Carbamate kinase of Lactobacillus buchneri NCDO110. I. Purification and properties.

abstract：:A new microbial transglutaminase (EC 2.3.2.13) from a Bacillus circulans strain isolated from the aquatic Amazonian environment was purified and characterized. Enzyme purification started with (NH(4))(2)SO(4) 'salting out' and proceeded with liquid chromatography on Q-Sepharose FF and octyl-Sepharose 4 FF. The purific...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： de Barros Soares LH,Assmann F,Záchia Ayub MA

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have created a mouse/human chimaeric antibody by taking antigen-binding fragment (Fab) genes of a mouse antibody-producing hybridoma with specificity for bacterial endotoxin and joining them to human Ig crystallizing-fragment (Fc) genes using recombinant DNA techniques. This chimaeric antibody has been expressed in...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Tan W,Lam PH

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is the most common neurodegenerative movement disorder and is characterized by the loss of dopaminergic neurons and the formation of eosinophilic intracytoplasmic inclusion bodies known as Lewy bodies. Although alpha-synuclein is known to be a pivotal factor implicated in the pathogenesis of P...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Choi JY,Sung YM,Park HJ,Hur EH,Lee SJ,Hahn C,Min BR,Kim IK,Kang S,Rhim H

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:hES (human embryonic stem) cells hold tremendous potential in the newly emerging field of regenerative medicine, in addition to being a useful tool in basic scientific research and for pharmacological and cytotoxicity screening. However, an essential prerequisite for the future widespread application of hES cells are ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Heng BC,Kuleshova LL,Bested SM,Liu H,Cao T

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of anion-exchange polymeric matrices on endotoxin removal from albumin and gamma-globulin solutions are evaluated. The positively charged cellulose acrylic media carrying DEAE or QAE functional groups remove significant amounts of endotoxin from tap water, but are less effective in protein solutions. With ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Hou KC,Zaniewski R

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A microbial fuel cell is a sustainable and environmental-friendly device that combines electricity generation and wastewater treatment through metabolic activities of microorganisms. However, low power output from inadequate electron transfer to the anode electrode hampers its practical implementation. Nanocomposites ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Sirajudeen AAO,Annuar MSM,Subramaniam R

更新日期：2020-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The hybridization of the native and chemically inactivated aspartase from Escherichia coli was studied. Preparations of the tetrameric enzyme obtained by mixing the native and N-ethylmaleimide (NEM)-inactivated aspartase in 4 M guanidine-HCl followed by 51-fold dilution at room temperature retained catalytic activity....

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Imaishi H,Yumoto N,Tokushige M

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The urinary C-terminal telopeptide fragment of type II collagen (uCTX-II) has been reported as the efficient blood-based biomarker for osteoarthritis, which affects knees, hands, spine, and hips. This study reports a sensing strategy with antibody-conjugated gold nanoparticles (GNP) on an interdigitated electrode (IDE...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Wang S,Su S,Yu C,Gopinath SCB,Yang Z

更新日期：2020-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The participation of Mg2+ or Mn2+ nucleoside diphosphates in the reverse reaction catalyzed by purified carbamate kinase (ATP:carbamate phosphotransferase, EC 2.7.2.2) of Lactobacillus buchneri NCDO110 was studied. The results of initial velocity studies have indicated that Mn2+ ADP is as effective as a substrate as M...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Manca de Nadra MC,Pesce de Ruiz Holgado AA,Oliver G

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple, specific, sensitive and reproducible ELISA has been developed to quantify the level of CPS (capsular polysaccharide) production in supernatants of Streptococcus pneumoniae cell cultures. CPSs from Strep. pneumoniae have been widely used as vaccine antigens. The quantification method is based on two type-23F ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Cruz-Leal Y,Menéndez T,Coizeau E,Espinosa RR,Canaan L,Blanco F,Carmenate T,Chang J,Quiñones D,Tamargo I,Cremata J,Verez-Bencomo V,Guillén G

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dynamic gassing-out method was used to assess the effect of stirrer speed, air flow rate and alginate concentration on the overall volumetric oxygen mass transfer coefficient (K(L)a) in a bench-top stirred fermenter equipped with two Rushton-type turbines. As the alginate concentration in the medium was increased ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Parente E,Piraino P,Fidaleo M,Moresi M

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dysosma pleiantha (Hance) Woodson is one of the endangered traditional Chinese medicinal herbs, highly valued for its medicinal properties by Taiwan's mountain tribes. The present study aims to develop an efficient protocol for callus biomass by optimizing suitable culture medium, carbon source culture condition, and ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Karuppaiya P,Tsay HS

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic duodenum homeobox protein-1 (PDX1) is a master regulatory gene in pancreatic development. Reprogramming of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) is a promising tool for producing insulin-producing cells. In this study, lentivirus harboring PDX1 (LV-PDX1) has been used for persistence gene expression in MSCs. The ob...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Talebi S,Aleyasin A,Soleimani M,Massumi M

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to impart an ability for receptor-independent transmembrane transfer to water-soluble proteins, it has been suggested that they be hydrophobized by lipid groups (fatty acids, etc.). To this end, systems of reversed micelles of surfactants in organic solvents were used as reaction media for protein modificatio...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Alakhov VYu,Kabanov AV,Batrakova EV,Koromyslova IA,Levashov AV,Severin ES

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine serum albumin (BSA) microspheres with an average diameter of 12.5 micron were prepared by crosslinking of BSA molecules with glutaraldehyde in the presence of polymethylmethacrylate dissolved in chloroform-toluene. Trypsin and anti-human IgG antibody were immobilized onto their surfaces by the glutaraldehyde-ac...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Yan CH,Kitano H,Ise N

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sialidase gene from Brevibacterium casei was cloned in pET28a and overexpressed as a histidine-tagged protein in Escherichia coli BL21(DE3). The histidine-tagged sialidase protein was purified and characterized from the crude cell extracts of isopropyl-β-d-thiogalactopyranoside-induced cells using Ni-NTA agarose c...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Wang X,Long H,Shen D,Liu L

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a vascular disease found to have progressive growth in the area of aorta. Rupturing of aorta causes excessive bleeding that leads to health-related issues, which can be fatal sometimes. Therefore, it becomes important to make early diagnosis of AAA and its condition and start immedia...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Qiu C,Wang X,Zhang X,Li Z,Zhou Y,Kang J

更新日期：2020-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In the erythrocyte membrane, the mobility of band 3 protein, the receptor for concanavalin A (Con A), is drastically reduced by the membrane skeleton. Yet, the vesicles free of membrane skeletal proteins, isolated from the highly agglutinable proteinase-treated cells, are found to be devoid of Con A agglutinability. T...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Pestonjamasp KN,Gokhale SM,Mehta NG

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pathway for the synthesis of the repeating tetrasaccharide units in gellan gum from Pseudomonas elodea is proposed. The enzymes presumed to be involved in the synthesis of the activated precursors UDP-glucose, TDP-rhamnose, and UDP-glucuronic acid were detected and assayed in crude cell extracts of the gellan-produc...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Martins LO,Sá-Correia I

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Future developments in gene therapy and DNA vaccination depend on cost-effective large-scale production of pharmaceutical-grade pDNA (plasmid DNA). Given the large amount of impurities present in the feedstock, purification processes that have high specificity and capacity at a moderate cost are required. In the prese...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Frerix A,Müller M,Kula MR,Hubbuch J

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amylin has been implicated in type II diabetes because of its inherent property to misfold into toxic aggregates. Although it has been shown that amylin interacts with cell membranes, no study to date has monitored the association process using a direct approach. The present study uses confocal microscopy to identify ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Pillay K,Govender P

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microparticles have been used for delivery of chemo- and radio-therapeutic agents to tumours in patients for more than a decade, whereas cationic liposomes have been used for introducing nucleic acids into mammalian cells for the same period of time. This minireview discusses the potential of delivering therapeutic ON...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Dass CR

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast cells immobilized by entrapment in an insolubilized gelatin gel have been investigated with regard to their pattern of growth and respiratory activity. Mass-transfer resistance offered by the matrix and growth of the entrapped cells determine a gradient of nutrients throughout the gel which is responsible for bo...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Parascandola P,de Alteriis E

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of the hydroperoxidase activity of immobilized lipoxygenase to xenobiotic metabolization is reported in this work. Soya bean lipoxygenase has been immobilized by covalent coupling to oxirane acrylic beads. This immobilized system has been applied to the oxidation of chlorpromazine (CPZ), a phenothiazin...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Santano E,Pinto Mdel C,Macías P

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural underpinnings of O₂ activation in P450s have been limited by the inability to trap unstable oxy complexes in the crystalline state for structure determination. To date there are only two known oxy P450 structures. Even so, much is known about O₂ activation in P450cam and the role that redox partner bind...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Poulos TL,Madrona Y

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arylacetonitrile-hydrolyzing nitrilase (E.C. 3.5.5.5) of Alcaligenes sp. MTCC 10675 has been purified by up to 46-fold to homogeneity and 32% yield using ammonium sulfate fractionation, Sephacryl S-300 gel permeation, and anion exchange chromatography. The molecular weight of the native enzyme was estimated to be 520 ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Bhatia SK,Mehta PK,Bhatia RK,Bhalla TC

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In our work, one-step electro-deposition method was adopted to produce polyaniline (PANI) and functional multiwalled carbon nanotubes (f-MWCNTs) films on glass carbon electrodes, and the modified electrodes were applied as an electrochemical sensor for determination of 10-hydroxycamptothecine (10-HCPT). The f-MWCNTs w...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Meng L,Dai J,Rong S,Gao H,Zhang Z,Zhang Y,Chang D,Pan H

更新日期：2020-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the whole proteins from a Chinese three-striped box turtle (Cuora trifasciata) were extracted and hydrolyzed using three proteases (alcalase, papain, and protamex). By orthogonal experiments, the optimal hydrolysis conditions for producing peptides with the highest cancer cells growth inhibition activit...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Mao X,He S,Zhang T,Guo X,Ge Y,Ma C,Zhang X

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Limit of detection (LOD), limit of quantification, and the dynamic range of detection of hepatitis B surface antigen antibody (anti-HBs) using a surface plasmon resonance (SPR) chip-based approach with Pichia pastoris-derived recombinant hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) as recognition element were established throu...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Tam YJ,Zeenathul NA,Rezaei MA,Mustafa NH,Azmi MLM,Bahaman AR,Lo SC,Tan JS,Hani H,Rasedee A

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Renewable energy resources are considered to be promising for the development of a sustainable circular economy. Among various alternatives, the microbial route for various biofuels production is quite lucrative. Use of cellulose and lignocellulose for methane, H2 , organic acids, ethanol, and cellulase has been explo...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Kumar P,Maharjan A,Jun HB,Kim BS

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00