Protein secretion in bacteria.

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：:Modern agriculture and food production systems are facing increasing pressures from climate change, land and water availability, and, more recently, a pandemic. These factors are threatening the environmental and economic sustainability of current and future food supply systems. Scientific and technological innovation...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Jung J,Maeda M,Chang A,Bhandari M,Ashapure A,Landivar-Bowles J

更新日期：2020-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine microbes have received growing attention as sources of bioactive metabolites and offer a unique opportunity to both increase the number of marine natural products in clinical trials as well as expedite their development. This review focuses specifically on those molecules currently in the clinical pipeline that...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Waters AL,Hill RT,Place AR,Hamann MT

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nature of DNA, the sequence of the human genome and our increased understanding of the genetic basis of many inherited and acquired disorders have made the possibility of curing diseases a reality. The modulation of a host's genome is now the ultimate goal in the treatment of genetic diseases. Historically, gene t...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Kren BT,Steer CJ

更新日期：2002-10-01 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：: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：:Microfluidic systems have emerged as revolutionary new platform technologies for a range of applications, from consumer products such as inkjet printer cartridges to lab-on-a-chip diagnostic systems. Recent developments have opened the door to a new set of opportunities for microfluidic systems, in the field of tissue...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Inamdar NK,Borenstein JT

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of biological systems in which there is a direct link between the challenges faced by marine organisms and biotechnologies enable us to rationally search for active natural compounds and other novel biotechnologies. This approach is proving successful in developing new methods for the prevention of marine biof...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： de Nys R,Steinberg PD

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wound healing can no longer be considered a generic term: it is the summation of a complex series of processes beginning with coagulation and ending in remodelling. This review, therefore, summarizes the past year's advances in growth factor research according to the roles of the individual growth factors in the speci...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Robson MC

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fundamental role of glycoconjugates in many biological processes is now well appreciated and has intensified the development of innovative and improved synthetic strategies. All areas of synthetic methodology have seen major advances and many complex, highly branched carbohydrates and glycoproteins have been prepa...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Hölemann A,Seeberger PH

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibacterial strategies targeting bacterial adhesion to substrates are considered a valuable alternative to traditional antibiotic therapy, in view of the great advantage they bring in combating the infectious process at the very early stage without selecting for drug resistant cells. Amongst bioactive compounds with...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Signoretto C,Canepari P,Stauder M,Vezzulli L,Pruzzo C

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laser light scattering comes in two major 'flavors': dynamic and static. This noninvasive technique provides a means for investigating key size and shape properties of macromolecules in solution. Light scattering has long been an indispensable tool to the polymer physical chemist, and is seeing increased use in explor...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Murphy RM

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is becoming increasingly evident that intermediates observed in protein folding in vitro may be closely related to conformational states that are important in various intracellular processes. This review focuses on recent advances in in vitro protein-folding studies with particular reference to the molten globule s...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Kuwajima K

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past year, significant progress in the field of gene transfer has been made possible by refinement of the technique of particle bombardment. The process has been utilized for the study of gene expression in plastids and mitochondria, the production of transgenic crop plants and gene transfer into live animals. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Klein TM,Fitzpatrick-McElligott S

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite their central role in directing some of the most complex biological processes, carbohydrates--nature's other information carrying biopolymer--have been largely ignored as building blocks for synthetic hierarchical assemblies. The non-stoichiometric binding and astronomical diversity characteristic of carbohydr...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Han X,Zheng Y,Munro CJ,Ji Y,Braunschweig AB

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative information about metabolic networks has been mainly obtained at the level of metabolite contents, transcript abundance, and enzyme activities. However, the active process of metabolism is represented by the flow of matter through the pathways. These metabolic fluxes can be predicted by Flux Balance Analy...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Junker BH

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in protein expression in E. coli have focused primarily on the enhancement of protein quality. Problems in mRNA translation such as inefficient initiation, mistranslation, frame-shifting and frame-hopping can often be addressed by altering heterologous gene-coding sequences. Fusion technology can also ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Olins PO,Lee SC

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli is still a very popular host for the production of recombinant proteins at an analytical or industrial scale. Secretion of the proteins into the culture medium or display at the cell surface would be preferred in many applications but is hampered by the complex two-layered cell envelope. The autotrans...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Jong WS,Saurí A,Luirink J

更新日期：2010-10-01 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：: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：: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 versatile functionality of microbial biocatalysts offers a promising solution to the growing need to replace conventional, petroleum-derived fuels, chemicals, and materials with sustainable alternatives from renewable biomass. Whereas metabolic pathway engineering and strain optimization have greatly expanded the ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Thompson B,Moon TS,Nielsen DR

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An intense interest has grown in the unique interactions of nucleic acids with metal ions, which lead to the formation of metal-base pairs and the generation of fluorescent nanomaterials. In this review, different types of metal-base pairs, especially those formed from naturally occurring nucleosides, are described wi...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Park KS,Park HG

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of contrast agents that can be localized to a particular tissue or cellular epitope will potentially allow the noninvasive visualization and characterization of a variety of disease states. Recent advances have been made in the field of molecular imaging with magnetic resonance imaging and ultrasound a...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Morawski AM,Lanza GA,Wickline SA

更新日期：2005-02-01 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：: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：:Efforts to develop culture technologies capable of eliciting robust human blood stem cell growth have met with limited success. Considering that adult stem cell cultures are complex systems, comprising multiple cell types with dynamically changing intracellular signalling environments and cellular compositions, this i...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Kirouac DC,Zandstra PW

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human gut microbiome is composed of an enormous number of microorganisms, generally regarded as commensal bacteria. Without this inherent microbial community, we would be unable to digest plant polysaccharides and would have trouble extracting lipids from our diet. Resident gut bacteria are an important contributo...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Luna RA,Foster JA

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, our understanding about bacterial persistence has significantly advanced: we comprehend the persister phenotype better, more triggers for persistence entry have been found, and more insights in the involvement and role of toxin-antitoxin systems and other molecular mechanisms have been unravelled. In ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Radzikowski JL,Schramke H,Heinemann M

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vernalization is the process by which flowering is promoted by prolonged exposure to the cold of a typical winter. In certain plant species, the role of vernalization is to suppress the expression of genes that encode repressors of flowering. In Arabidopsis, this suppression is an epigenetic phenomenon in the sense th...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Amasino RM

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00