Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitory and antioxidant activities of enzymatically synthesized phenolic and vitamin glycosides.

abstract：:Restoration of insulin secretion by transplantation of isolated islets is a treatment for type Ι diabetes mellitus. One of the major issues with clinical treatment of islet transplantation is how to maintain islet viability during transportation from the donor to the patient. We developed a method that uses alginate e...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Li N,Zhang Y,Xiu Z,Wang Y,Chen L,Wang S,Li S,Guo X,Ma X

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, hPNAS-4 [human PNAS-4; also known as C1orf121 (Genbank accession number NP-057160)] was reported to be a novel pro-apoptotic protein in mammalian cells. However, at present there is little information about hPNAS-4 and its molecular mechanisms. In our present studies, the hPNAS-4 gene was first cloned into t...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Deng H,Jiang Q,Liang S,Yan F,Hou S,Qian Z,Li J,Wen Y,Yang J,Wei Y

更新日期：2010-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Mustard tuber wastewater is characterized by high salinity and high organic content that is potentially detrimental to the biological treatment system and affects the treatment efficiency accordingly. The experiment used the integrated bioreactor to reduce much of the organics in mustard tuber wastewater, and found th...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Kang W,Chai H,Yang S,Du G,Zhou J,He Q

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast cells immobilized by entrapment in an insolubilized gelatin gel have been investigated with regard to their pattern of growth and respiratory activity. Mass-transfer resistance offered by the matrix and growth of the entrapped cells determine a gradient of nutrients throughout the gel which is responsible for bo...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Parascandola P,de Alteriis E

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological mineralization is a highly programmed process in which inorganic minerals reassociate under the strict control of the extracellular matrix to form minerals with special functions and patterns. Shells are biominerals, and their synthesis is finely regulated by organic matrix including matrix proteins, polysa...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Jin C,Ren HY,Pu JW,Liu XJ,Li JL

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a model of cell-cell recognition processes, the association processes of a polysaccharide (mannan)-carrying liposome with a lectin (Concanavalin A, Con A)-carrying polymerized liposome were followed by turbidimetry. The association process was strongly inhibited by the addition of a low molecular weight sugar, meth...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Hasegawa M,Kaku T,Kuroda M,Ise N,Kitano H

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was aimed to explore the molecular and structural features of UDP-N-acetylglucosamine pyrophosphorylase of Bombyx mori (BmUAP), an essential enzyme for chitin synthesis in insects. The BmUAP cDNA sequence was cloned and expression profiles were monitored during the molting and feeding stages of silkw...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Palaka BK,Velmurugan Ilavarasi A,Sapam TD,Kotapati KV,Nallala VS,Khan MB,Ampasala DR

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformation of a protein refers to the three-dimensional arrangement of its constituent atoms. Since expression of the biological activity of a protein depends on its conformation, it is clear that full characterization of a protein involves an understanding of its three-dimensional structure. This review outline...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Price NC

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of garlic (Allium sativum L.) on the diabetic nephropathy and oxidative stress induced by STZ (streptozotocin) in rats. Diabetes was induced in Male Sprague-Dawley rats by administering a single intraperitoneal injection of STZ (60 mg/kg of body weight). ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Mariee AD,Abd-Allah GM,El-Yamany MF

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A chitin-degrading Bacillus strain, designated as NCTU2, was screened from soil and identified. An extracellular chitinase was purified to >90% homogeneity from the culture filtrate. The purification involved hydrophobic-interaction and gel-filtration chromatographic separations with a yield of 58%. The purified enzym...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Wen CM,Tseng CS,Cheng CY,Li YK

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nicotine is a potent parasympathomimetic stimulant and an important natural alkaloid mainly found in the Nicotiana genus of plants. It can directly threaten ecological security and human health in tobacco waste, wastewater, and other forms of tobacco production. Therefore, it is the basis of nicotine pollution prevent...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Ruan A,Gao Y,Fang C,Xu Y

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simplified and low-cost method, boiling lysis, was developed and used to purify the truncated DNA polymerase Stoffel fragment after overproduction of the enzyme in Escherichia coli. The method is based on the thermostable properties of the Stoffel fragment. Conditions such as the boiling time and number of cycles em...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Yang Z,Ding Y,Zhang Y,Liu F

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pH optimum, temperature-dependence, thermal stability, substrate specificity and subsite affinities of the 66 kDa, pI 4.0 glucoamylase of the filamentous fungus Trichoderma reesei were determined. It had a pH optimum of 5.5 and a temperature optimum (5 min reaction time) of 70 degrees C with soluble starch as subs...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Fagerström R,Kalkkinen N

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High yields of extracellular alpha-galactosidase from fungal cultures were obtained by inducing enzyme production with guar gum (a galactomannan obtained from the seeds of Cyamopsis tetragonobola) as the sole carbon source. An alpha-galactosidase was isolated from the culture medium of Penicillium ochrochloron culture...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Dey PM,Patel S,Brownleader MD

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to determine both the minimal and the optimal conditions under which heat treatment is effective for enhancing 3D (three-dimensional)-like cell proliferation. C3H10T1/2 mouse fibroblasts were cultured with hydroxyapatite granules for 10 weeks after heat treatment at 40, 41.5, 43, 44 or...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Hiragami F,Akiyama J,Koike Y,Kano Y

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycoprotein D (gD2) is the most important candidate antigen for herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) vaccine development. Establishment of a stable eukaryotic cell line to overexpress gD2 and an efficient purification process to purify is essential for the development of subunit vaccine against HSV-2. The DNA sequence...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Qi Y,Xu Y,Pan Y,Li S,Li B,Pan M,Zhang S,Li Y

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine biomass, especially the algal biomass, is currently considered to be one of the most potential candidates for biofuels conversion during the development of biomass utilization. In this study, a diluted sulfuric acid pretreatment method was established for biobutanol from red algal biomass Gelidium amansii using...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Hong Y,Chen C,Wu YR

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of subunit vaccines is presently the main strategy being evaluated for prevention of infectious diseases. The use of recombinant-DNA techniques has facilitated the development of new principles for design and production of subunit vaccines. First of all, the properties of a target protein immunogen can...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Hansson M,Nygren PA,Ståhl S

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microparticles have been used for delivery of chemo- and radio-therapeutic agents to tumours in patients for more than a decade, whereas cationic liposomes have been used for introducing nucleic acids into mammalian cells for the same period of time. This minireview discusses the potential of delivering therapeutic ON...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Dass CR

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutaraldehyde crosslinked, immunoprecipitated gulonolactone oxidase, injected intraperitoneally, has significant catalytic activity and is capable of providing long-term therapeutic benefit for the enzyme deficiency disease scurvy. The enzyme is tolerated even in repetitive doses. In the present study, however, we ha...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Sato P,Lindemann D

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An amylase-producing psychrotroph bacterium was isolated from soil and identified as belonging to the genus Exiguobacterium. A novel cold-adapted α-amylase, Amy SH3, was purified from culture medium of this bacterium using acetone precipitation and DEAE-Sepharose anion-exchange chromatography. The molecular mass of th...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Mojallali L,Shahbani Zahiri H,Rajaei S,Akbari Noghabi K,Haghbeen K

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Staphylococcus aureus protein A (SpA) can be obtained through the culture of wild-type S. aureus and also as a recombinant protein in safe bacterial hosts. Several methods have been used to purify SpA among which ion-exchange chromatography, affinity chromatography, gel filtration, and per aqueous liquid chromatog...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Rigi G,Ghaedmohammadi S,Ahmadian G

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a highly contagious and potentially fatal disease of dogs, canine parvovirus type 2 (CPV-2) usually causes severe myocarditis and gastroenteritis, while vaccine injection has greatly reduced the incidence of CPV-2 diseases. However, there is currently a lack of simple and effective method for quantitative detection...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Chen C,Liang H,Hu B,Ning B,Lai H,He Y,Guo G,Zhong S,Li L

更新日期：2020-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Melamine adulteration of food is a public health concern. It has been seen that melamine causes disease in many organs. Melamine-induced kidney disease is a well-recognized clinicopathological entity. Inflammation is thought to be important in melamine-induced pathology. Melamine is expected to bind with albumin becau...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Rajpoot M,Bhattacharyya R,Banerjee D,Sharma A

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell proliferation is a complex and important event in atherosclerosis, aging and cancer, and is under the control of signalling pathways. These signalling pathways in turn are effected by the presence of a number of chemicals. For this purpose, we have checked the effect of two chemicals on the proliferation of skin ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Onat D,Boscoboinik D,Azzi A,Basaga H

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antifungal activity of iturin A and its interaction with erythrocyte membranes were enhanced in the presence of surfactin. The modification of the properties of iturin A was explained by the formation of mixed iturin A-surfactin micelles. Such mixed micelles were easily generated when both lipopeptides were in aqu...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Thimon L,Peypoux F,Maget-Dana R,Roux B,Michel G

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Green fluorescent protein (GFP) is a globular protein used as biosensor and biomarker in medical and industrial fields. However, due to the expensive production costs of expressing proteins using high-cost inducers like isopropyl-β-d-1-thiogalactopyranoside (IPTG), the number of GFP applications are still scarce. This...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Lopes C,Dos Santos NV,Dupont J,Pedrolli DB,Valentini SR,de Carvalho Santos-Ebinuma V,Pereira JFB

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative DNA damage is involved in mutagenesis, carcinogenesis, aging, radiation effects and also in the action of several anticancer drugs. Accumulated evidence indicates that iron may play an important role in these processes. The conversion of the closed circular double-stranded supercoiled plasmid pcDNA3 into the...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： El-Sayed IH,El-Masry SA

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[Glu34]-thymopoietin II fragment 32-45 and its three analogs were prepared by substitution of the amino acid residue at position 37. These peptides were synthesized by a conventional solution method, followed by deprotection with 1 M trifluoromethanesulfonic acid-thioanisole in trifluoroacetic acid in the presence of ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Abiko T,Shishido H,Sekino H

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Succinylcholine apnea happens in cases of null butyrylcholinesterase activity after administration of preintubation succinylcholine. So far, there is no such popular test that can rapidly screen null butyrylcholinesterase activity from plasma. Development of a novel method for rapid screening of null butyrylcholineste...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Nagpal N,Chowdhary S,Bhattacharyya R,Banerjee D

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00