12 articles in this issue
Daniela E. Castro, Miguel Murguía-Romero, Patricia E. Thomé, Antonio Peña, Marissa Calderón-Torres
Background: During salt stress, the yeast Debaryomyces hansenii synthesizes tyrosine as a strategy to avoid the oxidation of proteins. Tyrosine reacts with nitrogen radicals to form 3-nitrotyrosine. 3-nitrotyrosine prevents the effects of associated oxida... see more
Dewi Fitriani, Rohman M. Saifur, Irfan D. Prijambada
Background: DegP is a serine protease that specifically cleaves and refolds unfolding proteins in the periplasmic space of the cells. To date, there is no information regarding DegP from halophilic bacteria. Chromohalobacter salexigens BKL5 is a moderatel... see more
Sillma Rampadarath, Kushlata Bandhoa, Daneshwar Puchooa, Rajesh Jeewon, Subhasisa Bal
Background: The past years have witnessed a growing number of researches in biofilm forming communities due to their environmental and maritime industrial implications. To gain a better understanding of the early bacterial biofilm community, microfiber ne... see more
Khaja Moiduddin, Saied Darwish, Abdulrahman Al-Ahmari, Sherif ElWatidy, Ashfaq Mohammad, Wadea Ameen
Background: Reconstruction of customized cranial implants with a mesh structure using computer-assisted design and additive manufacturing improves the implant design, surgical planning, defect evaluation, implant-tissue interaction and surgeon's accuracy.... see more
Xiao-Chun Yu, Shi-Liang Ma, Yan Xu, Cheng-Hao Fu, Chun-Ying Jiang, Chen-Yu Zhou
Background: We aimed to test the possibility of improving polypeptide production from soybean meal fermentation by engineered Aspergillus oryzae strains. Four different protease genes were cloned and transformed into wild-type A. oryzae, and the engineere... see more
Lanju Mei, Na Dong, Fosheng Li, Na Li, Min Yao, Fang Chen, Lin Tang
Background: Idesia polycarpa Maxim. var. vestita Diels, a dioecious plant, is widely used for biodiesel due to the high oil content of its fruits. However, it is hard to distinguish its sex in the seedling stage, which makes breeding and production proble... see more
Hamzeh Alipour, Abbasali Raz, Sedigheh Zakeri, Navid Dinparast Djadid
Background: The salivary glands of Lucilia sericata are the first organs to express specific endopeptidase enzymes. These enzymes play a central role in wound healing, and they have potential to be used therapeutically. Methods: Rapid amplification of cDN... see more
Xiaobo Xu, Ruiqing Zhang, Xinhua Chen
Background: Hydatid disease is a serious parasitic disease threatening public health. Because of its rarity in non-endemic coastal areas, determining the nature and origin of a chronic, enlarged liver cystic mass is challenging in these regions. Under the... see more
Tao Li, Yatong Ding, Jun Zhang, Guobao Jiao, Lipeng Sun, Zhongmin Liu, Liyou Qiu
Background: Pullulanase production in both wild-type strains and recombinantly engineered strains remains low. The Shine-Dalgarno (SD) sequence and stem-loop structure in the 5' or 3' untranslated region (UTR) are well-known determinants of mRNA stability... see more
Ermei Chang, Jin Zhang, Nan Deng, Xiamei Yao, Jianfeng Liu, Xiulian Zhao, Zeping Jiang, Shengqing Shi
Background: Platycladus orientalis has an extremely long life span of several thousands of years, attracting great interests in the mechanisms involved in such successful senescence regulation and resistance at physiological and molecular levels. Results:... see more
Chonticha Mamimin, Poonsuk Prasertsan, Prawit Kongjan, Sompong O-Thong
Background: Biohydrogen effluent contains a high concentration of volatile fatty acid (VFA) mainly as butyric, acetic, lactic and propionic acids. The presence of various VFAs (mixture VFAs) and their cooperative effects on two-stage biohythane production... see more
Parastoo Pourali, Seyyed Hossein Badiee, Sahebali Manafi, Tahereh Noorani, Azadeh Rezaei, Behrooz Yahyaei
Background: Although nanoparticles (NPs) have many advantages, it has been proved that they may be absorbed by and have toxic effects on the human body. Recent research has tried to evaluate and compare the nanotoxicity of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) produ... see more