Bio-inspired engineering of thiopeptide antibiotics advances the expansion of molecular diversity and utility.

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：:Gene expression control is critical to increase production of recombinant proteins, fine-tune metabolic pathways and reliably express synthetic pathways. The importance of transcriptional control seems to be most important in eukaryotic systems. In this review, we highlight recent developments in the field of transcri...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Leavitt JM,Alper HS

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wastewater infrastructure is designed, in part, to remove microorganisms. However, many microorganisms are able to colonize infrastructure and resist treatment, resulting in an enormous flux of microorganisms to urban adjacent waters. These urban-associated microorganisms are discharged through three primary routes 1)...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Newton RJ,McClary JS

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of electrospray and matrix-assisted laser desorption mass spectrometry has provided protein chemists with tools for peptide and protein structure analysis with unprecedented sensitivity and molecular weight range. The two technologies can be viewed as competitive with respect to their molecular mass de...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Lee TD,Shively JE

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure determinations of the cytochrome bc1 complex and the prokaryotic potassium channel demonstrate that a wider range of membrane proteins are now amenable to study by X-ray crystallography. Furthermore, the structures of porins and interfacial membrane proteins show that membrane structural biology is becom...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Garavito RM

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past 20 years, the development of subtilisins as typical detergent proteases has employed all the tools of enzyme technology, resulting in a constant flow of new and improved enzymes. The number of molecules identified and characterized, however, is in clear opposition to the number of molecules that are ente...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Maurer KH

更新日期：2004-08-01 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：:Adverse environmental conditions pose serious limitations to agricultural production. Classical biotechnological approaches towards increasing abiotic stress tolerance focus on boosting plant endogenous defence mechanisms. However, overexpression of regulatory elements or effectors is usually accompanied by growth han...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Cabello JV,Lodeyro AF,Zurbriggen MD

更新日期：2014-04-01 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：: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：: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：:Microbial communities associated with a plant host, constituting a holobiont, affect the physiology and growth of the plant via metabolites that are mainly derived from their photosynthates. The structure and function of active microbial communities that assimilate root exudates can be tracked by using stable isotope ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Haichar FEZ,Heulin T,Guyonnet JP,Achouak W

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metabolome, the collection of small molecules associated with an organism, is a growing subject of inquiry, with the data utilized for data-intensive systems biology, disease diagnostics, biomarker discovery, and the broader characterization of small molecules in mixtures. Owing to their close proximity to the fun...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Eghbalnia HR,Romero PR,Westler WM,Baskaran K,Ulrich EL,Markley JL

更新日期：2017-02-01 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：: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：:Fatty acid oxidation pathways are attractive for metabolic engineering purposes due to their cyclic nature as well as their reactions that allow for the selective functionalization of alkyl chains. These characteristics allow for the production of various chemicals, such as alcohols, alkanes, ketones and hydroxyacids,...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Kim S,Cheong S,Chou A,Gonzalez R

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The past decade has witnessed rapid advance in microbial production of 'drop-in' biofuels from renewable resources. Various biosynthetic pathways have been constructed to produce biofuels with diverse structures, and multiple metabolic engineering strategies have been developed to increase biofuel titers, yields, prod...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Jiang W,Gu P,Zhang F

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of microbial enzymes to large-scale organic synthesis is currently attracting much attention, and has been uniquely developed especially in Japan. The discovery of new microbial enzymes through extensive and persistent screening has brought about many new and simple routes for synthetic processes. The ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Ogawa J,Shimizu S

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During 1993, significant advances have been achieved in applications of DNA analysis to forensic science, disease assessment, and animal/plant identification. These advances include the development of simple and high sample-throughput techniques for highly informative personal identification, rapid screening for patho...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Alford RL,Caskey CT

更新日期：1994-02-01 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：:Combinatorial biocatalysis is an emerging technology in the field of drug discovery. The biocatalytic approach to combinatorial chemistry uses enzymatic, chemoenzymatic, and microbial transformations to generate libraries from lead compounds. Important recent advances in combinatorial biocatalysis include iterative de...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Altreuter DH,Clark DS

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The initial report on APOE as a susceptibility gene for late-onset Alzheimer's disease was presented a little more than two years ago. During the past year, several significant events have given added impetus to research into Alzheimer's. The association of increased allele frequency of APOE4 with Alzheimer's disease ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Roses AD,Saunders AM

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much progress has been made in the development of techniques for constructing dense grids either of ligands, such as peptides and oligonucleotides, or of cloned nucleic acids. Such arrays are finding practical applications in the analysis of sequence variation and gene expression. Methods for carrying out large number...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Southern EM

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbes have long been adapted for the biosynthetic production of useful compounds. There is increasing demand for the rapid and cheap microbial production of diverse molecules in an industrial setting. Microbes can now be designed and engineered for a particular biosynthetic purpose, thanks to recent developments in...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Quin MB,Schmidt-Dannert C

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant-based foods offer a wide range of nutrients that are essential for human and animal health. Among these nutrients, iron stands out as one of the most important micronutrients. Increasing the iron content in many staple and non-staple plant foods continues to be a goal of many scientists around the world. However...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Vasconcelos MW,Gruissem W,Bhullar NK

更新日期：2017-04-01 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：:Proteome analysis is most commonly accomplished by the combination of two-dimensional gel electrophoresis for protein separation, visualization, and quantification and mass spectrometry for protein identification. Over the past year, exceptional progress has been made towards developing a new technology base for the p...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Gygi SP,Rist B,Aebersold R

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scaffolds are used in tissue engineering as a matrix for the seeding and attachment of human cells. The creation of porosity in three-dimensional (3D) structures of scaffolds plays a critical role in cell proliferation, migration, and differentiation into the specific tissue while secreting extracellular matrix compon...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Dehghani F,Annabi N

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spatiotemporal patterns of ion and metabolite levels in living cells are important in understanding signal transduction and metabolite flux. Imaging approaches using genetically encoded sensors are ideal for detecting such molecule dynamics, which are hard to capture otherwise. Recent years have seen iterative imp...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Okumoto S

更新日期：2010-02-01 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