Examination of alternate codon bias solutions for expression and purification of recombinant mechano-growth factor in Escherichia coli.

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：:The aspartic proteinase gene of Mucor pusillus rennin expressed in Pichia pastoris was characterized in terms of structural and conformational stability induced by temperature. This enzyme is 12% glycosylated, with a similar specific activity to the native fungal enzyme. The secondary structure determined by CD is mai...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Beldarraín A,Acosta N,Montesinos R,Mata M,Cremata J

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of four lectins from crops of the legume family with Saccharomyces cerevisiae alpha-mannan, and also with two glycoenzymes containing mainly alpha-mannan moieties, has been studied. The interaction was characterized by a quantitative precipitation assay. The results of precipitation differ with respect...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Mislovicová D,Gemeiner P,Sandula J,Masárová J,Vikartovská A,Docolomanský P

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simplified and low-cost method, boiling lysis, was developed and used to purify the truncated DNA polymerase Stoffel fragment after overproduction of the enzyme in Escherichia coli. The method is based on the thermostable properties of the Stoffel fragment. Conditions such as the boiling time and number of cycles em...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Yang Z,Ding Y,Zhang Y,Liu F

更新日期：2008-06-01 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：:Most insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus patients gen-erate conformational autoantibodies to the islet-cell 65-kDa variant of human glutamate decarboxylase (GAD65), and several immunochemical tests for the early detection of type-1 diabetes rely on GAD65 antibody (GADA) assessment using properly folded recombinant GAD...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Santos J,Antón EA,Buslje CM,Valdez SN,Villanueva AL,Sica M,Iacono R,Maffia P,Poskus E,Ermácora MR

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) is a hematologic malignancy characterized by excessive growth of myeloid cells and their progenitors. The proportion of spectrin dimers compared to tetramers extracted from membranes at 4 degrees C, under low ionic strength conditions, increased in CML erythrocytes. These also displa...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Basu J,Kundu M,Rakshit MM,Chakrabarti P

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biologically active membrane proteins are difficult to isolate. Very often the isolated membrane proteins have low binding affinity or no biological integrity at all. Despite some success in isolation, one has to overcome the hurdles of obtaining sufficient quantity of the proteins and maintaining biological activity ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Wong RB,Lee AH,Rangan VS,Cheng KC

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholesterol esterase modified with polyethylene glycol was able to dissolve in some highly hydrophobic solvents such as benzene and toluene, and catalyze the synthesis of cholesterol linoleate with time dependency in the reverse of the usual reaction in aqueous solvents. Enzymatic cholesterol linoleate synthesis follo...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Mori S,Nakata Y,Endo H

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ganoderma neo-japonicum is a well-known medicinal mushroom in Asian countries. However, scientific validations on its curative activities are confined to cirrhosis and diabetes. In this study, the anticancer properties of G. neo-japonicum were evaluated using cellular and computational models. The ethanolic extract (E...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Lau MF,Chua KH,Sabaratnam V,Kuppusamy UR

更新日期：2020-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The α-amylase from soya bean seeds was purified by affinity precipitation, resulting in approx. 20-fold purification with approx. 84% recovery. The purified α-amylase had an optimum pH of 5.5, optimum temperature of 75 °C, Arrhenius energy of activation of 6.03 kcal/mol (1 kcal≈4.184 kJ) and a Km of 2.427 mg/ml (starc...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Prakash O,Jaiswal N

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Succinylcholine apnea happens in cases of null butyrylcholinesterase activity after administration of preintubation succinylcholine. So far, there is no such popular test that can rapidly screen null butyrylcholinesterase activity from plasma. Development of a novel method for rapid screening of null butyrylcholineste...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Nagpal N,Chowdhary S,Bhattacharyya R,Banerjee D

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results from molecular mass determinations and amino acid analyses for prostate-specific antigen (PSA), alpha 1-antichymotrypsin (ACT) and PSA-ACT complexed in vitro are reported. Molecular masses for two separate PSA-ACT lots were determined by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization mass spectroscopy (MALDI-...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Bedzyk WD,Larsen B,Gutteridge S,Ballas RA

更新日期：1998-06-01 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：:Talpha1 (thymosin alpha 1) is important in treating immunodeficiency and other diseases. In order to study the feasibility of expressing Talpha1 in plants, as the first attempt, we designed and synthesized the Talpha1 gene according to the plant codon usage preference and constructed the 4xTalpha1 concatemer (four cop...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Chen Y,Zhao L,Shen G,Cui L,Ren W,Zhang H,Qian H,Tang K

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) and alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) have been encapsulated in sheep and human red blood cells (RBCs) by a hypotonic dialysis/isotonic resealing procedure. At a fixed enzyme level in the dialysis bag (100 units/ml of RBCs), a significant encapsulation yield was observed for ADH, both in human ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Sanz S,Pinilla M,Garín M,Tipton KF,Luque J

更新日期：1995-10-01 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：:HIV stimulates strong immune CD8(+) cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) response in infected people, despite causing an immunodeficiency. It has been demonstrated that this response could be very important for the control of the virus. We have shown previously that a recombinant fowlpox virus (rFWPV), expressing the multi-e...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Vázquez-Blomquist D,González S,Duarte CA

更新日期：2002-12-01 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：:Two different enzymes that metabolize lactate in the presence of oxygen, either to acetate plus CO2 (lactate 2-mono-oxygenase; Lmox) or to pyruvate plus H2O2 (lactate oxidase; Lox) were encapsulated in human and murine red blood cells (RBCs). Lmox shows a low affinity for lactate (Km 22 mM) and thus works at a low rat...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Garin M,Rossi L,Luque J,Magnani M

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of anion-exchange polymeric matrices on endotoxin removal from albumin and gamma-globulin solutions are evaluated. The positively charged cellulose acrylic media carrying DEAE or QAE functional groups remove significant amounts of endotoxin from tap water, but are less effective in protein solutions. With ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Hou KC,Zaniewski R

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycoprotein D (gD2) is the most important candidate antigen for herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) vaccine development. Establishment of a stable eukaryotic cell line to overexpress gD2 and an efficient purification process to purify is essential for the development of subunit vaccine against HSV-2. The DNA sequence...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Qi Y,Xu Y,Pan Y,Li S,Li B,Pan M,Zhang S,Li Y

更新日期：2016-05-01 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：:We have explored the adaptation of the cytochromes P450 (P450) of deep-sea bacteria to high hydrostatic pressures. Strict conservation of the protein fold and functional importance of protein-bound water make P450 a unique subject for the studies of high-pressure adaptation. Earlier, we expressed and purified a fatty-...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Davydov DR,Sineva EV,Davydova NY,Bartlett DH,Halpert JR

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human lung carcinoma is a highly metastatic tumour that leads to a high death rate and in which lymphatic metastasis is an important early event. HYA (hyaluronan) is involved in the invasion of a variety of tumour cells. Layilin, a specific and novel HYA receptor, was detected in the human lung cell line A549 in our p...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Chen Z,Zhuo W,Wang Y,Ao X,An J

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protective antigen (PA) component of anthrax toxin mediates delivery of either lethal factor (LF) or oedema factor into the cytosol of mammalian cells. The N-terminal domain of LF(1-254) (amino acids 1-254 of LF) binds to PA and, when fused to heterologous proteins, delivers such proteins into the cytosol. In the ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Sharma M,Khanna H,Arora N,Singh Y

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some metabolic inhibitors, mevastatin (MVS), chlorocholine chloride (CCC), sodium pyrophosphate (NaPP) and D,L-glyceraldehyde (DLG), were respectively added into the suspension cultures of the yew Taxus chinensis var. mairei at the late phase of cell growth to study isopentenyl pyrophosphate (IPP) biosynthesis. The co...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Wang YD,Yuan YJ,Lu M,Wu JC,Jiang JL

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this work is to develop structured, segregated stochastic models for bioprocesses using time-series flow cytometric (FC) data. To this end, mammalian CHO cells were grown in both batch and fed-batch cultures, and their viable cell numbers (VCDs), monoclonal antibody (MAb), cell cycle phases, mitochond...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Shirsat N,Avesh M,English NJ,Glennon B,Al-Rubeai M

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extensive literature on natural antimicrobial systems in animals, plants, and microorganisms is surveyed and particular systems are discussed, viz., the peroxidase systems in saliva and milk, singlet oxygen in the phagosome, cecropins and attacins in insects, complement, lysozyme and, to a limited extent, phytoale...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Banks JG,Board RG,Sparks NH

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibroin, the major proteinaceous component of the silk fiber produced by larvae of the domesticated silk moth (Bombyx mori), has been widely investigated as a biomaterial for potential applications in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Following sol-gel transition, silk fibroin solutions can generate hydrog...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Chirila TV,Suzuki S,Papolla C

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00