Transgenic animal models of cardiovascular disease.

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

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：:Dramatic technical progress in RNA synthesis and structure determination has allowed several difficulties inherent to the preparation, handling and structural analysis of RNA to be overcome, and this has led to a wealth of information about RNA structure and its relationship with biological function. It is now fully r...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Hermann T,Westhof E

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The remediation of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in soils and sediments remains a particularly difficult problem to solve. The possibility of in situ degradation by microorganisms has been pursued for many years since this approach has the potential to provide a cost-effective and environmentally sustainable altern...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Sowers KR,May HD

更新日期：2013-06-01 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：: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

abstract：:The efficient and safe delivery of therapeutic proteins is the key to commercial success and, in some cases, the demonstration of efficacy in current and future biotechnology products. Numerous delivery technologies and companies have evolved over the past year. To critically evaluate the available options, each metho...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Cleland JL,Daugherty A,Mrsny R

更新日期：2001-04-01 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：:In vitro display techniques are powerful tools to select polypeptide binders against various target molecules. Novel applications include maturation of protein affinity and stability, selection for enzymatic activity, and the display of cDNA and random polypeptide libraries. Taken together, these display techniques ha...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Amstutz P,Forrer P,Zahnd C,Plückthun A

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility of generating electricity with microbial fuel cells has been recognized for some time, but practical applications have been slow to develop. The recent development of a microbial fuel cell that can harvest electricity from the organic matter stored in marine sediments has demonstrated the feasibility o...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Lovley DR

更新日期：2006-06-01 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：: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：:Microbial communities associated with a plant host, constituting a holobiont, affect the physiology and growth of the plant via metabolites that are mainly derived from their photosynthates. The structure and function of active microbial communities that assimilate root exudates can be tracked by using stable isotope ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Haichar FEZ,Heulin T,Guyonnet JP,Achouak W

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial communities are essential for most ecosystem processes and interact in highly complex ways with virtually all eukaryotes. Thus, a detailed understanding of the function of such communities is a fundamental prerequisite for microbial ecologists, applied microbiologists and microbiome researchers. Using single...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Wang Y,Huang WE,Cui L,Wagner M

更新日期：2016-10-01 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：:Aptamers are short single-stranded oligo(deoxy)nucleotides that are selected to bind to target molecules with high affinity and specificity. Because of their sophisticated characteristics and versatile applicability, aptamers are thought to become universal molecular probes in biotechnological and therapeutic applicat...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Pfeiffer F,Rosenthal M,Siegl J,Ewers J,Mayer G

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant new advances at the molecular level in the field of plant-pathogen interactions form the basis for novel transgenic approaches to crop protection. The cloning of disease resistance genes and the dissection of the signal transduction components of the hypersensitive response and systemic acquired resistance...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Shah DM

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The delineation of the beta-globin locus control region has led to a new understanding of the developmental regulation of the beta-globin gene cluster. It now seems that globin gene switching is effected through the sequential and mutually exclusive interaction of the locus control region with the embryonic, fetal and...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Enver T,Greaves DR

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Silicon Cell initiative aims to understand cellular systems on the basis of the characteristics of their components. As a tool to achieve this, detailed kinetic models at the network reaction level are being constructed. Such detailed kinetic models are extremely useful for medical and biotechnological application...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Snoep JL

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current approaches for treating peripheral nerve injury have resulted in promising, yet insufficient functional recovery compared to the clinical standard of care, autologous nerve grafts. In order to design a construct that can match the regenerative potential of the autograft, all facets of nerve tissue must be inco...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Marquardt LM,Sakiyama-Elbert SE

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xenopus oocytes have been used as a surrogate genetic system for the study of many facets of gene expression. Some recent salient examples where injected oocytes proved to be indispensable for the analysis of transcription, translation, RNA/protein transport, and ion channel formation are described. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Richter JD

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogen is already a major commodity and process intermediate for fertilizer production, petroleum processing, and chemical synthesis. It also offers unrealized potential for energy storage. While biological production offers an expandable and sustainable source, enthusiasm has been dampened by slow research progress...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Swartz J

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Is structure, rather than sequence, the key to the successful generation of truly novel proteins? While protein evolution by homologous recombination has become an established tool to explore confined regions in sequence space, the generation of functional hybrid proteins by homology-independent methods further expand...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Lutz S,Benkovic SJ

更新日期：2000-08-01 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：:Over the past 20 years, the development of subtilisins as typical detergent proteases has employed all the tools of enzyme technology, resulting in a constant flow of new and improved enzymes. The number of molecules identified and characterized, however, is in clear opposition to the number of molecules that are ente...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Maurer KH

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in the use of fluorescence spectroscopy to study protein interactions have primarily involved combinations of classic fluorescence techniques, novel probe and coupling chemistries, and advances in laser excitation and detection capabilities. For example, new coupling strategies for fluorescent probes h...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Brown MP,Royer C

更新日期：1997-02-01 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：:The federal government is critically examining its responsibilities and opportunities for bringing the new field of gene therapy to fruition and for assuring public confidence in this new area of biomedicine. The evolving mechanisms for review and regulation in human gene transfer studies in the United States are bein...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Friedmann T,Noguchi P,Mickelson C

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells respond to the accumulation of unfolded proteins by increasing the transcription of genes encoding molecular chaperones and other stress-responsive proteins. Different sets of genes are activated when particular cellular compartments are burdened with unfolded proteins. Cells thus...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： McMillan DR,Gething MJ,Sambrook J

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathway of monolignol biosynthesis involves many components interacting in a metabolic grid to regulate the supply and ratios of monolignols for lignification. The complexity of the pathway challenges any intuitive prediction of the output without mathematical modeling. Several models have been presented to quanti...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Wang JP,Matthews ML,Naik PP,Williams CM,Ducoste JJ,Sederoff RR,Chiang VL

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00