Gene expression using Xenopus oocytes.

abstract：:Lactococcus lactis is the primary model organism for lactic acid bacteria (LAB) and is widely used in the production of fermented dairy products. In recent years there has been increasing interest in strains isolated from non-dairy environments, as these exhibit a high metabolic diversity and have unique flavour-formi...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： van Hylckama Vlieg JE,Rademaker JL,Bachmann H,Molenaar D,Kelly WJ,Siezen RJ

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural products have demonstrated value across numerous application areas, with antibiotics a notable historical example. Native cellular hosts provide an initial option in efforts to harness natural product production. However, various complexities associated with native hosts, including fastidious growth traits and...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Park D,Swayambhu G,Pfeifer BA

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For eukaryotic cells to function properly, they divide their intracellular space in subcellular compartments, each harboring specific metabolic activities. In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that compartmentalization of metabolic pathways is a prerequisite for certain cellular functions. This has for in...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Zecchin A,Stapor PC,Goveia J,Carmeliet P

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mechanistic understanding of gene regulatory network dynamics requires quantitative single-cell data of multiple network components in response to well-defined perturbations. Recent advances in the development of fluorescent biomarkers for proteins, detection of RNA and interactions, microfluidic technology, and hig...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Selimkhanov J,Hasty J,Tsimring LS

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic proteins provide important information about the principles of protein structure. They illuminate the processes of natural protein evaluation, but are not limited by these processes. Here, we review studies of several mutant proteins and discuss the general principles that can be derived from them. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Pastore A,Lesk AM

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The alternative sigma factor sigmaB modulates the stress response of several Gram-positive bacteria, including Bacillus subtilis and the food-borne human pathogens Bacillus cereus, Listeria monocytogenes and Staphylococcus aureus. In all these bacteria, sigmaB is responsible for the transcription of genes that can con...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： van Schaik W,Abee T

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current progress in computational structure-based protein design is reviewed in the areas of methodology and applications. Foundational advances include new potential functions, more efficient ways of computing energetics, flexible treatments of solvent, and useful energy function approximations, as well as ensemble-b...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Lippow SM,Tidor B

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolomics, as an essential part of genomics studies, intends holistic understanding of metabolic networks through simultaneous analysis of a myriad of both known and unknown metabolites occurring in living organisms. The initial stage of metabolomics was designed for the reproducible analyses of known metabolites b...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Ohta D,Kanaya S,Suzuki H

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Starting from experimental data on sequence, structure or biochemical properties of enzymes, protein design seeks to construct enzymes with desired activity, stability, specificity and selectivity. Two strategies are widely used to investigate sequence-structure-function relationships: statistical methods to analyse p...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Pleiss J

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Life depends on the interaction of proteins. The availability of the complete human genome sequence has highlighted the need for a tool to analyse protein interactions and several databases have been compiled for this purpose. These databases document, categorize, and analyze interacting proteins and the cellular func...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Xenarios I,Eisenberg D

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of ultrafast laser pulses in surgery has allowed for unprecedented precision with minimal collateral damage to surrounding tissues. For these reasons, ultrafast laser nanosurgery, as an injury model, has gained tremendous momentum in experimental biology ranging from in vitro manipulations of subcellular struc...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Ben-Yakar A,Bourgeois F

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteome analysis is most commonly accomplished by the combination of two-dimensional gel electrophoresis for protein separation, visualization, and quantification and mass spectrometry for protein identification. Over the past year, exceptional progress has been made towards developing a new technology base for the p...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Gygi SP,Rist B,Aebersold R

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-hybrid methods provide a simple and sensitive means to detect the interaction between two proteins in living cells. Their use has resulted in the isolation of new proteins and has facilitated characterization of particular protein-protein interactions. These techniques have already resulted in the identification o...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Mendelsohn AR,Brent R

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical testing of therapies for sepsis that target tumor necrosis factor and interleukin-1 is currently in progress. It is now clear from early clinical results that patients display a heterogeneous response to anti-cytokine therapies that may be related to the stage or severity of disease. Experimental results show...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Russell DA,Thompson RC

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ultimate goal of genome research on the model flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana is the identification of all of the genes and understanding their functions. A major step towards this goal, the genome sequencing project, is nearing completion; however, functional studies of newly discovered genes have not yet ke...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Parinov S,Sundaresan V

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phage display of proteins continues to be an important technology with a variety of applications. In the past year, advances have been made in coupling rational protein design with the power of the display selection process. In addition to the widely used filamentous phage, other bacteriophage surface expression syste...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Dunn IS

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among different technologies of hydrogen production, bio-hydrogen production exhibits perhaps the greatest potential to replace fossil fuels. Based on recent research on dark fermentative hydrogen production, this article reviews the following aspects towards scaled-up application of this technology: bioreactor develo...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： RenNanqi,GuoWanqian,LiuBingfeng,CaoGuangli,DingJie

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing body of evidence indicates that many cellular reactions within metabolic pathways are catalyzed not by free-floating 'soluble' enzymes, but via one or more membrane-associated multienzyme complexes. This type of macromolecular organization has important implications for the overall efficiency, specificity, a...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Conrado RJ,Varner JD,DeLisa MP

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor-derived DNA, found in body fluids (liquid biopsy) of cancer patients as part of cell-free DNA (cfDNA), lends itself for noninvasive cancer detection and monitoring. Advantages of cfDNA as analytical target have evoked a burst of sophisticated techniques, providing clinically relevant information. Each cell type ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Daniūnaitė K,Jarmalaitė S,Kriukienė E

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial cell wall hydrolases (BCWHs) display a remarkable structural and functional diversity that offers perspectives for novel food applications, reaching beyond those of the archetype BCWH and established biopreservative hen egg white lysozyme. Insights in BCWHs from bacteriophages to animals have provided concep...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Callewaert L,Walmagh M,Michiels CW,Lavigne R

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years a number of aglycosylated therapeutic antibodies have entered the clinic. The clinical evaluation of these antibodies has served to dispel concerns that the absence of the ubiquitous N297 glycan in the Fc of IgG might result in immunogenicity, poor in vivo stability or unfavorable pharmacokinetics. Imp...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Jung ST,Kang TH,Kelton W,Georgiou G

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Driven by the demand to enhance the economic balance of chemical processes, the transformation of a racemate into a single stereoisomer (the deracemization process) is one of the most important areas of research. The recent development of the combined use of enzyme and metal catalysis has led to efficient deracemizati...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Pàmies O,Bäckvall JE

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have made it possible to expand the genetic alphabet of DNA, which is originally composed of the four-letter alphabet with A-T and G-C pairs, by introducing an unnatural base pair (UBP). Several types of UBPs function as a third base pair in replication, transcription, and/or translation. Through the UB...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Lee KH,Hamashima K,Kimoto M,Hirao I

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much of the current knowledge on the hydrothermic liquefaction of biomass to biocrude is on the basis of laboratory benchtop findings, and the step up to industrial scale reactors will require a range of information that is currently either unavailable or insufficient. This work highlights a number of these issues suc...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Lee A,Lewis D,Kalaitzidis T,Ashman P

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many significant advances have occurred recently in the field of protein electrophoresis and related technologies. Improvements have been made in capillary electrophoresis in apparatus design, detection, and capillary modification with coatings and fillers. The transfer of proteins to a blot, the capacity to analyze a...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Zewert TE,Harrington MG

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescent proteins (FPs) and fluorescent protein-derived biosensors are indispensable tools in life sciences. They make it possible to probe the location, activity, or interaction of molecules of interest from a subcellular to a multicellular scale. The desire for high-resolution and multidimensional information imp...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Duwé S,Dedecker P

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial cells have a limited number of resources that can be allocated for gene expression. The intracellular competition for these resources has an impact on the cell physiology. Bacteria have evolved mechanisms to optimize resource allocation in a variety of scenarios, showing a trade-off between the resources use...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Kim J,Darlington A,Salvador M,Utrilla J,Jiménez JI

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compared to 'live' vaccines, the immunogenicity of 'split' vaccines based on recombinant antigen (Ag) is poor, presumably because exogeneous recombinant Ag fails to efficiently access the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I processing pathway needed for 'cross-presentation'. Here we discuss recent evidence ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Wagner H,Heit A,Schmitz F,Bauer S

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron capture dissociation (ECD) is a new fragmentation technique used in Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry and is complementary to traditional tandem mass spectrometry techniques. Disulfide bonds, normally stable to vibrational excitation, are preferentially cleaved in ECD. Fragmentation ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Zubarev RA

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rhizosphere in terrestrial systems is the region of soil surrounding plant roots where there is increased microbial activity; in aquatic plants, this definition may be less clear because of diffusion of nutrients in water, but there is still a zone of influence by plant roots in this environment [1]. Within that z...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Stout L,Nüsslein K

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00