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  3. Human α1-proteinase inhibitor (α1-PI), also known as antitrypsin, is the most abundant serine protease inhibitor (serpin) in plasma. Its deficiency is associated with development of progressive, ultimately fatal ...

    Authors: Elena Karnaukhova, Yakir Ophir, Loc Trinh, Nimish Dalal, Peter J Punt, Basil Golding and Joseph Shiloach

    Citation: Microbial Cell Factories 2007 6:34

    Content type: Research

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  5. The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a well-established model system for understanding fundamental cellular processes relevant to higher eukaryotic organisms. Less known is its value for virus research, an area ...

    Authors: Rui P Galao, Nicoletta Scheller, Isabel Alves-Rodrigues, Tanja Breinig, Andreas Meyerhans and Juana Díez

    Citation: Microbial Cell Factories 2007 6:32

    Content type: Review

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  6. The increasing commercial demand for L-carnitine has led to a multiplication of efforts to improve its production with bacteria. The use of different cell environments, such as growing, resting, permeabilized,...

    Authors: Vicente Bernal, Ángel Sevilla, Manuel Cánovas and José L Iborra

    Citation: Microbial Cell Factories 2007 6:31

    Content type: Review

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  7. The rational design of L-phenylalanine (L-Phe) overproducing microorganisms has been successfully achieved by combining different genetic strategies such as inactivation of the phosphoenolpyruvate: phosphotran...

    Authors: José Luis Báez-Viveros, Noemí Flores, Katy Juárez, Patricia Castillo-España, Francisco Bolivar and Guillermo Gosset

    Citation: Microbial Cell Factories 2007 6:30

    Content type: Research

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  8. Thioredoxin (TRX) is a powerful disulfide oxido-reductase that catalyzes a wide spectrum of redox reactions in the cell. The aim of this study is to elucidate the role of the TRX system in the oxidative stress...

    Authors: L Mariela Serrano, Douwe Molenaar, Michiel Wels, Bas Teusink, Peter A Bron, Willem M de Vos and Eddy J Smid

    Citation: Microbial Cell Factories 2007 6:29

    Content type: Research

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  9. Natural allergen sources can supply large quantities of authentic allergen mixtures for use as immunotherapeutics. However, such extracts are complex, difficult to define, vary from batch to batch, which may l...

    Authors: Jacob Glenting, Lars K Poulsen, Kentaro Kato, Søren M Madsen, Hanne Frøkiær, Camilla Wendt and Helle W Sørensen

    Citation: Microbial Cell Factories 2007 6:28

    Content type: Research

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  11. It is now more than 10 years since the publication of the first microbial genome sequence and science is now moving towards a post genomic era with transcriptomics and proteomics offering insights into cellula...

    Authors: Robert LJ Graham, Ciaren Graham and Geoff McMullan

    Citation: Microbial Cell Factories 2007 6:26

    Content type: Review

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  12. Exposure to nickel (Ni) and its chemical derivatives has been associated with severe health effects in human. On the contrary, poor knowledge has been acquired on target physiological processes or molecular me...

    Authors: Anna M Salzano, Ferdinando Febbraio, Tiziana Farias, Giovanni P Cetrangolo, Roberto Nucci, Andrea Scaloni and Giuseppe Manco

    Citation: Microbial Cell Factories 2007 6:25

    Content type: Research

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  13. An important objective in developing new drugs is the achievement of high specificity to maximize curing effect and minimize side-effects, and high specificity is an integral part of the antisense approach. Th...

    Authors: Louise Carøe Vohlander Rasmussen, Hans Uffe Sperling-Petersen and Kim Kusk Mortensen

    Citation: Microbial Cell Factories 2007 6:24

    Content type: Review

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  14. For many microbial processes, the complexity of the metabolisms and the responses to transient and realistic conditions are difficult to capture in mechanistic models. The cells seem to have an innate intellig...

    Authors: Pratap R Patnaik

    Citation: Microbial Cell Factories 2007 6:23

    Content type: Research

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  15. Human immune cells generate large amounts of reactive oxygen species (ROS) throughout the respiratory burst that occurs during inflammation. In inflammatory bowel diseases, a sustained and abnormal activation ...

    Authors: Tatiana Rochat, Luis Bermúdez-Humarán, Jean-Jacques Gratadoux, Christel Fourage, Christine Hoebler, Gérard Corthier and Philippe Langella

    Citation: Microbial Cell Factories 2007 6:22

    Content type: Research

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  16. The analysis of transcriptional levels of the genes involved in protein synthesis and secretion is a key factor to understand the host organism's responses to recombinant protein production, as well as their i...

    Authors: David Resina, Mónika Bollók, Narendar K Khatri, Francisco Valero, Peter Neubauer and Pau Ferrer

    Citation: Microbial Cell Factories 2007 6:21

    Content type: Research

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  17. Streptokinase (SK) is a potent plasminogen activator with widespread clinical use as a thrombolytic agent. It is naturally secreted by several strains of beta-haemolytic streptococci. The low yields obtained i...

    Authors: Elsa Pimienta, Julio C Ayala, Caridad Rodríguez, Astrid Ramos, Lieve Van Mellaert, Carlos Vallín and Jozef Anné

    Citation: Microbial Cell Factories 2007 6:20

    Content type: Research

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  18. Corynebacterium glutamicum has several anaplerotic pathways (anaplerosis), which are essential for the productions of amino acids, such as lysine and glutamate. It is still not clear how flux changes in anaplerot...

    Authors: Tomokazu Shirai, Koki Fujimura, Chikara Furusawa, Keisuke Nagahisa, Suteaki Shioya and Hiroshi Shimizu

    Citation: Microbial Cell Factories 2007 6:19

    Content type: Research

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  19. Genetic factors and a dysregulated immune response towards commensal bacteria contribute to the pathogenesis of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). Animal models demonstrated that the normal intestinal flora is ...

    Authors: Asgar Ergin, Konrad Büssow, Joachim Sieper, Andreas Thiel, Rainer Duchmann and Thomas Adam

    Citation: Microbial Cell Factories 2007 6:18

    Content type: Research

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  20. Commercial medium (Pharmamedia) was investigated for the production of surfactin by Bacillus subtilis MZ-7. Different media (defined, semi-defined, and complex media) were compared for the production of surfactin...

    Authors: Muaaz Mutaz Al-Ajlani, Muhammad Abid Sheikh, Zeeshan Ahmad and Shahida Hasnain

    Citation: Microbial Cell Factories 2007 6:17

    Content type: Research

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  21. Despite the fact that many reports deal with glycolysis in Lactococcus lactis, there is not much information on the regulation of uptake of glucose itself. The aim of the present work was to investigate the effec...

    Authors: Maria Papagianni, Nicholaos Avramidis and George Filiousis

    Citation: Microbial Cell Factories 2007 6:16

    Content type: Research

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  22. Together with the development of optical sensors, fluorometry is becoming an increasingly attractive tool for the monitoring of cultivation processes. In this context, the green fluorescence protein (GFP) has ...

    Authors: Anna Surribas, David Resina, Pau Ferrer and Francisco Valero

    Citation: Microbial Cell Factories 2007 6:15

    Content type: Research

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  24. Vanillin is one of the most important aromatic flavour compounds used in the food and cosmetic industries. Natural vanillin is extracted from vanilla beans and is relatively expensive. Moreover, the consumer d...

    Authors: Paolo Barghini, Diana Di Gioia, Fabio Fava and Maurizio Ruzzi

    Citation: Microbial Cell Factories 2007 6:13

    Content type: Research

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  25. Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are attractive tools to deliver therapeutic molecules at the mucosal level. The model LAB Lactococcus lactis has been intensively used to produce and deliver such heterologous proteins....

    Authors: Stéphane Hazebrouck, Laetitia Pothelune, Vasco Azevedo, Gérard Corthier, Jean-Michel Wal and Philippe Langella

    Citation: Microbial Cell Factories 2007 6:12

    Content type: Research

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  26. All organisms living under aerobic atmosphere have powerful mechanisms that confer their macromolecules protection against oxygen reactive species. Microorganisms have developed biomolecule-protecting systems ...

    Authors: Ebert S Hanna, Maria-Cristina Roque-Barreira, Emerson S Bernardes, Ademilson Panunto-Castelo, Marcelo V Sousa, Igor C Almeida and Marcelo Brocchi

    Citation: Microbial Cell Factories 2007 6:11

    Content type: Research

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  27. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is widely utilized in basic research as a model eukaryotic organism and in biotechnology as a host for heterologous protein production. Both activities demand the use of highly regulated ...

    Authors: María J Quintero, Douglas Maya, Miguel Arévalo-Rodríguez, Ángel Cebolla and Sebastián Chávez

    Citation: Microbial Cell Factories 2007 6:10

    Content type: Technical Notes

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  30. Several aspects of alginate and PHB synthesis in Azotobacter vinelandii at a molecular level have been elucidated in articles published during the last ten years. It is now clear that alginate and PHB synthesis a...

    Authors: Enrique Galindo, Carlos Peña, Cinthia Núñez, Daniel Segura and Guadalupe Espín

    Citation: Microbial Cell Factories 2007 6:7

    Content type: Review

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  31. Fluxome analysis aims at the quantitative analysis of in vivo carbon fluxes in metabolic networks, i. e. intracellular activities of enzymes and pathways. It allows investigating the effects of genetic or envi...

    Authors: Christoph Wittmann

    Citation: Microbial Cell Factories 2007 6:6

    Content type: Review

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  32. Two heterologous pathways have been used to construct recombinant xylose-fermenting Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains: i) the xylose reductase (XR) and xylitol dehydrogenase (XDH) pathway and ii) the xylose isomer...

    Authors: Kaisa Karhumaa, Rosa Garcia Sanchez, Bärbel Hahn-Hägerdal and Marie-F Gorwa-Grauslund

    Citation: Microbial Cell Factories 2007 6:5

    Content type: Research

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  33. With advances in robotics, computational capabilities, and the fabrication of high quality glass slides coinciding with increased genomic information being available on public databases, microarray technology ...

    Authors: Pratik Jaluria, Konstantinos Konstantopoulos, Michael Betenbaugh and Joseph Shiloach

    Citation: Microbial Cell Factories 2007 6:4

    Content type: Review

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  34. P. multocida is a Gram-negative pathogen responsible for causing diseases in animals of economic significance to livestock industries throughout the world. Current vaccines include bacterins, which provide only l...

    Authors: Keith Al-Hasani, John Boyce, Victoria P McCarl, Stephen Bottomley, Ian Wilkie and Ben Adler

    Citation: Microbial Cell Factories 2007 6:3

    Content type: Research

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  35. Recombinant antibodies are essential reagents for research, diagnostics and therapy. The well established production host Escherichia coli relies on the secretion into the periplasmic space for antibody synthesis...

    Authors: Eva Jordan, Michael Hust, Andreas Roth, Rebekka Biedendieck, Thomas Schirrmann, Dieter Jahn and Stefan Dübel

    Citation: Microbial Cell Factories 2007 6:2

    Content type: Research

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  36. Recombinant proteins expressed in Escherichia coli vectors are generally contaminated with endotoxin. In this study, we evaluated the ability of Polymyxin B to neutralize the effect of LPS present as contaminant ...

    Authors: Luciana S Cardoso, Maria Ilma Araujo, Alfredo M Góes, Lucila G Pacífico, Ricardo R Oliveira and Sergio C Oliveira

    Citation: Microbial Cell Factories 2007 6:1

    Content type: Research

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  37. The β-galactosidase from Kluyveromyces lactis is a protein of outstanding biotechnological interest in the food industry and milk whey reutilization. However, due to its intracellular nature, its industrial produ...

    Authors: Ángel Pereira Rodríguez, Rafael Fernández Leiro, M Cristina Trillo, M Esperanza Cerdán, M Isabel González Siso and Manuel Becerra

    Citation: Microbial Cell Factories 2006 5:41

    Content type: Research

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  38. The final aim of recombinant protein production is both to have a high specific production rate and a high product quality. It was already shown that using cold-adapted bacteria as host vectors, some "intracta...

    Authors: Angela Maria Cusano, Ermenegilda Parrilli, Gennaro Marino and Maria Luisa Tutino

    Citation: Microbial Cell Factories 2006 5:40

    Content type: Research

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  39. Methylotrophic yeasts such as Candida boidinii, Hansenula polymorpha, Pichia methanolica and Pichia pastoris are an emerging group of eukaryotic hosts for recombinant protein production with an ever increasing nu...

    Authors: Franz S Hartner and Anton Glieder

    Citation: Microbial Cell Factories 2006 5:39

    Content type: Review

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  40. Messenger RNA decay is an important mechanism for controlling gene expression in all organisms. The rate of the mRNA degradation directly affects the steady state concentration of mRNAs and therefore influence...

    Authors: Christian Kemmer and Peter Neubauer

    Citation: Microbial Cell Factories 2006 5:38

    Content type: Research

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  41. Secretion of heterologous proteins depends both on biomass concentration and on the specific product secretion rate, which in turn is not constant at varying specific growth rates. As fed batch processes usual...

    Authors: Michael Maurer, Manfred Kühleitner, Brigitte Gasser and Diethard Mattanovich

    Citation: Microbial Cell Factories 2006 5:37

    Content type: Research

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  42. During the last years B. megaterium was continuously developed as production host for the secretion of proteins into the growth medium. Here, recombinant production and export of B. megaterium ATCC14945 penicilli...

    Authors: Yang Yang, Rebekka Biedendieck, Wei Wang, Martin Gamer, Marco Malten, Dieter Jahn and Wolf-Dieter Deckwer

    Citation: Microbial Cell Factories 2006 5:36

    Content type: Research

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  43. Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are widely used in food industry and their growth performance is important for the quality of the fermented product. During industrial processes changes in temperature may represent ...

    Authors: Cristiana Castaldo, Rosa A Siciliano, Lidia Muscariello, Rosangela Marasco and Margherita Sacco

    Citation: Microbial Cell Factories 2006 5:35

    Content type: Research

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  44. Although understanding of physiological interactions between plasmid DNA and its host is important for vector design and host optimization in many biotechnological applications, to our knowledge, global studie...

    Authors: Zhijun Wang, Li Xiang, Junjie Shao, Alicja Węgrzyn and Grzegorz Węgrzyn

    Citation: Microbial Cell Factories 2006 5:34

    Content type: Research

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  45. Yeasts provide attractive expression platforms in combining ease of genetic manipulation and fermentation of a microbial organism with the capability to secrete and to modify proteins according to a general eu...

    Authors: Gerhard Steinborn, Erik Böer, Anja Scholz, Kristina Tag, Gotthard Kunze and Gerd Gellissen

    Citation: Microbial Cell Factories 2006 5:33

    Content type: Research

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  46. Industrial fermentation typically uses complex nitrogen substrates which consist of mixture of amino acids. The uptake of amino acids is known to be mediated by several amino acid transporters with certain pre...

    Authors: Prashant M Bapat, Debasish Das, Sujata V Sohoni and Pramod P Wangikar

    Citation: Microbial Cell Factories 2006 5:32

    Content type: Research

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  47. Fungal laccases are useful enzymes for industrial applications; they exhibit broad substrate specificity and thus are able to oxidize a variety of xenobiotic compounds including chlorinated phenolics, syntheti...

    Authors: Maria Chiara Colao, Stefania Lupino, Anna Maria Garzillo, Vincenzo Buonocore and Maurizio Ruzzi

    Citation: Microbial Cell Factories 2006 5:31

    Content type: Research

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