Engineering and application of polymerases for synthetic genetics.

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：:Fifteen years have passed since T-cell receptor (TCR) genes were identified (reviewed in [1]). Unlike the situation for antibodies, no direct structural information on the TCR proteins has been available for most of this time. Recently, however, the crystal structures of isolated alpha and beta chains were determined,...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Garcia KC,Teyton L

更新日期：1998-08-01 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：:The quantification of intracellular fluxes via 13C metabolic flux analysis has become one of the major techniques to support systems-based metabolic engineering of industrial production hosts. Commonly, 13C studies are conducted using minimal media, however, a great variety of industrial processes rely on complex medi...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Schwechheimer SK,Becker J,Wittmann C

更新日期：2018-12-01 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：: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：:Random peptide libraries displayed on phage are used as a source of peptides for epitope mapping, for the identification of critical amino acids responsible for protein-protein interactions and as leads for the discovery of new therapeutics. Efficient and simple procedures have been devised to select peptides binding ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Cortese R,Monaci P,Luzzago A,Santini C,Bartoli F,Cortese I,Fortugno P,Galfrè G,Nicosia A,Felici F

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Solventogenic clostridia are strictly anaerobic, endospore forming bacteria that produce a large array of primary metabolites, like butanol, by anaerobically degrading simple and complex carbohydrates, including cellulose and hemicellulose. Two genomes have been sequenced and some genetic tools have been developed, bu...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Papoutsakis ET

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct reprogramming of somatic cells to a pluripotent state, substantiated only three years prior, is one of the most rapidly developing areas of stem cell research. The generation of patient-derived pluripotent cells applicable to disease modelling, drug screening, toxicology tests and, ultimately, autologous cell-b...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： O'Malley J,Woltjen K,Kaji K

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility of generating electricity with microbial fuel cells has been recognized for some time, but practical applications have been slow to develop. The recent development of a microbial fuel cell that can harvest electricity from the organic matter stored in marine sediments has demonstrated the feasibility o...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Lovley DR

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The technique of protein stabilization has been improving steadily in recent years, but it is only in the past year or two that the stability of some protein molecules has been improved to the level of those from extreme thermophilic organisms. This was achieved by multiple mutations and often by utilizing the knowled...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Lee B,Vasmatzis G

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Steady increases in the average sulfur content of petroleum and stricter environmental regulations concerning the sulfur content have promoted studies of bioprocessing to upgrade fossil fuels. Bioprocesses can potentially provide a solution to the need for improved and expanded fuel upgrading worldwide, because biopro...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Kilbane JJ 2nd

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poxviruses are widely used for the cytoplasmic expression of recombinant genes in mammalian cells. Recent improvements allow high expression and simplify the integration of multiple foreign genes. Vaccinia virus mutants and other poxviruses that undergo abortive infection in mammalian cells are receiving special atten...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Carroll MW,Moss B

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellulosic fuels are expected to have great potential industrial applications in the near future, but they still face technical challenges to become cost-competitive fuels, thus presenting many opportunities for improvement. The economical production of viable biofuels requires metabolic engineering of microbial platf...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Ko JK,Lee SM

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Considerable progress has been made in understanding the relationship between local amino acid sequence and local protein structure. Recent highlights include numerous studies of the structures adopted by short peptides, new approaches to correlating sequence patterns with structure patterns, and folding simulations u...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Bystroff C,Simons KT,Han KF,Baker D

更新日期：1996-08-01 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：:Lactococcus lactis is the primary model organism for lactic acid bacteria (LAB) and is widely used in the production of fermented dairy products. In recent years there has been increasing interest in strains isolated from non-dairy environments, as these exhibit a high metabolic diversity and have unique flavour-formi...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： van Hylckama Vlieg JE,Rademaker JL,Bachmann H,Molenaar D,Kelly WJ,Siezen RJ

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conservation and sustainable use of freshwater resources is of global importance. Microorganisms are not only the most abundant organisms in natural freshwater systems, but are also key players in ecological processes controlling water quality. Detailed knowledge of the diversity and function of microorganisms dwe...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Hahn MW

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficient and safe delivery of therapeutic proteins is the key to commercial success and, in some cases, the demonstration of efficacy in current and future biotechnology products. Numerous delivery technologies and companies have evolved over the past year. To critically evaluate the available options, each metho...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Cleland JL,Daugherty A,Mrsny R

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The federal government is critically examining its responsibilities and opportunities for bringing the new field of gene therapy to fruition and for assuring public confidence in this new area of biomedicine. The evolving mechanisms for review and regulation in human gene transfer studies in the United States are bein...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Friedmann T,Noguchi P,Mickelson C

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) and adult stem cells both provide important resources to define the mechanisms of hematopoietic cell development. To date, studies that utilize hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) isolated from sites such as bone marrow or umbilical cord blood have been the primary means to identify molecular a...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Martin CH,Kaufman DS

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stable isotopes are flexibly used as tracers to investigate environmental processes, microorganisms responsible for environmental transformations, syntrophic relationships in consortia, and metabolic pathways. With the advent of widely accessible high-resolution, highly accurate and sensitive mass spectrometers connec...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Adrian L,Marco-Urrea E

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NMR methods in drug discovery have traditionally been used to obtain structural information for drug targets or target-ligand complexes. Recently, it has been shown that NMR may be used as an alternative approach for identification of ligands that bind to protein drug targets, shifting the emphasis of many NMR laborat...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Moore JM

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast, especially Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Pichia pastoris, are major hosts employed in the expression of authentic heterologous proteins of high quality in the biopharmaceutical, industrial and academic environments. There has been recent progress in characterizing and controlling the factors involved in determin...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Eckart MR,Bussineau CM

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years a number of aglycosylated therapeutic antibodies have entered the clinic. The clinical evaluation of these antibodies has served to dispel concerns that the absence of the ubiquitous N297 glycan in the Fc of IgG might result in immunogenicity, poor in vivo stability or unfavorable pharmacokinetics. Imp...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Jung ST,Kang TH,Kelton W,Georgiou G

更新日期：2011-12-01 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：: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：:Although metabolic networks can be readily reconstructed through comparative genomics, the reconstruction of regulatory networks has been hindered by the relatively low level of evolutionary conservation of their molecular components. Recent developments in experimental techniques have allowed the generation of vast a...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Herrgård MJ,Covert MW,Palsson BØ

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibrotic diseases occur in virtually every tissue of the body and are a major cause of mortality, yet they remain largely untreatable and poorly understood on a mechanistic level. The development of anti-fibrotic agents has been hampered, in part, by the insufficient fibrosis biomimicry provided by traditional in vitr...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Porras AM,Hutson HN,Berger AJ,Masters KS

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic flux analysis (MFA) represents a powerful tool for systems biology research on eukaryotic cells. This review describes recent advances, the challenges as well as applications of metabolic flux analysis comprising fungi, mammalian cells and plants. While MFA is widely established and applied in microorganisms...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Niklas J,Schneider K,Heinzle E

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00