Stabilization of protein structures.

abstract：:The phytodegradation of organic compounds can take place inside the plant or within the rhizosphere of the plant. Many different compounds and classes of compounds can be removed from the environment by this method, including solvents in groundwater, petroleum and aromatic compounds in soils, and volatile compounds in...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Newman LA,Reynolds CM

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

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：:Stable isotopes are flexibly used as tracers to investigate environmental processes, microorganisms responsible for environmental transformations, syntrophic relationships in consortia, and metabolic pathways. With the advent of widely accessible high-resolution, highly accurate and sensitive mass spectrometers connec...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Adrian L,Marco-Urrea E

更新日期：2016-10-01 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：: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：:Compared to 'live' vaccines, the immunogenicity of 'split' vaccines based on recombinant antigen (Ag) is poor, presumably because exogeneous recombinant Ag fails to efficiently access the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I processing pathway needed for 'cross-presentation'. Here we discuss recent evidence ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Wagner H,Heit A,Schmitz F,Bauer S

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the review period, a significant amount of literature has been published documenting the impact of biofilms on engineered and biomedical systems. Reactor systems and analytical techniques have evolved to study the molecular chemistry and microbial ecology within biofilm layers only tens of micrometers thick, and ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Bryers JD

更新日期：1993-04-01 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：:New methods and applications in the separation of biomolecules are reviewed, with an emphasis on the large-scale recovery of proteins. Highlights include the advent of flow-through particles in perfusion chromatography, which allows for very high flow rates, while retaining a high chromatographic efficiency. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Glad M,Larsson PO

更新日期：1991-06-01 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：:The bacterial type II Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)-CRISPR Associated (Cas) systems, and in particular Streptococcus pyogenes CRISPR-Cas9, have been broadly applied to edit the genome of bacterial and eukaryotic cells. Cas9, which is an RNA-guided programmable nuclease, is a powerf...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Schmid-Burgk JL

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ultimate goal of genome research on the model flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana is the identification of all of the genes and understanding their functions. A major step towards this goal, the genome sequencing project, is nearing completion; however, functional studies of newly discovered genes have not yet ke...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Parinov S,Sundaresan V

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Novel biotechnological approaches such as Metabolic Engineering (ME) and New Plant Breeding Techniques (NPBTs) are currently being developed to produce biological compounds for food and non-food products. NPBTs span a range of methods for in vivo production in crops, some of which are classified as GMOs while others a...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Pei L,Schmidt M

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past two decades, biological nanopores have been developed and explored for use in sensing applications as a result of their exquisite sensitivity and easily engineered, reproducible, and economically manufactured structures. Nanopore sensing has been shown to differentiate between highly similar analytes, meas...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Schmidt J

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aptamers are short single-stranded oligo(deoxy)nucleotides that are selected to bind to target molecules with high affinity and specificity. Because of their sophisticated characteristics and versatile applicability, aptamers are thought to become universal molecular probes in biotechnological and therapeutic applicat...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Pfeiffer F,Rosenthal M,Siegl J,Ewers J,Mayer G

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both cyanobacteria and eukaryotic microalgae are promising organisms for sustainable production of bulk products such as food, feed, materials, chemicals and fuels. In this review we will summarize the potential and current biotechnological developments. Cyanobacteria are promising host organisms for the production of...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Wijffels RH,Kruse O,Hellingwerf KJ

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial whole-cell biosensors are very useful for toxicity measurements of various samples. Semi-specific biosensors, containing fusions of stress-regulated promoters and reporter genes, have several advantages over the traditional, general biosensors that are based on constitutively expressed reporter genes. Furthe...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Sørensen SJ,Burmølle M,Hansen LH

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilms are structured communities of bacteria, which are adhered to a surface and embedded in a self-produced matrix of extracellular polymeric substances. Since biofilms are very resistant to antimicrobial agents, they are at the basis of a range of problems, including quality and safety issues in food industry. Re...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Abee T,Kovács AT,Kuipers OP,van der Veen S

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fermentation of food components by microbes occurs both during certain food production processes and in the gastro-intestinal tract. In these processes specific compounds are produced that originate from either biotransformation reactions or biosynthesis, and that can affect the health of the consumer. In this review,...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： van Hylckama Vlieg JE,Veiga P,Zhang C,Derrien M,Zhao L

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The scanning transmission electron microscope provides structural and chemical information of a specimen at atomic-scale resolution and complements conventional transmission electron microscopy techniques. Mass measurements can now be performed routinely on a wide range of molecular and supramolecular structures using...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Engel A,Colliex C

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in protein expression in E. coli have focused primarily on the enhancement of protein quality. Problems in mRNA translation such as inefficient initiation, mistranslation, frame-shifting and frame-hopping can often be addressed by altering heterologous gene-coding sequences. Fusion technology can also ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Olins PO,Lee SC

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strain-specificity of probiotic effects has been a cornerstone principle of probiotic science for decades. Certainly, some important mechanisms are present in only a few probiotic strains. But scientific advances now reveal commonalities among members of certain taxonomic groups of probiotic microbes. Some clinical be...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Sanders ME,Benson A,Lebeer S,Merenstein DJ,Klaenhammer TR

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbes have long been adapted for the biosynthetic production of useful compounds. There is increasing demand for the rapid and cheap microbial production of diverse molecules in an industrial setting. Microbes can now be designed and engineered for a particular biosynthetic purpose, thanks to recent developments in...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Quin MB,Schmidt-Dannert C

更新日期：2014-10-01 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：: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：:Transdifferentiation of one cell type to another has garnered significant research efforts in recent years. As cardiomyocyte loss following myocardial infarction becomes debilitating for cardiac patients, the option of an autologous source of cardiomyocytes not derived from multi/pluripotent stem cell sources is an at...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Monaghan MG,Holeiter M,Layland SL,Schenke-Layland K

更新日期：2016-08-01 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：:Mismatch-repair systems have been identified in organisms ranging from Escherichia coli to humans. They can repair almost all DNA base pair mismatches as well as small insertion/deletion mismatches. Molecular and biochemical analyses have shown that the core components of eukaryotic mismatch-repair systems are highly ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Kolodner RD,Alani E

更新日期：1994-12-01 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：: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