abstract：:A simple, specific, sensitive and reproducible ELISA has been developed to quantify the level of CPS (capsular polysaccharide) production in supernatants of Streptococcus pneumoniae cell cultures. CPSs from Strep. pneumoniae have been widely used as vaccine antigens. The quantification method is based on two type-23F ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Cruz-Leal Y,Menéndez T,Coizeau E,Espinosa RR,Canaan L,Blanco F,Carmenate T,Chang J,Quiñones D,Tamargo I,Cremata J,Verez-Bencomo V,Guillén G

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, recombinant HCV (hepatitis C virus) core proteins enhanced the immune response elicited by a co-delivered DNA vaccine encoding HCV core and envelope proteins. A mixture of the plasmid pIDKE2 and Co.173, a protein comprising the first 173 amino acids of HCV core, in particular induces a strong hum...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Alvarez-Lajonchere L,González M,Alvarez-Obregón JC,Guerra I,Viña A,Acosta-Rivero N,Musacchio A,Morales J,Dueñas-Carrera S

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid progress has been made in the design and synthesis of oligomers and polymers that emulate the properties of natural proteins. Molecular bioengineering offers the chance to design and produce artificial polymeric proteins with tailored polymeric properties. The elastin-like polypeptides are a well-defined family ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Bandiera A,Taglienti A,Micali F,Pani B,Tamaro M,Crescenzi V,Manzini G

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although most PCRs would produce proper PCR products when first tried, a general optimization is required to yield the best results. This optimization is often achieved by changing one factor at a time. However, this may lead to suboptimal results, since interactions between conditions are difficult to detect with thi...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Niens M,Spijker GT,Diepstra A,te Meerman GJ

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sometimes it is necessary to obtain thrombin from limited amounts of human plasma for laboratory assay. None of the available purification methods easily deals with this subject. The procedure described in the present paper uses a readily available pharmaceutical agent, argatroban, to construct an affinity matrix. Arg...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Lefkowitz JB

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cordyceps sinensis (Chinese caterpillar fungus) is a fungus parasitic on the larvae of Lepidoptera and has been considered to be a precious tonic food and herbal medicine since ancient times in China. Recently, some fungal strains have been isolated from the fruiting bodies of wild C. sinensis, and some of them have b...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Zhang W,Yang J,Chen J,Hou Y,Han X

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Future developments in gene therapy and DNA vaccination depend on cost-effective large-scale production of pharmaceutical-grade pDNA (plasmid DNA). Given the large amount of impurities present in the feedstock, purification processes that have high specificity and capacity at a moderate cost are required. In the prese...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Frerix A,Müller M,Kula MR,Hubbuch J

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is now a well-known fact that alpha-CD (alpha-cyclodextrin) and Ca(2+) are two important folding agents in the re-activation and refolding processes of many denatured enzyme solutions. Bacillus sp. alpha-amylase was extensively denatured in a 6 M guanidinium chloride solution overnight. Under suitable renaturation ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Yazdanparast R,Khodarahmi R

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A purple-spore, rhizosphere-inhabiting nematophagous fungus, further identified as Paecilomyces lilacinus, was found to grow on chitosanase-detecting plate. An induced endochitosanase having a molecular mass of 23 kDa was purified from the culture medium by a single cation-exchange column-chromatography step. Its opti...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Chen YY,Cheng CY,Haung TL,Li YK

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:hES (human embryonic stem) cells hold tremendous potential in the newly emerging field of regenerative medicine, in addition to being a useful tool in basic scientific research and for pharmacological and cytotoxicity screening. However, an essential prerequisite for the future widespread application of hES cells are ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Heng BC,Kuleshova LL,Bested SM,Liu H,Cao T

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To reduce the degradation pathway of rhIFN-gamma (recombinant human interferon-gamma), the susceptibility against oxidative stress during fermentation in Escherichia coli cells and in purification process were investigated. Fermentations of recombinant E. coli were performed at 5, 30 and 60% DO (dissolved oxygen) conc...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Mohammadian-Mosaabadi J,Naderi-Manesh H,Maghsoudi N,Khalilzadeh R,Shojaosadati SA,Ebrahimi M

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus subtilis strain DM-03, which is isolated from starter culture used for the production of alcohol by local Assam tribes, grows optimally at 52-55 degrees C and secretes a significant amount of alpha-amylase at pH 8.0 into the culture media. This alpha-amylase, purified by ion-exchange, gel-filtration and rever...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Das K,Doley R,Mukherjee AK

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When crude soya-bean oil was used as the source for biodiesel production, the yield of methyl ester was significantly lower than that from refined soya-bean oil. The major difference between refined and crude soya-bean oils was found to be due to the contents of phospholipids, free acid and water, which have varied in...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Du W,Xu YY,Zeng J,Liu DH

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dynamic gassing-out method was used to assess the effect of stirrer speed, air flow rate and alginate concentration on the overall volumetric oxygen mass transfer coefficient (K(L)a) in a bench-top stirred fermenter equipped with two Rushton-type turbines. As the alginate concentration in the medium was increased ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Parente E,Piraino P,Fidaleo M,Moresi M

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microparticles have been used for delivery of chemo- and radio-therapeutic agents to tumours in patients for more than a decade, whereas cationic liposomes have been used for introducing nucleic acids into mammalian cells for the same period of time. This minireview discusses the potential of delivering therapeutic ON...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Dass CR

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to find disruption methods that allow fast and reproducible measurement of intracellular recombinant proteins with potential for on-line application. Production of rhSOD (recombinant human superoxide dismutase) by Escherichia coli was used as a model. Three methods of cell disruption, ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Tkac J,Vostiar I,Mandenius CF

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immobilization of F(0)F(1)-ATPase in uniform orientation is reported. The biotinylated and histidine-tagged subunits of the bacterial F(0)F(1)-ATPase complex were used for immobilization of the complex on artificial semi-permeable membranes resulting in 88+/-7.8 and 72+/-5.2% coupling of the enzymes. The immobiliz...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Bhattacharya S,Schiavone M,Nayak A,Bhattacharya SK

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hydrolysis kinetics of native and denatured haemoglobin, using pepsin immobilized on aluminium oxide, was studied in order to produce hydrolysates containing bioactive peptides. Pepsin was immobilized on acidic alumina and on 2-ethanolamine- O -phosphate (2-EAOP)-modified acidic alumina. Surface charge of the two ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Ticu EL,Vercaigne-Marko D,Huma A,Artenie V,Toma O,Guillochon D

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:St. John's wort ( Hypericum perforatum L.) is a herbaceous perennial distributed throughout the World that has been widely used in traditional medicine. H. perforatum produces several types of biologically active compound, including the hypericins--a family of light-activated anthraquinones, localized within specializ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Kirakosyan A,Sirvent TM,Gibson DM,Kaufman PB

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative DNA damage is involved in mutagenesis, carcinogenesis, aging, radiation effects and also in the action of several anticancer drugs. Accumulated evidence indicates that iron may play an important role in these processes. The conversion of the closed circular double-stranded supercoiled plasmid pcDNA3 into the...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： El-Sayed IH,El-Masry SA

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel, improved dual bacterial-expression system, designed for large-scale generation of high-quality polyclonal antibody preparations intended for proteomics research, is presented. The concept involves parallel expression of cDNA-encoded proteins, as a fusion with two different tags in two separate vector systems....

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Falk R,Agaton C,Kiesler E,Jin S,Wieslander L,Visa N,Hober S,Ståhl S

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper is concerned with the optimization of submerged culture conditions for mycelial growth and exo-biopolymer production by Auricularia polytricha by one-factor-at-a-time and uniform design (UD) methods. First, the one-factor-at-a-time method was adopted to investigate the effects of environmental factors (i.e....

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Xu CP,Yun JW

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Entrapped cells and entrapped cells grown inside of a calcium alginate matrix as well as free cells have been investigated using Saccharomyces cerevisiae mutant strains with regard to their pattern of growth and invertase activity. The repression of invertase by glucose and glucose-consumption ability were considered ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Rossi-Alva JC,Rocha-Leão MH

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid, simple and sensitive fluorometric assay method for the determination of nitrilase activity is described. 3-Cyanopyridine was hydrolysed to nicotinic acid by Rhodococcus rhodochrous and the liberated NH(3) was allowed to react with buffered o -phthaldialdehyde-2-mercaptoethanol solution (pH 7.4) to form a fluo...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Banerjee A,Sharma R,Banerjee UC

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new microbial transglutaminase (EC 2.3.2.13) from a Bacillus circulans strain isolated from the aquatic Amazonian environment was purified and characterized. Enzyme purification started with (NH(4))(2)SO(4) 'salting out' and proceeded with liquid chromatography on Q-Sepharose FF and octyl-Sepharose 4 FF. The purific...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： de Barros Soares LH,Assmann F,Záchia Ayub MA

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A kinetic model was developed to describe recombinant human protein disulphide isomerase (rhPDI)-assisted folding of a substrate protein, C125A recombinant human interleukin-2 (C125A rhIL-2). A series of progress curves showing native C125A rhIL-2 formation under different reaction conditions were generated. Non-linea...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Du C,Wolfe JL

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some metabolic inhibitors, mevastatin (MVS), chlorocholine chloride (CCC), sodium pyrophosphate (NaPP) and D,L-glyceraldehyde (DLG), were respectively added into the suspension cultures of the yew Taxus chinensis var. mairei at the late phase of cell growth to study isopentenyl pyrophosphate (IPP) biosynthesis. The co...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Wang YD,Yuan YJ,Lu M,Wu JC,Jiang JL

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV stimulates strong immune CD8(+) cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) response in infected people, despite causing an immunodeficiency. It has been demonstrated that this response could be very important for the control of the virus. We have shown previously that a recombinant fowlpox virus (rFWPV), expressing the multi-e...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Vázquez-Blomquist D,González S,Duarte CA

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of chitin [(1-->4)-2-acetamido-2-deoxy-beta-D-glucan] and its partially deacetylated derivatives, chitosans, on the human dermal fibroblast-mediated contraction of collagen lattices were examined in vitro as a model for the contraction of cutaneous wounds in vivo. Chitosan CL313A, a short-chain-length 89% ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Howling GI,Dettmar PW,Goddard PA,Hampson FC,Dornish M,Wood EJ

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of the hydroperoxidase activity of immobilized lipoxygenase to xenobiotic metabolization is reported in this work. Soya bean lipoxygenase has been immobilized by covalent coupling to oxirane acrylic beads. This immobilized system has been applied to the oxidation of chlorpromazine (CPZ), a phenothiazin...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Santano E,Pinto Mdel C,Macías P

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is the most common neurodegenerative movement disorder and is characterized by the loss of dopaminergic neurons and the formation of eosinophilic intracytoplasmic inclusion bodies known as Lewy bodies. Although alpha-synuclein is known to be a pivotal factor implicated in the pathogenesis of P...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Choi JY,Sung YM,Park HJ,Hur EH,Lee SJ,Hahn C,Min BR,Kim IK,Kang S,Rhim H

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A chitin-degrading Bacillus strain, designated as NCTU2, was screened from soil and identified. An extracellular chitinase was purified to >90% homogeneity from the culture filtrate. The purification involved hydrophobic-interaction and gel-filtration chromatographic separations with a yield of 58%. The purified enzym...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Wen CM,Tseng CS,Cheng CY,Li YK

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fetuin is a plasma glycoprotein widely distributed in mammals. It has been used as a model protein for structural analyses and investigations into the biological properties of glycoproteins. A convenient one-step procedure for biospecific isolation of fetuin from fetal bovine serum was developed on the basis of wheatg...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Cartellieri S,Hamer O,Helmholz H,Niemeyer B

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sephadex was derivatized consecutively with Staphylococcus Protein A (SpA) and cell-specific antibodies, and the binding of cells to the resulting material was examined. For comparison, cell binding to commercially obtained SpA-Sepharose was determined. Sephadex G-10, carboxylated by reaction with glycine and activate...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Besselink G,de Korte D

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human placenta is a rich raw material for production of many biopharmaceutical products. Here we describe a co-purification process for the production of four different proteins from haemolysed human placenta blood: IgG, catalase (Cat), superoxide dismutase (Sod) and albumin (Alb). The process can be divided in tw...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Grellet S,Martins EA,Maimoni Gonçalves V,Yague Lopes AP,Raw I,Cabrera-Crespo J

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The L-arginine uptake of resting platelets from type-2 diabetic patients and control subjects was measured and the kinetic parameters defined. The effect of platelet stimulation with agonists was also investigated. Kinetic studies showed that the K(m) value for L-arginine transport was not different in patients compar...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Signorello MG,Giovine M,Pascale R,Cataldi L,Bordone C,Benatti U,Leoncini G

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of rabies virus from baby hamster kidney-Ankara66 (BHK-An(66), HUKUK 99050302) monolayer cells was examinedin a packed-bed reactor containing non-woven polyester fabric (NWPF)discs. At first, growth characteristics of the cells were determined instatic culture. The suspension culture studies were realiz...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Gümüşderelioğlu M,Aslankaraoğlu E,Gürhan SI

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human erythrocytes from ten patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) were loaded with increasing amounts of dexamethasone 21-phosphate and were re-infused into the original donors. Drug-loaded erythrocytes acted as circulating bioreactors, converting the non-diffusible dexamethasone 21-phosphate into...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Rossi L,Serafini S,Cenerini L,Picardi F,Bigi L,Panzani I,Magnani M

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The optimum fermentation conditions for the production of cellulose by a newly isolated Acetobacter sp. A9 were determined by shaken cultures. The strain was able to produce cellulose at 25-30 degrees C with a maximum at 30 degrees C. Cellulose production occurred at pH 4.5-7.5 with a maximum at pH 6.5. The improved m...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Son HJ,Heo MS,Kim YG,Lee SJ

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied, for the first time, characterization of the invertase expressed in the methylotrophic yeasts Hansenula polymorpha and Pichia pastoris in terms of enzyme conformational stability and structural behaviour induced by temperature as a function of pH using enzymic assays, differential scanning calorimetry, fluo...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Acosta N,Beldarraín A,Rodríguez L,Alonso Y

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00