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Polymer-Based Nanotechnology to Combat the Emergence of Drug Resistance in Bacteria
Multidrug-resistant bacteria are posing a great threat to human beings. To address that challenge, polymer-based nanomaterials have come into the spotlight recently. Polymers have a great variety in chemical c...
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Microbial Compartments and Their Biomedical Applications
Microbial compartments (MCs) are nanostructures mainly composed of proteins and functionally similar to the organelles of eukaryotes. Therefore, MCs are also termed as protein cages. In MCs, toxic or vulnerabl...
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Alginate-Based Inhalable Particles for Controlled Pulmonary Drug Delivery
The drug delivery to the lungs for the treatment of diseases has a very long history, and it has become the priority for respiratory care and attracts much rapidly increasing attention for dealing with local a...
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Genome Editing in Crops to Control Insect Pests
Plants are exposed to several biotic and abiotic stressors. Like other biotic stress factors, insect pests have posed severe concerns regarding yield losses. These pests cause direct and indirect damage to pla...
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Uncultured Actinobacteria and Reverse Engineering and Artificial Intelligence Role in Future
Actinobacteria have been known to the world since the mid-eighteenth century, when Ferdinand Cohn portrayed them as ropy critters. In the nineteenth century, these unidentified morphons became famous for their...
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Nonribosomally and Ribosomally Synthesized Bioactive Peptides (NRPS and RiPPs) from Actinobacteria
From time immemorial, natural products (NPs) are a major source of drugs in the pharmaceutical industry ranging from antibiotics, anti-depressants, anti-inflammatory, anti-tumor, and anti-cancer agents to name...
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Diversity of Actinobacteria in Various Habitats
Actinobacteria are ubiquitous, diverse, and one of the biggest lineages in the domain Bacteria. Their existence has been documented in a variety of habitats, including terrestrial, aquatic, and extreme environmen...
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Outer Membrane Vesicles (OMVs) as a Platform for Vaccination and Targeted Drug Delivery
Outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) are nanoparticles secreted from the bacterial cell surface. They range from 10 to 300 nm in size and possess similar surface characteristics to the cell from which they are deriv...
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Synthesis of Polyols and Organic Acids by Wild-Type and Metabolically Engineered Yarrowia lipolytica Strains
In the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica, sugar polyols and organic acids are derived from central metabolism, namely the citrate cycle and the pentose phosphate pathway. Although these metabolites have numerous applicat...
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Biorhythms of Hens
The study of biorhythms, which are internal responses to external stimuli, is knows as chronobiology. Biorhythms, and their impact on physiological processes, exist across a wide range of different species. He...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Determination of Activity and Extraction of Thrombin from the Porcine Blood
In this paper, thrombin is extracted by the methods of isoelectric precipitation and ammonium sulfate fractionation precipitation from fresh porcine blood. The solution of crude thrombin which was activated by...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Study the Role of E-selectin and Its Ligand sLeX in the Adhesion Between THP-1 Cells and HUVEC Cells
E-selectin (CD62E), a transmembrane glycoprotein, is a C-type lectin that binds to the tetrasaccharide sialyl Lewis X (sLex) structure. E-selectin plays an important role in inflammation and in the adhesion of...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Production of Ethyl Acetate Catalyzed by Activated Carbon-Based Solid Acid Catalyst
In this work, activated carbon-based solid acid catalyst was prepared from baijiu vinasse using a carbonization–sulfonation method and employed to catalyze esterification of acetic acid and ethanol to produce ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Research on γ-Polyglutamic Acid Fermentation with Extract from Waste Beer Yeast
γ-polyglutamic acid (γ-PGA) is a kind of biopolymer with high accessional value, and yeast extract is a crucial raw material for the fermentation of γ-PGA. In this paper, the extraction of yeast extract form t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Novel GH10 Xylanase Xyn13-3 from Alkaline Soil: Gene Cloning and Heterogenous Expression
Xylanase, as critical hemicellulose degrading enzyme, it could degrade xylan into oligosaccharides and has been widely used in medicine, paper-making, animal forage, marine functional foods and textile industr...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Construction and Functional Analysis of Luciferase Reporter Plasmid Containing Vimentin Gene Promoter
Breast cancer is the main cause of cancer deaths in women around the world, and is closely related to metastasis. We know that MRTF-A and STAT3 play an important role in the migration of breast cancer. Vimenti...
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Biological Degradation of Aflatoxin B1 by Emericellopsis sp. 1912 and Sarocladium sp. 10A
Aflatoxin B1 is highly toxic secondary metabolites predominantly produced by some fungi and commonly found in cereals worldwide, which seriously threatens the health of human and animals due to its highly toxi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Comparison of Different Protocols of Gradient Ammonium Sulfate Fractionation of Antibacterial Proteins/Peptides from Clarias gariepinus Wastes
In this study, gradient ammonium sulfate [(NH4)2SO4] precipitation technique was employed to extract antibacterial proteins/peptides from C. gariepinus wastes. 20, 40 and 60% were respectively used as initial sat...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
STAT5A and MKL-1 Activate the Activity of Luciferase Reporter Plasmid Containing FOXP3 Gene Promoter
Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) is a chronic acquired organ-specific autoimmune hemorrhagic disease, It has been proved that the reduce of regulatory T cells (Treg) (CD4+CD25+FOXP3+) was an important ca...
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Study on Ultrasonic-Assisted Extraction of Star Anise Oleoresin from the Fruits of Illicium verum and Preliminary Investigation of Its Antimicrobial Activity
Ultrasonic-assisted extraction of oleoresin from the fruit of Illicium verum was explored. Effects of many parameters on the yield of oleoresin were investigated by single factor experiment and orthogonal experim...
