caron A,Mezreb K,Boitel-Conti M,Guerineau F

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucor circinelloides and Mortierella isabellina hydroxylated dehydroabietic acid (DehA). DehA was converted regio- and stereo-selectively by whole cells of Mr. circinelloides to give 2alpha-hydroxydehydroabietic acid in a 75% molar conversion yield (11 mM from 14.7 mM DehA) after 72 h in the cultivation medium contain...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Mitsukura K,Imoto T,Nagaoka H,Yoshida T,Nagasawa T

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For most cultivated mammalian cells, glutamine is an essential medium component. However, glutamine consumption results in the production of ammonia, a cytotoxic byproduct. Here we investigated the effect of glutamine reduction on recombinant protein production and ammonia accumulation in transiently transfected CHO a...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Rajendra Y,Kiseljak D,Baldi L,Hacker DL,Wurm FM

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most animal cell culture media can be buffered using bicarbonate and high pressure CO(2) in a closed system. However, in an open system, the pH of the culture media increases continuously due to the marked difference in CO(2) pressure between the culture media and the atmosphere. Therefore, it is important to measure ...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Jang J,Moon SJ,Hong SH,Kim IH

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To use molecular docking and dynamic simulation to investigate the inhibitory action of chlorogenic acid (CHA) and its analogues against sortase A of Staphylococcus aureus. RESULTS:Five novel, natural inhibitors with different activities were discovered for sortase A (SrtA). The inhibition mechanism of the ...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Bi C,Wang L,Niu X,Cai H,Zhong X,Deng X,Wang T,Wang D

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our current knowledge of protein unfolding is overwhelmingly related to reversible denaturation. However, to engineer thermostable enzymes for industrial applications and medical diagnostics, it is necessary to consider irreversible denaturation processes and/or the entire quaternary structure. In this study we have u...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Kaneko H,Minagawa H,Shimada J

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A chip was developed to store DNA for medical research. The optional restriction site fixed on the chip can randomly ligate with whole human genomic DNA treated by the corresponding restriction enzyme. PCR can then use the chip as template DNA. Moreover, a chip fixing two restriction sites (e.g. EcoRI and HindIII) sho...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Hanaoka T,Takai O,Takahashi K,Tsugane S

更新日期：2003-03-01 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：: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：:A polysaccharide from the traditional Chinese medicinal herb, Bletilla striata (Thunb.) Reichb. f., was isolated, purified and characterized. It induced the proliferation of human umbilical vascular endothelial cells and the expression of vascular endothelial growth factor up to 156% and 147% of control after 72 h, re...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Wang C,Sun J,Luo Y,Xue W,Diao H,Dong L,Chen J,Zhang J

更新日期：2006-04-01 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：:A lactate producing derivative of Escherichia coli KO11, strain SZ110, was re-engineered for ethanol production by deleting genes encoding all fermentative routes for NADH and randomly inserting a promoterless mini-Tn5 cassette (transpososome) containing the complete Zymomonas mobilis ethanol pathway (pdc, adhA, and a...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Yomano LP,York SW,Zhou S,Shanmugam KT,Ingram LO

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptomyces is an attractive host for heterologous protein secretion. To further optimize its expression capacity, better expression vectors will be helpful. Here, based on pSGL1, a high copy number plasmid present in Streptomyces globisporus C-1027, we constructed a series of novel E. coli-Streptomyces shuttle expre...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Zhu Y,Wang L,Du Y,Wang S,Yu T,Hong B

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The shuttle vector pGYC4α (6,157 bp) was constructed based on the sigma-replicon plasmid pYC2 from Lactobacillus sakei BM5 isolated from kimchi. The vector contained inserts of the ColE1 replicon, α-amylase gene from Bacillus licheniformis containing its own signal peptide, and lactococcal promoter P32. Transformation...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Yang EJ,Chang HC

更新日期：2011-03-01 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：:Fourteen strains of Bacillus thuringiensis collected from both larvae showing disease symptoms and soil samples in northwest Argentina were characterized by insecticidal activity against Spodoptera frugiperda. First instar larvae and protein profile SDS-PAGE analysis of whole cell proteins not only allowed the differe...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Alvarez A,Pera LM,Loto F,Virla EG,Baigori MD

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At the core of a biomanufacturing process for recombinant proteins is the production cell line. It influences the productivity and product quality. Its characteristics also dictate process development, as the process is optimized to complement the producing cell to achieve the target productivity and quality. Advances...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Le H,Vishwanathan N,Jacob NM,Gadgil M,Hu WS

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:UV-induced DNA damage plays a key role in the etiology of certain diseases. The ability of blueberry anthocyanins and anthocyanidins (BA) to protect cellular DNA from UV-induced damage was investigated. BA were extracted by water (BAW), ethanol (BAE) or methanol (BAM). These extracts partially restored proliferation o...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Liu W,Lu X,He G,Gao X,Li M,Wu J,Li Z,Wu J,Wang J,Luo C

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:For the stress from fermenters, downstream processing equipment, and wastewater treatment to be alleviated, lowering salt-dependence in the ectoine synthesis process is of great significance in the moderately halotolerant Halomonas hydrothermalis Y2. RESULTS:In H. hydrothermalis Y2, the σ70- and σ38-control...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Li S,Shang Y,Zhao Q,Liu Y,Dong X,Wang W,Yang C

更新日期：2021-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To improve the production of trans-10,cis-12-conjugated linoleic acid (t10,c12-CLA) from linoleic acid in recombinant Yarrowia lipolytica. RESULTS:Cells of the yeast were permeabilized by freeze/thawing. The optimal conditions for t10,c12-CLA production by the permeabilized cells were at 28 °C, pH 7, 200 rpm...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Zhang B,Song Y,Chen H,Zhang H,Chen W

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzymatic polymerization can offer metal-free routes to polymer materials that could be used in biomedical applications. To take advantage of the unique properties of ionic liquids (ILs) for enzyme stability, monocationic ionic liquid (MIL) and dicationic ionic liquid (DIL) were used to promote the ring-opening polyme...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Wu C,Zhang Z,He F,Zhuo R

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To establish an automated high-throughput mimic perfusion scale-down model (SDM) in ambr® 15 system. RESULTS:An optimized SDM for mimic perfusion was developed in ambr® 15 system. Cell retention in ambr® 15 was realized by sedimentation and supernatant removal with a retention rate > 95%. Although the SDM c...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Jin L,Wang ZS,Cao Y,Sun RQ,Zhou H,Cao RY

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00