Microbial biocatalyst developments to upgrade fossil fuels.

abstract：:Polyphenols are thought to be responsible for some of the health effects conferred by a diet rich in fruit and vegetables. Both the formation of bioactive polyphenol-derived metabolites and the modulation of colonic microbiota contribute to these health benefits. Therefore, one cannot infer biological responses from d...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Bolca S,Van de Wiele T,Possemiers S

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Redox enzymes in bioelectronic devices usually lack direct electrical contact with electrodes, owing to the spatial separation of their redox centers from the conductive surfaces by the protein shells. The reconstitution of apo-enzymes on cofactor-functionalized nanostructures associated with electrodes provides a mea...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Willner B,Katz E,Willner I

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Starting from experimental data on sequence, structure or biochemical properties of enzymes, protein design seeks to construct enzymes with desired activity, stability, specificity and selectivity. Two strategies are widely used to investigate sequence-structure-function relationships: statistical methods to analyse p...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Pleiss J

更新日期：2011-10-01 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：:Combinatorial biocatalysis is an emerging technology in the field of drug discovery. The biocatalytic approach to combinatorial chemistry uses enzymatic, chemoenzymatic, and microbial transformations to generate libraries from lead compounds. Important recent advances in combinatorial biocatalysis include iterative de...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Altreuter DH,Clark DS

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fatty acid oxidation pathways are attractive for metabolic engineering purposes due to their cyclic nature as well as their reactions that allow for the selective functionalization of alkyl chains. These characteristics allow for the production of various chemicals, such as alcohols, alkanes, ketones and hydroxyacids,...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Kim S,Cheong S,Chou A,Gonzalez R

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant proteins that have survived the challenges of process development and clinical trials are becoming blockbuster medical products. Growth factors, enzymes and antibodies are being improved by mutational approaches, fused with other proteins, and even chemically modified in vitro. Drug development and testing...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Koths K

更新日期：1995-12-01 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 use of novel materials in the nano-scale size range for applications in devices, drugs and diagnostic agents comes with a number of new opportunities, and also serious challenges to human applications. The larger size of particulate-based agents, as compared to traditional drugs, allows for the significant advanta...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Scheinberg DA,Grimm J,Heller DA,Stater EP,Bradbury M,McDevitt MR

更新日期：2017-08-01 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：:Adenoviral vectors have proven to be excellent vehicles for gene delivery in vivo to a wide range of cell types. These vectors have been used to transfer genes such as CFTR to correct the defect in cystic fibrosis and, more recently, to supply serum blood factors and genetically modify tumors to enhance therapy. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Bramson JL,Graham FL,Gauldie J

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccines against mutating pathogens such as influenza, HIV, or plasmodium are poorly protective towards new evolving strains. Rare individuals naturally mount broadly neutralizing antibodies covering most strains, but the requirements for their induction are unknown. The antibody response to vaccination has been recap...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Robert PA,Marschall AL,Meyer-Hermann M

更新日期：2018-06-01 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 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：:Enormous fuel consumption and growing environmental concerns have been spurring development of renewable biofuels. Among various biofuels, fatty acid-derived biohydrocarbons are ideal alternatives to non-renewable fossil fuels due to their closest properties to petroleum-based fuels. In the past decade, novel hydrocar...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Liu K,Li S

更新日期：2020-04-01 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：:Synthetic biology efforts began in simple single-cell systems, which were relatively easy to manipulate genetically (Cameron et al., 2014). The field grew exponentially in the last two decades, and one of the latest frontiers are synthetic developmental programs for multicellular mammalian systems (Black et al., 2017;...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Santorelli M,Lam C,Morsut L

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growing interest in RNAs for biomedical, agricultural, and other applications has necessitated the development of methods for producing oligoribonucleotides in milligram, or larger, quantities. Recent research on in vitro transcription has focused on optimizing solution conditions and the use of immobilized templates....

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Davis RH

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromatography is undoubtedly the workhorse of downstream processes, affording high resolution for bioseparations. At the same time, it has the notoriety of being the single largest cost center in downstream processing and of being a low-throughput operation. Consequently, 'chromatography alternatives' are an attracti...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Przybycien TM,Pujar NS,Steele LM

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The technique of protein stabilization has been improving steadily in recent years, but it is only in the past year or two that the stability of some protein molecules has been improved to the level of those from extreme thermophilic organisms. This was achieved by multiple mutations and often by utilizing the knowled...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Lee B,Vasmatzis G

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the ambitions of synthetic biology approach genome-scale engineering, comprehensive characterization of cellular systems is required, as well as a means to accurately model cell-scale molecular interactions. These requirements are coincident with the goals of systems biology and, thus, systems biology will become t...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Barrett CL,Kim TY,Kim HU,Palsson BØ,Lee SY

更新日期：2006-10-01 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：:Stable isotopes are flexibly used as tracers to investigate environmental processes, microorganisms responsible for environmental transformations, syntrophic relationships in consortia, and metabolic pathways. With the advent of widely accessible high-resolution, highly accurate and sensitive mass spectrometers connec...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Adrian L,Marco-Urrea E

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increase in quality, quantity, and complexity of recombinant products heavily drives the need to predictably engineer model and complex (mammalian) cell systems. However, until recently, limited tools offered the ability to precisely manipulate their genomes, thus impeding the full potential of rational cell line ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Cheng JK,Alper HS

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria are both morphologically and functionally diverse, and this variety is thought to have important biological ramifications. The development of methods to probe the properties of individual mitochondria is therefore of utmost importance. Recent advances have been made using in situ microscopy techniques and...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Fuller KM,Arriaga EA

更新日期：2003-02-01 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：: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：: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：: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 most significant feature of the current transgenic models of Alzheimer's disease continues to be the amyloid phenotype. In the past year, mice have been more extensively characterized in terms of the effect of amyloid accumulation on downstream events, such as neurodegeneration and behavioral changes, but the resu...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Duff K

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00