Biocatalytic synthesis of oligosaccharides.

abstract：:Technoeconomic analysis (TEA) is an approach for conducting process design and simulation, informed by empirical data, to estimate capital costs, operating costs, mass balances, and energy balances for a commercial scale biorefinery. TEA serves as a useful method to screen potential research priorities, identify cost ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Scown CD,Baral NR,Yang M,Vora N,Huntington T

更新日期：2021-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic building blocks bearing hydroxylated chiral centers are important targets for biocatalysis. Many C-C bond forming enzymes have recently been investigated for new applications and new strategies towards the synthesis of natural products and related oxygenated compounds. Several old catalysts have been studied...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Fessner WD,Helaine V

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Use of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has become increasingly widespread in virtually all aspects of molecular biology. Recently, novel ligation-independent methods have been developed for the cloning of DNA fragments amplified using PCR. Ligation-independent cloning utilizing the enzyme uracil DNA glycosylase (t...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Rashtchian A

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New technologies have allowed researchers to better design, build, and analyze complex consortia. These developments are fueling a wider implementation of consortium-based bioprocessing by leveraging synthetic biology, delivering on the field's multitudinous promises of higher efficiencies, superior resiliency, augmen...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Rapp KM,Jenkins JP,Betenbaugh MJ

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spatiotemporal patterns of ion and metabolite levels in living cells are important in understanding signal transduction and metabolite flux. Imaging approaches using genetically encoded sensors are ideal for detecting such molecule dynamics, which are hard to capture otherwise. Recent years have seen iterative imp...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Okumoto S

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in retooling microorganisms have enabled bioproduction of 'drop-in' biofuels, fuels that are compatible with existing spark-ignition, compression-ignition, and gas-turbine engines. As the majority of petroleum consumption in the United States consists of gasoline (47%), diesel fuel and heating oil (21%), and ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Zargar A,Bailey CB,Haushalter RW,Eiben CB,Katz L,Keasling JD

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poxviruses are widely used for the cytoplasmic expression of recombinant genes in mammalian cells. Recent improvements allow high expression and simplify the integration of multiple foreign genes. Vaccinia virus mutants and other poxviruses that undergo abortive infection in mammalian cells are receiving special atten...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Carroll MW,Moss B

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To overcome the maximum 50% yield limitation of classical resolution methods, deracemization processes involving a racemization step (dynamic resolution) or a prochiral intermediate (stereoinversion) have been developed. The use of transition metal complexes as racemizing agents, in combination with an enzymatic react...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Azerad R,Buisson D

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most significant feature of the current transgenic models of Alzheimer's disease continues to be the amyloid phenotype. In the past year, mice have been more extensively characterized in terms of the effect of amyloid accumulation on downstream events, such as neurodegeneration and behavioral changes, but the resu...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Duff K

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular tools for the regulation of protein expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae have contributed to rapid advances in pathway engineering for this yeast. This review considers new and enhanced additions to this toolbox, focusing on experimental approaches to modulate enzyme synthesis and enzyme fate. Methods for ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Besada-Lombana PB,McTaggart TL,Da Silva NA

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgene integration in plants transformed by either Agrobacterium or direct DNA delivery methods occurs through illegitimate recombination (IR). The precise mechanism(s) for IR-mediated transgene integration and the role of host double-strand break repair enzymes remain unknown. A recent wealth of sequenced transgen...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Somers DA,Makarevitch I

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilms are structured communities of bacteria, which are adhered to a surface and embedded in a self-produced matrix of extracellular polymeric substances. Since biofilms are very resistant to antimicrobial agents, they are at the basis of a range of problems, including quality and safety issues in food industry. Re...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Abee T,Kovács AT,Kuipers OP,van der Veen S

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conservation and sustainable use of freshwater resources is of global importance. Microorganisms are not only the most abundant organisms in natural freshwater systems, but are also key players in ecological processes controlling water quality. Detailed knowledge of the diversity and function of microorganisms dwe...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Hahn MW

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The worldwide emergence of nanoscale science and engineering was marked by the announcement of the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) in January 2000. Recent research on biosystems at the nanoscale has created one of the most dynamic science and technology domains at the confluence of physical sciences, molecula...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Roco MC

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibrotic diseases occur in virtually every tissue of the body and are a major cause of mortality, yet they remain largely untreatable and poorly understood on a mechanistic level. The development of anti-fibrotic agents has been hampered, in part, by the insufficient fibrosis biomimicry provided by traditional in vitr...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Porras AM,Hutson HN,Berger AJ,Masters KS

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants have a remarkable capacity for the production of a wide range of metabolites. Much has been reported and reviewed on the diversity of these metabolites and how it is achieved, for example through the evolution of enzyme families. In comparison, relatively little is known on the extraordinary metabolic productiv...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Tissier A

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The quantification of intracellular fluxes via 13C metabolic flux analysis has become one of the major techniques to support systems-based metabolic engineering of industrial production hosts. Commonly, 13C studies are conducted using minimal media, however, a great variety of industrial processes rely on complex medi...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Schwechheimer SK,Becker J,Wittmann C

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent progress in synthetic and computational chemistry has made it possible to develop certain novel drug candidates. Drug candidates for genetic diseases, such as cancer, may also be designed on the basis of structural information obtained using X-ray analysis and NMR, as well as evidence from biological techniques...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： lida H,Jia G,Lown JW

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal bioactive polysaccharides deriving mainly from the Basidiomycetes family (and some from the Ascomycetes) and medicinal mushrooms have been well known and widely used in far Asia as part of traditional diet and medicine, and in the last decades have been the core of intense research for the understanding and the...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Giavasis I

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the next decade, the impact of library synthesis will play a major role in shortening the lead optimization phase of drug discovery. The prognosis for combinatorial chemistry to discover fundamentally different new classes of therapeutically active small molecules against some of the more difficult biological tar...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Myers PL

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, efforts to improve sugarcane have focused on the development of biotechnology for this crop. It has become clear that sugarcane lacks tools for the biotechnological route of improvement and that the initial efforts in sequencing ESTs had limited impact for breeding. Until recently, the models used by ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Dal-Bianco M,Carneiro MS,Hotta CT,Chapola RG,Hoffmann HP,Garcia AA,Souza GM

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolism is dynamic and must function in context-specific ways to adjust to changes in the surrounding cellular and ecological environment. When isotopic tracers are used, metabolite flow (i.e. metabolic flux) can be quantified through biochemical networks to assess metabolic pathway operation. The cellular activiti...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Allen DK,Young JD

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New methods and applications in the separation of biomolecules are reviewed, with an emphasis on the large-scale recovery of proteins. Highlights include the advent of flow-through particles in perfusion chromatography, which allows for very high flow rates, while retaining a high chromatographic efficiency. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Glad M,Larsson PO

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population-level studies enabled by high-throughput phenotyping have revealed significant variation in lignin characteristics including content, S:G:H ratio, inter-unit linkage distributions, and molecular weights across multiple plant species. Coupled with genome-wide association mapping studies (GWAS) targeted at li...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Tuskan GA,Muchero W,Tschaplinski TJ,Ragauskas AJ

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterologous production of polyketide compounds, an important class of natural products with complex chemical structures, was first demonstrated with Streptomyces parvulus in 1984. Although Streptomyces strains are good first options for heterologous polyketide biosynthesis, their slow growth kinetics prompt other hos...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Yuzawa S,Kim W,Katz L,Keasling JD

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within Escherichia coli and other species, a clear codon bias exists among the 61 amino acid codons found within the population of mRNA molecules, and the level of cognate tRNA appears directly proportional to the frequency of codon usage. Given this situation, one would predict translational problems with an abundant...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Kane JF

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stem cells reside in complex niches in which their behaviour is tightly regulated by various biochemical and biophysical signals. In order to unveil some of the crucial stem cell-niche interactions and expedite the implementation of stem cells in clinical and pharmaceutical applications, in vitro methodologies are bei...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Allazetta S,Lutolf MP

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in genomic analysis include improved technology for DNA sequencing, routine use of DNA microarray technology for the analysis of gene expression profiles at the mRNA level and improved informatic tools to organize and analyze such data. At the same time, new developments in chip-based analysis of samples and ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Lee PS,Lee KH

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increase in quality, quantity, and complexity of recombinant products heavily drives the need to predictably engineer model and complex (mammalian) cell systems. However, until recently, limited tools offered the ability to precisely manipulate their genomes, thus impeding the full potential of rational cell line ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Cheng JK,Alper HS

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To mitigate some of the potentially deleterious environmental and agricultural consequences associated with current land-based-biofuel feedstocks, we propose the use of biofuels derived from aquatic microbial oxygenic photoautotrophs (AMOPs), more commonly known as cyanobacteria, algae, and diatoms. Herein we review t...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Dismukes GC,Carrieri D,Bennette N,Ananyev GM,Posewitz MC

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00