Trash to treasure: production of biofuels and commodity chemicals via syngas fermenting microorganisms.

abstract：:Bacterial cell wall hydrolases (BCWHs) display a remarkable structural and functional diversity that offers perspectives for novel food applications, reaching beyond those of the archetype BCWH and established biopreservative hen egg white lysozyme. Insights in BCWHs from bacteriophages to animals have provided concep...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Callewaert L,Walmagh M,Michiels CW,Lavigne R

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibrotic diseases occur in virtually every tissue of the body and are a major cause of mortality, yet they remain largely untreatable and poorly understood on a mechanistic level. The development of anti-fibrotic agents has been hampered, in part, by the insufficient fibrosis biomimicry provided by traditional in vitr...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Porras AM,Hutson HN,Berger AJ,Masters KS

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-hybrid methods provide a simple and sensitive means to detect the interaction between two proteins in living cells. Their use has resulted in the isolation of new proteins and has facilitated characterization of particular protein-protein interactions. These techniques have already resulted in the identification o...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Mendelsohn AR,Brent R

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic building blocks bearing hydroxylated chiral centers are important targets for biocatalysis. Many C-C bond forming enzymes have recently been investigated for new applications and new strategies towards the synthesis of natural products and related oxygenated compounds. Several old catalysts have been studied...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Fessner WD,Helaine V

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene expression control is critical to increase production of recombinant proteins, fine-tune metabolic pathways and reliably express synthetic pathways. The importance of transcriptional control seems to be most important in eukaryotic systems. In this review, we highlight recent developments in the field of transcri...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Leavitt JM,Alper HS

更新日期：2015-08-01 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：:Fatty acid oxidation pathways are attractive for metabolic engineering purposes due to their cyclic nature as well as their reactions that allow for the selective functionalization of alkyl chains. These characteristics allow for the production of various chemicals, such as alcohols, alkanes, ketones and hydroxyacids,...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Kim S,Cheong S,Chou A,Gonzalez R

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in miniaturization and automation of technologies have enabled cell-based assay high-throughput screening, bringing along new challenges in data analysis. Automation, standardization, reproducibility have become requirements for qualitative research. The Bioconductor community has worked in that direct...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Le Meur N

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in protein expression in E. coli have focused primarily on the enhancement of protein quality. Problems in mRNA translation such as inefficient initiation, mistranslation, frame-shifting and frame-hopping can often be addressed by altering heterologous gene-coding sequences. Fusion technology can also ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Olins PO,Lee SC

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure determinations of the cytochrome bc1 complex and the prokaryotic potassium channel demonstrate that a wider range of membrane proteins are now amenable to study by X-ray crystallography. Furthermore, the structures of porins and interfacial membrane proteins show that membrane structural biology is becom...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Garavito RM

更新日期：1998-08-01 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：:Self-assembled peptide systems have been widely studied in the context of gaining understanding of the rules that govern biomolecular processes and increasingly as new bio-inspired nanomaterials. Such materials may be designed to be highly dynamic, displaying adaptive and self-healing properties. This review focuses o...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Sadownik JW,Ulijn RV

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both cyanobacteria and eukaryotic microalgae are promising organisms for sustainable production of bulk products such as food, feed, materials, chemicals and fuels. In this review we will summarize the potential and current biotechnological developments. Cyanobacteria are promising host organisms for the production of...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Wijffels RH,Kruse O,Hellingwerf KJ

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population-level studies enabled by high-throughput phenotyping have revealed significant variation in lignin characteristics including content, S:G:H ratio, inter-unit linkage distributions, and molecular weights across multiple plant species. Coupled with genome-wide association mapping studies (GWAS) targeted at li...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Tuskan GA,Muchero W,Tschaplinski TJ,Ragauskas AJ

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial whole-cell biosensors are very useful for toxicity measurements of various samples. Semi-specific biosensors, containing fusions of stress-regulated promoters and reporter genes, have several advantages over the traditional, general biosensors that are based on constitutively expressed reporter genes. Furthe...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Sørensen SJ,Burmølle M,Hansen LH

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The design and construction of synthetic gene circuits with complex spatiotemporal dynamics was pioneered in bacteria, but it took almost a decade until synthetic biologists were able to construct genetic circuits with complex spatiotemporal dynamics in mammalian cells. This review highlights the most recent advances ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Weber W,Fussenegger M

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fermented foods and beverages are an integral part of the human diet globally. Understanding the microbial interactions within these fermenting ecosystems is required to deliver safe products with desirable consumer properties, and moreover, maintenance of these traditions. Effective tools are required for documentati...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： van Hijum SA,Vaughan EE,Vogel RF

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The delineation of the beta-globin locus control region has led to a new understanding of the developmental regulation of the beta-globin gene cluster. It now seems that globin gene switching is effected through the sequential and mutually exclusive interaction of the locus control region with the embryonic, fetal and...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Enver T,Greaves DR

更新日期：1991-12-01 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：:The structure of microbial communities is key to their functionality. However, this structure is likely to be influenced by adaptive genetic change in members of the community, which can occur over a matter of days. Changes in community structure can in turn influence the evolutionary trajectories of species within th...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： O'Brien S,Hodgson DJ,Buckling A

更新日期：2013-08-01 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：: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：:RNA plays important roles in the regulation of gene expressions and other cellular functions. It functions as both as an informational carrier and a nanomachine due to its complementary base-pairing ability and complexed three-dimensional structure. Several nanostructures have been designed and constructed by exploiti...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Ohno H,Akamine S,Saito H

更新日期：2019-08-01 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：:Poxviruses are widely used for the cytoplasmic expression of recombinant genes in mammalian cells. Recent improvements allow high expression and simplify the integration of multiple foreign genes. Vaccinia virus mutants and other poxviruses that undergo abortive infection in mammalian cells are receiving special atten...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Carroll MW,Moss B

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulatory networks of transcription factors and signaling molecules lie at the heart of development. Their architecture implements logic functions whose execution propels cells from one regulatory state to the next, thus driving development forward. As an example of a subcircuit that translates transcriptional input ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Materna SC,Davidson EH

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynamic regulation of gene expression in response to various molecules is crucial for both basic science and practical applications. RNA is considered an attractive material for creating dynamic genetic controllers because of its specific binding to ligands, structural flexibility, programmability, and small size. Her...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Jang S,Jang S,Yang J,Seo SW,Jung GY

更新日期：2018-10-01 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：:Escherichia coli is still a very popular host for the production of recombinant proteins at an analytical or industrial scale. Secretion of the proteins into the culture medium or display at the cell surface would be preferred in many applications but is hampered by the complex two-layered cell envelope. The autotrans...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Jong WS,Saurí A,Luirink J

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reductive catalytic fractionation (RCF) of lignocellulose is an emerging biorefinery scheme that combines biomass fractionation with lignin depolymerisation. Central to this scheme is the integration of heterogeneous catalysis, which overcomes the tendency of lignin to repolymerise. Ultimately, this leads to a low-Mw ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Renders T,Van den Bossche G,Vangeel T,Van Aelst K,Sels B

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00