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Recent Progress in Microbial Cultivation Techniques
Recent advances in the improvement of microbial cultivation are reviewed, with emphasis on biochemical engineering techniques as a means of obtaining... -
Transgenic Birds for the Production of Recombinant Proteins
Transgenic birds were expected to be an excellent transgenic bioreactor for the production of recombinant pharmaceutical proteins. However, the only... -
High Rate Production of Hydrogen/Methane from Various Substrates and Wastes
To treat soluble and solid wastes and recover energy from them, high rate methane fermentation, especially using the UASB (upflow anaerobic sludge... -
Cell-free Protein Synthesis Systems: Increasing their Performance and Applications
The Escherichia coli cell-free protein synthesis system can now be used for various proteins that need special requirements, such as disulfide bond... -
Application of Knowledge Information Processing Methods to Biochemical Engineering, Biomedical and Bioinformatics Fields
In biochemical and biomedical engineering fields there are a variety of phenomena with many complex chemical reactions, in which many genes and... -
Crystallographic Studies of Native and Mutant Orotidine 5′phosphate Decarboxylases
This review aims to use the results of an approach combining crystallographic structure analysis with mutational studies as a framework for the... -
Functions of Rab GTPases in organelle biogenesis
Rab GTPases regulate diverse aspects of the biogenesis of secretory and endocytic organelles. The conformational changes that accompany GTP binding... -
Nanoscale Objects: Perspectives Regarding Methodologies for Their Assembly, Covalent Stabilization, and Utilization
In this review, we highlight some of the most recent advances in the design and utilization of organic nanoscale objects. Initially discussed is the... -
Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes
Through functionalization of carbon nanotubes, i.e., the attachment of appropriate chemical functionalities onto their conjugated sp2 carbon... -
Chemical Signalling in Beetles
This chapter reviews chemical structures of biologically active, volatile compounds in beetles. Techniques used for structure elucidation are briefly... -
Enzymatic Polymerization to Polysaccharides
Polysaccharides are formed by repeated glycosylations between a sugar donor and a sugar acceptor. This chapter reviews the in vitro synthesis of... -
PEGylation of Proteins as Tailored Chemistry for Optimized Bioconjugates
The high potential of peptides and proteins as therapeutic agents has not been fully exploited because of their common shortcomings: the only... -
Polymer Therapeutics for Cancer: Current Status and Future Challenges
Drug delivery systems for cancer therapeutics have revolutionized medicine. Delivery systems have improved the efficacy and reduced the toxicity of... -
Polypeptide and Polypeptide Hybrid Copolymer Synthesis via NCA Polymerization
This article summarizes recent developments in the synthesis of polypeptides and hybrid peptide copolymers. Traditional methods used to polymerize... -
Gene Delivery Using Polymer Therapeutics
The use of polymers as synthetic non-viral carriers for introducing nucleic acids into cells appears very appealing. Polymers can be generated in... -
Nanostructured Devices Based on Block Copolymer Assemblies for Drug Delivery: Designing Structures for Enhanced Drug Function
Block copolymers spontaneously assemble into nanoscaled polymeric micelles, which have significant potential as drug carriers. Following much work... -
Polymer Therapeutics: Polymers as Drugs, Drug and Protein Conjugates and Gene Delivery Systems: Past, Present and Future Opportunities
As the 21st century begins we are witnessing a paradigm shift in medical practice. Whereas the use of polymers in biomedical materials applications... -
Synthesis of Phenol Polymers Using Peroxidases
This chapter deals with the peroxidase-catalyzed polymerization of phenol and its derivatives. Such a polymerization needs an oxidation reagent,... -
Solution Properties of Polypeptide-based Copolymers
The aggregation behaviour of biomimetic polypeptide hybrid copolymers and copolypeptides is here reviewed with a particular eye on the occurrence... -