Biological approaches for controlling shellfish-associated pathogens.

abstract：:Fermentation of food components by microbes occurs both during certain food production processes and in the gastro-intestinal tract. In these processes specific compounds are produced that originate from either biotransformation reactions or biosynthesis, and that can affect the health of the consumer. In this review,...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： van Hylckama Vlieg JE,Veiga P,Zhang C,Derrien M,Zhao L

更新日期：2011-04-01 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：:Recent years have seen the introduction of novel techniques and applications of total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy (TIRFM). Key technical achievements include miniaturization, enhanced depth resolution, reduction of detection volumes and the combination of TIRFM with other microscopic techniques. Novel ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Schneckenburger H

更新日期：2005-02-01 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：:Wound healing can no longer be considered a generic term: it is the summation of a complex series of processes beginning with coagulation and ending in remodelling. This review, therefore, summarizes the past year's advances in growth factor research according to the roles of the individual growth factors in the speci...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Robson MC

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants have a remarkable capacity for the production of a wide range of metabolites. Much has been reported and reviewed on the diversity of these metabolites and how it is achieved, for example through the evolution of enzyme families. In comparison, relatively little is known on the extraordinary metabolic productiv...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Tissier A

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most secretory proteins are synthesized as precursors with an amino-terminal signal peptide. Genetic identification of proteins essential for signal peptide dependent translocation to the Escherichia coli periplasm has led to the biochemical dissection of the secretion pathway. Additional mechanisms exist in Gram-nega...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Gennity JM,Inouye M

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given that protein-protein interactions (PPIs) regulate nearly every living process; the exploration of global and pathway-specific protein interaction networks is expected to have major implications in the understanding of diseases and for drug discovery. Consequently, the development and application of methodologies...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Suter B,Kittanakom S,Stagljar I

更新日期：2008-08-01 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：:The exposure of bacteria to pollutants induces frequently chemoattraction or chemorepellent reactions. Recent research suggests that the capacity to degrade a toxic compound has co-evolved in some bacteria with the capacity to chemotactically react to it. There is an increasing amount of data which show that chemoattr...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Krell T,Lacal J,Reyes-Darias JA,Jimenez-Sanchez C,Sungthong R,Ortega-Calvo JJ

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aptamers are short single-stranded oligo(deoxy)nucleotides that are selected to bind to target molecules with high affinity and specificity. Because of their sophisticated characteristics and versatile applicability, aptamers are thought to become universal molecular probes in biotechnological and therapeutic applicat...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Pfeiffer F,Rosenthal M,Siegl J,Ewers J,Mayer G

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellulosic fuels are expected to have great potential industrial applications in the near future, but they still face technical challenges to become cost-competitive fuels, thus presenting many opportunities for improvement. The economical production of viable biofuels requires metabolic engineering of microbial platf...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Ko JK,Lee SM

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Academic microfluidics has decisively shifted in recent years from the research on phenomenology and proof-of-concept fluidic functionalities to the developments oriented at applications with biology, medicine and biotechnology in prime focus. Significant efforts are made to demonstrate that microfluidics can be used ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Scheler O,Postek W,Garstecki P

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metabolome, the collection of small molecules associated with an organism, is a growing subject of inquiry, with the data utilized for data-intensive systems biology, disease diagnostics, biomarker discovery, and the broader characterization of small molecules in mixtures. Owing to their close proximity to the fun...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Eghbalnia HR,Romero PR,Westler WM,Baskaran K,Ulrich EL,Markley JL

更新日期：2017-02-01 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：:Anaerobic digestion is the default process for biological conversion of residue organics to renewable energy and biofuel in the form of methane. However, its scope of application is expanding, due to availability of new technologies, and the emerging drivers of energy and nutrient conservation and recovery. Here, we o...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Batstone DJ,Virdis B

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isothermal titration calorimetry is widely used to measure the affinities and enthalpies of interaction between proteins and/or small molecules. The quantitative nature of the technique is especially useful in the characterization of recombinant proteins while determining the fraction of protein capable of binding a s...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Baranauskiene L,Kuo TC,Chen WY,Matulis D

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological pulping has the potential to improve the quality of pulp, properties of paper and to reduce energy costs and environmental impact relative to traditional pulping operations. It has been suggested that energy savings alone could make the process economically viable. Other benefits include improved burst stre...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Breen A,Singleton FL

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New methods and applications in the separation of biomolecules are reviewed, with an emphasis on the large-scale recovery of proteins. Highlights include the advent of flow-through particles in perfusion chromatography, which allows for very high flow rates, while retaining a high chromatographic efficiency. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Glad M,Larsson PO

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strain-specificity of probiotic effects has been a cornerstone principle of probiotic science for decades. Certainly, some important mechanisms are present in only a few probiotic strains. But scientific advances now reveal commonalities among members of certain taxonomic groups of probiotic microbes. Some clinical be...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Sanders ME,Benson A,Lebeer S,Merenstein DJ,Klaenhammer TR

更新日期：2018-02-01 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：: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：:The release of sub-picomole levels of N-linked oligosaccharides directly from 1-5 micrograms of protein in a band on an SDS PAGE gel, coupled with recent advances in mass spectrometry and HPLC, opens the way for the analysis of biologically important glycoproteins that are difficult to purify or are available only in ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Rudd PM,Dwek RA

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spatiotemporal patterns of ion and metabolite levels in living cells are important in understanding signal transduction and metabolite flux. Imaging approaches using genetically encoded sensors are ideal for detecting such molecule dynamics, which are hard to capture otherwise. Recent years have seen iterative imp...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Okumoto S

更新日期：2010-02-01 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：: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：:Microbes have long been adapted for the biosynthetic production of useful compounds. There is increasing demand for the rapid and cheap microbial production of diverse molecules in an industrial setting. Microbes can now be designed and engineered for a particular biosynthetic purpose, thanks to recent developments in...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Quin MB,Schmidt-Dannert C

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tremendous advances in biocatalytic approaches to oligosaccharide synthesis have taken place in the past two years. The use of isolated enzymes, both glycosyltransferases and glycosidases, or engineered whole cells allows the preparation of natural oligosaccharides and analogs required for glycobiology research. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Palcic MM

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The removal of inorganic contaminants by plants is termed phytoextraction. Recent studies have looked at the feasibility of phytoextraction, and demonstrate that both good biomass yields and metal hyperaccumulation are required to make the process efficient. Adding chelating agents to soil to increase the bioavailabil...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： McGrath SP,Zhao FJ

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in the separation of microbial subpopulations and in proteomics technologies have paved the way for the global molecular characterization of microbial cells that share common functional characteristics. Quantitative characterization of the dynamics of microbial proteomes enables an unprecedented view of the a...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Bernhardt J,Michalik S,Wollscheid B,Völker U,Schmidt F

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00