Biosynthesis of fatty acid-derived hydrocarbons: perspectives on enzymology and enzyme engineering.

abstract：:Thiopeptide antibiotics, which are a class of sulfur-rich and highly modified peptide natural products, exhibit a wide variety of important biological properties. These antibiotics are ribosomally synthesized and arise from post-translational modifications, exemplifying a process through which nature develops the stru...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Lin Z,He Q,Liu W

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biosynthesis of the solvents 1-butanol and acetone is restricted to species of the genus Clostridium, a diverse group of Gram-positive, endospore forming anaerobes comprising toxin-producing strains as well as terrestrial non-pathogenic species of biotechnological impact. Among solventogenic clostridia, Clostridiu...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Lütke-Eversloh T,Bahl H

更新日期：2011-10-01 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：:Bioremediation has historically been approached as a 'black box' in terms of our fundamental understanding. Thus it succeeds and fails, seldom without a complete understanding of why. Systems biology is an integrated research approach to study complex biological systems, by investigating interactions and networks at t...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Chakraborty R,Wu CH,Hazen TC

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phage display has proven to be a robust and convenient technology for the selection of high-quality human antibodies from diverse libraries. Besides enabling the identification of antibodies in a fast, high-throughput mode, which allows comprehensive protein expression analyses, phage display has been used to identify...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Kretzschmar T,von Rüden T

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular genetics of thermophilic lactic acid bacteria has advanced in several directions: exploitation of the milk proteins and sugars; primary and secondary metabolism; stress response; and molecular ecology of bacteria and their phages. These have singularly contributed to open new avenues of scientific interest i...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Delcour J,Ferain T,Hols P

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrasonographic imaging of ovarian morphology is used widely to inform reproductive health status in women. Metabolic disturbances induced by a negative energy balance (e.g. undernutrition) or positive energy balance (e.g. overnutrition, obesity) are known to drive or exacerbate reproductive dysfunction. Whether the ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Vanden Brink H,Pea J,Lujan ME

更新日期：2020-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Directed evolution methods are now widely used for the optimization of diverse enzyme properties, which include biotechnologically relevant characteristics like stability, regioselectivity and, in particular, enantioselectivity. In principle, three different approaches are followed to optimize enantioselective reactio...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Jaeger KE,Eggert T

更新日期：2004-08-01 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：:Microbial communities are essential for most ecosystem processes and interact in highly complex ways with virtually all eukaryotes. Thus, a detailed understanding of the function of such communities is a fundamental prerequisite for microbial ecologists, applied microbiologists and microbiome researchers. Using single...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Wang Y,Huang WE,Cui L,Wagner M

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolomics, as an essential part of genomics studies, intends holistic understanding of metabolic networks through simultaneous analysis of a myriad of both known and unknown metabolites occurring in living organisms. The initial stage of metabolomics was designed for the reproducible analyses of known metabolites b...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Ohta D,Kanaya S,Suzuki H

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The design and construction of synthetic gene circuits with complex spatiotemporal dynamics was pioneered in bacteria, but it took almost a decade until synthetic biologists were able to construct genetic circuits with complex spatiotemporal dynamics in mammalian cells. This review highlights the most recent advances ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Weber W,Fussenegger M

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The delineation of the beta-globin locus control region has led to a new understanding of the developmental regulation of the beta-globin gene cluster. It now seems that globin gene switching is effected through the sequential and mutually exclusive interaction of the locus control region with the embryonic, fetal and...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Enver T,Greaves DR

更新日期：1991-12-01 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：: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：:Advances in retooling microorganisms have enabled bioproduction of 'drop-in' biofuels, fuels that are compatible with existing spark-ignition, compression-ignition, and gas-turbine engines. As the majority of petroleum consumption in the United States consists of gasoline (47%), diesel fuel and heating oil (21%), and ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Zargar A,Bailey CB,Haushalter RW,Eiben CB,Katz L,Keasling JD

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The past year has witnessed several excellent advances in basic and applied research on nucleic acids in the environment. Improved methods for extracting nucleic acids from environmental samples have been published, as well as information on the use of reporter genes in bacteria, natural genetic transformation in soil...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Trevors JT

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the ambitions of synthetic biology approach genome-scale engineering, comprehensive characterization of cellular systems is required, as well as a means to accurately model cell-scale molecular interactions. These requirements are coincident with the goals of systems biology and, thus, systems biology will become t...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Barrett CL,Kim TY,Kim HU,Palsson BØ,Lee SY

更新日期：2006-10-01 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：:The world continues to increase its energy use, brought about by an expanding population and a desire for a greater standard of living. This energy use coupled with the realization of the impact of carbon dioxide on the climate, has led us to reanalyze the potential of plant-based biofuels. Of the potential sources of...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Jones CS,Mayfield SP

更新日期：2012-06-01 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：:Intraportal islet transplantation has emerged as a promising treatment for type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM). Nevertheless, long-term efficacy has been limited to a marginal number of patients. Outcomes have been restricted, in part, by challenges associated with the transplant site, poor vascularization, and disruption...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Coronel MM,Stabler CL

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The field of environmental monitoring has experienced a substantial progress in the last years but still the on-site control of contaminants is an elusive problem. In addition, the growing number of pollutant sources is accompanied by an increasing need of having efficient early warning systems. Several years ago bios...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Chocarro-Ruiz B,Fernández-Gavela A,Herranz S,Lechuga LM

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Realizing the economic benefits of alternative substrates for commodity chemical bioproduction typically requires significant metabolic engineering of common model organisms, such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae. A growing toolkit is enabling engineering of non-conventional yeast that have robust native metabolism for xyl...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Yaguchi A,Spagnuolo M,Blenner M

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative information about metabolic networks has been mainly obtained at the level of metabolite contents, transcript abundance, and enzyme activities. However, the active process of metabolism is represented by the flow of matter through the pathways. These metabolic fluxes can be predicted by Flux Balance Analy...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Junker BH

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microorganisms play important roles in the environmental fate of toxic metals and radionuclides with a multiplicity of mechanisms effecting transformations between soluble and insoluble forms. These mechanisms are integral components of natural biogeochemical cycles and are of potential for both in situ and ex situ bi...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Gadd GM

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nutritional interventions are associated with transient deviations of homeostasis within the human body. The role of a balanced nutrition is, firstly, to ensure an adequate intake of nutrients to efficiently enable all metabolic processes and, secondly, to contribute to sustained human health. This is a new challenge ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Schwager J,Mohajeri MH,Fowler A,Weber P

更新日期：2008-04-01 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：:Recent advances in the use of fluorescence spectroscopy to study protein interactions have primarily involved combinations of classic fluorescence techniques, novel probe and coupling chemistries, and advances in laser excitation and detection capabilities. For example, new coupling strategies for fluorescent probes h...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Brown MP,Royer C

更新日期：1997-02-01 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