PIG-B: a homemade monophasic cocktail for the extraction of RNA.

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：:Human adipose tissue-derived stromal cells (ADSCs) are being evaluated for cardiovascular repair. We developed an ex vivo method for producing angiogenic ADSCs transduced with a self-inactivating lentiviral vector (LV) expressing the enhanced green fluorescence protein (EGFP) from an internal cytomegalovirus (CMV) pro...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Madonna R,Bolli R,Rokosh G,De Caterina R

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sample preparation is crucial for obtaining high-quality proteins for the purpose of electrophoretic separation and further analysis from tissues that contain high levels of interfering compounds. Hypericum perforatum is a medicinal plant that contains high amounts of phenolic compounds, of which hypericins, hyperfori...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Karppinen K,Taulavuori E,Hohtola A

更新日期：2010-11-01 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：:We report on a unified rapid betaine-based-PCR protocol for amplification of the (CAG)n region in Huntington disease (HD) and the (CGG)n region in Fragile X syndrome (FXS), followed by an electrophoretic separation on automated sequencer for precise determination of the triplet numbers. The high betaine concentration ...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Todorov T,Todorova A,Georgieva B,Mitev V

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to the limited number of molecular studies focused on European gene pool investigation, it is necessary to perform plant material recognition. Eighteen accessions of three Miscanthus species, namely, M. × giganteus, M. sinensis, M. sacchariflorus were evaluated with the use of molecular marker systems such as: int...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Cichorz S,Gośka M,Litwiniec A

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast artificial chromosome (YAC) cloning systems enable the cloning of DNA stretches of 50 to well over 2000 kb. This makes it possible to study large intact regions of DNA in detail, by restriction mapping the YAC to produce a physical map and by examining the YAC for coding sequences or genes. YACs are important fo...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Ramsay M

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GM risk assessments (GMRAs) play an important role in the decision-making process surrounding the regulation, notification and permission to handle Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). Ultimately the role of each GMRA will be able to ensure the safe handling and containment of the GMO; and to asses any potential imp...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Sparrow PA

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enamel is the covering tissue of teeth, made of regularly arranged hydroxyapatite crystals deposited on an organic matrix composed of 90% amelogenin that is completely degraded at the end of the enamel formation process. Amelogenin has a biomineralizing activity, forming nanoparticles or nanoribbons that guide hydroxy...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Pegoraro M,Matić S,Pergolizzi B,Iannarelli L,Rossi AM,Morra M,Noris E

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dye-based protein determination assays are widely used to estimate protein concentration, however various reports suggest that the response is dependent on the composition and sequence of the protein, limiting confidence in the resulting concentration estimates. In this study a diverse set of model proteins representi...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Noble JE,Knight AE,Reason AJ,Di Matola A,Bailey MJ

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adeno-associated virus (AAV) is a small, non-enveloped virus used as vector in gene therapy, mainly produced in human cells and in baculovirus systems. Intense studies on these platforms led to the production of vectors with titers between 103 and 105 viral genomes (vg) per cells. In spite of this, vector yields need ...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Galli A,Iaia I,Milella MS,Cipriani F,Della Latta V,Giacca M,Zentilin L,Cervelli T

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NK cells have been seen as potential agents in adoptive immunotherapy for cancer. The main challenge for the success of this approach is to obtain a great quantity of activated NK cells for adoptive transfer. The present study had aimed to evaluate the effect of a feeder layer of irradiated MSCs in the in vitro expans...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Pedroso JF,de Souza Valim V,Pezzi A,Furlan JM,Lenhart G,Sehn F,Zambonato B,Gonçalves AD,Wilke I,Amorin B,da Silva MA,Pedrazzani FS,da Rocha Silla LM

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Host protein synthesis is shut down in the lytic baculovirus expression vector system (BEVS). This also affects host proteins involved in routing secretory proteins through the endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-Golgi system. It has been demonstrated that a secretory alkaline phosphatase-EGFP fusion protein (SEFP) can act as ...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Teng CY,Chang SL,van Oers MM,Wu TY

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Papaya ringspot virus (PRSV) causes severe economic losses in both cucurbits and papaya throughout the tropics and subtropics. Development of PRSV-resistant transgenic plants faces a major hurdle in achieving resistance against geographically distinct isolates. One of the major reasons of failing to achieve the broad-...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Mangrauthia SK,Singh P,Praveen S

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biobanks, more formally known as biological resource centers (BRCs), form an "unsung" yet critical component of the infrastructures for scientific research, industry and conservation, without which much of the current scientific activity involving microbial cultures and cell-lines would be effectively impossible. BRCs...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Day JG,Stacey GN

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lentivirus-mediated RNA interference (RNAi) is a potent experimental tool for investigating gene functions in vitro and in vivo. It has advantages that transgenic technology lacks. However, in vivo applications are difficult to apply in the central nervous system of non-model organisms due to the lack of a standard br...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Chen Q,Zhu T,Jones G,Zhang J,Sun Y

更新日期：2013-06-01 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：:The major online single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) databases freely available as research tools for genetic analysis are explained, reviewed, and compared. An outline is given of the search strategies that can be used with the most extensive current SNP databases: National Centre for Biotechnology Information (NCBI...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Phillips C

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A detailed method is presented for the creation of head-to-tail multimers of short blunt restriction fragments, ligated into a plasmid vector in a single-tube reaction. Random priming of the concatemer insert readily yields hybridization probes of high specificity, unattainable from the short monomer fragments. ...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Kapros T,Robertson AJ,Waterborg JH

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Artificial microRNA (amiRNA) has become a powerful tool for gene silencing in plants. A new method for easy and rapid construction of rice artificial miRNA vector is described. The procedure involved modification of the pCAMBIA1300-UR vector by insertion of a 'vector modification fragment'. This was prepared from the ...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Wang X,Yang Y,Yu C,Zhou J,Cheng Y,Yan C,Chen J

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously described a microarray platform combining live basophils with protein arrays suitable for high-throughput detection of sensitisation against allergens. During optimisation of this technique, we observed severe losses of adhering cells during the washing steps, particularly after activation. In order...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Wang X,Cato P,Lin HC,Li T,Wan D,Alcocer MJ,Falcone FH

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is the leading cause of neonatal meningitis and a common pathogen in livestock and aquaculture industries around the world. Conjugate polysaccharide and protein-based vaccines are under development. The surface immunogenic protein (SIP) is a conserved protein in all GBS serotypes and has be...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Díaz-Dinamarca DA,Jerias JI,Soto DA,Soto JA,Díaz NV,Leyton YY,Villegas RA,Kalergis AM,Vásquez AE

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many preclinical studies have shown RNA interference (RNAi) as a new promising way to treat various human diseases including cancer and virus infection and there is an increasing demand for the large-scale preparation of short interfering RNAs (siRNAs) at low cost. Data are accumulating to show that endoribonuclease-p...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Xuan B,Qian Z,Tan C,Min T,Shen S,Huang W

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Production of monoclonal antibodies and pharmaceutical proteins in transgenic plants has been the focus of many research efforts for close to 30 years. Use of plants as bioreactors reduces large-scale production costs and minimizes risk for human pathogens contamination. Stable nuclear transformation of the plant geno...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Zvirin T,Magrisso L,Yaari A,Shoseyov O

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants synthesize amino acids by collateral metabolic pathways using primary elements carbon and oxygen from air, hydrogen from water in soil and nitrogen from soil. Following synthesis, amino acids are immediately used for metabolism, transient storage or transported to the phloem. Different families of transporters ...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Chakraborty N,Besra A,Basak J

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The term "coincidence cloning" encompasses a wide range of methodologies, the aim of which is to isolate DNA sequences which occur in both of two input DNA sources. The nature of these input DNAs may be genomic or cDNA, cloned or uncloned, and as such the far reaching applicability of the techniques can be imagined. I...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Devon RS,Brookes AJ

更新日期：1996-06-01 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 significance of actin cytoskeleton on cell growth was historically studied using toxic drugs, such as cytochalasin. However, it is possible that unpredictable effects of these agents may have influenced the reported observations. In our study, we have established a drug-free system using cofilin overexpression to ...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Lee YJ,Keng PC

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virus-like particles (VLPs) have vast potential for applications in nanoscience and nanomedicine. These biological nanoparticles may be used for medical imaging, vaccination, or tissue-specific delivery of drugs or other bioactive molecules. VLPs of Human parvovirus B19 (B19 V) can be assembled in vitro from the recom...

journal_title：Molecular biotechnology

authors： Sánchez-Rodríguez SP,Enrriquez-Avila JV,Soto-Fajardo JM,Peña-Montes C,Bustos-Jaimes I

更新日期：2015-04-01 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