Molecular tools for pathway engineering in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

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：: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：:Based on projections for global population growth, current techniques for improving agricultural yields will not be able to address future demands for major food crops. Improving photosynthetic efficiency by engineering carbon fixation has been identified as one of the most important approaches for increasing agricult...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Giessen TW,Silver PA

更新日期：2017-08-01 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：: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：:With the growth of our understanding of biopharmaceutical processes, a transition from classical batch to continuous integrated manufacturing of therapeutic proteins is taking place across laboratory, clinical and commercial scales. Encouraged by regulatory authorities, this transition is favoured by new emerging tech...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Karst DJ,Steinebach F,Morbidelli M

更新日期：2018-10-01 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：:Adaptive laboratory evolution (ALE) strategies allow for the metabolic engineering of microorganisms by combining genetic variation with the selection of beneficial mutations in an unbiased fashion. These ALE strategies have been proven highly effective in the optimization of production strains. In contrast to rationa...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Portnoy VA,Bezdan D,Zengler K

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant proteins that have survived the challenges of process development and clinical trials are becoming blockbuster medical products. Growth factors, enzymes and antibodies are being improved by mutational approaches, fused with other proteins, and even chemically modified in vitro. Drug development and testing...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Koths K

更新日期：1995-12-01 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：:Lignocellulosic biofuels represent a sustainable, renewable, and the only foreseeable alternative energy source to transportation fossil fuels. However, the recalcitrant nature of lignocellulose poses technical hurdles to an economically viable biorefinery. Low enzymatic hydrolysis efficiency and low productivity, yie...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Wen F,Nair NU,Zhao H

更新日期：2009-08-01 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：:Microbial communities within anaerobic ecosystems have evolved to degrade and recycle carbon throughout the earth. A number of strains have been isolated from anaerobic microbial communities, which are rich in carbohydrate active enzymes (CAZymes) to liberate fermentable sugars from crude plant biomass (lignocellulose...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Lillington SP,Leggieri PA,Heom KA,O'Malley MA

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of microbial communities is key to their functionality. However, this structure is likely to be influenced by adaptive genetic change in members of the community, which can occur over a matter of days. Changes in community structure can in turn influence the evolutionary trajectories of species within th...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： O'Brien S,Hodgson DJ,Buckling A

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial cell wall hydrolases (BCWHs) display a remarkable structural and functional diversity that offers perspectives for novel food applications, reaching beyond those of the archetype BCWH and established biopreservative hen egg white lysozyme. Insights in BCWHs from bacteriophages to animals have provided concep...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Callewaert L,Walmagh M,Michiels CW,Lavigne R

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein biopharmaceuticals are mainly produced in mammalian cells which can perform human-like post-translational modifications crucial to protein function. Subject to high variability, these critical quality attributes should be monitored and controlled during the manufacturing process. However, the large time requir...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Pais DA,Carrondo MJ,Alves PM,Teixeira AP

更新日期：2014-12-01 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：:New biological inspired methods were recently developed to recover precious metals from waste streams and to concomitantly produce palladium nanoparticles on bacteria, that is, bio-Pd. This technology offers a variety of opportunities, as the process can considered to be green, tunable, affordable and scalable. The na...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Hennebel T,De Corte S,Verstraete W,Boon N

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbe-mediated chemical production can replace traditional fossil-dependent production and hereby ensure sustainable production of chemicals that are important for our society. Significant success in economical chemical bioproduction has been accomplished by improving the cellular properties of microbial cells throu...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Liu Y,Nielsen J

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal ligninolytic enzymes have broad biotechnological applications. Particularly laccases and certain fungal class II peroxidases from white-rot basidiomycetes are considered in degradation of persistent organic pollutants. Promising processes with reusable immobilized laccases in special reactors have been develope...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Kües U

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterogeneity of industrial production cultures is accepted to a certain degree; however, the underlying mechanisms are seldom perceived or included in the development of new bioprocess control strategies. Population heterogeneity and its basics, perceptible in the diverse proficiency of cells, begins with asymmetric ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Müller S,Harms H,Bley T

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soft rot pathogens cause significant losses worldwide in fruit and vegetable production during the growing season and after harvest. These pathogens engage in molecular interactions with their plant hosts via acyl-homoserine lactone (AHL) quorum sensing, pectin metabolites, phenolic acids, and auxin. The AHL-based int...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Charkowski AO

更新日期：2009-04-01 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：: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：:Plant growth and development are tightly regulated by compounds produced in trace amounts in the plant. Besides the classical phytohormones, many plant metabolites have been described to affect plant development. Among these are several phenylpropanoids, although conclusive evidence for their bioactivity at physiologi...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Vanholme B,El Houari I,Boerjan W

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much of the current knowledge on the hydrothermic liquefaction of biomass to biocrude is on the basis of laboratory benchtop findings, and the step up to industrial scale reactors will require a range of information that is currently either unavailable or insufficient. This work highlights a number of these issues suc...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Lee A,Lewis D,Kalaitzidis T,Ashman P

更新日期：2016-04-01 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：:Autonomous vehicles are becoming an essential tool in a wide range of environmental applications that include ambient data acquisition, remote sensing, and mapping of the spatial extent of pollutant spills. Among these applications, pollution source localization has drawn increasing interest due to its scientific and ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Bayat B,Crasta N,Crespi A,Pascoal AM,Ijspeert A

更新日期：2017-06-01 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：: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