Stable isotope probing of carbon flow in the plant holobiont.

abstract：:Fundamental biological processes such as cell-cell communication, signal transduction, molecular transport and energy conversion are performed by membrane proteins. These important proteins are studied best in their native environment, the lipid bilayer. The atomic force microscope (AFM) is the instrument of choice to...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Fotiadis D

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgene integration in plants transformed by either Agrobacterium or direct DNA delivery methods occurs through illegitimate recombination (IR). The precise mechanism(s) for IR-mediated transgene integration and the role of host double-strand break repair enzymes remain unknown. A recent wealth of sequenced transgen...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Somers DA,Makarevitch I

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bioremediation has historically been approached as a 'black box' in terms of our fundamental understanding. Thus it succeeds and fails, seldom without a complete understanding of why. Systems biology is an integrated research approach to study complex biological systems, by investigating interactions and networks at t...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Chakraborty R,Wu CH,Hazen TC

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolomics consists of strategies to quantitatively identify cellular metabolites and to understand how trafficking of these biochemical messengers through the metabolic network influences phenotype. The application of metabolomics to fungi has been strongly pursued because these organisms are widely used for the pr...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Jewett MC,Hofmann G,Nielsen J

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine microbes have received growing attention as sources of bioactive metabolites and offer a unique opportunity to both increase the number of marine natural products in clinical trials as well as expedite their development. This review focuses specifically on those molecules currently in the clinical pipeline that...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Waters AL,Hill RT,Place AR,Hamann MT

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragment-based approaches have provided a new paradigm for small-molecule drug discovery. The methodology is complementary to high-throughput screening approaches, starting from fragments of low molecular complexity and high ligand efficiency, and building up to more potent inhibitors. The approach, which depends heav...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Ciulli A,Abell C

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytoskeletal molecular motors provide exciting proof that nanoscale transporters can be highly efficient, moving for microns along filamentous tracks by hydrolyzing ATP to fuel nanometer-size steps. For nanotechnology, such conversion of chemical energy into productive work serves as an enticing platform for re-purpos...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： DelRosso NV,Derr ND

更新日期：2017-08-01 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：: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：:Wound healing can no longer be considered a generic term: it is the summation of a complex series of processes beginning with coagulation and ending in remodelling. This review, therefore, summarizes the past year's advances in growth factor research according to the roles of the individual growth factors in the speci...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Robson MC

更新日期：1991-12-01 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

abstract：:Naturally occurring microbial consortia have been utilized in a variety of bioremediation processes. Recent developments in molecular microbial ecology offer new tools that facilitate molecular analyses of microbial populations at contaminated and bioremediated sites. Information provided by such analyses aids in the ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Watanabe K

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in genomic analysis include improved technology for DNA sequencing, routine use of DNA microarray technology for the analysis of gene expression profiles at the mRNA level and improved informatic tools to organize and analyze such data. At the same time, new developments in chip-based analysis of samples and ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Lee PS,Lee KH

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies (Abs) are ubiquitous reagents for biological and biochemical research and are rapidly expanding into new therapeutic areas. They are one of the most important probes for determining how proteins function under normal and pathophysiological conditions. Abs are required for the quantification of targets, dete...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Basu K,Green EM,Cheng Y,Craik CS

更新日期：2019-12-01 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：:Phage display of proteins continues to be an important technology with a variety of applications. In the past year, advances have been made in coupling rational protein design with the power of the display selection process. In addition to the widely used filamentous phage, other bacteriophage surface expression syste...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Dunn IS

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobic digestion is the default process for biological conversion of residue organics to renewable energy and biofuel in the form of methane. However, its scope of application is expanding, due to availability of new technologies, and the emerging drivers of energy and nutrient conservation and recovery. Here, we o...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Batstone DJ,Virdis B

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Originally proposed one decade ago, the idea of engineering proteins outside the immunoglobulin family for novel binding functions has evolved as a powerful technology. Several classes of protein scaffolds proved to yield reagents with specificities and affinities in a range that was previously considered unique to an...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Skerra A

更新日期：2007-08-01 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：: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：:The ecophysiology of microorganisms has been at the heart of microbial ecology since its early days, but only during the past decade have methods become available for cultivation-independent, direct identification of microorganisms in complex communities and for the simultaneous investigation of their activity and sub...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Wagner M,Nielsen PH,Loy A,Nielsen JL,Daims H

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organic chemistry has systematically probed the chemical determinants of function in nucleic acids by variation to the nucleobase, sugar ring and backbone moieties to build synthetic genetic polymers. Concomitantly, protein engineering has advanced to allow the discovery of polymerases capable of utilizing modified nu...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Houlihan G,Arangundy-Franklin S,Holliger P

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The scanning transmission electron microscope provides structural and chemical information of a specimen at atomic-scale resolution and complements conventional transmission electron microscopy techniques. Mass measurements can now be performed routinely on a wide range of molecular and supramolecular structures using...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Engel A,Colliex C

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drought, high salinity and low temperature are major environmental factors that limit plant productivity. Plants respond and adapt to these stresses in order to survive. Signaling pathways are induced in response to environmental stress and recent molecular and genetic studies have revealed that these pathways involve...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Seki M,Kamei A,Yamaguchi-Shinozaki K,Shinozaki K

更新日期：2003-04-01 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：:The continuing expansion of protein and genome sequence databases is an opportunity to identify novel enzymes with biotechnological applications. Whether applied to enzymology, chemical biology, systems biology, and microbiology, database mining must be 'user-friendly' so that experimentalists can devise focused strat...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Zallot R,Oberg N,Gerlt JA

更新日期：2021-01-05 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：:Synthetic biology efforts began in simple single-cell systems, which were relatively easy to manipulate genetically (Cameron et al., 2014). The field grew exponentially in the last two decades, and one of the latest frontiers are synthetic developmental programs for multicellular mammalian systems (Black et al., 2017;...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Santorelli M,Lam C,Morsut L

更新日期：2019-10-01 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：:Driven by the demand to enhance the economic balance of chemical processes, the transformation of a racemate into a single stereoisomer (the deracemization process) is one of the most important areas of research. The recent development of the combined use of enzyme and metal catalysis has led to efficient deracemizati...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Pàmies O,Bäckvall JE

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00