abstract：:The development of subunit vaccines is presently the main strategy being evaluated for prevention of infectious diseases. The use of recombinant-DNA techniques has facilitated the development of new principles for design and production of subunit vaccines. First of all, the properties of a target protein immunogen can...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Hansson M,Nygren PA,Ståhl S

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protective antigen (PA) component of anthrax toxin mediates delivery of either lethal factor (LF) or oedema factor into the cytosol of mammalian cells. The N-terminal domain of LF(1-254) (amino acids 1-254 of LF) binds to PA and, when fused to heterologous proteins, delivers such proteins into the cytosol. In the ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Sharma M,Khanna H,Arora N,Singh Y

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus patients gen-erate conformational autoantibodies to the islet-cell 65-kDa variant of human glutamate decarboxylase (GAD65), and several immunochemical tests for the early detection of type-1 diabetes rely on GAD65 antibody (GADA) assessment using properly folded recombinant GAD...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Santos J,Antón EA,Buslje CM,Valdez SN,Villanueva AL,Sica M,Iacono R,Maffia P,Poskus E,Ermácora MR

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aspartic proteinase gene of Mucor pusillus rennin expressed in Pichia pastoris was characterized in terms of structural and conformational stability induced by temperature. This enzyme is 12% glycosylated, with a similar specific activity to the native fungal enzyme. The secondary structure determined by CD is mai...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Beldarraín A,Acosta N,Montesinos R,Mata M,Cremata J

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of four lectins from crops of the legume family with Saccharomyces cerevisiae alpha-mannan, and also with two glycoenzymes containing mainly alpha-mannan moieties, has been studied. The interaction was characterized by a quantitative precipitation assay. The results of precipitation differ with respect...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Mislovicová D,Gemeiner P,Sandula J,Masárová J,Vikartovská A,Docolomanský P

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformation of a protein refers to the three-dimensional arrangement of its constituent atoms. Since expression of the biological activity of a protein depends on its conformation, it is clear that full characterization of a protein involves an understanding of its three-dimensional structure. This review outline...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Price NC

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optison(R) is an ultrasound contrast agent, consisting of gas-filled microspheres surrounded by a solid shell of heat-denatured human albumin. Size-distribution measurements of these microspheres are a critical stability indicating factor, because loss of encapsulated gas eliminates ultrasound contrast activity. Compo...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Podell S,Burrascano C,Gaal M,Golec B,Maniquis J,Mehlhaff P

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review article focuses on the use of the methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris as a recombinant protein-expression system. P. pastoris is a useful system for the expression of milligram-to-gram quantities of a protein, which can be scaled up to fermentation to meet greater demands. Compared with mammalian cells, P...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Fischer R,Drossard J,Emans N,Commandeur U,Hellwig S

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, the effect of the neuroleptics chlorpromazine (2-chloro-N,N-dimethyl-10H-phenothiazine-10-propanamine) and trifluoperazine {10-[3-(4-methylpiperazin-l-yl)-propyl]-2-trifluoromethyl)-10-H- [phenothiazine}-10H-phenothiazine¿ on the EPR-spectroscopic properties of ferrous human adult nitrosylated ha...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Ascenzi P,Bertollini A,Coletta M,Lucacchini A

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have created a mouse/human chimaeric antibody by taking antigen-binding fragment (Fab) genes of a mouse antibody-producing hybridoma with specificity for bacterial endotoxin and joining them to human Ig crystallizing-fragment (Fc) genes using recombinant DNA techniques. This chimaeric antibody has been expressed in...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Tan W,Lam PH

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell proliferation is a complex and important event in atherosclerosis, aging and cancer, and is under the control of signalling pathways. These signalling pathways in turn are effected by the presence of a number of chemicals. For this purpose, we have checked the effect of two chemicals on the proliferation of skin ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Onat D,Boscoboinik D,Azzi A,Basaga H

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the VP2 gene of autonomous parvoviruses in insect cells with the use of the baculovirus system has led to the production of virus-like particles (VLPs) formed by the self-assembly of VP2. These VLPs are expressed at high levels and can easily be purified by salt fractionation. They are highly immunogenic...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Casal JI

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse band-3 crosslinked carrier erythrocytes have been prepared. [125I]Carbonic anhydrase (CA) has been encapsulated into mouse erythrocytes. Then, loaded erythrocytes were labelled with 51Cr. Eventually, these doubly labelled cells were crosslinked with band-3 crosslinking reagents. [125I]CA was shown to have cytoso...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Jordán JA,Alvarez FJ,Tejedor MC,Díez JC

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An extremely thermostable UDP-GlcNAc pyrophosphorylase has been purified from Thermus caldophilus GK24 by chromatographic methods including ion-exchange, hydrophobic interaction, and affinity chromatographies. The specific activity of the enzyme was enriched 41.8-fold, with a recovery of 2%. The molecular mass of the ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Kim JS,Koh S,Shin HJ,Lee DS,Lee SY

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:alpha-Cyclodextrin (CD) was converted by Bacillus macerans cyclodextrin glucanotransferase into highly insoluble high-amylose starch with a low average degree of polymerization (56-73), in yields as high as 78% over a wide range of temperatures (25-70 degreesC). Ability to undergo this conversion was highly concentrat...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Rendleman JA Jr,Knutson CA Jr

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The optimum temperature and initial medium pH for amylase production by Bacillus sp. TS-23 were 55 degrees C and 8.5 respectively. Maximum amylase activity was obtained in a medium containing peptone and soluble starch as nitrogen and carbon sources. Activity staining revealed that two amylases with molecular masses o...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Lin LL,Chyau CC,Hsu WH

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results from molecular mass determinations and amino acid analyses for prostate-specific antigen (PSA), alpha 1-antichymotrypsin (ACT) and PSA-ACT complexed in vitro are reported. Molecular masses for two separate PSA-ACT lots were determined by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization mass spectroscopy (MALDI-...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Bedzyk WD,Larsen B,Gutteridge S,Ballas RA

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have constructed a hybrid protein (ATFHI) consisting of an N-terminal fragment from urokinase (ATF) and HI-8, which is the C-terminal domain of urinary trypsin inhibitor. The fusion genes for the hybrid proteins were engineered by PCR and cloned into expression plasmids. Under the control of the tac promoter, fusio...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Sugino D,Okushima M,Kobayashi H,Terao T

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple and cost-effective method is described to sequence double-stranded DNA (< 100 ng) using a very small amount of fluorescent sequencing mix (one-tenth of manufacturer-recommended amount). The modification has significant advantages over conventional protocols and can be used to sequence, using a single sequenci...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Beg OU,Holt RG

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex-formation between a truncated staphylococcal Protein A produced in Escherichia coli and a native E coli molecular chaperone, DnaK, can be used for the purification of DnaK by IgG-affinity chromatography. The half-time constant for in vitro formation of the Protein A-DnaK complex is about 14 min. Complex-format...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Gustavsson K,Bergman T,Veide A,Enfors SO

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An inducible esterase has been isolated from a liquid culture of Aspergillus niger grown on sugar-beet pulp. The enzyme was active on methyl esters of cinnamic acids, caffeic > p-coumaric > ferulic, and is therefore termed a cinnamoyl esterase. The enzyme was not active on methyl sinapinate, a good substrate for ferul...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Kroon PA,Faulds CB,Williamson G

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast cells immobilized by entrapment in an insolubilized gelatin gel have been investigated with regard to their pattern of growth and respiratory activity. Mass-transfer resistance offered by the matrix and growth of the entrapped cells determine a gradient of nutrients throughout the gel which is responsible for bo...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Parascandola P,de Alteriis E

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have analysed the status and transcriptional activity of the bovine papillomavirus-I (complete BPV-I genome)-based expression vector pCES in CI27i-cell-line-derived 3TI cells used for the industrial production of recombinant human erythropoietin (rhuEpo). Complete tandem head-to-tail integration of about 600 vector...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Fibi MR,Kunz J,Weimer T,Schulz R,Teifke P,Grzeschik KH,Johannsen R,Zettlmeissl G

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two different enzymes that metabolize lactate in the presence of oxygen, either to acetate plus CO2 (lactate 2-mono-oxygenase; Lmox) or to pyruvate plus H2O2 (lactate oxidase; Lox) were encapsulated in human and murine red blood cells (RBCs). Lmox shows a low affinity for lactate (Km 22 mM) and thus works at a low rat...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Garin M,Rossi L,Luque J,Magnani M

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) and alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) have been encapsulated in sheep and human red blood cells (RBCs) by a hypotonic dialysis/isotonic resealing procedure. At a fixed enzyme level in the dialysis bag (100 units/ml of RBCs), a significant encapsulation yield was observed for ADH, both in human ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Sanz S,Pinilla M,Garín M,Tipton KF,Luque J

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pH optimum, temperature-dependence, thermal stability, substrate specificity and subsite affinities of the 66 kDa, pI 4.0 glucoamylase of the filamentous fungus Trichoderma reesei were determined. It had a pH optimum of 5.5 and a temperature optimum (5 min reaction time) of 70 degrees C with soluble starch as subs...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Fagerström R,Kalkkinen N

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three peptides complementary to exposed regions of two low-M(r) phosphotyrosine protein phosphatase isoenzymes and of the acylphosphatase muscle isoenzyme have been synthesized. Each peptide was synthesized on two different types of resins; the peptides were anchored to the resins by amide linkages. The peptide resins...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Stefani M,Bucciantini M,Taddei N,Mincione G,Manao G,Ramponi G

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sensitive sandwich enzyme immunoassay (e.i.a.) for serrapeptase (TSP), an orally available anti-inflammatory proteinase, was established using affinity-purified anti-TSP rabbit IgG and its Fab' fragment conjugated with horseradish peroxidase as the first and the second antibodies respectively. TSP in the plasma was ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Moriya N,Nakata M,Nakamura M,Takaoka M,Iwasa S,Kato K,Kakinuma A

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene (lacS) encoding a thermostable beta-galactosidase enzyme (Ss beta-gal) from the archaebacterium Sulfolobus solfataricus has been cloned and expressed in simian CV1 and murine NIH3T3 cell lines. The recombinant protein is an active enzyme that shows the same properties of thermophilicity and thermostability as...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Cannio R,de Pascale D,Rossi M,Bartolucci S

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the heat-shock proteins (HSPs) induced in response to heat-shock (HS) in all organisms, the low-molecular-mass (LMM) HSPs are the most abundant and unique in plants. The HSP genes at the transcriptional and the translational levels have been well-characterized; however, relatively little is known about the physi...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Yeh KW,Jinn TL,Yeh CH,Chen YM,Lin CY

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The membranotropic properties of block co-polymers and their protein conjugates were studied by their effect on the rate of oxygen consumption by isolated liver mitochondria and on thymus-derived lymphocytes. The block co-polymers consisted of poly(ethylene oxide) (PoE) [poly(ethylene glycol)] and poly(propylene oxide...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Kirillova GP,Mokhova EN,Dedukhova VI,Tarakanova AN,Ivanova VP,Efremova NV,Topchieva IN

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interpretation of the circular dichroism (c.d.) spectra of proteins to date requires additional secondary structural information of the proteins to be analysed (e.g., X-ray or n.m.r. data). Therefore these methods are inappropriate for a c.d. database whose secondary structures are unknown, as in the case of the m...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Fasman GD

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse and human erythrocytes are inherently different with respect to slow dialysis encapsulation used in preparing carrier erythrocytes. Fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC)-dextran was added to five different stages of the encapsulation process to discern when endocytic vesiculation occurred. Mouse erythrocytes were mu...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： DeLoach JR,Droleskey RE

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The variation with pH of the kinetic parameters of penicillin acylase from Kluyvera citrophila has been used to gain information about the chemical mechanism of the reaction catalysed by the enzyme. The pH-dependence of log (V/Km) for penicillin G showed that a group with a pK value over 4.7 must be deprotonated and t...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Martín J,Prieto I,Mancheño JM,Barbero JL,Arche R

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High yields of extracellular alpha-galactosidase from fungal cultures were obtained by inducing enzyme production with guar gum (a galactomannan obtained from the seeds of Cyamopsis tetragonobola) as the sole carbon source. An alpha-galactosidase was isolated from the culture medium of Penicillium ochrochloron culture...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Dey PM,Patel S,Brownleader MD

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Solubilization of 2',3',4',5'-tetrabenzoyl-5-acetyl-1,5-dihydroriboflavin (benzaflavin) by conjugates of BSA with poly(alkylene oxide)s [poly(ethylene glycol) and block co-polymers of ethylene oxide and propylene oxide (pluronics)] was investigated. Conjugates of BSA with pluronics were shown to have more solubilizing...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Topchieva IN,Kurganov BI,Teplova MV,Gorskaya IA,Rudakova IP

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of glutaraldehyde (GTA) for cross-linking biological tissue implants has a number of undesirable side effects, including cytotoxicity and induction of calcification. In an attempt to find an improved cross-linking agent for tissue implants, we have evaluated a number of cross-linking procedures shown previousl...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Simmons DM,Kearney JN

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antifungal activity of iturin A and its interaction with erythrocyte membranes were enhanced in the presence of surfactin. The modification of the properties of iturin A was explained by the formation of mixed iturin A-surfactin micelles. Such mixed micelles were easily generated when both lipopeptides were in aqu...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Thimon L,Peypoux F,Maget-Dana R,Roux B,Michel G

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tyrosine phenol-lyase (TPL) gene of Erwinia herbicola was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli, and the complete nucleotide sequence of the gene determined. The TPL gene comprises 1368 bp, encoding 456 amino acids which have 90% amino acid identity with TPL from Citrobacter freundii. After replacing the 5'-fla...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Iwamori S,Oikawa T,Ishiwata K,Makiguchi N

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholesterol esterase modified with polyethylene glycol was able to dissolve in some highly hydrophobic solvents such as benzene and toluene, and catalyze the synthesis of cholesterol linoleate with time dependency in the reverse of the usual reaction in aqueous solvents. Enzymatic cholesterol linoleate synthesis follo...

journal_title：Biotechnology and applied biochemistry

authors： Mori S,Nakata Y,Endo H

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00