Characterization of the hydrolysate and catalytic cavity of α-agarase AgaD.

abstract：PURPOSE OF WORK:The purpose of this study is to report a ι-carrageenase which degrades ι-carrageenan yielding neo-ι-carratetraose as the main product in the absence of NaCl. The gene for a new ι-carrageenase, CgiB_Ce, from Cellulophaga sp. QY3 was cloned and sequenced. It comprised an ORF of 1,386 bp encoding for a pro...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Ma S,Tan YL,Yu WG,Han F

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deacetoxy/deacetylcephalosporin C synthase (acDAOC/DACS) from Acremonium chrysogenum is a bifunctional enzyme that catalyzes both the ring-expansion of penicillin N to deacetoxycephalosporin C and the hydroxylation of the latter to deacetylcephalosporin C. The R308 residue located in close proximity to the C-terminus ...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Wu XB,Tian XY,Ji JJ,Wu WB,Fan KQ,Yang KQ

更新日期：2011-04-01 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：:Leymus chinensis is an important grassland perennial grass. However, its drought tolerance requires to be improved. LEA (late embryogenesis abundant) genes are believed to confer resistance to drought and water deficiency. Using Agrobacterium-mediated transformation, a wheat LEA gene, TaLEA(3), was integrated into L. ...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Wang L,Li X,Chen S,Liu G

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Feruloylated mono- and di-acylglycerols were synthesized in a two step reaction: ethyl ferulate was first transesterified with glycerol and then this was esterified with oleic acid. The yield of the combined feruloylated mono- and di-acylglycerols in the second reaction reached 96% when esterification of 0.3 g transes...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Sun S,Shan L,Liu Y,Jin Q,Wang X,Wang Z

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Classical swine fever (CSF) is one of the most important viral diseases of swine worldwide. Although live or attenuated virus vaccines have been used to control CSFV, it is difficult to distinguish vaccinated pigs from infected pigs; this leads to restrictions on import and export. Subunit vaccines based on the CSFV E...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Park Y,Lee S,Kang H,Park M,Min K,Kim NH,Gu S,Kim JK,An DJ,Choe S,Sohn EJ

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inhibition of protein-tyrosine phosphatase 1B (PTP1B) is a potential target for treatment of type 2 diabetes. Vanadium and zinc metal coordinated complexes have insulin-enhancing activities, and while vanadium compounds inhibit PTP1B, little is known on the mode of action of zinc compounds. In this study we develo...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Seale AP,de Jesus LA,Kim SY,Choi YH,Lim HB,Hwang CS,Kim YS

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salt stress is considered one of the main abiotic factors to limit crop growth and productivity by affecting morpho-physiological and biochemical processes. Genetically, a number of salt tolerant Brassica varieties have been developed and introduced, but breeding of such varieties is time consuming. Therefore, current...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Shah N,Anwar S,Xu J,Hou Z,Salah A,Khan S,Gong J,Shang Z,Qian L,Zhang C

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell adhesion to extracellular matrices, including fibronectin, results in clustering of integrins in focal adhesions. To promote the clustering of fibronectin and thus enhance its activity at the sites of focal adhesion formation, we have engineered a fusion protein containing recombinant fibronectin fragment (hFN) c...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Chung CP,Jang JH

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A microtiter plate-based assay was developed to evaluate the ability of lipases to perform transesterifications when employed in different organic solvents. A 4-nitrophenol assay was carried out employing seven different lipase formulations and two fatty acid methyl esters with different chain lengths in a total of si...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Pöhnlein M,Finkbeiner T,Syldatk C,Hausmann R

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ECO-orf27 associated with the cluster of ECO-0501 (LW01) from Amycolatopsis orientalis is deduced to encode a type II thioesterase. Disruption of ECO-orf27 reduced LW01 production by 95 %. Complementation of the disrupted mutant with intact ECO-orf27 restored the production of LW01 suggesting that ECO-orf27 is crucial...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Shen Y,Huang H,Zhu L,Luo M,Chen D

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An endo-beta-(1-->3),(1-->4)-glucanase gene (bglBC1) from Bacillus circulans ATCC21367 was modified by substituting its native promoter with a strong promoter, BJ27X, to increase expression of the gene when cloned into B. subtilis RM125 and B. megaterium ATCC14945. A 771-bp endo-beta-(1-->3),(1-->4)-glucanase open rea...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Kim KH,Kim YO,Ko BS,Youn HJ,Lee DS

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucosylceramide and galactosylceramide were detected in three Aspergillus species: Aspergillus oryzae, Aspergillus sojae and Aspergillus. awamori, using borate-coated TLC. The cerebrosides from A. oryzae were further purified by ion exchange and iatrobeads column chromatographies with or without borate, and determine...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Tani Y,Amaishi Y,Funatsu T,Ito M,Itonori S,Hata Y,Ashida H,Yamamoto K

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The white-rot fungus Trametes versicolor grown in submerged culture produced two laccase isoenzymes, LacI and LacII. Addition of insoluble lignocellulosic materials into the culture medium increased the total laccase activity. The proportion of laccase isoenzymes also changed depending on the lignocellulosic material ...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Moldes D,Lorenzo M,Sanromán MA

更新日期：2004-02-01 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：: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：:Anthocyanic vacuolar inclusions (AVIs) appear as dark red-to-purple spheres of various sizes in vacuoles of grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) cell suspension culture due to their interaction with anthocyanins. AVIs were purified and the bound anthocyanins extracted and analysed by HPLC from two lines of V. vinifera isolat...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Conn S,Zhang W,Franco C

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycolipid biosurfactants produced by bacteria and yeasts provide significant opportunities to replace chemical surfactants with sustainable biologically produced alternatives in bulk commercial products such as laundry detergents and surface cleaners. Sophorolipids are already available in sufficient yield to make th...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Marchant R,Banat IM

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNA (miRNA) profiling is a first important step in elucidating miRNA functions. Real time quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) and microarray hybridization approaches as well as ultra high throughput sequencing of miRNAs (small RNA-seq) are popular and widely used profiling methods. All of these profiling approaches face s...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Meyer SU,Pfaffl MW,Ulbrich SE

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A successful nerve regeneration process was achieved with nerve repair tubes made up of 1-ethyl-3(3-dimethylaminopropyl) carbodiimide hydrochloride (EDC) cross-linked carboxymethyl chitosan (CM-chitosan) with improved biodegradability. Chitosan has a very slow degradation rate, while the EDC cross-linked CM-chitosan t...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Wang G,Lu G,Ao Q,Gong Y,Zhang X

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethanol, added as a de-emulsifier to separate oil and biocatalyst (or bacterial cells) from a three-phase (oil/biocatalyst/aqueous phase) emulsion, formed in diesel biodesulfurization employing Gordonia nitida, improved oil recovery by centrifugation from about 50% in its absence to almost 100% at 3% (v/v). The biocat...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Choi OK,Choi KS,Ryu HW,Chang YK

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 4 kb BamHI-HindIlI fragment, corresponding to the cry2A operon of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki strain BNS3, was cloned. The sequencing of the corresponding cry2Aa-type gene, termed crybns3-4, revealed an open reading frame of 1902 bp, encoding a protein of 633 amino-acid residues. Both nucleotide and amino...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Tounsi S,Jaoua S

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genes involved in the biosynthetic pathway of ectoine (2-methyl-1,4,5,6-tetrahydropyrimidine-4-carboxylic acid) from Bacillus halodurans were cloned as an operon and expressed in E. coli. Analysis of the deduced ectoine biosynthesis cluster amino acid sequence revealed that the ectoine operon contain 2,389 bp, enc...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Anbu Rajan L,Joseph TC,Thampuran N,James R,Ashok Kumar K,Viswanathan C,Bansal KC

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural cortical cells, isolated from prenatal rat cerebra, were grown on surface-modified poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid, 65:35) (PLGA) films coated with poly-D: -lysine (PDL) with either laminin (LN), fibronectin (FN) or collagen (CN). Immunocytochemistry showed that the isolated cells were highly immunopositive for bo...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Han DW,Sub Lee M,Park BJ,Kim JK,Park JC

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ma-pyrG was cloned from Monascus aurantiacus AS3.4384 using degenerate PCR with primers designed with an algorithm called CODEHOP, and its complete sequence was obtained by a PCR-based strategy for screening a Monascus fosmid library. Ma-pyrG encodes orotidine-5'-phosphate decarboxylase (OMPdecase), a 283-aminoacid pr...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Wang BH,Xu Y,Li YP

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To identify a new member of serine proteases from Deinagkistrodon acutus via phage display technique and appraise its biocatalytic activities. RESULTS:A novel thrombin-like enzyme gene was cloned by screening the phage display library of D. acutus venom gland. The gene has a 783 bp ORF encoding 260 amino ac...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Li A,Zhang C,Wang J,Wang J,Jiang H,Li J,Ma X,Zhang W,Lu Y

更新日期：2018-01-01 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

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：:Dibutyl phthalate (DBP) was more efficiently degraded by cutinase compared to yeast esterase; i.e. almost 80% of initial DBP (500 mg l(-1)) was decomposed within 7.5 h, and nearly 50% of the degraded DBP disappeared within the initial 30 min. The toxicity of the final DBP degradation products were investigated using v...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： Kim YH,Lee J

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nitrilase from Rhodococcus sp. CCZU10-1 catalyses the hydrolysis of dinitriles to acids without the formation of amides and cyanocarboxylic acids. It was induced by benzonitrile and its analogues (tetrachloroterephthalonitrile > ε-caprolactam > benzonitrile > phenylacetonitrile), and had activity towards aromatic ...

journal_title：Biotechnology letters

authors： He YC,Wu YD,Pan XH,Ma CL

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00