Advances and current limitations in transcript-level control of gene expression.

abstract：:Lignin is a principal structural component of cell walls in higher terrestrial plants. It reinforces the cell walls, facilitates water transport, and acts as a physical barrier to pathogens. Lignin is typically described as being composed of p-hydroxyphenyl (H), guaiacyl (G), and syringyl (S) units that derive from th...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Vanholme R,De Meester B,Ralph J,Boerjan W

更新日期：2019-04-01 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：:Fc fusion proteins are molecules in which the immunoglobulin Fc is fused genetically to a protein of interest, such as an extracellular domain of a receptor, ligand, enzyme, or peptide. Fc fusion proteins have some antibody-like properties such as long serum half-life and easy expression and purification, making them ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Huang C

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Use of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has become increasingly widespread in virtually all aspects of molecular biology. Recently, novel ligation-independent methods have been developed for the cloning of DNA fragments amplified using PCR. Ligation-independent cloning utilizing the enzyme uracil DNA glycosylase (t...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Rashtchian A

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic engineering for complex or combined traits requires the simultaneous expression of multiple genes, and has been considered as the bottleneck for the next generation of genetic engineering in plants. Minichromosome technology provides one solution to the stable expression and maintenance of multiple transgenes ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Yu W,Han F,Birchler JA

更新日期：2007-10-01 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：: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：:Several cell-based tissue-engineering therapies are emerging to regenerate damaged tissues. These strategies use autologous cells in combination with bioresorbable delivery materials. Major functions of a delivery scaffold are to provide initial mechanical stability, homogenous three-dimensional cell distribution, imp...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Sittinger M,Hutmacher DW,Risbud MV

更新日期：2004-10-01 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：:Biomaterials are increasingly being developed as in vitro microenvironments mimicking in vivo stem cell niches. However, current macroscale methodologies to produce these niche models fail to recapitulate the spatial and temporal characteristics of the complex native stem cell regulatory systems. Microfluidic technolo...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Kobel S,Lutolf MP

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants synthesize a myriad of secondary metabolites (SMs) that are derived from central or primary metabolism. While these so-called natural products have been targets for plant metabolic engineering attempts for many years, the immense value of manipulating the interface between committed steps in secondary metabolis...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Aharoni A,Galili G

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within Escherichia coli and other species, a clear codon bias exists among the 61 amino acid codons found within the population of mRNA molecules, and the level of cognate tRNA appears directly proportional to the frequency of codon usage. Given this situation, one would predict translational problems with an abundant...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Kane JF

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Redox enzymes in bioelectronic devices usually lack direct electrical contact with electrodes, owing to the spatial separation of their redox centers from the conductive surfaces by the protein shells. The reconstitution of apo-enzymes on cofactor-functionalized nanostructures associated with electrodes provides a mea...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Willner B,Katz E,Willner I

更新日期：2006-12-01 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：:Due to its enormous relevance the corona formation of adsorbed proteins around nanoparticles is widely investigated. A comparison of different experimental techniques is given. Direct measurements of proteins, such as typically performed with mass spectrometry, will be compared with indirect analysis, in which instead...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Carrillo-Carrion C,Carril M,Parak WJ

更新日期：2017-08-01 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：:Enormous fuel consumption and growing environmental concerns have been spurring development of renewable biofuels. Among various biofuels, fatty acid-derived biohydrocarbons are ideal alternatives to non-renewable fossil fuels due to their closest properties to petroleum-based fuels. In the past decade, novel hydrocar...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Liu K,Li S

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the review period, a significant amount of literature has been published documenting the impact of biofilms on engineered and biomedical systems. Reactor systems and analytical techniques have evolved to study the molecular chemistry and microbial ecology within biofilm layers only tens of micrometers thick, and ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Bryers JD

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many recent advances in bioreporter technology focus on challenges related to bioengineering, yet in many applications implementation of optical signal measurement is equally susceptible to improvement. For bioluminescent bioreporters, one area of effort lies in the development of semiconductor chip-based detector mod...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Wells M

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgenic experimentation has become a crucial part of hypertension and atherosclerosis research, and is growing more important in several other areas of cardiovascular disease. It has recently made a particular contribution to understanding the role of the renin-angiotensin system in controlling hypertension. The st...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Barrett G,Mullins JJ

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic engineering is embraced as a method to sustainably enhance production of valuable phytochemicals with beneficial properties. However, successful production of these compounds in plants is not always predictable even when the pathways are fully known, frequently due to the lack of comprehensive understanding ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Lynch JH,Huang XQ,Dudareva N

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The selection of an expression platform for recombinant biopharmaceuticals is often centered upon suitable product titers and critical quality attributes, including post-translational modifications. Although notable differences between microbial, yeast, plant, and mammalian host systems exist, recent advances have gre...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Meehl MA,Stadheim TA

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transportation fuels will gradually shift from oil based fuels towards alternative fuel resources like biofuels. Current bioethanol and biodiesel can, however, not cover the increasing demand for biofuels and there is therefore a need for advanced biofuels with superior fuel properties. Novel cell factories will provi...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： de Jong B,Siewers V,Nielsen J

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of microbial consortia for bioprocessing has been limited by our ability to reliably control community composition and function simultaneously. Recent advances in synthetic biology have enabled population-level coordination and control of ecosystem stability and dynamics. Further, new experimental and computat...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Shong J,Jimenez Diaz MR,Collins CH

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the last years, a lot of efforts have been put into developing novel sensors and biosensors systems for monitoring the occurrence of emerging pollutants in the environment. These analyses are often challenging because of the variety of physico-chemical properties of these substances, the extremely diluted conce...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Sanchís J,Llorca M,Barceló D,Farré M

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the ambitions of synthetic biology approach genome-scale engineering, comprehensive characterization of cellular systems is required, as well as a means to accurately model cell-scale molecular interactions. These requirements are coincident with the goals of systems biology and, thus, systems biology will become t...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Barrett CL,Kim TY,Kim HU,Palsson BØ,Lee SY

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many significant advances have occurred recently in the field of protein electrophoresis and related technologies. Improvements have been made in capillary electrophoresis in apparatus design, detection, and capillary modification with coatings and fillers. The transfer of proteins to a blot, the capacity to analyze a...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Zewert TE,Harrington MG

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterologous production of polyketide compounds, an important class of natural products with complex chemical structures, was first demonstrated with Streptomyces parvulus in 1984. Although Streptomyces strains are good first options for heterologous polyketide biosynthesis, their slow growth kinetics prompt other hos...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Yuzawa S,Kim W,Katz L,Keasling JD

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant new advances at the molecular level in the field of plant-pathogen interactions form the basis for novel transgenic approaches to crop protection. The cloning of disease resistance genes and the dissection of the signal transduction components of the hypersensitive response and systemic acquired resistance...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Shah DM

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rhizosphere in terrestrial systems is the region of soil surrounding plant roots where there is increased microbial activity; in aquatic plants, this definition may be less clear because of diffusion of nutrients in water, but there is still a zone of influence by plant roots in this environment [1]. Within that z...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Stout L,Nüsslein K

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00