Engineering nanoscale protein compartments for synthetic organelles.

abstract：:Since the development of desorption electrospray ionization (DESI), many other ionization methods for ambient and atmospheric pressure mass spectrometry have been developed. Ambient ionization mass spectrometry has now been used for a wide variety of biological applications, including plant science, microbiology, neur...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Hsu CC,Dorrestein PC

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoaffinity chromatography is one of the most powerful fractionation steps available for protein purification; however, it is often difficult to elute bound protein without using harsh or denaturing elution conditions. The development of methods to identify monoclonal antibodies that bind antigens tightly, but rele...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Burgess RR,Thompson NE

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing demand for a steady, healthy food supply requires an efficient control of the major pests and plant diseases. Current management practices are based largely on the application of synthetic pesticides. The excessive use of agrochemicals has caused serious environmental and health problems. Therefore, the...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Pérez-García A,Romero D,de Vicente A

更新日期：2011-04-01 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：:Dramatic technical progress in RNA synthesis and structure determination has allowed several difficulties inherent to the preparation, handling and structural analysis of RNA to be overcome, and this has led to a wealth of information about RNA structure and its relationship with biological function. It is now fully r...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Hermann T,Westhof E

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Steady increases in the average sulfur content of petroleum and stricter environmental regulations concerning the sulfur content have promoted studies of bioprocessing to upgrade fossil fuels. Bioprocesses can potentially provide a solution to the need for improved and expanded fuel upgrading worldwide, because biopro...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Kilbane JJ 2nd

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Silicon Cell initiative aims to understand cellular systems on the basis of the characteristics of their components. As a tool to achieve this, detailed kinetic models at the network reaction level are being constructed. Such detailed kinetic models are extremely useful for medical and biotechnological application...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Snoep JL

更新日期：2005-06-01 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：:To develop a viable H2 technology, production of H2 has to be significantly enlarged by using renewable resources. One option of generating H2 is the photosynthetic conversion of sunlight and water directly to H2 and O2. Photosystems and hydrogenases are currently being exploited for the design of efficient H2-produci...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Friedrich B,Fritsch J,Lenz O

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterogeneity of industrial production cultures is accepted to a certain degree; however, the underlying mechanisms are seldom perceived or included in the development of new bioprocess control strategies. Population heterogeneity and its basics, perceptible in the diverse proficiency of cells, begins with asymmetric ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Müller S,Harms H,Bley T

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The field of environmental monitoring has experienced a substantial progress in the last years but still the on-site control of contaminants is an elusive problem. In addition, the growing number of pollutant sources is accompanied by an increasing need of having efficient early warning systems. Several years ago bios...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Chocarro-Ruiz B,Fernández-Gavela A,Herranz S,Lechuga LM

更新日期：2017-06-01 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：: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：:Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells are the primary factories for biopharmaceuticals because of their capacity to correctly fold and post-translationally modify recombinant proteins compatible with humans. New opportunities are arising to enhance these cell factories, especially since the CHO-K1 cell line was recently s...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Kildegaard HF,Baycin-Hizal D,Lewis NE,Betenbaugh MJ

更新日期：2013-12-01 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：:Wastewater infrastructure is designed, in part, to remove microorganisms. However, many microorganisms are able to colonize infrastructure and resist treatment, resulting in an enormous flux of microorganisms to urban adjacent waters. These urban-associated microorganisms are discharged through three primary routes 1)...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Newton RJ,McClary JS

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in research on natural products (of both low and high molecular weight) of plant origin and their commercial potential as medicines are discussed. Substances with immunomodulating, antiviral, antimicrobial, antiparasite, antitumor, anti-inflammatory, hypoglycemic, tranquillizer and antifeedant activiti...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Yamada H

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro display techniques are powerful tools to select polypeptide binders against various target molecules. Novel applications include maturation of protein affinity and stability, selection for enzymatic activity, and the display of cDNA and random polypeptide libraries. Taken together, these display techniques ha...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Amstutz P,Forrer P,Zahnd C,Plückthun A

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The initial report on APOE as a susceptibility gene for late-onset Alzheimer's disease was presented a little more than two years ago. During the past year, several significant events have given added impetus to research into Alzheimer's. The association of increased allele frequency of APOE4 with Alzheimer's disease ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Roses AD,Saunders AM

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The past year has witnessed several excellent advances in basic and applied research on nucleic acids in the environment. Improved methods for extracting nucleic acids from environmental samples have been published, as well as information on the use of reporter genes in bacteria, natural genetic transformation in soil...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Trevors JT

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The continuing expansion of protein and genome sequence databases is an opportunity to identify novel enzymes with biotechnological applications. Whether applied to enzymology, chemical biology, systems biology, and microbiology, database mining must be 'user-friendly' so that experimentalists can devise focused strat...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Zallot R,Oberg N,Gerlt JA

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Directed evolution methods are now widely used for the optimization of diverse enzyme properties, which include biotechnologically relevant characteristics like stability, regioselectivity and, in particular, enantioselectivity. In principle, three different approaches are followed to optimize enantioselective reactio...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Jaeger KE,Eggert T

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phage display of proteins continues to be an important technology with a variety of applications. In the past year, advances have been made in coupling rational protein design with the power of the display selection process. In addition to the widely used filamentous phage, other bacteriophage surface expression syste...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Dunn IS

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Silk combines biological properties, such as non-toxicity and biodegradability, with physico-chemical ones, for example, mechanical strength. Base on molecular engineering, nowadays also new non-silk functions can be implemented in silk materials. Driven by rational design and ingenuity, innovative recombinant silk pr...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Saric M,Scheibel T

更新日期：2019-12-01 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：: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：:Fluorescent proteins (FPs) and fluorescent protein-derived biosensors are indispensable tools in life sciences. They make it possible to probe the location, activity, or interaction of molecules of interest from a subcellular to a multicellular scale. The desire for high-resolution and multidimensional information imp...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Duwé S,Dedecker P

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Considerable progress has been made in understanding the relationship between local amino acid sequence and local protein structure. Recent highlights include numerous studies of the structures adopted by short peptides, new approaches to correlating sequence patterns with structure patterns, and folding simulations u...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Bystroff C,Simons KT,Han KF,Baker D

更新日期：1996-08-01 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：:Stem cells reside in complex niches in which their behaviour is tightly regulated by various biochemical and biophysical signals. In order to unveil some of the crucial stem cell-niche interactions and expedite the implementation of stem cells in clinical and pharmaceutical applications, in vitro methodologies are bei...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Allazetta S,Lutolf MP

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00