Technical issues in the large-scale hydrothermal liquefaction of microalgal biomass to biocrude.

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：:Strain-specificity of probiotic effects has been a cornerstone principle of probiotic science for decades. Certainly, some important mechanisms are present in only a few probiotic strains. But scientific advances now reveal commonalities among members of certain taxonomic groups of probiotic microbes. Some clinical be...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Sanders ME,Benson A,Lebeer S,Merenstein DJ,Klaenhammer TR

更新日期：2018-02-01 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

abstract：:Among different technologies of hydrogen production, bio-hydrogen production exhibits perhaps the greatest potential to replace fossil fuels. Based on recent research on dark fermentative hydrogen production, this article reviews the following aspects towards scaled-up application of this technology: bioreactor develo...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： RenNanqi,GuoWanqian,LiuBingfeng,CaoGuangli,DingJie

更新日期：2011-06-01 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 development of new strategies for the delivery of vaccine antigens or immune modulators to the mucosal tissue includes innovative approaches such as the use of genetically modified food microorganisms and plants. Even though the 'proof-of-concept' has recently been established for these two systems, key questions ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Mercenier A,Wiedermann U,Breiteneder H

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compared to 'live' vaccines, the immunogenicity of 'split' vaccines based on recombinant antigen (Ag) is poor, presumably because exogeneous recombinant Ag fails to efficiently access the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I processing pathway needed for 'cross-presentation'. Here we discuss recent evidence ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Wagner H,Heit A,Schmitz F,Bauer S

更新日期：2004-12-01 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：:As the consumption of seafood and shellfish increases around the world, so is the incidence of associated outbreaks of illness. Various postharvest treatments are effective at killing seafood-associated bacteria, but most of these treatments also kill the mollusks. Because consumer preferences for raw live shellfish p...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Teplitski M,Wright AC,Lorca G

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of novel materials in the nano-scale size range for applications in devices, drugs and diagnostic agents comes with a number of new opportunities, and also serious challenges to human applications. The larger size of particulate-based agents, as compared to traditional drugs, allows for the significant advanta...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Scheinberg DA,Grimm J,Heller DA,Stater EP,Bradbury M,McDevitt MR

更新日期：2017-08-01 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：:Life depends on the interaction of proteins. The availability of the complete human genome sequence has highlighted the need for a tool to analyse protein interactions and several databases have been compiled for this purpose. These databases document, categorize, and analyze interacting proteins and the cellular func...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Xenarios I,Eisenberg D

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccines against mutating pathogens such as influenza, HIV, or plasmodium are poorly protective towards new evolving strains. Rare individuals naturally mount broadly neutralizing antibodies covering most strains, but the requirements for their induction are unknown. The antibody response to vaccination has been recap...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Robert PA,Marschall AL,Meyer-Hermann M

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyphenols are secondary metabolites produced by higher plants, which play multiple essential roles in plant physiology and have potential healthy properties on human organism, mainly as antioxidants, anti-allergic, anti-inflammatory, anticancer, antihypertensive, and antimicrobial agents. In the present review the a...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Daglia M

更新日期：2012-04-01 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：: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：:Fermentation of food components by microbes occurs both during certain food production processes and in the gastro-intestinal tract. In these processes specific compounds are produced that originate from either biotransformation reactions or biosynthesis, and that can affect the health of the consumer. In this review,...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： van Hylckama Vlieg JE,Veiga P,Zhang C,Derrien M,Zhao L

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial cell factory performance is significantly affected by the cell morphology and membrane homeostasis. It is important to ensure that cell factories are able to regulate cell morphology and maintain membrane homeostasis. Cell morphology can be controlled by regulating the formation of elongasomes and divisomes,...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Guo L,Pang Z,Gao C,Chen X,Liu L

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Progress in biosensors has mainly been made by the improvement of the biological components and the implementation of microsystem technologies. Enzymes are still the most appropriate recognition elements because they combine high chemical specificity and inherent biocatalytic signal amplification. A breakthrough has b...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Scheller FW,Wollenberger U,Warsinke A,Lisdat F

更新日期：2001-02-01 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：: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：:In the past year, significant progress in the field of gene transfer has been made possible by refinement of the technique of particle bombardment. The process has been utilized for the study of gene expression in plastids and mitochondria, the production of transgenic crop plants and gene transfer into live animals. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Klein TM,Fitzpatrick-McElligott S

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oil prices and government mandates have catalyzed rapid growth of nonfossil transportation fuels in recent years, with a large focus on ethanol from energy crops, but the food crops used as first-generation energy crops today are not optimized for this purpose. We show that the theoretical efficiency of conversion of ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Heaton EA,Flavell RB,Mascia PN,Thomas SR,Dohleman FG,Long SP

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanopore technology employs a nanoscale hole in an insulating membrane to stochastically sense with high throughput individual biomolecules in solution. The generality of the nanopore detection principle and the ease of single-molecule detection suggest many potential applications of nanopores in biotechnology. Recent...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Stoloff DH,Wanunu M

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past two decades, biological nanopores have been developed and explored for use in sensing applications as a result of their exquisite sensitivity and easily engineered, reproducible, and economically manufactured structures. Nanopore sensing has been shown to differentiate between highly similar analytes, meas...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Schmidt J

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic biology combines knowledge from various disciplines including molecular biology, engineering, mathematics and physics to design and build novel proteins, genetic circuits and metabolic networks. Early efforts aimed at altering the behavior of individual elements have now evolved to focus on the construction ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： McDaniel R,Weiss R

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing body of evidence indicates that many cellular reactions within metabolic pathways are catalyzed not by free-floating 'soluble' enzymes, but via one or more membrane-associated multienzyme complexes. This type of macromolecular organization has important implications for the overall efficiency, specificity, a...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Conrado RJ,Varner JD,DeLisa MP

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogen is already a major commodity and process intermediate for fertilizer production, petroleum processing, and chemical synthesis. It also offers unrealized potential for energy storage. While biological production offers an expandable and sustainable source, enthusiasm has been dampened by slow research progress...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Swartz J

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New microbial tools enable detailed quantification and characterization of complex drinking water (DW) microbiomes. Many opportunities exist from source to tap to apply this knowledge toward management of the microbiology. This requires consideration of the microbiome continuum across all phases harboring microbes (pl...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Proctor CR,Hammes F

更新日期：2015-06-01 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