Advances in optical detection strategies for reporter signal measurements.

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：: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：: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

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：:Advances in genomic analysis include improved technology for DNA sequencing, routine use of DNA microarray technology for the analysis of gene expression profiles at the mRNA level and improved informatic tools to organize and analyze such data. At the same time, new developments in chip-based analysis of samples and ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Lee PS,Lee KH

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patient-derived xenografts (PDXs) are obtained by transplanting fragments of a patient's tumour into immunodeficient mice. Growth and propagation of PDXs allows correlating therapeutic response in vivo with extensive, multi-dimensional molecular annotation, leading to identification of predictive biomarkers. PDXs are ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Invrea F,Rovito R,Torchiaro E,Petti C,Isella C,Medico E

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA enzymes or ribozymes are receiving considerable attention for their potential use as highly specific inhibitors of gene expression. From the basic science perspective, the mechanisms by which ribozymes catalyze site-specific cleavage (and in some cases ligation) reactions provide exciting and active areas of scien...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Rossi JJ

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contamination of the vadose zone with various pollutants is a world-wide problem, and often technical or economic constraints impose remediation without excavation. In situ bioremediation in the vadose zone by bioventing has become a standard remediation technology for light spilled petroleum products. In this review,...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Höhener P,Ponsin V

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to its enormous relevance the corona formation of adsorbed proteins around nanoparticles is widely investigated. A comparison of different experimental techniques is given. Direct measurements of proteins, such as typically performed with mass spectrometry, will be compared with indirect analysis, in which instead...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Carrillo-Carrion C,Carril M,Parak WJ

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic biology uses engineering principles to design and assemble biological components and systems for a variety of applications. On the basis of genetic engineering, synthetic gene switches can be interconnected to construct complex gene circuits, capable of sensing and integrating diverse input signals for preci...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Tolle F,Stücheli P,Fussenegger M

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular tools for the regulation of protein expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae have contributed to rapid advances in pathway engineering for this yeast. This review considers new and enhanced additions to this toolbox, focusing on experimental approaches to modulate enzyme synthesis and enzyme fate. Methods for ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Besada-Lombana PB,McTaggart TL,Da Silva NA

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragment-based approaches have provided a new paradigm for small-molecule drug discovery. The methodology is complementary to high-throughput screening approaches, starting from fragments of low molecular complexity and high ligand efficiency, and building up to more potent inhibitors. The approach, which depends heav...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Ciulli A,Abell C

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the consumption of seafood and shellfish increases around the world, so is the incidence of associated outbreaks of illness. Various postharvest treatments are effective at killing seafood-associated bacteria, but most of these treatments also kill the mollusks. Because consumer preferences for raw live shellfish p...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Teplitski M,Wright AC,Lorca G

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our ability to dissect and understand the principles of gene regulatory circuits is partly limited by the resolution of our experimental assays. In this brief review, we discuss aspects of gene expression in microbial organisms apparent only when increasing the experimental resolution from populations to single cells ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Wallden M,Elf J

更新日期：2011-02-01 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：:Wastewater infrastructure is designed, in part, to remove microorganisms. However, many microorganisms are able to colonize infrastructure and resist treatment, resulting in an enormous flux of microorganisms to urban adjacent waters. These urban-associated microorganisms are discharged through three primary routes 1)...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Newton RJ,McClary JS

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biotechnology applications require engineering complex multi-genic traits. The lack of knowledge on the genetic basis of complex phenotypes restricts our ability to rationally engineer them. However, complex phenotypes can be engineered at the systems level, utilizing directed evolution strategies that drive whole bio...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Bassalo MC,Liu R,Gill RT

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic engineering is not another form of classic manipulation of intermediary metabolism; rather, it is the purposeful design of metabolic networks. The metabolic engineering approach examines biochemical reactions in their entirety, rather than individually, and is concerned with the construction of novel pathway...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Stephanopoulos G

更新日期：1994-02-01 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：:The biosynthesis of the solvents 1-butanol and acetone is restricted to species of the genus Clostridium, a diverse group of Gram-positive, endospore forming anaerobes comprising toxin-producing strains as well as terrestrial non-pathogenic species of biotechnological impact. Among solventogenic clostridia, Clostridiu...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Lütke-Eversloh T,Bahl H

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advancements in high-throughput large-scale analytical methods to sequence genomes of organisms, and to quantify gene expression, proteins, lipids and metabolites have changed the paradigm of metabolic modeling. The cost of data generation and analysis has decreased significantly, which has allowed exponential ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Rai A,Saito K

更新日期：2016-02-01 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：:NMR methods in drug discovery have traditionally been used to obtain structural information for drug targets or target-ligand complexes. Recently, it has been shown that NMR may be used as an alternative approach for identification of ligands that bind to protein drug targets, shifting the emphasis of many NMR laborat...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Moore JM

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lignin is a principal structural component of cell walls in higher terrestrial plants. It reinforces the cell walls, facilitates water transport, and acts as a physical barrier to pathogens. Lignin is typically described as being composed of p-hydroxyphenyl (H), guaiacyl (G), and syringyl (S) units that derive from th...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Vanholme R,De Meester B,Ralph J,Boerjan W

更新日期：2019-04-01 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：:Fc fusion proteins are molecules in which the immunoglobulin Fc is fused genetically to a protein of interest, such as an extracellular domain of a receptor, ligand, enzyme, or peptide. Fc fusion proteins have some antibody-like properties such as long serum half-life and easy expression and purification, making them ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Huang C

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The quantification of intracellular fluxes via 13C metabolic flux analysis has become one of the major techniques to support systems-based metabolic engineering of industrial production hosts. Commonly, 13C studies are conducted using minimal media, however, a great variety of industrial processes rely on complex medi...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Schwechheimer SK,Becker J,Wittmann C

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many of the gene products of completely sequenced organisms are 'hypothetical' - they cannot be related to any previously characterized proteins - and so are of completely unknown function. Structural studies provide one means of obtaining functional information in these cases. A 'structural genomics' project has been...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Eisenstein E,Gilliland GL,Herzberg O,Moult J,Orban J,Poljak RJ,Banerjei L,Richardson D,Howard AJ

更新日期：2000-02-01 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：: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