Effects of rare codon clusters on high-level expression of heterologous proteins in Escherichia coli.

abstract：:Characterization of the various microbial populations present in exoelectrogenic biofilms provides insight into the processes required to convert complex organic matter in wastewater streams into electrical current in bioelectrochemical systems (BESs). Analysis of the community profiles of exoelectrogenic microbial co...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Kiely PD,Regan JM,Logan BE

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant biotechnology has been around since the advent of humankind, resulting in tremendous improvements in plant cultivation through crop domestication, breeding and selection. The emergence of transgenic approaches involving the introduction of defined DNA sequences into plants by humans has rapidly changed the surfa...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Francis D,Finer JJ,Grotewold E

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have made it possible to expand the genetic alphabet of DNA, which is originally composed of the four-letter alphabet with A-T and G-C pairs, by introducing an unnatural base pair (UBP). Several types of UBPs function as a third base pair in replication, transcription, and/or translation. Through the UB...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Lee KH,Hamashima K,Kimoto M,Hirao I

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in metabolic engineering have given rise to the biological production of novel fuels and chemicals, but yields are often low without significant optimization. One generalizable solution is to create a specialized organelle for the sequestration of engineered metabolic pathways. Bacterial microcompartments are...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Kim EY,Tullman-Ercek D

更新日期：2013-08-01 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：:Significant new advances at the molecular level in the field of plant-pathogen interactions form the basis for novel transgenic approaches to crop protection. The cloning of disease resistance genes and the dissection of the signal transduction components of the hypersensitive response and systemic acquired resistance...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Shah DM

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The remediation of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in soils and sediments remains a particularly difficult problem to solve. The possibility of in situ degradation by microorganisms has been pursued for many years since this approach has the potential to provide a cost-effective and environmentally sustainable altern...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Sowers KR,May HD

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fundamental biological processes such as cell-cell communication, signal transduction, molecular transport and energy conversion are performed by membrane proteins. These important proteins are studied best in their native environment, the lipid bilayer. The atomic force microscope (AFM) is the instrument of choice to...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Fotiadis D

更新日期：2012-08-01 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：:Various strategies have been developed to exploit plants as bioreactors for the production of pharmaceutical antibodies, to engineer antibody-mediated pathogen resistance or to alter the plant phenotype by immunomodulation. Recent research developments focus on the fine-tuning of expression systems and the detailed ch...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Stoger E,Sack M,Fischer R,Christou P

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One goal of plant genetic engineering is the manipulation of protein levels within crop plants. New insights into the ubiquitin-dependent proteolytic pathway provide potential novel ways of enhancing levels of desired proteins by synthesizing them as ubiquitin fusions, and reducing levels of undesired proteins by sele...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Hondred D,Vierstra RD

更新日期：1992-04-01 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：:Endoproteolytic cleavage of hormone and neuropeptide precursors, as well as many complex proteins, such as coagulation factors and viral glycoproteins, is a key process in the generation of bioactive polypeptides. These cleavages typically occur at the dibasic amino acid residues Lys-Arg or Arg-Arg. The enzymes respon...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Rehemtulla A,Kaufman RJ

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent years have seen the introduction of novel techniques and applications of total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy (TIRFM). Key technical achievements include miniaturization, enhanced depth resolution, reduction of detection volumes and the combination of TIRFM with other microscopic techniques. Novel ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Schneckenburger H

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria are both morphologically and functionally diverse, and this variety is thought to have important biological ramifications. The development of methods to probe the properties of individual mitochondria is therefore of utmost importance. Recent advances have been made using in situ microscopy techniques and...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Fuller KM,Arriaga EA

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Broad application of microbial fuel cells will require substantial increases in current density. A better understanding of the microbiology of these systems may help. Recent studies have greatly expanded the range of microorganisms known to function either as electrode-reducing microorganisms at the anode or as electr...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Lovley DR

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wound healing can no longer be considered a generic term: it is the summation of a complex series of processes beginning with coagulation and ending in remodelling. This review, therefore, summarizes the past year's advances in growth factor research according to the roles of the individual growth factors in the speci...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Robson MC

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population-level studies enabled by high-throughput phenotyping have revealed significant variation in lignin characteristics including content, S:G:H ratio, inter-unit linkage distributions, and molecular weights across multiple plant species. Coupled with genome-wide association mapping studies (GWAS) targeted at li...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Tuskan GA,Muchero W,Tschaplinski TJ,Ragauskas AJ

更新日期：2019-04-01 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：:In the past year, significant progress in the field of gene transfer has been made possible by refinement of the technique of particle bombardment. The process has been utilized for the study of gene expression in plastids and mitochondria, the production of transgenic crop plants and gene transfer into live animals. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Klein TM,Fitzpatrick-McElligott S

更新日期：1993-10-01 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：:Fc fusion proteins are molecules in which the immunoglobulin Fc is fused genetically to a protein of interest, such as an extracellular domain of a receptor, ligand, enzyme, or peptide. Fc fusion proteins have some antibody-like properties such as long serum half-life and easy expression and purification, making them ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Huang C

更新日期：2009-12-01 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：:As the consumption of seafood and shellfish increases around the world, so is the incidence of associated outbreaks of illness. Various postharvest treatments are effective at killing seafood-associated bacteria, but most of these treatments also kill the mollusks. Because consumer preferences for raw live shellfish p...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Teplitski M,Wright AC,Lorca G

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The high-throughput identification and accurate quantification of proteins are essential components of proteomic strategies for studying cellular functions and processes. Techniques that are largely based on stable isotope protein or peptide labeling and automated tandem mass spectrometry are increasingly being applie...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Tao WA,Aebersold R

更新日期：2003-02-01 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：:Among different technologies of hydrogen production, bio-hydrogen production exhibits perhaps the greatest potential to replace fossil fuels. Based on recent research on dark fermentative hydrogen production, this article reviews the following aspects towards scaled-up application of this technology: bioreactor develo...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： RenNanqi,GuoWanqian,LiuBingfeng,CaoGuangli,DingJie

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The worldwide emergence of nanoscale science and engineering was marked by the announcement of the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) in January 2000. Recent research on biosystems at the nanoscale has created one of the most dynamic science and technology domains at the confluence of physical sciences, molecula...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Roco MC

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Use of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has become increasingly widespread in virtually all aspects of molecular biology. Recently, novel ligation-independent methods have been developed for the cloning of DNA fragments amplified using PCR. Ligation-independent cloning utilizing the enzyme uracil DNA glycosylase (t...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Rashtchian A

更新日期：1995-02-01 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