Protein fragment complementation strategies for biochemical network mapping.

abstract：:Metabolic flux analysis (MFA) represents a powerful tool for systems biology research on eukaryotic cells. This review describes recent advances, the challenges as well as applications of metabolic flux analysis comprising fungi, mammalian cells and plants. While MFA is widely established and applied in microorganisms...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Niklas J,Schneider K,Heinzle E

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several cell-based tissue-engineering therapies are emerging to regenerate damaged tissues. These strategies use autologous cells in combination with bioresorbable delivery materials. Major functions of a delivery scaffold are to provide initial mechanical stability, homogenous three-dimensional cell distribution, imp...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Sittinger M,Hutmacher DW,Risbud MV

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA plays important roles in the regulation of gene expressions and other cellular functions. It functions as both as an informational carrier and a nanomachine due to its complementary base-pairing ability and complexed three-dimensional structure. Several nanostructures have been designed and constructed by exploiti...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Ohno H,Akamine S,Saito H

更新日期：2019-08-01 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 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：: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：: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：:Oil prices and government mandates have catalyzed rapid growth of nonfossil transportation fuels in recent years, with a large focus on ethanol from energy crops, but the food crops used as first-generation energy crops today are not optimized for this purpose. We show that the theoretical efficiency of conversion of ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Heaton EA,Flavell RB,Mascia PN,Thomas SR,Dohleman FG,Long SP

更新日期：2008-06-01 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：:Metabolic engineering is embraced as a method to sustainably enhance production of valuable phytochemicals with beneficial properties. However, successful production of these compounds in plants is not always predictable even when the pathways are fully known, frequently due to the lack of comprehensive understanding ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Lynch JH,Huang XQ,Dudareva N

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal ligninolytic enzymes have broad biotechnological applications. Particularly laccases and certain fungal class II peroxidases from white-rot basidiomycetes are considered in degradation of persistent organic pollutants. Promising processes with reusable immobilized laccases in special reactors have been develope...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Kües U

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nutritional interventions are associated with transient deviations of homeostasis within the human body. The role of a balanced nutrition is, firstly, to ensure an adequate intake of nutrients to efficiently enable all metabolic processes and, secondly, to contribute to sustained human health. This is a new challenge ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Schwager J,Mohajeri MH,Fowler A,Weber P

更新日期：2008-04-01 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：:Naturally occurring microbial consortia have been utilized in a variety of bioremediation processes. Recent developments in molecular microbial ecology offer new tools that facilitate molecular analyses of microbial populations at contaminated and bioremediated sites. Information provided by such analyses aids in the ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Watanabe K

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New microbial tools enable detailed quantification and characterization of complex drinking water (DW) microbiomes. Many opportunities exist from source to tap to apply this knowledge toward management of the microbiology. This requires consideration of the microbiome continuum across all phases harboring microbes (pl...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Proctor CR,Hammes F

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thiopeptide antibiotics, which are a class of sulfur-rich and highly modified peptide natural products, exhibit a wide variety of important biological properties. These antibiotics are ribosomally synthesized and arise from post-translational modifications, exemplifying a process through which nature develops the stru...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Lin Z,He Q,Liu W

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lignocellulosic biofuels represent a sustainable, renewable, and the only foreseeable alternative energy source to transportation fossil fuels. However, the recalcitrant nature of lignocellulose poses technical hurdles to an economically viable biorefinery. Low enzymatic hydrolysis efficiency and low productivity, yie...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Wen F,Nair NU,Zhao H

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both cyanobacteria and eukaryotic microalgae are promising organisms for sustainable production of bulk products such as food, feed, materials, chemicals and fuels. In this review we will summarize the potential and current biotechnological developments. Cyanobacteria are promising host organisms for the production of...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Wijffels RH,Kruse O,Hellingwerf KJ

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antisense technology is finding increasing application not only in clinical development, but also for cellular engineering. Several types of antisense methods (e.g. antisense oligonucleotides, antisense RNA and small interfering RNA) can be used to inhibit the expression of a target gene. These antisense methods are b...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Lee LK,Roth CM

更新日期：2003-10-01 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：:Data visualization has developed in several directions: theoretical; methodological; and in new application areas. Advances include the development of a grammar of graphics, deeper understanding of human perception and implications for graphical layout, and better approaches to visualizing multi-dimensional data and l...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Meyer RD,Cook D

更新日期：2000-02-01 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：:Estrogen receptors are multi-domain proteins that interact with other proteins and DNA to fulfil their function: the regulation of transcription. During the past 2-3 years, our understanding of this complex process has increased tremendously as crystal structures of isolated ligand-binding domains in complex with vari...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Mueller-Fahrnow A,Egner U

更新日期：1999-12-01 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：:The impact of directed evolution and site-specific mutagenesis on the industrial utility of enzymatic catalysis through the modification of enzyme structure and function is clearly an important area of research in bioprocess engineering. High-throughput screening for novel or improved enzyme activities, both by more e...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Panke S,Wubbolts MG

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is accumulating which suggests that the vertebrate Hox homeobox gene family plays an important role in pattern formation, particularly in the specification of regional diversity. In the last year important advances in the understanding of their regulation and function have been provided using transgenic mice....

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Krumlauf R

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on projections for global population growth, current techniques for improving agricultural yields will not be able to address future demands for major food crops. Improving photosynthetic efficiency by engineering carbon fixation has been identified as one of the most important approaches for increasing agricult...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Giessen TW,Silver PA

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast, especially Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Pichia pastoris, are major hosts employed in the expression of authentic heterologous proteins of high quality in the biopharmaceutical, industrial and academic environments. There has been recent progress in characterizing and controlling the factors involved in determin...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Eckart MR,Bussineau CM

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgenic experimentation has become a crucial part of hypertension and atherosclerosis research, and is growing more important in several other areas of cardiovascular disease. It has recently made a particular contribution to understanding the role of the renin-angiotensin system in controlling hypertension. The st...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Barrett G,Mullins JJ

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microorganisms play important roles in the environmental fate of toxic metals and radionuclides with a multiplicity of mechanisms effecting transformations between soluble and insoluble forms. These mechanisms are integral components of natural biogeochemical cycles and are of potential for both in situ and ex situ bi...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Gadd GM

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00