A simple method to make better probes from short DNA fragments.

abstract：:Tea, a beverage crop, is a rich source of polyphenols and polysaccharides which greatly attribute to its importance. However, oxidation and precipitation of these compounds during nucleic acids extraction is a limitation to molecular biology and genomic studies. On isolation of total RNA from root tissue using establi...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Muoki RC,Paul A,Kumari A,Singh K,Kumar S

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lentiviral transduction is a highly efficient DNA delivery method for RNA interference applications. However, obtaining high lentiviral titers of shRNA and miRNA encoding vectors is challenging, since shRNA and miRNA cassettes have been shown to reduce lentiviral titers. In this study, we compare four commercially ava...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Albrecht C,Hosiner S,Tichy B,Aldrian S,Hajdu S,Nürnberger S

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat shock proteins (HSPs) are upregulated in response to stress and play a protective function in refolding of cellular proteins. In hypertension, the heart is a vital organ that requires examination and investigation, and primary induction of HSPs is predominantly effected. Hypertension results from osmotic imbalanc...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Mala JG,Takeuchi S

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since it was first introduced in late 1990s Wave bioreactor has been used for protein production by mammalian and insect cell lines. However, using Wave bioreactor to produce human monoclonal antibody by stable Drosophila Schneider 2 (S2) cell transfectants has not been reported before. In this study, S2 cells were co...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Wang L,Hu H,Yang J,Wang F,Kaisermayer C,Zhou P

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The GacS/A system in Azotobacter vinelandii regulates alginate and alkylresorcinols production through RsmZ1, a small regulatory RNA (sRNA) that releases the translational repression of the algD and arpR mRNAs caused by the RsmA protein. In the Pseudomonadaceae family, the Rsm-sRNAs are grouped into three families: Rs...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： López-Pliego L,García-Ramírez L,Cruz-Gómez EA,Domínguez-Ojeda P,López-Pastrana A,Fuentes-Ramírez LE,Núñez C,Castañeda M

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electroporation of cells in the presence of DNA is widely used for the introduction of transgenes either stably or transiently into bacterial, fungal, animal, and plant cells. A review of the literature shows that electroporation parameters are often reported in an incomplete or incorrect manner, forcing researchers t...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Lurquin PF

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oenococcus oeni is the main bacterial species that drives malolactic fermentation in wine. Most O. oeni strains produce capsular exopolysaccharides (EPS) that may contribute to protect them in the wine hostile environment. In O. oeni genome sequences, several genes are predicted to encode priming glycosyltransferases ...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Dimopoulou M,Claisse O,Dutilh L,Miot-Sertier C,Ballestra P,Lucas PM,Dols-Lafargue M

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are functional starter cultures in food and dairy industry and are also regarded as power houses for bioprocess and fermentation technology. Due to extensive applications in food and medical applications, intensive research and developmental activities are going on throughout the world to un...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Vivek N,Hazeena SH,Rajesh RO,Godan TK,Anjali KB,Nair LM,Mohan B,Nair SC,Sindhu R,Pandey A,Binod P

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometry (MS) has developed during the past decade into a versatile tool for biopolymer analysis. The aim of this review is to summarize this development and outline the applications, which have been enabled for routine use in the field ...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Jurinke C,Oeth P,van den Boom D

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Characterization of novel plant gene promoters underpins the development of transgenic crop plants. Here, we report a novel 5' regulatory sequence (Eriubi D7) of the ubiquitin gene from Erianthus arundinaceus, a wild relative of sugarcane resistant to many biotic and abiotic stresses. A 3.2-kb regulatory sequence of u...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Chakravarthi M,Philip A,Subramonian N

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Positional cloning of rare disease genes depends on the availability of highly polymorphic markers near the disease loci. The most abundant class of polymorphic markers in the human genome is CA-repeats. We have developed a strategy for the rapid isolation of highly polymorphic CA-repeats from YAC clones. Total DNA of...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Rotman G,Vanagaite L,Collins FS,Shiloh Y

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study uses PCR-derived marker systems to investigate the extent and distribution of genetic variability of 53 Garnacha accessions coming from Italy, France and Spain. The samples studied include 28 Italian accessions (named Tocai rosso in Vicenza area; Alicante in Sicily and Elba island; Gamay perugino in Perugia...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Meneghetti S,Costacurta A,Frare E,Da Rold G,Migliaro D,Morreale G,Crespan M,Sotés V,Calò A

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant adenovirus vectors have proven to be useful tools in facilitating gene transfer. Construction of such vectors requires a knowledge of the adenovirus genome structure and its life cycle. A commonly used recombinant adenovirus involves deletion of the E1 region; such a recombinant is traditionally produced b...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Davis AR,Wivel NA,Palladino JL,Tao L,Wilson JM

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The electron microscopic study of DNA-protein complexes can yield valuable information that is often not easily available by other methods. In this article we give a number of examples that were chosen to illustrate the utility of electron microscopy. Along with the strategy used are protocols that allow such experime...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Schnos M,Inman RB

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review I briefly describe the technique of protein engineering and indicate how the present state of knowledge allows proteins to be mutated to increase or decrease stability. I discuss experiments on both model proteins and those of relevance to the food industry and show how hydrophobic forces are a major dr...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Goodenough PW

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to identify disease-associated genes using microarray technology is dependent on isolating high-quality total RNA from the diseased tissue under study. However, it is not always possible to obtain large amounts of affected tissue from patients and therefore the quality and yield of RNA may be compromised. ...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Murray EJ

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compounds based on a flavonoid (di-phenolic) ring structure are emerging as a potentially important new class of pharmaceutical compounds with a broad range of biological activities, most prominent of which are their potential role as anticancer agents. These compounds exert a wide range of upregulating and downregula...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Brown DM,Kelly GE,Husband AJ

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An inexpensive monophasic reagent has been developed for the extraction of total RNA from cells or tissues. The main ingredients of the reagent are Phenol, Isoamyl alcohol, Guanidinium isothiocyanate, and Beta-mercaptoethanol (PIG-B). The quality and yield of RNA obtained by this reagent is at par with that obtained b...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Weber K,Bolander ME,Sarkar G

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiomyocytes are terminally differentiated cells that to date have been characterized as poor targets for nonviral gene transfer. This study was therefore designed to determine the optimal nonviral gene transfer parameters in cell cultures of neonatal rat cardiomyocytes and to compare them with the efficiency of gen...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Djurovic S,Iversen N,Jeansson S,Hoover F,Christensen G

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of synthetic genes may constitute a successful approach for the heterologous production and functional expression of bacterial antimicrobial peptides (bacteriocins) by recombinant yeasts. In this work, synthetic genes with adapted codon usage designed from the mature amino acid sequence of the bacteriocin ente...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Jiménez JJ,Borrero J,Gútiez L,Arbulu S,Herranz C,Cintas LM,Hernández PE

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A shuttle vector pZL1 which can replicate both in Gluconobacter oxydans and Escherichia coli was constructed based on G. oxydans DSM2003 cryptic plasmid pGOX3, a homology of G. oxydans 621H pGOX3, and E. coli cloning vector pUC18. It was found to be stably maintained in G. oxydans during the serial subcultures in the ...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Zhang L,Lin J,Ma Y,Wei D,Sun M

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenoviruses are attracting increasing attention as general purpose mammalian cell expression vectors, as recombinant vaccines, and potentially as vectors for gene therapy. Not only is the adenovirus genome relatively easy to manipulate by recombinant DNA techniques, but adenovirus vectors are relatively stable, grow ...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Graham FL,Prevec L

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new lipase gene designated as SlLipA was isolated from Serratia liquefaciens S33 DB-1 by the genomic-walking method. The cloned gene contained an open reading frame (ORF) of 1,845 bp encoding 615 amino acids with a conserved GXSXG motif. Genome sequence analysis showed that an aldo/keto reductase gene closed to the ...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Yao H,Yu S,Zhang L,Zuo K,Ling H,Zhang F,Tang K

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis of complete genes is becoming a more and more popular approach in heterologous gene expression. Reasons for this are the decreasing prices and the numerous advantages in comparison to classic molecular cloning methods. Two of these advantages are the possibility to adapt the codon usage to the host organ...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Gatter M,Gatter T,Matthäus F

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the causal agent of cervical cancer, one of the most common causes of death in women worldwide, and its E7 antigen is the major candidate for a therapeutic vaccine. The large scale production of E7 by molecular farming that would lead to the development of a safe and inexpensive vaccine i...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Morgenfeld M,Lentz E,Segretin ME,Alfano EF,Bravo-Almonacid F

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews some of the issues involved in evaluating vaccines in humans. Vaccine trials are required for licensure and are essential for demonstrating a vaccine's safety and protective efficacy. The formal framework of phase I, II, and III trials is described, with particular emphasis on the choice of hypoth...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Farrington CP,Miller E

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biosensor field has grown enormously since the first demonstration of the biosensor concept by Leland C. Clark, Jr. in 1962. Today's biosensor market is dominated by glucose biosensors, mass-produced enzyme electrodes for the rapid self-diagnosis of blood glucose levels by diabetes sufferers. Here we take a histor...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Newman JD,Setford SJ

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene encoding maltogenic amylase from acidic Bacillus sp. US149 (maUS149) was cloned, sequenced and over-expressed in Escherichia coli. The nucleotide sequence analysis revealed an open reading frame (ORF) of 1749 bp encoding a protein of 582 residues. The alignment of deduced amino acid sequence revealed a relative...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Mabrouk SB,Messaoud EB,Ayadi D,Jemli S,Roy A,Mezghani M,Bejar S

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene reporter systems play a key role in gene expression and regulation studies. This review describes the ideal reporter systems, including reporter expression vector design. It summarizes the many uses of genetic reporters and outlines the currently available and commonly used reporter systems. Each system is descri...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Schenborn E,Groskreutz D

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polyamines spermine, spermidine, and putrescine are small organic molecules one or more of which are present in all living organisms. Many natural products contain polyamine residues. Polyamines are synthesized by a highly regulated pathway from arginine or ornithine and also can be transported in and out of cells...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Morgan DM

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00