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  1. Conventional plant DNA isolation methods are complex, time consuming and require technical expertise. These limitations were overcome using the DNA isolation kits which, however significantly add to the resear...

    Authors: Prassan Choudhary, Sudipta Das, Hillol Chakdar, Arjun Singh, Sanjay Kumar Goswami and Anil Kumar Saxena

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:69

    Content type: Methodology article

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  2. Developmental biology relies to a large extent on the observation and comparison of phenotypic traits through time using high resolution microscopes. In this context, transparent model organisms such as the ze...

    Authors: David Simon Kleinhans and Virginie Lecaudey

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:68

    Content type: Methodology article

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  3. Lymphocyte-activation gene (LAG)3 is a 498 aa transmembrane type I protein acting as an immune inhibitory receptor. It is expressed on activated lymphocytes, natural killer cells and plasmacytoid dendritic cel...

    Authors: Alessandro Ascione, Claudia Arenaccio, Alessandra Mallano, Michela Flego, Mara Gellini, Mauro Andreotti, Craig Fenwick, Giuseppe Pantaleo, Stefano Vella and Maurizio Federico

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:67

    Content type: Research article

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  4. Cry8-like from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) encodes an insecticidal crystal (Cry) protein. Holotrichia parallela (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidae), commonly known as the dark black chafer, is a troublesome pest of soybe...

    Authors: Di Qin, Xiao-Yi Liu, Cristina Miceli, Qi Zhang and Pi-wu Wang

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:66

    Content type: Research article

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  6. Ebola hemorrhagic fever is caused by the Ebola filovirus (EBOV), which is one of the most aggressive infectious agents known worldwide. The EBOV pathogenesis starts with uncontrolled viral replication and subv...

    Authors: Michela Flego, Aldo Frau, Luisa Accardi, Alessandra Mallano, Alessandro Ascione, Mara Gellini, Elisa Fanunza, Stefano Vella, Paola Di Bonito and Enzo Tramontano

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:64

    Content type: Research article

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  7. In the previous study, the cellulolytic Escherichia coli ZH-4 isolated from bovine rumen was found to show extracellular cellulase activity and could degrade cellulose in the culture. The goal of this work was to...

    Authors: Jian Pang, Junshu Wang, Zhanying Liu, Qiancheng Zhang and Qingsheng Qi

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:63

    Content type: Research article

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  8. In personalized medicine, companion diagnostic tests provide additional information to help select a treatment option likely to be optimal for a patient. Although such tests include several techniques for dete...

    Authors: Jr-Kai Huang, Ling Fan, Tao-Yeuan Wang and Pao-Shu Wu

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:62

    Content type: Methodology article

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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:77

  9. Laccases are multicopper oxidases, which are assigned into auxiliary activity family 1 (AA1) in the CAZy database. These enzymes, catalyzing the oxidation of phenolic and nonphenolic substrates coupled to redu...

    Authors: Majid Haddad Momeni, Paolo Bollella, Roberto Ortiz, Esben Thormann, Lo Gorton and Maher Abou Hachem

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:61

    Content type: Research article

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  10. To directly assess the biological role of oligosaccharides in recombinant equine chorionic gonadotropin (rec-eCG) functioning, cDNA encoding the full-length eCGβ-subunit was fused with the mature protein part ...

    Authors: Kwan-Sik Min, Jong-Ju Park, Munkhzaya Byambaragchaa and Myung-Hwa Kang

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:60

    Content type: Research article

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  11. Heparinase I from Pedobacter heparinus (Ph-HepI), which specifically cleaves heparin and heparan sulfate, is one of the most extensively studied glycosaminoglycan lyases. Enzymatic degradation of heparin by hepar...

    Authors: Chuan Zhang, Bao-Cheng Yang, Wen-Ting Liu, Zhong-Yuan Li, Ya-Jian Song, Tong-Cun Zhang and Xue-Gang Luo

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:59

    Content type: Research article

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  12. Efficient xylose fermentation still demands knowledge regarding xylose catabolism. In this study, metabolic flux analysis (MFA) and metabolomics were used to improve our understanding of xylose metabolism. Thu...

    Authors: Henrique C. T. Veras, Christiane G. Campos, Igor F. Nascimento, Patrícia V. Abdelnur, João R. M. Almeida and Nádia S. Parachin

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:58

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  13. The textural characteristics of fermented dairy products are important quality parameters that play a major role in their stability and consumer’s acceptance. The aim of this study was to investigate the influ...

    Authors: Soumaya El Bouchikhi, Philippe Pagès, Yassir El Alaoui, Azeddine Ibrahimi and Yahya Bensouda

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:57

    Content type: Research article

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  14. Smoking and tobacco use continue to be the largest preventable causes of death globally. A novel therapeutic approach has recently been proposed: administration of an enzyme that degrades nicotine, the main ad...

    Authors: Thomas Thisted, Zuzana Biesova, Celine Walmacq, Everett Stone, Max Rodnick-Smith, Shaheda S. Ahmed, Stephen K. Horrigan, Bo Van Engelen, Charles Reed and Matthew W. Kalnik

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:56

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  16. The microbial transglutaminase (MTG) is inactive when only the mature sequence is expressed in Pichia pastoris. Although co-expression of MTG and its N-terminal pro-peptide can obtain the active MTG, the enzyme a...

    Authors: Xiaoping Song, Changsheng Shao, Yugang Guo, Yajie Wang and Jingjing Cai

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:54

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  17. Increasing CO2 emissions have resulted in ocean acidification, affecting marine plant photosynthesis and changing the nutrient composition of marine ecosystems. The physiological and biochemical processes of mari...

    Authors: Aiyou Huang, Songcui Wu, Wenhui Gu, Yuanxiang Li, Xiujun Xie and Guangce Wang

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:53

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  18. Packing materials is a critical design consideration when employing biological reactor to treat malodorous gases. The acidification of packing bed usually results in a significant drop in the removal efficienc...

    Authors: Xiang Tu, Meiying Xu, Jianjun Li, Enze Li, Rongfang Feng, Gang Zhao, Shaobin Huang and Jun Guo

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:52

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  19. A mesophilic xylanase PjxA from Penicillium janthinellum MA21601 has high specific activity under acidic condition and holds great potential for applications in the animal feed industry. To enhance the thermostab...

    Authors: Ke Xiong, Jie Hou, Yuefeng Jiang, Xiuting Li, Chao Teng, Qin Li, Guangsen Fan, Ran Yang and Chengnan Zhang

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:51

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  20. Long Adapter Single-Stranded Oligonucleotide (LASSO) probes were developed as a novel tool for massively parallel cloning of kilobase-long genomic DNA sequences. LASSO dramatically improves the capture length ...

    Authors: Syukri Shukor, Alfred Tamayo, Lorenzo Tosi, H. Benjamin Larman and Biju Parekkadan

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:50

    Content type: Methodology article

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  21. S-Phenyl-L-cysteine is regarded as having potential applicability as an antiretroviral/protease inhibitor for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). In the present study, optically active S-phenyl-L-cysteine was pre...

    Authors: Lisheng Xu, Xingtao Zhang, Guizhen Gao and Sun Yue

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:49

    Content type: Research article

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  22. Engineered vaccine proteins incorporating both antigen and adjuvant components are constructed with the aim of combining functions to induce effective protective immunity. Bacterial flagellin is a strong candi...

    Authors: Casey M. Gries, Rohith R. Mohan, Dimitrios Morikis and David D. Lo

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:48

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  23. Interleukin-17 (IL-17), the characteristic cytokine secreted by T helper 17 lymphocytes (Th17 cells), plays a pivotal role in host defense and many inflammatory or autoimmune diseases. The aim of this study wa...

    Authors: Yang Gao, Feng Feng Sang, De Lan Meng, Yi Wang, Wen Tao Ma and De Kun Chen

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:47

    Content type: Research article

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  24. Natamycin is an antifungal polyene macrolide antibiotic with wide applications in health and food industries. Currently, it is the only antifungal food additive with the GRAS status (Generally Regarded as Safe).

    Authors: Elsayed Ahmed Elsayed, Mohamed A. Farid and Hesham A. El-Enshasy

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:46

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  25. Tobacco stalk (TS), a major agricultural waste abundant in pectin, has resulted in concerns about the need for its reuse. The nicotine in TS is considered a chemical that is to\xic and hazardous to the environ...

    Authors: Ge Zhang, Shugui Li, Yingbo Xu, Juan Wang, Fan Wang, Yuhua Xin, Zhong Shen, Haibo Zhang, Ming Ma and Haobao Liu

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:45

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  26. Engineered therapeutic cells have attracted a great deal of interest due to their potential applications in treating a wide range of diseases, including cancer and autoimmunity. Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)...

    Authors: Alexandre Juillerat, Diane Tkach, Brian W. Busser, Sonal Temburni, Julien Valton, Aymeric Duclert, Laurent Poirot, Stéphane Depil and Philippe Duchateau

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:44

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  27. Proteases are hydrolytic enzymes that catalyze peptide linkage cleavage reactions at the level of proteins and peptides with different degrees of specificity. This group draws the attention of industry. More t...

    Authors: Maroua Omrane Benmrad, Sondes Mechri, Nadia Zaraî Jaouadi, Mouna Ben Elhoul, Hatem Rekik, Sami Sayadi, Samir Bejar, Nabil Kechaou and Bassem Jaouadi

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:43

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  28. Artificial Mitochondrial Transfer or Transplant (AMT/T) can be used to reduce the stress and loss of viability of damaged cells. In MitoCeption, a type of AMT/T, the isolated mitochondria and recipient cells a...

    Authors: Francisco Cabrera, Mayra Ortega, Francesca Velarde, Eliseo Parra, Stephany Gallardo, Diego Barba, Lina Soto, Gabriela Peña, Luis Alberto Pedroza, Christian Jorgensen, Maroun Khoury and Andrés Caicedo

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:42

    Content type: Research article

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  29. Pythium irregulare is an oleaginous Oomycete able to accumulate large amounts of lipids, including Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA). EPA is an important and expensive dietary supplement with a promising and very compe...

    Authors: Bruna S. Fernandes, Oscar Dias, Gisela Costa, Antonio A. Kaupert Neto, Tiago F. C. Resende, Juliana V. C. Oliveira, Diego M. Riaño-Pachón, Marcelo Zaiat, José G. C. Pradella and Isabel Rocha

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:41

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  30. Natural variations in a genome can drastically alter the CRISPR-Cas9 off-target landscape by creating or removing sites. Despite the resulting potential side-effects from such unaccounted for sites, current of...

    Authors: Laurence O. W. Wilson, Sara Hetzel, Christopher Pockrandt, Knut Reinert and Denis C. Bauer

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:40

    Content type: Software

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  31. Aerobic side chain degradation of phytosterols by actinobacteria is the basis for the industrial production of androstane steroids which are the starting materials for the synthesis of steroid hormones. A nati...

    Authors: Eugeny Y. Bragin, Victoria Y. Shtratnikova, Mikhail I. Schelkunov, Dmitry V. Dovbnya and Marina V. Donova

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:39

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  32. Anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha therapy has become clinically important for treating inflammatory bowel disease. However, the use of conventional immunotherapy requires a systemic exposure of patients and col...

    Authors: Maria José Chiabai, Juliana Franco Almeida, Mariana Gabriela Dantas de Azevedo, Suelen Soares Fernandes, Vanessa Bastos Pereira, Raffael Júnio Araújo de Castro, Márcio Sousa Jerônimo, Isabel Garcia Sousa, Leonora Maciel de Souza Vianna, Anderson Miyoshi, Anamelia Lorenzetti Bocca, Andrea Queiroz Maranhão and Marcelo Macedo Brigido

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:38

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  34. CRISPR/Cas9 is widely used for precise genetic editing in various organisms. CRISPR/Cas9 editing may in many plants be hampered by the presence of complex and high ploidy genomes and inefficient or poorly cont...

    Authors: Bent Larsen Petersen, Svenning Rune Möller, Jozef Mravec, Bodil Jørgensen, Mikkel Christensen, Ying Liu, Hans H. Wandall, Eric Paul Bennett and Zhang Yang

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:36

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  35. Viral vectors are invaluable tools to transfer genes and/or regulatory sequences into differentiated cells such as pancreatic cells. To date, several kinds of viral vectors have been used to transduce differen...

    Authors: Olivier Albagli, Alicia Maugein, Lukas Huijbregts, Delphine Bredel, Géraldine Carlier, Patrick Martin and Raphaël Scharfmann

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:35

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  36. In vitro modelling of cancer cells is becoming more complex due to prevailing evidence of intimate interactions between cancer cells and their surrounding stroma. A co-culture system which consists of more tha...

    Authors: Sin-Yeang Teow, Kitson Liew, Mohd Firdaus Che Mat, Marini Marzuki, Norazlin Abdul Aziz, Tai-Lin Chu, Munirah Ahmad and Alan Soo-Beng Khoo

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:34

    Content type: Methodology article

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  38. Few natural product pathways from rare Actinomycetes have been studied due to the difficulty in applying molecular approaches in these genetically intractable organisms. In this study, we sought to identify mo...

    Authors: Hong Gao, Buvani Murugesan, Janina Hoßbach, Stephanie K. Evans, W. Marshall Stark and Margaret C. M. Smith

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:32

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  39. Copy number variation (CNV) plays an important role in human genetic diversity and has been associated with multiple complex disorders. Here we investigate a CNV on chromosome 10q11.22 that spans NPY4R, the gene ...

    Authors: Kateryna Shebanits, Torsten Günther, Anna C. V. Johansson, Khurram Maqbool, Lars Feuk, Mattias Jakobsson and Dan Larhammar

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:31

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  40. The potassium dichromate oxidation method used in determination of alcohols in fermentation has two major disadvantages. This method cannot be used to determine alcohols in raw fermentation broth samples, whic...

    Authors: Peng Zhang, Hao Hai, Dongxu Sun, Weihua Yuan, Weijie Liu, Ruru Ding, Mengting Teng, Lin Ma, Jun Tian and Caifa Chen

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:30

    Content type: Methodology article

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  41. Several types of phospholipases have been described in phospholipids modification. The majority of phospholipase D (PLD) superfamily members can catalyze two separate reactions: the hydrolysis of phospholipids...

    Authors: Haiyang Zhang, Wenqin Chu, Jianan Sun, Zhen Liu, Wen-can Huang, Changhu Xue and Xiangzhao Mao

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:29

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  42. In vivo use of monoclonal antibodies has become routine clinical practice in the treatment of human cancer. CD38 is an attractive target, because it has double roles, as a receptor and an ectoenzyme. Daratumum...

    Authors: Tao Yu, Chunxia Qiao, Ming Lv and Luqun Tang

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:28

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  43. The current limitations of conventional BCG vaccines highlights the importance in developing novel and effective vaccines against tuberculosis (TB). The utilization of probiotics such as Lactobacillus plantarum f...

    Authors: Anhar Danial Mustafa, Jeevanathan Kalyanasundram, Sarah Sabidi, Adelene Ai-Lian Song, Maha Abdullah, Raha Abdul Rahim and Khatijah Yusoff

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:27

    Content type: Methodology article

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  44. Protein solubility characteristics are important determinants of success for recombinant proteins in relation to expression, purification, storage and administration. Escherichia coli offers a cost-efficient expr...

    Authors: M. Alejandro Carballo-Amador, Edward A. McKenzie, Alan J. Dickson and Jim Warwicker

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:26

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  45. The CRISPR/Cas9 system can effectively introduce site-specific modifications to the genome. The efficiency is high enough to induce targeted genome modifications during embryogenesis, thus increasing the effic...

    Authors: Kayla Carey, Junghyun Ryu, Kyungjun Uh, Andrea J. Lengi, Sherrie Clark-Deener, Benjamin A. Corl and Kiho Lee

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:25

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  46. Increasing the content of oleic acid in peanut seeds is one of the major goals in peanut breeding due to consumer and industry benefits, such as anti-oxidation and long shelf-life. Homeologous ahFAD2A and ahFAD2B

    Authors: Mei Yuan, Jun Zhu, Limin Gong, Liangqiong He, Crystal Lee, Suoyi Han, Charles Chen and Guohao He

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:24

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  47. The gene transduction efficiency of adenovirus to hematopoietic cells, especially T lymphocytes, is needed to be improved. The purpose of this study is to improve the transduction efficiency of T lymphocytes b...

    Authors: Yun Lv, Feng-Jun Xiao, Yi Wang, Xiao-Hui Zou, Hua Wang, Hai-Yan Wang, Li-Sheng Wang and Zhuo-Zhuang Lu

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:23

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  48. The importance of the accessory enzymes such as α-L-arabinofuranosidases (AFases) in synergistic interactions within cellulolytic mixtures has introduced a paradigm shift in the search for hydrolytic enzymes. ...

    Authors: Brent Fortune, Sizwe Mhlongo, Leonardo Joaquim van Zyl, Robert Huddy, Mariette Smart and Marla Trindade

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:22

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  49. A robust scalable method for producing enucleated red blood cells (RBCs) is not only a process to produce packed RBC units for transfusion but a potential platform to produce modified RBCs with applications in...

    Authors: Steven Mayers, Pablo Diego Moço, Talha Maqbool, Pamuditha N. Silva, Dawn M. Kilkenny and Julie Audet

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:21

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  50. Baculovirus-mediated expression in insect cells is a powerful approach for protein production. However, many existing methods are time-consuming, offer limited options for protein tagging, and are unsuitable f...

    Authors: Régis P. Lemaitre, Aliona Bogdanova, Barbara Borgonovo, Jeffrey B. Woodruff and David N. Drechsel

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2019 19:20

    Content type: Methodology article

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