Directed evolution: new parts and optimized function.

abstract：:In the past year, significant progress in the field of gene transfer has been made possible by refinement of the technique of particle bombardment. The process has been utilized for the study of gene expression in plastids and mitochondria, the production of transgenic crop plants and gene transfer into live animals. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Klein TM,Fitzpatrick-McElligott S

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is accumulating which suggests that the vertebrate Hox homeobox gene family plays an important role in pattern formation, particularly in the specification of regional diversity. In the last year important advances in the understanding of their regulation and function have been provided using transgenic mice....

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Krumlauf R

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial microcompartments (BMCs) are organelles that encapsulate enzymes involved in CO2 fixation or carbon catabolism in a selectively permeable protein shell. Here, we highlight recent advances in the bioengineering of these protein-based nanoreactors in heterologous systems, including transfer and expression of B...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Plegaria JS,Kerfeld CA

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraportal islet transplantation has emerged as a promising treatment for type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM). Nevertheless, long-term efficacy has been limited to a marginal number of patients. Outcomes have been restricted, in part, by challenges associated with the transplant site, poor vascularization, and disruption...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Coronel MM,Stabler CL

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of new strategies for the delivery of vaccine antigens or immune modulators to the mucosal tissue includes innovative approaches such as the use of genetically modified food microorganisms and plants. Even though the 'proof-of-concept' has recently been established for these two systems, key questions ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Mercenier A,Wiedermann U,Breiteneder H

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgene expression from the chloroplast (plastid) genome offers several attractions to plant biotechnologists, including high-level accumulation of foreign proteins, transgene stacking in operons and a lack of epigenetic interference with the stability of transgene expression. In addition, the technology provides an...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Bock R

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor-derived DNA, found in body fluids (liquid biopsy) of cancer patients as part of cell-free DNA (cfDNA), lends itself for noninvasive cancer detection and monitoring. Advantages of cfDNA as analytical target have evoked a burst of sophisticated techniques, providing clinically relevant information. Each cell type ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Daniūnaitė K,Jarmalaitė S,Kriukienė E

更新日期：2019-02-01 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：:Recombinant DNA technology allows the manipulation of the physical properties of proteins that perform electron transport and photochemical processes. Recent work is reviewed that has a potential impact on the development of molecular electronic devices, within a general framework outlining strategies for device fabri...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Sligar SG,Salemme FR

更新日期：1992-08-01 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：:Stable-isotope probing (SIP) of environmental genomic DNA allows populations in a natural microbial community to be identified through the incorporation of (13)C- or (15)N-labeled substrates into biomass. The isotopically labeled DNA is retrieved by density gradient centrifugation, and active microorganisms identified...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Friedrich MW

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data visualization has developed in several directions: theoretical; methodological; and in new application areas. Advances include the development of a grammar of graphics, deeper understanding of human perception and implications for graphical layout, and better approaches to visualizing multi-dimensional data and l...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Meyer RD,Cook D

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endoproteolytic cleavage of hormone and neuropeptide precursors, as well as many complex proteins, such as coagulation factors and viral glycoproteins, is a key process in the generation of bioactive polypeptides. These cleavages typically occur at the dibasic amino acid residues Lys-Arg or Arg-Arg. The enzymes respon...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Rehemtulla A,Kaufman RJ

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces cerevisiae has decisive advantages in industrial processes due to its tolerance to alcohols and fermentation conditions. Butanol isomers are considered as suitable fuel substitutes and valuable biomass-derived chemical building blocks. Whereas high production was achieved with bacterial systems, metaboli...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Generoso WC,Schadeweg V,Oreb M,Boles E

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-free synthetic pathway biotransformation (SyPaB) is the implementation of complicated biochemical reactions by in vitro assembling a number of enzymes or their complexes and coenzymes. Assembly of numerous enzymes without cellular membrane, gene regulation, or undesired pathway can circumvent some of the obstacle...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Zhang YH,Sun J,Zhong JJ

更新日期：2010-10-01 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：:Yeast, especially Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Pichia pastoris, are major hosts employed in the expression of authentic heterologous proteins of high quality in the biopharmaceutical, industrial and academic environments. There has been recent progress in characterizing and controlling the factors involved in determin...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Eckart MR,Bussineau CM

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For eukaryotic cells to function properly, they divide their intracellular space in subcellular compartments, each harboring specific metabolic activities. In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that compartmentalization of metabolic pathways is a prerequisite for certain cellular functions. This has for in...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Zecchin A,Stapor PC,Goveia J,Carmeliet P

更新日期：2015-08-01 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：:Novel biotechnological approaches such as Metabolic Engineering (ME) and New Plant Breeding Techniques (NPBTs) are currently being developed to produce biological compounds for food and non-food products. NPBTs span a range of methods for in vivo production in crops, some of which are classified as GMOs while others a...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Pei L,Schmidt M

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bioindustry is expanding to an increasing variety of food, chemical and pharmaceutical products, each requiring rapid development of a dedicated cell factory and bioprocess. Microfluidic tools are, together with tools from synthetic biology and metabolic modeling, being employed in cell factory and bioprocess developm...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Bjork SM,Joensson HN

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among different technologies of hydrogen production, bio-hydrogen production exhibits perhaps the greatest potential to replace fossil fuels. Based on recent research on dark fermentative hydrogen production, this article reviews the following aspects towards scaled-up application of this technology: bioreactor develo...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： RenNanqi,GuoWanqian,LiuBingfeng,CaoGuangli,DingJie

更新日期：2011-06-01 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 imaging probes help us investigate how transport and dynamics of RNA contribute to subcellular RNA localization or regulation of gene expression. Out of the plethora of strategies that have been developed to image RNA in living cells, genetically encoded probes are interesting because they can be produced by the c...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Rath AK,Rentmeister A

更新日期：2015-02-01 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：:In spite of many efforts and achievements to optimize the prokaryotic expression systems, there are still general and specific problems in obtaining sufficient yields of the functionally active gene products. The main problems concern the formation of inclusion bodies, incorrect folding, toxicity for the producer cell...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Gumpert J,Hoischen C

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic biology combines knowledge from various disciplines including molecular biology, engineering, mathematics and physics to design and build novel proteins, genetic circuits and metabolic networks. Early efforts aimed at altering the behavior of individual elements have now evolved to focus on the construction ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： McDaniel R,Weiss R

更新日期：2005-08-01 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：: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：:Glutathione transferases (GSTs) represent a major group of detoxification enzymes. All plants possess multiple cytosolic GSTs, each of which displays distinct catalytic as well as non-catalytic binding properties. The progress made in recent years in the fields of genomics, proteomics and protein crystallography of GS...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Labrou NE,Papageorgiou AC,Pavli O,Flemetakis E

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00