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Lu**g Li
Biotechnology
Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology
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Producing N-Containing Chemicals from Biomass for High Performance Thermosets
Chemicals containing nitrogen atoms or N-containing chemicals (NCCs) are pivotal building blocks for polymers and composites that have high interest in technological fields, especially when they can be endowed...
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Catalytic Upgrading of Bio-Based Ketonic Acids to Pyrrolidones with Hydrogen Donor Sources
Comprehensive utilization of biomass resources is necessary for the sustainable production of value-added chemicals and biofuels. For hydrogenative conversion processes, the type of hydrogen donor source among...
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Recovery of Biohydrogen and Biomethane by Anaerobic Fermentation of Organic Solid Waste
Organic solid waste, which mainly consists of biowaste, around the world is increasing at an alarming rate. Much of the carbon in this biowaste originates from photosynthesis of atmospheric CO2. Long before human...
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Mitigation of Microbially Influenced Corrosion of Concrete Sewers Using Nitrite
Sewer systems are essential compartments of urban life, preventing human exposure to unhygienic sewage and sewage-borne diseases. However, microbially influenced concrete corrosion (MICC) occurs in sewers glob...
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Role of Beneficial Microbes in Alleviating Stresses in Plants
Global climatic change has resulted in the increased activity of biotic and abiotic stresses on the agricultural crops and forest ecosystem. To cope with stresses has now become crucial for nature’s survival. ...
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Climate Change and its Effects on Global Food Production
Earth’s population is increasing each year and it has drastic effects on the environment as well as on the global food production. Climate change unfortunately, affects not only humans’ lives but also affects ...
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Acceleration of Microbial Dehalorespiration with Electrical Stimulation
Halogenated organic compounds (HOCs) represent a type of persistent and ubiquitous contaminants. Microbial reductive dehalogenation in bioelectrochemical systems (BES) with organohalide-respiring bacteria (OHR...
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Bioelectro-Fenton System for Environmental Pollutant Degradation
Energy crisis and water pollution are issues of considerable concerns today. In seeking a balance between protection of environment and conservation of energy, the bioelectrochemical system (BES) has been deve...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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Overexpression of the Endo-inulinase Gene from Two Different Sources and Characteristics Analysis
The endo-inulinase genes from Aspergillus niger (A. niger) TCCC41064 and Penicillium sp. TN-88 were inserted into the expression vector pPIC9 K. The recombinant plasmids were subsequently transformed into P. past...
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The Preparation of Chitosan from Corncob Hydrolyzate by Actinomucor elegans
Corncob as agricultural waste contains a large amount of lignocellulose, while lignocellulose is the most abundant and cheap renewable resource on earth. So it is significance to maximize the use of lignocellu...
