abstract：:Escherichia coli is still a very popular host for the production of recombinant proteins at an analytical or industrial scale. Secretion of the proteins into the culture medium or display at the cell surface would be preferred in many applications but is hampered by the complex two-layered cell envelope. The autotrans...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Jong WS,Saurí A,Luirink J

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-free synthetic pathway biotransformation (SyPaB) is the implementation of complicated biochemical reactions by in vitro assembling a number of enzymes or their complexes and coenzymes. Assembly of numerous enzymes without cellular membrane, gene regulation, or undesired pathway can circumvent some of the obstacle...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Zhang YH,Sun J,Zhong JJ

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-assembled peptide systems have been widely studied in the context of gaining understanding of the rules that govern biomolecular processes and increasingly as new bio-inspired nanomaterials. Such materials may be designed to be highly dynamic, displaying adaptive and self-healing properties. This review focuses o...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Sadownik JW,Ulijn RV

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rhizosphere in terrestrial systems is the region of soil surrounding plant roots where there is increased microbial activity; in aquatic plants, this definition may be less clear because of diffusion of nutrients in water, but there is still a zone of influence by plant roots in this environment [1]. Within that z...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Stout L,Nüsslein K

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolomics, as an essential part of genomics studies, intends holistic understanding of metabolic networks through simultaneous analysis of a myriad of both known and unknown metabolites occurring in living organisms. The initial stage of metabolomics was designed for the reproducible analyses of known metabolites b...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Ohta D,Kanaya S,Suzuki H

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterogeneity of industrial production cultures is accepted to a certain degree; however, the underlying mechanisms are seldom perceived or included in the development of new bioprocess control strategies. Population heterogeneity and its basics, perceptible in the diverse proficiency of cells, begins with asymmetric ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Müller S,Harms H,Bley T

更新日期：2010-02-01 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：:The spatiotemporal patterns of ion and metabolite levels in living cells are important in understanding signal transduction and metabolite flux. Imaging approaches using genetically encoded sensors are ideal for detecting such molecule dynamics, which are hard to capture otherwise. Recent years have seen iterative imp...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Okumoto S

更新日期：2010-02-01 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：:Direct reprogramming of somatic cells to a pluripotent state, substantiated only three years prior, is one of the most rapidly developing areas of stem cell research. The generation of patient-derived pluripotent cells applicable to disease modelling, drug screening, toxicology tests and, ultimately, autologous cell-b...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： O'Malley J,Woltjen K,Kaji K

更新日期：2009-10-01 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：:Constructing novel biological systems that function in a robust and predictable manner requires better methods for discovering new functional molecules and for optimizing their assembly in novel biological contexts. By enabling functional diversification and optimization in the absence of detailed mechanistic understa...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Dougherty MJ,Arnold FH

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herbicides are economically important, but the non-point pollution that they cause may disrupt the surrounding environment. Phytoremediation of herbicides has been well studied using conventional plants. Transgenic plants produced for metabolizing herbicides and long-persisting pollutants can be used for phytoremediat...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Kawahigashi H

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soft rot pathogens cause significant losses worldwide in fruit and vegetable production during the growing season and after harvest. These pathogens engage in molecular interactions with their plant hosts via acyl-homoserine lactone (AHL) quorum sensing, pectin metabolites, phenolic acids, and auxin. The AHL-based int...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Charkowski AO

更新日期：2009-04-01 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 use of ultrafast laser pulses in surgery has allowed for unprecedented precision with minimal collateral damage to surrounding tissues. For these reasons, ultrafast laser nanosurgery, as an injury model, has gained tremendous momentum in experimental biology ranging from in vitro manipulations of subcellular struc...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Ben-Yakar A,Bourgeois F

更新日期：2009-02-01 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：:Solventogenic clostridia are strictly anaerobic, endospore forming bacteria that produce a large array of primary metabolites, like butanol, by anaerobically degrading simple and complex carbohydrates, including cellulose and hemicellulose. Two genomes have been sequenced and some genetic tools have been developed, bu...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Papoutsakis ET

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing body of evidence indicates that many cellular reactions within metabolic pathways are catalyzed not by free-floating 'soluble' enzymes, but via one or more membrane-associated multienzyme complexes. This type of macromolecular organization has important implications for the overall efficiency, specificity, a...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Conrado RJ,Varner JD,DeLisa MP

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given that protein-protein interactions (PPIs) regulate nearly every living process; the exploration of global and pathway-specific protein interaction networks is expected to have major implications in the understanding of diseases and for drug discovery. Consequently, the development and application of methodologies...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Suter B,Kittanakom S,Stagljar I

更新日期：2008-08-01 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：:To mitigate some of the potentially deleterious environmental and agricultural consequences associated with current land-based-biofuel feedstocks, we propose the use of biofuels derived from aquatic microbial oxygenic photoautotrophs (AMOPs), more commonly known as cyanobacteria, algae, and diatoms. Herein we review t...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Dismukes GC,Carrieri D,Bennette N,Ananyev GM,Posewitz MC

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nutritional interventions are associated with transient deviations of homeostasis within the human body. The role of a balanced nutrition is, firstly, to ensure an adequate intake of nutrients to efficiently enable all metabolic processes and, secondly, to contribute to sustained human health. This is a new challenge ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Schwager J,Mohajeri MH,Fowler A,Weber P

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragment-based approaches have provided a new paradigm for small-molecule drug discovery. The methodology is complementary to high-throughput screening approaches, starting from fragments of low molecular complexity and high ligand efficiency, and building up to more potent inhibitors. The approach, which depends heav...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Ciulli A,Abell C

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past years, recombinase-based approaches for integrating transgenes into defined chromosomal loci of mammalian cells have gained increasing attention. This method is attractive since it enables to precisely integrate transgenes of interest into pre-defined integration sites, thereby allowing to predict the expr...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Wirth D,Gama-Norton L,Riemer P,Sandhu U,Schucht R,Hauser H

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic engineering for complex or combined traits requires the simultaneous expression of multiple genes, and has been considered as the bottleneck for the next generation of genetic engineering in plants. Minichromosome technology provides one solution to the stable expression and maintenance of multiple transgenes ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Yu W,Han F,Birchler JA

更新日期：2007-10-01 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：:Regulatory networks of transcription factors and signaling molecules lie at the heart of development. Their architecture implements logic functions whose execution propels cells from one regulatory state to the next, thus driving development forward. As an example of a subcircuit that translates transcriptional input ...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Materna SC,Davidson EH

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Originally proposed one decade ago, the idea of engineering proteins outside the immunoglobulin family for novel binding functions has evolved as a powerful technology. Several classes of protein scaffolds proved to yield reagents with specificities and affinities in a range that was previously considered unique to an...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Skerra A

更新日期：2007-08-01 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：:Transgene expression from the chloroplast (plastid) genome offers several attractions to plant biotechnologists, including high-level accumulation of foreign proteins, transgene stacking in operons and a lack of epigenetic interference with the stability of transgene expression. In addition, the technology provides an...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Bock R

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Redox enzymes in bioelectronic devices usually lack direct electrical contact with electrodes, owing to the spatial separation of their redox centers from the conductive surfaces by the protein shells. The reconstitution of apo-enzymes on cofactor-functionalized nanostructures associated with electrodes provides a mea...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Willner B,Katz E,Willner I

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Efforts to develop culture technologies capable of eliciting robust human blood stem cell growth have met with limited success. Considering that adult stem cell cultures are complex systems, comprising multiple cell types with dynamically changing intracellular signalling environments and cellular compositions, this i...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Kirouac DC,Zandstra PW

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the ambitions of synthetic biology approach genome-scale engineering, comprehensive characterization of cellular systems is required, as well as a means to accurately model cell-scale molecular interactions. These requirements are coincident with the goals of systems biology and, thus, systems biology will become t...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Barrett CL,Kim TY,Kim HU,Palsson BØ,Lee SY

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conservation and sustainable use of freshwater resources is of global importance. Microorganisms are not only the most abundant organisms in natural freshwater systems, but are also key players in ecological processes controlling water quality. Detailed knowledge of the diversity and function of microorganisms dwe...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Hahn MW

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Steady increases in the average sulfur content of petroleum and stricter environmental regulations concerning the sulfur content have promoted studies of bioprocessing to upgrade fossil fuels. Bioprocesses can potentially provide a solution to the need for improved and expanded fuel upgrading worldwide, because biopro...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Kilbane JJ 2nd

更新日期：2006-06-01 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：:Lactococcus lactis is the primary model organism for lactic acid bacteria (LAB) and is widely used in the production of fermented dairy products. In recent years there has been increasing interest in strains isolated from non-dairy environments, as these exhibit a high metabolic diversity and have unique flavour-formi...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： van Hylckama Vlieg JE,Rademaker JL,Bachmann H,Molenaar D,Kelly WJ,Siezen RJ

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolomics consists of strategies to quantitatively identify cellular metabolites and to understand how trafficking of these biochemical messengers through the metabolic network influences phenotype. The application of metabolomics to fungi has been strongly pursued because these organisms are widely used for the pr...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Jewett MC,Hofmann G,Nielsen J

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stable-isotope probing (SIP) of environmental genomic DNA allows populations in a natural microbial community to be identified through the incorporation of (13)C- or (15)N-labeled substrates into biomass. The isotopically labeled DNA is retrieved by density gradient centrifugation, and active microorganisms identified...

journal_title：Current opinion in biotechnology

authors： Friedrich MW

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00