Affinity maturation of a TNFalpha-binding affibody molecule by Darwinian survival selection.

abstract：:Empty fruit bunch (EFB) of oil palm trees was converted to fermentable sugars by the combined use of dilute acids and whole fungal cell culture-catalyzed hydrolyses. EFB (5%, w/v) was hydrolyzed in the presence of 0.5% H2 SO4 and 0.2% H3 PO4 at 160 °C for 10 Min. The solid fraction was separated from the acid hydrolys...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Li Q,Ng WT,Puah SM,Bhaskar RV,Soh LS,MacBeath C,Parakattil P,Green P,Wu JC

更新日期：2014-07-01 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 effects of chitin [(1-->4)-2-acetamido-2-deoxy-beta-D-glucan] and its partially deacetylated derivatives, chitosans, on the human dermal fibroblast-mediated contraction of collagen lattices were examined in vitro as a model for the contraction of cutaneous wounds in vivo. Chitosan CL313A, a short-chain-length 89% ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Howling GI,Dettmar PW,Goddard PA,Hampson FC,Dornish M,Wood EJ

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-abundant plasma proteins pose a challenge in a large number of proteomics-based technologies. Depletion of these high-abundant proteins has proven to be a fruitful strategy to circumvent masking of lower-abundant proteins that could serve as valuable biomarker candidates. However, current strategies often do not ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Eriksson C,Schwenk JM,Sjöberg A,Hober S

更新日期：2010-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Various approaches for removal of high-abundance components in body fluids are currently available. While most methods are constructed for plasma depletion, there is a need for body-fluid-specific strategies. The aim of the present study was to design an affinity matrix suitable for the depletion of high-abundance pro...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Ramström M,Zuberovic A,Grönwall C,Hanrieder J,Bergquist J,Hober S

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The survival of inoculated microbes is critical for successful bioaugmentation in wastewater treatment. The influence of readily available nutrients (RANs) on the colonization of two functional bacteria, Pseudomonas putida M9, a strong biofilm-forming strain, and Comamonas testosteroni A3, a 3,5-dinitrobenzoic acid (3...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Cheng Z,Meng X,Xie L,Xu H,Li M

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have constructed a hybrid protein (ATFHI) consisting of an N-terminal fragment from urokinase (ATF) and HI-8, which is the C-terminal domain of urinary trypsin inhibitor. The fusion genes for the hybrid proteins were engineered by PCR and cloned into expression plasmids. Under the control of the tac promoter, fusio...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Sugino D,Okushima M,Kobayashi H,Terao T

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The urinary C-terminal telopeptide fragment of type II collagen (uCTX-II) has been reported as the efficient blood-based biomarker for osteoarthritis, which affects knees, hands, spine, and hips. This study reports a sensing strategy with antibody-conjugated gold nanoparticles (GNP) on an interdigitated electrode (IDE...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Wang S,Su S,Yu C,Gopinath SCB,Yang Z

更新日期：2020-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Sometimes it is necessary to obtain thrombin from limited amounts of human plasma for laboratory assay. None of the available purification methods easily deals with this subject. The procedure described in the present paper uses a readily available pharmaceutical agent, argatroban, to construct an affinity matrix. Arg...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Lefkowitz JB

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzymatic synthesis of biodiesel showed advantageous characteristics in relation to other technologies once it works under bland conditions, no generation of wastewater, no occurrence of saponifications reactions and production of a biodiesel with high quality. Although many researches still apply immobilized lipases,...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： C Wancura JH,Tres MV,Jahn SL,de Oliveira JV

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Entrapped cells and entrapped cells grown inside of a calcium alginate matrix as well as free cells have been investigated using Saccharomyces cerevisiae mutant strains with regard to their pattern of growth and invertase activity. The repression of invertase by glucose and glucose-consumption ability were considered ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Rossi-Alva JC,Rocha-Leão MH

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, various constructs and hosts were used to produce high levels of cecropin B2 (cecB2). To mitigate cecB2's toxic inhibition of host cells, various cecB2 constructs were built. Results showed that the combination of a chitin-binding domain and an intein self-cleavage motif in front of cecropin B2, without...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Fang YT,Lai WS,Liu JH,Liu YC

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Feeding a basal diet free of vitamins E and C to weanling male rats for 8 months resulted in biochemical changes characteristic of vitamin E deficiency. These included increased liver thiobarbituric acid values; decreased blood GSH levels, plasma vitamin E levels, and glutathione peroxidase activities; and increased a...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Chen LH,Thacker RR

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of lytic bacteriophages as therapeutic products is an attractive alternative to antibiotics. In this study, we evaluated the potential of phage tails for lysing Gram-positive bacteria. Phage P954, a well-characterized temperate staphylococcal phage, was found to adsorb to a large number of Staphylococc...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Biddappa AC,Sundarrajan S,Ramalinga AB,Sriram B,Padmanabhan S

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most large-scale microbial production of recombinant proteins are based on Escherichia coli, yeasts, or filamentous fungi systems. Using eukaryotic hosts, antibody fragments are generally expressed by targeting to the secretory pathway. This enables not only efficient disulfide bond formation but also secretion of sol...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Ezzine A,M'hirsi El Adab S,Bouhaouala-Zahar B,Hmila I,Baciou L,Marzouki MN

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:Dysosma pleiantha (Hance) Woodson is one of the endangered traditional Chinese medicinal herbs, highly valued for its medicinal properties by Taiwan's mountain tribes. The present study aims to develop an efficient protocol for callus biomass by optimizing suitable culture medium, carbon source culture condition, and ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Karuppaiya P,Tsay HS

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast cytochrome c peroxidase (CcP) was purified from baker's yeast and immobilised onto a nylon membrane. The kinetics of the soluble and immobilised forms of the enzyme were investigated for the catalysed oxidation of potassium ferrocyanide in the presence of H2O2 and m-chloroperoxybenzoic acid. The pH dependence of...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Cooper JM,McNeil CJ,Bannister JV

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to perform organic reactions with chemoselectivity is of critical importance in synthesis. Recently, we reported that a de novo carbene transferase, a tetra-α-helical c-type heme-containing protein, C45, is proficient at N-H insertion reactions, proceeding via the intermolecular transfer of a metallocarben...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Stenner R,Anderson JLR

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optison(R) is an ultrasound contrast agent, consisting of gas-filled microspheres surrounded by a solid shell of heat-denatured human albumin. Size-distribution measurements of these microspheres are a critical stability indicating factor, because loss of encapsulated gas eliminates ultrasound contrast activity. Compo...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Podell S,Burrascano C,Gaal M,Golec B,Maniquis J,Mehlhaff P

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficient enzyme-catalysed reaction of morpholines as model structures for bioactive compounds with para-dihydroxylated aromatic systems was carried out using the oxidoreductase laccase and atmospheric oxygen to produce eight novel morpholine-substituted aromatics. The laccase of Myceliophthora thermophila was use...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Hahn V,Mikolasch A,Wende K,Bartrow H,Lindequist U,Schauer F

更新日期：2009-11-13 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：:Among the heat-shock proteins (HSPs) induced in response to heat-shock (HS) in all organisms, the low-molecular-mass (LMM) HSPs are the most abundant and unique in plants. The HSP genes at the transcriptional and the translational levels have been well-characterized; however, relatively little is known about the physi...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Yeh KW,Jinn TL,Yeh CH,Chen YM,Lin CY

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dynamics of dissolved oxygen (DO) and shear stress in the vasculature microenvironment play a major role in determining the fate of stem cells in adults and during early embryonic development. In this study, we present a microbioreactor (MBR) that provides independent control over oxygen tension and shear stress i...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Abaci HE,Devendra R,Soman R,Drazer G,Gerecht S

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Auricularia polytricha belonging to Basidiomycota has the ability to degrade lignocellulose. However, there has been no resource in public databases examining the transcriptome of A. polytricha. In this study, high-throughput sequencing platform BGISEQ-500 was used to generate large amount of transcript sequences from...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Jiang S,Zheng X,Li L

更新日期：2020-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested a variety of liposomes for parameters such as DNA binding capacity and DNase I protection of incorporated and attached DNA to elucidate their use as vehicles for DNA transfer into cells and animals. The results were compared to other potential DNA vehicles, empty viral capsids, and nanoparticles. Maximal bin...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Bertling WM,Gareis M,Paspaleeva V,Zimmer A,Kreuter J,Nürnberg E,Harrer P

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The variation with pH of the kinetic parameters of penicillin acylase from Kluyvera citrophila has been used to gain information about the chemical mechanism of the reaction catalysed by the enzyme. The pH-dependence of log (V/Km) for penicillin G showed that a group with a pK value over 4.7 must be deprotonated and t...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Martín J,Prieto I,Mancheño JM,Barbero JL,Arche R

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A deletion htpR mutant of Escherichia coli has been constructed on the basis of site-directed mutagenesis. To this end, the chromosomal allele of htpR gene was substituted by a mutant allele introduced into the cell with a recombinant plasmid. The htpR mutant is characterized by a reduced level of proteolysis and ther...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Kiselev VI

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An extremely thermostable UDP-GlcNAc pyrophosphorylase has been purified from Thermus caldophilus GK24 by chromatographic methods including ion-exchange, hydrophobic interaction, and affinity chromatographies. The specific activity of the enzyme was enriched 41.8-fold, with a recovery of 2%. The molecular mass of the ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Kim JS,Koh S,Shin HJ,Lee DS,Lee SY

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans to oxidize ferrous iron has been extensively studied in bioleaching to recover metal resources. Although immobilization of A. ferrooxidans is of great importance to achieve high bioleaching performance in practical application, the reported approaches of immobilization of ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Zhu N,Shi C,Shang R,Yang C,Xu Z,Wu P

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00