13 articles in this issue
Lingmo Chang, Huan Sun, Hua Yang, Xuehua Wang, Zhizhe Su, Fang Chen, Wei Wei
Background: Ascorbic acid (Asc) is one of the most abundant antioxidants and it serves as a major contributor to protect plants against oxidative damage. Plants use two enzymes that participate in the metabolic recycling of Asc. One of these two enzymes i... see more
Shuzhen Zhao, Aiqin Li, Changsheng Li, Han Xia, Chuanzhi Zhao, Ye Zhang, Lei Hou, Xingjun Wang
Background: Cultivated peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is a major oilseed crop worldwide. Fatty acid composition of peanut oil may affect the flavor and shelf life of the resulting food products. Oleic acid and linoleic acid are the major fatty acids of pean... see more
Anfeng Xiao, Qiong Xiao, Yan Lin, Hui Ni, Yanbing Zhu, Huinong Cai
Background: A simple and efficient strategy for agarase immobilization was developed with carboxyl-functionalized magnetic nanoparticles (CMNPs) as support. The CMNPs and immobilized agarase (agarase-CMNPs) were characterized by transmission electron micr... see more
Guojing Xu, Dongwei Li, Binquan Jiao, Dou Li, Yajie Yin, Limei Lun, Ziqiang Zhao, Shan Li
Background: Biomineralization is a significant process performed by living organisms in which minerals are produced through the hardening of biological tissues. Herein, we focus on calcium carbonate precipitation, as part of biomineralization, to be used ... see more
Przemyslaw Zalewski, Robert Skibinski, Daria Szymanowska-Powalowska, Hanna Piotrowska, Waldemar Bednarski, Judyta Cielecka-Piontek
Background: The radiation sterilization is one of the best methods for sterilizing vulnerable degradation drugs like cefozopran hydrochloride. Results: Chemical stability of radiosterylized cefozopran hydrochloride, was confirmed by spectrophotometric and... see more
Juhua Liu Liu, Pengzhao Gao, Xiuxiu Sun, Jing Zhang, Peiguang Sun, Jiashui Wang, Caihong Jia, Jianbin Zhang, Wei Hu, Biyu Xu, Zhiqiang Jin
Background: Banana (Musa spp.) is an important staple food, economic crop, and nutritional fruit worldwide. Conventional breeding has been seriously hampered by their long generation time, polyploidy, and sterility of most cultivated varieties. Establishm... see more
Duniesky Martínez, Carmen Menéndez, Lázaro Hernández, Alina Sobrino, Luis E. Trujillo, Ivan Rodríguez, Enrique R Pérez
Background: Invert sugar is used greatly in food and pharmaceutical industries. This paper describes scaling-up batch conditions for sucrose inversion catalyzed by the recombinant Pichia pastoris BfrA4X whole cells expressing Thermotoga maritima invertase... see more
Deng Nan, Liu Caixia, Chang Ermei, Ji Jing, Yao Xiamei, Yue Jianyun, Igor Bartish, Chen Lanzhen, Jiang Zeping, Shengqing Shi
Background: Gnetum parvifolium stems and roots have been used for a long time in traditional Chinese medicines. Stilbenes are bioactive compounds present in G. parvifolium plants, and they possess antioxidative and anticancer properties. However, little i... see more
Lei Yan, Huixin Hu, Shuang Zhang, Peng Chen, Weidong Wang, Hongyu Li
Background: Traditional methods of obtaining arsenic have disadvantages such as high cost and high energy consumption. Realgar is one of the most abundant arsenic sulphide minerals and usually treated as waste in industry. The aim of the present study was... see more
Emky Valdebenito-Rolack, Nathaly Ruiz-Tagle, Leslie Abarzúa, Germán Aroca, Homero Urrutia
Background: Sulphur-oxidizing microorganisms are widely used in the biofiltration of total reduced sulphur compounds (odorous and neurotoxic) produced by industries such as the cellulose and petrochemical industries, which include high-temperature process... see more
Guangxian Zhou, Chao Yuan, Xiaolin He, Danju Kang, Xiaolong Wang, Yulin Chen
Background: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are endogenous noncoding RNAs that regulate various biological processes. miR-125b is a miRNA that has been reported to be critical for hair follicle (HF) morphogenesis and development. We identified that the expression of m... see more
Chao Lei, Weilie Bei, Xueying Wang, Xiaodong Du, Yu Jiao, Ronglian Huang, Qingheng Wang, Yuewen Deng
Background: Pearl oyster Pinctada fucata martensii is cultured for producing round nucleated pearls. Pearl production involves a surgical operation where a mantle tissue graft from a donor oyster and a round nucleus are implanted in the gonad of a host oy... see more
Apolinaria García, Karen Navarro, Enrique Sanhueza, Susana Pineda, Edgar Pastene, Manuel Quezada, Karem Henríquez, Andrey Karlyshev, Julio Villena, Carlos González
Background: Helicobacter pylori is considered as the main risk factor in the development of gastric cancer. In the present study, we performed a detailed characterization of the probiotic properties and the anti-H. pylori activity of a previously isolated... see more