Total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy: technical innovations and novel applications.

abstract：:In the past two decades, biological nanopores have been developed and explored for use in sensing applications as a result of their exquisite sensitivity and easily engineered, reproducible, and economically manufactured structures. Nanopore sensing has been shown to differentiate between highly similar analytes, meas...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Schmidt J

更新日期：2016-06-01 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：:Mismatch-repair systems have been identified in organisms ranging from Escherichia coli to humans. They can repair almost all DNA base pair mismatches as well as small insertion/deletion mismatches. Molecular and biochemical analyses have shown that the core components of eukaryotic mismatch-repair systems are highly ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Kolodner RD,Alani E

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scaffolds are used in tissue engineering as a matrix for the seeding and attachment of human cells. The creation of porosity in three-dimensional (3D) structures of scaffolds plays a critical role in cell proliferation, migration, and differentiation into the specific tissue while secreting extracellular matrix compon...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Dehghani F,Annabi N

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The information encoded in the base sequence of DNA provides substantial structural and functional information for the instructive self-assembly of one-dimensional (1D) functional DNA nanostructures. The hybridization chain reaction (HCR) and the formation of HCR-stimulated DNAzyme nanochains are presented, as a means...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Wang F,Willner B,Willner I

更新日期：2013-08-01 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：: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 recent adoption of whole plasmid genome sequencing as a routine analytical technique has provided the basis for cataloging the historical events through which plasmids are assembled from the available families of modular plasmid components. Horizontal gene transfer mediated by plasmids plays an important role in t...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Dennis JJ

更新日期：2005-06-01 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

abstract：:The bacterial type II Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)-CRISPR Associated (Cas) systems, and in particular Streptococcus pyogenes CRISPR-Cas9, have been broadly applied to edit the genome of bacterial and eukaryotic cells. Cas9, which is an RNA-guided programmable nuclease, is a powerf...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Schmid-Burgk JL

更新日期：2017-12-01 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：: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：: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

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：:Driven by the quest for sustainability, recent years have seen a tremendous progress in bio-based production routes from renewable raw materials to commercial goods. Particularly, the production of organic acids has crystallized as a competitive and fast-evolving field, related to the broad applicability of organic ac...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Becker J,Lange A,Fabarius J,Wittmann C

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adverse environmental conditions pose serious limitations to agricultural production. Classical biotechnological approaches towards increasing abiotic stress tolerance focus on boosting plant endogenous defence mechanisms. However, overexpression of regulatory elements or effectors is usually accompanied by growth han...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Cabello JV,Lodeyro AF,Zurbriggen MD

更新日期：2014-04-01 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：:During 1993, significant advances have been achieved in applications of DNA analysis to forensic science, disease assessment, and animal/plant identification. These advances include the development of simple and high sample-throughput techniques for highly informative personal identification, rapid screening for patho...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Alford RL,Caskey CT

更新日期：1994-02-01 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：:Constructing novel biological systems that function in a robust and predictable manner requires better methods for discovering new functional molecules and for optimizing their assembly in novel biological contexts. By enabling functional diversification and optimization in the absence of detailed mechanistic understa...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Dougherty MJ,Arnold FH

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of whole genome amplification is something that has arisen in the past few years as the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has been adapted to replicate regions of genomes that are of biological interest. The applications are many--forensic science, embryonic disease diagnosis, bioterrorism genome detection, ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Hawkins TL,Detter JC,Richardson PM

更新日期：2002-02-01 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：:Genetic engineering and screening of large number of cells or populations is a crucial bottleneck in today's systems biology and applied (micro)biology. Instead of using standard methods in bottles, flasks or 96-well plates, scientists are increasingly relying on high-throughput strategies that miniaturize their exper...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Vervoort Y,Linares AG,Roncoroni M,Liu C,Steensels J,Verstrepen KJ

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much progress has been made in the development of techniques for constructing dense grids either of ligands, such as peptides and oligonucleotides, or of cloned nucleic acids. Such arrays are finding practical applications in the analysis of sequence variation and gene expression. Methods for carrying out large number...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Southern EM

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of microbial communities is key to their functionality. However, this structure is likely to be influenced by adaptive genetic change in members of the community, which can occur over a matter of days. Changes in community structure can in turn influence the evolutionary trajectories of species within th...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： O'Brien S,Hodgson DJ,Buckling A

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herbicides are economically important, but the non-point pollution that they cause may disrupt the surrounding environment. Phytoremediation of herbicides has been well studied using conventional plants. Transgenic plants produced for metabolizing herbicides and long-persisting pollutants can be used for phytoremediat...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Kawahigashi H

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The initial report on APOE as a susceptibility gene for late-onset Alzheimer's disease was presented a little more than two years ago. During the past year, several significant events have given added impetus to research into Alzheimer's. The association of increased allele frequency of APOE4 with Alzheimer's disease ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Roses AD,Saunders AM

更新日期：1994-12-01 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：: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