Stable isotope probing of carbon flow in the plant holobiont.

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：:The concept of whole genome amplification is something that has arisen in the past few years as the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has been adapted to replicate regions of genomes that are of biological interest. The applications are many--forensic science, embryonic disease diagnosis, bioterrorism genome detection, ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Hawkins TL,Detter JC,Richardson PM

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathway of monolignol biosynthesis involves many components interacting in a metabolic grid to regulate the supply and ratios of monolignols for lignification. The complexity of the pathway challenges any intuitive prediction of the output without mathematical modeling. Several models have been presented to quanti...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Wang JP,Matthews ML,Naik PP,Williams CM,Ducoste JJ,Sederoff RR,Chiang VL

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obtaining an abundant supply of human cells with specific differentiated properties is a key issue in many research studies and biotechnology applications. Recent advances in this area include the finding that forced expression of the enzyme telomerase can greatly increase the proliferative potential of at least some ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Yeager TR,Reddel RR

更新日期：1999-10-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Antisense technology is finding increasing application not only in clinical development, but also for cellular engineering. Several types of antisense methods (e.g. antisense oligonucleotides, antisense RNA and small interfering RNA) can be used to inhibit the expression of a target gene. These antisense methods are b...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Lee LK,Roth CM

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite their central role in directing some of the most complex biological processes, carbohydrates--nature's other information carrying biopolymer--have been largely ignored as building blocks for synthetic hierarchical assemblies. The non-stoichiometric binding and astronomical diversity characteristic of carbohydr...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Han X,Zheng Y,Munro CJ,Ji Y,Braunschweig AB

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fundamental role of glycoconjugates in many biological processes is now well appreciated and has intensified the development of innovative and improved synthetic strategies. All areas of synthetic methodology have seen major advances and many complex, highly branched carbohydrates and glycoproteins have been prepa...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Hölemann A,Seeberger PH

更新日期：2004-12-01 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：:A central challenge for medicine is to predict disease risk and treatment outcomes for individuals. But what kind of information should be used to make useful predictions in biology? One important cause of phenotypic variation is of course genetics. However genetic predictions have both practical and fundamental limit...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Burga A,Lehner B

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nutraceuticals are important natural bioactive compounds that confer health-promoting and medical benefits to humans. Globally growing demands for value-added nutraceuticals for prevention and treatment of human diseases have rendered nutraceuticals a multi-billion dollar market. However, supply limitations and extrac...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Wang J,Guleria S,Koffas MA,Yan Y

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Water deficit or drought stress is a major limitation to crop production globally. Plant breeders have used a wide range of technologies to successfully breed varieties that perform well under the growth conditions for their target environments but they are always seeking new opportunities to enhance rates of genetic ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Langridge P,Reynolds MP

更新日期：2015-04-01 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：: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：: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：:Semisynthesis is used to create defined analogues of proteins by the chemical manipulation of peptide fragments largely derived from the natural protein and the subsequent reassembly of those fragments into a near-native conformation. In common with the total synthesis of proteins, it requires efficient and non-destru...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Wallace CJ

更新日期：1995-08-01 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：:Herbicides are economically important, but the non-point pollution that they cause may disrupt the surrounding environment. Phytoremediation of herbicides has been well studied using conventional plants. Transgenic plants produced for metabolizing herbicides and long-persisting pollutants can be used for phytoremediat...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Kawahigashi H

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromatography is undoubtedly the workhorse of downstream processes, affording high resolution for bioseparations. At the same time, it has the notoriety of being the single largest cost center in downstream processing and of being a low-throughput operation. Consequently, 'chromatography alternatives' are an attracti...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Przybycien TM,Pujar NS,Steele LM

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One goal of plant genetic engineering is the manipulation of protein levels within crop plants. New insights into the ubiquitin-dependent proteolytic pathway provide potential novel ways of enhancing levels of desired proteins by synthesizing them as ubiquitin fusions, and reducing levels of undesired proteins by sele...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Hondred D,Vierstra RD

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fermentation of syngas is a means through which unutilized organic waste streams can be converted biologically into biofuels and commodity chemicals. Despite recent advances, several issues remain which limit implementation of industrial-scale syngas fermentation processes. At the cellular level, the energy conservati...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Latif H,Zeidan AA,Nielsen AT,Zengler K

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent field and laboratory studies have evaluated the potential for aerobic co-metabolism of chlorinated solvents. Different co-metabolic substrates and different methods of application have been tried, including growing indigenous microbes in situ, and injecting into the soil subsurface strains grown in subsurface r...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Semprini L

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microorganisms play important roles in the environmental fate of toxic metals and radionuclides with a multiplicity of mechanisms effecting transformations between soluble and insoluble forms. These mechanisms are integral components of natural biogeochemical cycles and are of potential for both in situ and ex situ bi...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Gadd GM

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two methods recently developed to monitor the gene expression of microbial communities in soil are the extraction and detection of messenger RNA from soil microorganisms and the construction and use of lux-based bioreporter strains. The goal of these approaches is to assess microbial activity in natural and impacted s...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Sayler GS,Fleming JT,Nivens DE

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant-derived diterpenoids are indispensable to plant development, stress-resistance and interaction with environmental microorganisms. Besides significant roles in plant fitness and adaption, many bioactivities beneficial to human beings are also found in diterpenoids from terrestrial plants. However, these high-valu...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Shao J,Sun Y,Liu H,Wang Y

更新日期：2020-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Xenopus oocytes have been used as a surrogate genetic system for the study of many facets of gene expression. Some recent salient examples where injected oocytes proved to be indispensable for the analysis of transcription, translation, RNA/protein transport, and ion channel formation are described. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Richter JD

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of contrast agents that can be localized to a particular tissue or cellular epitope will potentially allow the noninvasive visualization and characterization of a variety of disease states. Recent advances have been made in the field of molecular imaging with magnetic resonance imaging and ultrasound a...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Morawski AM,Lanza GA,Wickline SA

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00