13 articles in this issue
Xitao Wang, Lili Wang, Xiaoyu Li, Yongping Xu
Background: The alga Laminaria japonica is the most economically important brown seaweed cultured in China, which is used as food and aquatic animal feedstuff. However, the use of L. japonica as a feedstuff in Apostichopus japonicas farming is not ideal b... see more
Jorge Rubio-Piña, Adriana Quiroz-Moreno, Felipe Sánchez-Teyer
Background: Agave tequilana has a great economic importance in Mexico in order to produce alcoholic beverages and bioenergy. However, in this species the structure and organization of the rDNAs in the genome are limited, and it represents an obstacle both... see more
Ameer Khusro, Barathi Kannan Kaliyan, Naif Abdullah Al-Dhabi, Mariadhas Valan Arasu, Paul Agastian
Background: Xylanase from bacteria finds use in prebleaching process and bioconversion of lignocelluloses into feedstocks. The xylanolytic enzyme brings about the hydrolysis of complex biomolecules into simple monomer units. This study aims to optimize th... see more
Gaobing Wu, Tao Zhan, Yiming Guo, Ashok Kumar, Ziduo Liu
Background: Glycine oxidase (GO), a type of D-amino acid oxidase, is of biotechnological interest for its potential in several fields. In our previous study, we have characterized a new glycine oxidase (BceGO) from Bacillus cereus HYC-7. Here, a variant o... see more
Iwona Gientka, Anna l Bzducha-Wróbel, Lidia Stasiak-Rózanska, Aleksandra Agnieszka Bednarska, Stanislaw Blazejak
Background: The exopolysaccharides (EPS) produced by yeast exhibit physico-chemical and rheological properties, which are useful in the production of food and in the cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries as well. The effect was investigated of selected c... see more
Amir Ghaffar Shahriari, Abdolreza Bagheri, Mohammad Reza Bassami, Saeid Malekzadeh-Shafaroudi, Alireza Afsharifar, Ali Niazi
Background: Newcastle disease is an important avian infectious disease that brings about vast economic damage for poultry industry. Transgenic plants represent a cost-effective system for the production of therapeutic proteins and are widely used for the ... see more
Jocksan I. Morales-Camacho, Octavio Paredes-López, Edgar Espinosa-Hernández, Daniel Alejandro Fernández Velasco, Silvia Luna-Suárez
Background: The acidic subunit of amarantin (AAC)—the predominant amaranth seed storage protein—has functional potential and its third variable region (VR) has been modified with antihypertensive peptides to improve this potential. Here, we modified the C... see more
Titus Magomere, Silas Obukosia, Mark Albertsen, Florence Wambugu, Daniel Kamanga, Michael Njuguna, Jim Gaffney, Zuo Yu Zhao, Ping Che, Antony Aseta, Esther Kimani, Evans Mwasame
Background: Introgression of transgenes from crops to their wild species may enhance the adaptive advantage and therefore the invasiveness of and weedy forms. The study evaluated the effect of Africa Biofortified Sorghum (ABS) genes from ABS event 188 on ... see more
Dongming Lan, Man Qu, Bo Yang, Yonghua Wang
Background: A thermostable lipase MAS1 from marine Streptomyces sp. strain was considered as a potential biocatalyst for industrial application, but its production level was relatively low. Here, the effect of chaperones co-expression on the secretory exp... see more
Reda A.I. Abou-Shanab, Manjinder Singh, Anangelica Rivera-Cruz, Grace Power, Thomas Bagby-Moon, Keshav Das
Background: Cultivation of algae for conversion to biofuels has gained global interest. Outdoor raceway cultivation is preferred because of its lower capital and operating costs. A major disadvantage of outdoor cultivation is susceptibility of algal crops... see more
Jinju Zhang, Yun Zhang, Xiaomei Liu, Jingjing Xiang, Chun Zhang
Background: Using recombinant adeno-associated virus 2 (rAAV-2), we attempted to establish a HEK293T cell line that is able to site-specifically integrate and stably express glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF). Results: Recombinant vector w... see more
Maheswara Reddy Mallu, Sandeep Vemula, Srinivasa Reddy Ronda
Background: Antithrombin III (ATIII) is a protein that inhibits abnormal blood clots (or coagulation) by breaking down thrombin and factor Xa. ATIII helps to keep a healthy balance between hemorrhage and coagulation. The present work demonstrated the prod... see more
Xuecheng Zheng, Dongwei Li
Background: Nowadays, leaching-ore bacteria, especially Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans is widely used to retrieve heavy metals, many researches reflected that extra adding microorganism could promote bioleaching efficiency by different mechanisms, but few... see more