Large-scale oligoribonucleotide production.

abstract：:The demand for validated analytical methods for botanicals has grown in response to the increasing consumer market for botanical supplements. Government initiatives to increase the availability of validated analytical methods and botanical reference material have led to the publication of numerous validation studies i...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Brown PN,Lister P

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic biology uses engineering principles to design and assemble biological components and systems for a variety of applications. On the basis of genetic engineering, synthetic gene switches can be interconnected to construct complex gene circuits, capable of sensing and integrating diverse input signals for preci...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Tolle F,Stücheli P,Fussenegger M

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mechanistic understanding of gene regulatory network dynamics requires quantitative single-cell data of multiple network components in response to well-defined perturbations. Recent advances in the development of fluorescent biomarkers for proteins, detection of RNA and interactions, microfluidic technology, and hig...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Selimkhanov J,Hasty J,Tsimring LS

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is becoming increasingly evident that intermediates observed in protein folding in vitro may be closely related to conformational states that are important in various intracellular processes. This review focuses on recent advances in in vitro protein-folding studies with particular reference to the molten globule s...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Kuwajima K

更新日期：1992-10-01 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：:RNA imaging probes help us investigate how transport and dynamics of RNA contribute to subcellular RNA localization or regulation of gene expression. Out of the plethora of strategies that have been developed to image RNA in living cells, genetically encoded probes are interesting because they can be produced by the c...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Rath AK,Rentmeister A

更新日期：2015-02-01 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：:Genetic engineering and screening of large number of cells or populations is a crucial bottleneck in today's systems biology and applied (micro)biology. Instead of using standard methods in bottles, flasks or 96-well plates, scientists are increasingly relying on high-throughput strategies that miniaturize their exper...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Vervoort Y,Linares AG,Roncoroni M,Liu C,Steensels J,Verstrepen KJ

更新日期：2017-08-01 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：:The possibility of generating electricity with microbial fuel cells has been recognized for some time, but practical applications have been slow to develop. The recent development of a microbial fuel cell that can harvest electricity from the organic matter stored in marine sediments has demonstrated the feasibility o...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Lovley DR

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several cell-based tissue-engineering therapies are emerging to regenerate damaged tissues. These strategies use autologous cells in combination with bioresorbable delivery materials. Major functions of a delivery scaffold are to provide initial mechanical stability, homogenous three-dimensional cell distribution, imp...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Sittinger M,Hutmacher DW,Risbud MV

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of novel materials in the nano-scale size range for applications in devices, drugs and diagnostic agents comes with a number of new opportunities, and also serious challenges to human applications. The larger size of particulate-based agents, as compared to traditional drugs, allows for the significant advanta...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Scheinberg DA,Grimm J,Heller DA,Stater EP,Bradbury M,McDevitt MR

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogen receptors are multi-domain proteins that interact with other proteins and DNA to fulfil their function: the regulation of transcription. During the past 2-3 years, our understanding of this complex process has increased tremendously as crystal structures of isolated ligand-binding domains in complex with vari...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Mueller-Fahrnow A,Egner U

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fermentation of syngas is a means through which unutilized organic waste streams can be converted biologically into biofuels and commodity chemicals. Despite recent advances, several issues remain which limit implementation of industrial-scale syngas fermentation processes. At the cellular level, the energy conservati...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Latif H,Zeidan AA,Nielsen AT,Zengler K

更新日期：2014-06-01 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：:Fermented foods and beverages are an integral part of the human diet globally. Understanding the microbial interactions within these fermenting ecosystems is required to deliver safe products with desirable consumer properties, and moreover, maintenance of these traditions. Effective tools are required for documentati...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： van Hijum SA,Vaughan EE,Vogel RF

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological pulping has the potential to improve the quality of pulp, properties of paper and to reduce energy costs and environmental impact relative to traditional pulping operations. It has been suggested that energy savings alone could make the process economically viable. Other benefits include improved burst stre...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Breen A,Singleton FL

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current progress in computational structure-based protein design is reviewed in the areas of methodology and applications. Foundational advances include new potential functions, more efficient ways of computing energetics, flexible treatments of solvent, and useful energy function approximations, as well as ensemble-b...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Lippow SM,Tidor B

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laser light scattering comes in two major 'flavors': dynamic and static. This noninvasive technique provides a means for investigating key size and shape properties of macromolecules in solution. Light scattering has long been an indispensable tool to the polymer physical chemist, and is seeing increased use in explor...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Murphy RM

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During 1993, significant advances have been achieved in applications of DNA analysis to forensic science, disease assessment, and animal/plant identification. These advances include the development of simple and high sample-throughput techniques for highly informative personal identification, rapid screening for patho...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Alford RL,Caskey CT

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant-derived diterpenoids are indispensable to plant development, stress-resistance and interaction with environmental microorganisms. Besides significant roles in plant fitness and adaption, many bioactivities beneficial to human beings are also found in diterpenoids from terrestrial plants. However, these high-valu...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Shao J,Sun Y,Liu H,Wang Y

更新日期：2020-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial cell factory performance is significantly affected by the cell morphology and membrane homeostasis. It is important to ensure that cell factories are able to regulate cell morphology and maintain membrane homeostasis. Cell morphology can be controlled by regulating the formation of elongasomes and divisomes,...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Guo L,Pang Z,Gao C,Chen X,Liu L

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron capture dissociation (ECD) is a new fragmentation technique used in Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry and is complementary to traditional tandem mass spectrometry techniques. Disulfide bonds, normally stable to vibrational excitation, are preferentially cleaved in ECD. Fragmentation ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Zubarev RA

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The alternative sigma factor sigmaB modulates the stress response of several Gram-positive bacteria, including Bacillus subtilis and the food-borne human pathogens Bacillus cereus, Listeria monocytogenes and Staphylococcus aureus. In all these bacteria, sigmaB is responsible for the transcription of genes that can con...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： van Schaik W,Abee T

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is growing scientific evidence supported by mechanistic and clinical studies that probiotics can provide health benefits. As probiotics are highly sensitive to many environmental factors, and because the propagation of many strains of intestinal origin is not straightforward, most commercial strains are selected...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Lacroix C,Yildirim S

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obtaining an abundant supply of human cells with specific differentiated properties is a key issue in many research studies and biotechnology applications. Recent advances in this area include the finding that forced expression of the enzyme telomerase can greatly increase the proliferative potential of at least some ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Yeager TR,Reddel RR

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naturally occurring microbial consortia have been utilized in a variety of bioremediation processes. Recent developments in molecular microbial ecology offer new tools that facilitate molecular analyses of microbial populations at contaminated and bioremediated sites. Information provided by such analyses aids in the ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Watanabe K

更新日期：2001-06-01 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：: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：:Lignin is a principal structural component of cell walls in higher terrestrial plants. It reinforces the cell walls, facilitates water transport, and acts as a physical barrier to pathogens. Lignin is typically described as being composed of p-hydroxyphenyl (H), guaiacyl (G), and syringyl (S) units that derive from th...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Vanholme R,De Meester B,Ralph J,Boerjan W

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00