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Supplement of nutrients for effective cultivation of hepatitis B surface antigen-producing recombinant yeast

In the hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg)-producing recombinant yeast culture medium, the supply of Bacto-yeast nitrogen base without amino acids was found to be inadequate due to the lack of the several kind...

Kyung Hwan Jung, Mahn Hoon Park, Hong Mo Moon, Joon Shick Rhee in Biotechnology Letters (1991)

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Expression of hepatitis B virus polyherase gene in E. coli.

The polymerase gene of the hepatitis B virus was fused with the E. coli Maltose Binding Protein (MBP) and expressed as a fusion protein. Reverse transcriptase activity was detected in purified P protein with the ...

Han Joo Lee, Yong Tae Kwon, Hyune Mo Rho, Guhung Jung in Biotechnology Letters (1993)

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Biological species and morphological characteristics ofArmillaria mellea complex in Hokkaido:A. sinapina and two new species,A. jezoensis andA. singula

Three intersterility groups ofArmillaria mellea sensu lato were discovered by examining all pairwise combinations of monosporous isolates of basidiomes collected in Hokkaido. One of them, group IV, was identified...

Joo Young Cha, Jae Mo Sung, Tsuneo Igarashi in Mycoscience (1994)

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Extracellular alkaline proteases from alkalophilic Vibrio metschnikovii strain RH530

Alkaline proteases, named VapT and VapK, from Gram-negative alkalophilic Vibrio metschnikovii strain RH530 were purified and characterized. Both enzymes had optimum pH and temperature of 10. 5 and 60 °C, respecti...

Yong Tae Kwon, ** Oh Kim, Sun Young Moon, Hyune Hwan Lee… in Biotechnology Letters (1994)

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Controlled lysis ofE. coli double-lysogen by UV-irradiation

Sequential protein production and cell disruption was studied usingE. coli double-lysogen, P90c/(λHL1,ϕ434). The induction of the first prophage λHL1 to produce β-galactosidase by the temperature increase was fol...

Soon-Suk Park, Yoon-Mo Koo in Biotechnology Letters (1994)

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The glucose-dependent transactivation activity of ABF1 on the expression of the TDH3 gene in yeast

Autonomously replicating sequence binding factor 1 (ABF1) has been implicated in the control of a variety of gene expressions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In this paper evidence is presented that ABF1 is involved...

So Young Jung, Hae Yong Yoo, Young Ho Kim, Jiyoung Kim, Hyune Mo Rho in Current Genetics (1995)

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The phylogenetic positions of the conifer genera Amentotaxus, Phyllocladus, and Nageia inferred from 18s rRNA sequences

To determine the evolutionary positions of the conifer genera Amentotaxus, Phyllocladus, and Nageia, we obtained 18S rRNA sequences from 11 new taxa representing the major living orders and families of gymnosperm...

Shu-Miaw Chaw, Huang-Mo Sung, Huei Long, Andrey Zharkikh… in Journal of Molecular Evolution (1995)

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Transcriptional control of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae ADH1 gene by autonomously replicating sequence binding factor 1

Autonomously replicating sequence (ARS)-binding factor 1 (ABF1) is a multifunctional protein involved in transcriptional activation and repression, as well as DNA replication, in yeast. The ADH1 gene, encoding al...

Hae Yong Yoo, So Young Jung, Young Ho Kim, Jiyoung Kim, Guhung Jung… in Current Microbiology (1995)

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Biodegradation of methyl t-butyl ether by pure bacterial cultures

Three pure bacterial cultures degrading methyl t-butyl ether (MTBE) were isolated from activated sludge and fruit of the Gingko tree. They have been classified as belonging to the genuses Methylobacterium, Rhodo...

K. Mo, C. O. Lora, A. E. Wanken, M. Javanmardian… in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (1997)

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Aflatoxin contamination of rice in the United Arab Emirates

Many people in the United Arab Emirates store rice in large quantities for long periods of time before use. Five hundred samples of rice were collected from households in Al-Ain city during the summers of 1992...

NA Osman, AM Abdelgadir, MO Moss, A Bener in Mycotoxin Research (1999)

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Screening and characterization of eicosapentaenoic acid-producing marine bacteria

To obtain eicosapentaenoic acid-producing bacteria, some 3,500 strains of bacteria were isolated from the intestine of marine animals from sea around the Korean peninsula. Forty two eicosapentaenoic acid-produ...

Ki Woong Cho, Sang Jun Mo in Biotechnology Letters (1999)

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Interconversion and disproportionation reaction among cyclodextrin homologues in an aqueous two-phase-forming solution

Interconversion reactions of cyclodextrin glycosyltransferase (CGTase) among cyclodextrin (CD) homologues were experimentally investigated using each CD as a substrate in an aqueous, two-phase-forming polymer ...

Woo-** Chang, Yoon-Mo Koo in Biotechnology Letters (2000)

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Cloning of a New Bacillus thuringiensis cry1I-Type CrystalProtein Gene

Soo-Keun Choi, Byung-Sik Shin, Eun-Mee Kong, Hyune Mo Rho… in Current Microbiology (2000)

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Relative Base Excision Repair in **phophorus Fish Tissue Extracts

To begin characterizing DNA repair capability among **phophorus species, we adapted oligonucleotide-based DNA repair assays to extracts of fish tissues. Here, we report the initial results of relative base excis...

Ronald B. Walter, Huang-Mo Sung, Rebecca D. Obermoeller… in Marine Biotechnology (2001)

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A Simple, Reliable, and Fast Protocol for Thraustochytrid DNA Extraction

DNA extraction of thraustochytrids, common marine unicellular organisms, is usually accomplished by either the cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) or proteinase K protocols. A novel lysis buffer protocol fo...

Caiqing Mo, Baruch Rinkevich in Marine Biotechnology (2001)

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Enantioselective production of levofloxacin by immobilized porcine liver esterase

Porcine liver esterase, which cleaves ofloxacin butyl ester enantioselectively to levofloxacin, was successfully immobilized in calcium alginate and polyacrylamide gel. Immobilized esterase in 5% (w/v) calcium...

Sang-Yoon Lee, Byung-Hyuk Min, Sung-Ho Hwang, Yoon-Mo Koo… in Biotechnology Letters (2001)

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Isolation and characterization of a clay-dispersing polysaccharide produced by the phytopathogenic fungus, Colletotrichum gloeosporioides

The fungus, Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, which is pathogenic to peppers produced an extracellular polysaccharide in liquid culture which possessed clay-dispersing activity. The polysaccharide could bind cation...

Sang Ho Park, Chang Won Choi, Myoung Yong Shim, Won Mok Park… in Biotechnology Letters (2001)

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Design and screening of in vivo expressed antimicrobial peptide library

The genetic library of α-helical amphipathic peptides, 20 amino acid long, was designed and expressed under the T7 promoter in the E. coli JM109(DE3) and BL21 (DE3). Clones that inhibited the growth of the host c...

Kyoung-Chul Choi, Hyeung-Rak Kim, Young-Soo Park, Sang-Mo Park… in Biotechnology Letters (2002)

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Production of Linolenic Acid by Mortierella isabellina Grown on Octadecanol

Mo **an, Yijian Kang, Jicang Yan, Junhong Liu, Yingli Bi… in Current Microbiology (2002)