Recombinant mussel proximal thread matrix protein promotes osteoblast cell adhesion and proliferation.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Arachidonic acid (ARA, C20:4, n-6), which belongs to the omega-6 series of polyunsaturated fatty acids and has a variety of biological activities, is commercially produced in Mortierella alpina. Dissolved oxygen or oxygen utilization efficiency is a critical factor for Mortierella alpina growth and arachidon...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Zhang H,Feng Y,Cui Q,Song X

更新日期：2017-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The insect cell line is a critical component in the production of recombinant proteins in the baculovirus expression system and new cell lines hold the promise of increasing both quantity and quality of protein production. RESULTS:Seventy cell lines were established by single-cell cloning from a primary cul...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Hashimoto Y,Zhang S,Blissard GW

更新日期：2010-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein cross-coupling reactions demand high yields, especially if the products are intended for bioanalytics, like enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays. Amongst other factors, the coupling yield depends on the concentration of the proteins being used for coupling. Protein supercharging of enzymes can increase...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Prasse AA,Zauner T,Büttner K,Hoffmann R,Zuchner T

更新日期：2014-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Multi-copy gene integration into microbial genomes is a conventional tool for obtaining improved gene expression. For Penicillium chrysogenum, the fungal producer of the beta-lactam antibiotic penicillin, many production strains carry multiple copies of the penicillin biosynthesis gene cluster. This discover...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Ziemons S,Koutsantas K,Becker K,Dahlmann T,Kück U

更新日期：2017-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Advances in optical imaging modalities and the continued evolution of genetically-encoded fluorescent proteins are coming together to facilitate the study of cell behavior at high resolution in living organisms. As a result, imaging using autofluorescent protein reporters is gaining popularity in mouse trans...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Hadjantonakis AK,Papaioannou VE

更新日期：2004-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dengue is a public health problem of global significance for which there is neither an effective antiviral therapy nor a preventive vaccine. It is a mosquito-borne viral disease, caused by dengue (DEN) viruses, which are members of the Flaviviridae family. There are four closely related serotypes, DEN-1, DEN...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Khanam S,Rajendra P,Khanna N,Swaminathan S

更新日期：2007-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the previous study, the cellulolytic Escherichia coli ZH-4 isolated from bovine rumen was found to show extracellular cellulase activity and could degrade cellulose in the culture. The goal of this work was to identify and characterize the secreted cellulase of E. coli ZH-4. It will be helpful to re-under...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Pang J,Wang J,Liu Z,Zhang Q,Qi Q

更新日期：2019-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:More than a dozen of fungal immunomodulatory proteins (FIPs) have been identified to date, most of which are from Ganoderma species. However, little is known about the similarities and differences between different Ganoderma FIPs' bioactivities. In the current study, two FIP genes termed FIP-gap1 and FIP-gap...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Qu ZW,Zhou SY,Guan SX,Gao R,Duan ZW,Zhang X,Sun WY,Fan WL,Chen SS,Chen LJ,Lin JW,Ruan YY

更新日期：2018-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Urease B is an important virulence factor that is required for Helicobacter pylori to colonise the gastric mucosa. Mouse monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) that inhibit urease B enzymatic activity will be useful as vaccines for the prevention and treatment of H. pylori infection. Here, we produced murine mAbs agai...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Li Y,Ning Y,Wang Y,Peng D,Jiang Y,Zhang L,Long M,Luo J,Li M

更新日期：2010-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ability of cytosine deaminase (CD) to convert the antifungal agent 5-fluorocytosine (5-FC) into one of the most potent and largely used anticancer compound such as 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) raised considerable interest in this enzyme to model gene or antibody - directed enzyme-prodrug therapy (GDEPT/ADEPT) a...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Mallano A,Zamboni S,Carpinelli G,Santoro F,Flego M,Ascione A,Gellini M,Tombesi M,Podo F,Cianfriglia M

更新日期：2008-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing system has greatly facilitated and expanded our capacity to engineer mammalian genomes, including targeted gene knock-outs. However, the phenotyping of the knock-out effect requires a high DNA editing efficiency. RESULTS:Here, we report a user-friendly strategy based on the ex...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Liesche C,Venkatraman L,Aschenbrenner S,Grosse S,Grimm D,Eils R,Beaudouin J

更新日期：2016-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plants may represent excellent alternatives to classical heterologous protein expression systems, especially for the production of biopharmaceuticals and vaccine components. Modern vaccines are becoming increasingly complex, with the incorporation of multiple antigens. Approaches towards developing an HIV va...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Marusic C,Nuttall J,Buriani G,Lico C,Lombardi R,Baschieri S,Benvenuto E,Frigerio L

更新日期：2007-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The safety of mutagenized and genetically transformed plants remains a subject of scrutiny. Data gathered and communicated on the phenotypic and molecular variation induced by gene transfer technologies will provide a scientific-based means to rationally address such concerns. In this study, genomic structur...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Anderson JE,Michno JM,Kono TJ,Stec AO,Campbell BW,Curtin SJ,Stupar RM

更新日期：2016-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Domesticated einkorn (Triticum monococcum L.) is one of the oldest cultivated cereal crops in the world. Its small genome size (~ 5.7 GB), low ploidy (2n = 2x = 14, AmAm) and high genetic polymorphism make this species very attractive for use as a diploid model for understanding the genomics and proteomics o...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Miroshnichenko D,Ashin D,Pushin A,Dolgov S

更新日期：2018-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aldehyde-deformylating oxygenase (ADO) is a key enzyme involved in the biosynthetic pathway of fatty alk(a/e)nes in cyanobacteria. However, cADO (cyanobacterial ADO) showed extreme low activity with the k cat value below 1 min-1, which would limit its application in biofuel production. To identify the activi...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Wang Q,Bao L,Jia C,Li M,Li JJ,Lu X

更新日期：2017-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As one of the genetic mechanisms for adaptive immunity, V(D)J recombination generates an enormous repertoire of T-cell receptors (TCRs). With the development of high-throughput sequencing techniques, systematic exploration of V(D)J recombination becomes possible. Multiplex PCR has been previously developed t...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Gao F,Wang K

更新日期：2015-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:One of the most commonly used vectors for gene therapy is the adenoviral vector; its ability to tightly regulate transgene expression is critical for optimizing therapeutic outcomes. The tetracycline-regulated system (especially the Tet-On system) for gene expression is one of the most valuable tools for con...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Chen H,Wang D,Xia R,Mao Q,Xia H

更新日期：2015-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Heat-stable antifungal factor (HSAF) is a newly identified broad-spectrum antifungal antibiotic from the biocontrol agent Lysobacter enzymogenes and is regarded as a potential biological pesticide, due to its novel mode of action. However, the production level of HSAF is quite low, and little research has re...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Tang B,Sun C,Zhao Y,Xu H,Xu G,Liu F

更新日期：2018-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gene therapy continues to hold great potential for treating many different types of disease and dysfunction. Safe and efficient techniques for gene transfer and expression in vivo are needed to enable gene therapeutic strategies to be effective in patients. Currently, the most commonly used methods employ re...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Xia J,Martinez A,Daniell H,Ebert SN

更新日期：2011-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats/CRISPR associated protein 9 (CRISPR/Cas9) has been wildly used to generate gene knockout models through inducing indels causing frame-shift. However, there are few studies concerning the post-transcript effects caused by CRISPR-mediated genome editing...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Tang JX,Chen D,Deng SL,Li J,Li Y,Fu Z,Wang XX,Zhang Y,Chen SR,Liu YX

更新日期：2018-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In a previous study, anthocyanin levels in potato plants were increased by manipulating genes connected with the flavonoid biosynthesis pathway. However, starch content and tuber yield were dramatically reduced in the transgenic plants, which over-expressed dihydroflavonol reductase (DFR). RESULTS:Transgeni...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Aksamit-Stachurska A,Korobczak-Sosna A,Kulma A,Szopa J

更新日期：2008-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Xenoantigens are a major source of concern with regard to the success of interspecific xenografts. GGTA1 encodes α1,3-galactosyltransferase, which is essential for the biosynthesis of galactosyl-alpha 1,3-galactose, the major xenoantigen causing hyperacute rejection. GGTA1-modified pigs, therefore, are promi...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Tanihara F,Hirata M,Nguyen NT,Sawamoto O,Kikuchi T,Doi M,Otoi T

更新日期：2020-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plasminogen activator inhibitor type-2 (PAI-2, SERPINB2) is an irreversible, specific inhibitor of the urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA). Since overexpression of uPA at the surface of cancer cells is linked to malignancy, targeting of uPA by exogenous recombinant PAI-2 has been proposed as the basis of p...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Cochran BJ,Gunawardhana LP,Vine KL,Lee JA,Lobov S,Ranson M

更新日期：2009-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interest in using plants for production of recombinant proteins such as monoclonal antibodies is growing, but proteolytic degradation, leading to a loss of functionality and complications in downstream purification, is still a serious problem. RESULTS:In this study, we investigated the dynamics of the assem...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Hehle VK,Paul MJ,Drake PM,Ma JK,van Dolleweerd CJ

更新日期：2011-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Expression vector engineering technology is one of the most convenient and timely method for cell line development to meet the rising demand of novel production cell line with high productivity. Destabilization of dihydrofolate reductase (dhfr) selection marker by addition of AU-rich elements and murine orni...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Chin CL,Chin HK,Chin CS,Lai ET,Ng SK

更新日期：2015-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Proteins in inclusion bodies (IBs) present native-like secondary structures. However, chaotropic agents at denaturing concentrations, which are widely used for IB solubilization and subsequent refolding, unfold these secondary structures. Removal of the chaotropes frequently causes reaggregation and poor rec...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Rosa da Silva CM,Chura-Chambi RM,Ramos Pereira L,Cordeiro Y,de Souza Ferreira LC,Morganti L

更新日期：2018-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the last three decades, the Baculovirus expression vector system (BEV) has evolved to one of the most widely used eukaryotic systems for heterologous protein expression including approved vaccines and therapies. Despite the significant improvements introduced during the past years, the BEV system still ha...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Scholz J,Suppmann S

更新日期：2017-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ligand-targeted approaches have proven successful in improving the therapeutic index of a number of drugs. We hypothesized that the specific targeting of TNF-alpha antagonists to inflamed tissues could increase drug efficacy and reduce side effects. RESULTS:Using uteroglobin (UG), a potent anti-inflammatory...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Ventura E,Balza E,Borsi L,Tutolo G,Carnemolla B,Castellani P,Zardi L

更新日期：2011-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:New high-throughput sequencing technologies promise a very sensitive and high-resolution analysis of DNA methylation patterns in quantitative terms. However, a detailed and comprehensive comparison with existing validated DNA methylation analysis methods is not yet available. Therefore, a systematic cross-va...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Potapova A,Albat C,Hasemeier B,Haeussler K,Lamprecht S,Suerbaum S,Kreipe H,Lehmann U

更新日期：2011-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Whole genome amplification (WGA) promises to eliminate practical molecular genetic analysis limitations associated with genomic DNA (gDNA) quantity. We evaluated the performance of multiple displacement amplification (MDA) WGA using gDNA extracted from lymphoblastoid cell lines (N = 27) with a range of start...

journal_title：BMC biotechnology

authors： Bergen AW,Qi Y,Haque KA,Welch RA,Chanock SJ

更新日期：2005-09-16 00:00:00