Flux modeling for monolignol biosynthesis.

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：: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：:The exposure of bacteria to pollutants induces frequently chemoattraction or chemorepellent reactions. Recent research suggests that the capacity to degrade a toxic compound has co-evolved in some bacteria with the capacity to chemotactically react to it. There is an increasing amount of data which show that chemoattr...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Krell T,Lacal J,Reyes-Darias JA,Jimenez-Sanchez C,Sungthong R,Ortega-Calvo JJ

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To mitigate some of the potentially deleterious environmental and agricultural consequences associated with current land-based-biofuel feedstocks, we propose the use of biofuels derived from aquatic microbial oxygenic photoautotrophs (AMOPs), more commonly known as cyanobacteria, algae, and diatoms. Herein we review t...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Dismukes GC,Carrieri D,Bennette N,Ananyev GM,Posewitz MC

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Efforts to develop culture technologies capable of eliciting robust human blood stem cell growth have met with limited success. Considering that adult stem cell cultures are complex systems, comprising multiple cell types with dynamically changing intracellular signalling environments and cellular compositions, this i...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Kirouac DC,Zandstra PW

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oil prices and government mandates have catalyzed rapid growth of nonfossil transportation fuels in recent years, with a large focus on ethanol from energy crops, but the food crops used as first-generation energy crops today are not optimized for this purpose. We show that the theoretical efficiency of conversion of ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Heaton EA,Flavell RB,Mascia PN,Thomas SR,Dohleman FG,Long SP

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given that protein-protein interactions (PPIs) regulate nearly every living process; the exploration of global and pathway-specific protein interaction networks is expected to have major implications in the understanding of diseases and for drug discovery. Consequently, the development and application of methodologies...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Suter B,Kittanakom S,Stagljar I

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent adoption of whole plasmid genome sequencing as a routine analytical technique has provided the basis for cataloging the historical events through which plasmids are assembled from the available families of modular plasmid components. Horizontal gene transfer mediated by plasmids plays an important role in t...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Dennis JJ

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past year there have been a number of recent advances in the fields of miniaturized reaction and separation systems, including the construction of fully integrated 'lab-on-a-chip' systems. Microreactors, which initially targeted DNA-based reactions such as the polymerase chain reaction, are now used in severa...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Krishnan M,Namasivayam V,Lin R,Pal R,Burns MA

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro display techniques are powerful tools to select polypeptide binders against various target molecules. Novel applications include maturation of protein affinity and stability, selection for enzymatic activity, and the display of cDNA and random polypeptide libraries. Taken together, these display techniques ha...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Amstutz P,Forrer P,Zahnd C,Plückthun A

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces cerevisiae has decisive advantages in industrial processes due to its tolerance to alcohols and fermentation conditions. Butanol isomers are considered as suitable fuel substitutes and valuable biomass-derived chemical building blocks. Whereas high production was achieved with bacterial systems, metaboli...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Generoso WC,Schadeweg V,Oreb M,Boles E

更新日期：2015-06-01 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

abstract：:Modern agriculture and food production systems are facing increasing pressures from climate change, land and water availability, and, more recently, a pandemic. These factors are threatening the environmental and economic sustainability of current and future food supply systems. Scientific and technological innovation...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Jung J,Maeda M,Chang A,Bhandari M,Ashapure A,Landivar-Bowles J

更新日期：2020-10-07 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：:In spite of many efforts and achievements to optimize the prokaryotic expression systems, there are still general and specific problems in obtaining sufficient yields of the functionally active gene products. The main problems concern the formation of inclusion bodies, incorrect folding, toxicity for the producer cell...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Gumpert J,Hoischen C

更新日期：1998-10-01 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

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：:A growing body of evidence indicates that many cellular reactions within metabolic pathways are catalyzed not by free-floating 'soluble' enzymes, but via one or more membrane-associated multienzyme complexes. This type of macromolecular organization has important implications for the overall efficiency, specificity, a...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Conrado RJ,Varner JD,DeLisa MP

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vernalization is the process by which flowering is promoted by prolonged exposure to the cold of a typical winter. In certain plant species, the role of vernalization is to suppress the expression of genes that encode repressors of flowering. In Arabidopsis, this suppression is an epigenetic phenomenon in the sense th...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Amasino RM

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An intense interest has grown in the unique interactions of nucleic acids with metal ions, which lead to the formation of metal-base pairs and the generation of fluorescent nanomaterials. In this review, different types of metal-base pairs, especially those formed from naturally occurring nucleosides, are described wi...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Park KS,Park HG

更新日期：2014-08-01 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：:Biomaterials are increasingly being developed as in vitro microenvironments mimicking in vivo stem cell niches. However, current macroscale methodologies to produce these niche models fail to recapitulate the spatial and temporal characteristics of the complex native stem cell regulatory systems. Microfluidic technolo...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Kobel S,Lutolf MP

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants have a remarkable capacity for the production of a wide range of metabolites. Much has been reported and reviewed on the diversity of these metabolites and how it is achieved, for example through the evolution of enzyme families. In comparison, relatively little is known on the extraordinary metabolic productiv...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Tissier A

更新日期：2018-02-01 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：:Current approaches for treating peripheral nerve injury have resulted in promising, yet insufficient functional recovery compared to the clinical standard of care, autologous nerve grafts. In order to design a construct that can match the regenerative potential of the autograft, all facets of nerve tissue must be inco...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Marquardt LM,Sakiyama-Elbert SE

更新日期：2013-10-01 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：:For eukaryotic cells to function properly, they divide their intracellular space in subcellular compartments, each harboring specific metabolic activities. In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that compartmentalization of metabolic pathways is a prerequisite for certain cellular functions. This has for in...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Zecchin A,Stapor PC,Goveia J,Carmeliet P

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynamic regulation of gene expression in response to various molecules is crucial for both basic science and practical applications. RNA is considered an attractive material for creating dynamic genetic controllers because of its specific binding to ligands, structural flexibility, programmability, and small size. Her...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Jang S,Jang S,Yang J,Seo SW,Jung GY

更新日期：2018-10-01 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：:The intestinal microbiota plays a profound role in human health and extensive research has been dedicated to identify microbiota aberrations that are associated with disease. Most of this work has been targeting the large intestine and fecal microbiota, while the small intestine microbiota may also have a profound imp...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： El Aidy S,van den Bogert B,Kleerebezem M

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00