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  3. 4-vinylphenols produced by phenolic acid degradation catalyzed by phenolic acid decarboxylase can be used in food additives as well as flavor and fragrance industry. Improving the catalytic characters of pheno...

    Authors: Qin Li, Ying Xia, Ting Zhao, Yuanyuan Gong, Shangling Fang and Maobin Chen

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2021 21:44

    Content type: Research

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  4. The ability to achieve high peak viable cell density earlier in CHO cell culture and maintain an extended cell viability throughout the production process is highly desirable to increase recombinant protein yi...

    Authors: Laura Bryan, Michael Henry, Ronan M. Kelly, Christopher C. Frye, Matthew D. Osborne, Martin Clynes and Paula Meleady

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2021 21:43

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  5. Protein C receptor (Procr) has recently been shown to mark resident adult stem cells in the mammary gland, vascular system, and pancreatic islets. More so, high Procr expression was also detected and used as i...

    Authors: Ting Wu, Yinghua Wang, Tianxiong Xiao, Yirui Ai, Jinsong Li, Yi Arial Zeng and Qing Cissy Yu

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2021 21:42

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  6. CCR6 chemokine receptor is an important target in inflammatory diseases. Th17 cells express CCR6 and a number of inflammatory cytokines, including IL-17 and IL-22, which are involved in the propagation of infl...

    Authors: Sara Gómez-Melero, Fé Isabel García-Maceira, Tania García-Maceira, Verónica Luna-Guerrero, Gracia Montero-Peñalvo, Isaac Túnez-Fiñana and Elier Paz-Rojas

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2021 21:41

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  7. Most commercial phycocyanins are extracted from a filamentous cyanobacterium, Arthrospira (Spirulina) platensis. Owing to the expenses of culture and complexities of the physical and chemical methods of phycocyan...

    Authors: Jinichi Aoki, Daisaku Sasaki and Munehiko Asayama

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2021 21:40

    Content type: Research

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  8. HSPB5 is an ATP-independent molecular chaperone that is induced by heat shock or other proteotoxic stresses. HSPB5 is cytoprotective against stress both intracellularly and extracellularly. It acts as a potent...

    Authors: Jing Li, Jingjing Yu, Wenxian Xue, Huili Huang, Longjun Yan, Fan Sang, Shuangshuang An, Jing Zhang, Mingli Wang, Jun Zhang, Hui Li, Xiukun Cui, Jiang He and Yanzhong Hu

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2021 21:39

    Content type: Research

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  9. Neuroinflammation has been identified to be the key player in most neurodegenerative diseases. If neuroinflammation is left to be unresolved, chronic neuroinflammation will be establish. Such situation is due ...

    Authors: M. A. F. Yahaya, A. R. Abu Bakar, J. Stanslas, N. Nordin, M. Zainol and M. Z. Mehat

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2021 21:38

    Content type: Research

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  10. Laccases (EC 1.10.3.2) are multi-copper oxidoreductases with great biotechnological importance due to their high oxidative potential and utility for removing synthetic dyes, oxidizing phenolic compounds, and d...

    Authors: Leidy D. Ardila-Leal, Pedro A. Monterey-Gutiérrez, Raúl A. Poutou-Piñales, Balkys E. Quevedo-Hidalgo, Johan F. Galindo and Aura M. Pedroza-Rodríguez

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2021 21:37

    Content type: Research

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  11. DNA testing in the cattle industry undergoes multiple hurdles. Successful genotyping involves the transportation of samples from the field to the laboratory in a chilled environment followed by DNA extraction,...

    Authors: R. R. Alyethodi, U. Singh, S. Kumar, R. Alex, G. S. Sengar, T. V. Raja, R. Deb and B. Prakash

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2021 21:36

    Content type: Methodology article

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  12. The purpose of this study was to develop a reliable DNA extraction protocol to use on individual Teladorsagia circumcincta nematode specimens to produce high quality DNA for genome sequencing and phylogenetic ana...

    Authors: S. Sloan, C. J. Jenvey, D. Piedrafita, S. Preston and M. J. Stear

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2021 21:35

    Content type: Research article

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  13. Diphtheria is a bacterial disease which is caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae. The symptoms are due to the diphtheria toxin produced by the bacteria. Antibiotic therapy and the use of diphtheria antitoxin is a...

    Authors: Morteza Rezaeifard, Roya Solhi, Mohammad Mohammadi, Ebrahim Abbasi and Mahdi Aminian

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2021 21:34

    Content type: Research article

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  14. Amylases produced by fungi during solid-state fermentation are the most widely used commercial enzymes to meet the ever-increasing demands of the global enzyme market. The use of low-cost substrates to curtail...

    Authors: M. Balakrishnan, G. Jeevarathinam, S. Kiran Santhosh Kumar, Iniyakumar Muniraj and Sivakumar Uthandi

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2021 21:33

    Content type: Research article

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  16. Microorganisms, including Bacillus species are used to help control plant pathogens, thereby reducing reliance on synthetic pesticides in agriculture. Bacillus velezensis strain 1B-23 has been shown to reduce sym...

    Authors: Michelle S. M. Li, David A. Piccoli, Tim McDowell, Jacqueline MacDonald, Justin Renaud and Ze-Chun Yuan

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2021 21:31

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  17. Bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) is a major economic disease that has been spread in most countries. In addition to vaccination, one of the main ways to control the disease and prevent it from spreading is t...

    Authors: Zahra Heidari, Seyedeh Elham Rezatofighi and Saadat Rastegarzadeh

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2021 21:30

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  18. Quantitative analysis of differential gene expression is of central importance in molecular life sciences. The Gene eXpression Profiling technology (GeXP) relies on multiplex RT-PCR and subsequent capillary el...

    Authors: Pauline Marquardt, Britta Werthmann, Viktoria Rätzel, Markus Haas and Wolfgang Marwan

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2021 21:29

    Content type: Methodology article

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  19. Microbial polysaccharides have been reported to possess remarkable bioactivities. Physarum polycephalum is a species of slime mold for which the microplasmodia are capable of rapid growth and can produce a signif...

    Authors: Tuyen T. H. Do, Tran N. B. Lai, Steven L. Stephenson and Hanh T. M. Tran

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2021 21:28

    Content type: Research article

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  20. Phakopsora pachyrhizi is a biotrophic fungal pathogen responsible for the Asian soybean rust disease causing important yield losses in tropical and subtropical soybean-producing countries. P. pachyrhizi triggers ...

    Authors: L. Cabre, S. Peyrard, C. Sirven, L. Gilles, B. Pelissier, S. Ducerf and N. Poussereau

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2021 21:27

    Content type: Research article

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  21. The production of agricultural wastes still growing as a consequence of the population growing. However, the majority of these residues are under-utilized due their chemical composition, which is mainly compos...

    Authors: Martha María Arevalos-Sánchez, Adrián Omar Maynez-Perez, Felipe A. Rodríguez-Almeida, José Alfredo Martínez-Quintana, Fidel Alejandro Sanchez-Flores, Monserrath Felix-Portillo, América Chavéz-Martínez, Myrna Elena Olvera-García, Oscar Ruiz-Barrera and Agustín Corral-Luna

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2021 21:26

    Content type: Research article

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  24. Ogataea polymorpha is a thermotolerant, methylotrophic yeast with significant industrial applications. While previously mainly used for protein synthesis, it also holds promise for producing platform chemicals. O...

    Authors: Ulf W Liebal, Brigida A Fabry, Aarthi Ravikrishnan, Constantin VL Schedel, Simone Schmitz, Lars M Blank and Birgitta E Ebert

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2021 21:23

    Content type: Research article

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  25. The coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) emerged in Wuhan, China and rapidly spread worldwide. Researchers are trying to find a way to treat this disease as soon as possible. The present study aimed to identify t...

    Authors: Masoumeh Adhami, Balal Sadeghi, Ali Rezapour, Ali Akbar Haghdoost and Habib MotieGhader

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2021 21:22

    Content type: Research article

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  26. Proteases are important for hydrolysis of proteins to generate peptides with many bioactivities. Thus, the development of novel proteases with high activities is meaningful to discover bioactive peptides. Beca...

    Authors: Chang Chang, Siyi Gong, Zhiping Liu, Qiaojuan Yan and Zhengqiang Jiang

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2021 21:21

    Content type: Research article

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  27. Over the past decade, therapeutic messenger RNAs (mRNAs) have emerged as a highly promising new class of drugs for protein replacement therapies. Due to the recent developments, the incorporation of modified n...

    Authors: Cynthia Aslan, Seyed Hossein Kiaie, Naime Majidi Zolbanin, Parisa Lotfinejad, Reihaneh Ramezani, Fatah Kashanchi and Reza Jafari

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2021 21:20

    Content type: Review

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  29. Aldehyde dehydrogenases are vital for aerobic hydrocarbon degradation and is involved in the last step of catalysing the oxidation of aldehydes to carboxylic acids. With the global increase in hydrocarbon poll...

    Authors: Cindy Baburam and Naser Aliye Feto

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2021 21:18

    Content type: Research article

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  30. Alanine decarboxylase (AlaDC), specifically present in tea plants, is crucial for theanine biosynthesis. Serine decarboxylase (SDC), found in many plants, is a protein most closely related to AlaDC. To investi...

    Authors: Peixian Bai, Liyuan Wang, Kang Wei, Li Ruan, Liyun Wu, Mengdi He, Dejiang Ni and Hao Cheng

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2021 21:17

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  31. A plant growth-promoting endophytic bacterium PVL1 isolated from the leaf of Vanda cristata has the ability to colonize with roots of plants and protect the plant. PVL1 was isolated using laboratory synthetic ...

    Authors: Sujit Shah, Krishna Chand, Bhagwan Rekadwad, Yogesh S. Shouche, Jyotsna Sharma and Bijaya Pant

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2021 21:16

    Content type: Research article

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  32. CRISPR-Cas genome editing technologies have revolutionized biotechnological research particularly in functional genomics and synthetic biology. As an alternative to the most studied and well-developed CRISPR/C...

    Authors: Dede Abdulrachman, Lily Eurwilaichitr, Verawat Champreda, Duriya Chantasingh and Kusol Pootanakit

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2021 21:15

    Content type: Research article

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  33. Levan is a well-known homopolymer of fructose composed predominantly of β-(2, 6) fructofuranosyl linkages in the backbone with occasional β-(2, 1) linkages in the branch chains with varied applications. Howeve...

    Authors: Jin Han, Huafeng Feng, Xiaohua Wang, Zhenmin Liu and Zhengjun Wu

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2021 21:14

    Content type: Research article

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  35. Lyso-phosphatidylethanolamine (LPE) is a natural phospholipid that functions in the early stages of plant senescence. Plant innate immunity and early leaf senescence share molecular components. To reveal conserve...

    Authors: Ronny Völz, Ju-Young Park, William Harris, Sungkee Hwang and Yong-Hwan Lee

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2021 21:12

    Content type: Research article

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  36. Human epithelial cell sheets (ECSs) are used to clinically treat epithelial conditions such as burns, corneal blindness, middle ear cholesteatoma and vitiligo. As a widely used material in clinic, there is lit...

    Authors: Dongliang Zhang, Jialiang Shao, Jingming Zhuang, Shukui Zhou, Shuo Yin, Fuyue Wu, Jiangang Hou and Xiang Wang

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2021 21:11

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  37. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: Sanghoon Lee, Min Hee Jung, Kilyoung Song, Jun-Xue Jin, Anukul Taweechaipaisankul, Geon A. Kim, Hyun Ju Oh, Ok Jae Koo, Se Chang Park and Byeong Chun Lee

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2021 21:10

    Content type: Correction

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    The original article was published in BMC Biotechnology 2021 21:1

  38. The ability of CRISPR/Cas9 to mutate any desired genomic locus is being increasingly explored in the emerging area of cancer immunotherapy. In this respect, current efforts are mostly focused on the use of aut...

    Authors: Elahe Kamali, Fatemeh Rahbarizadeh, Zohreh Hojati and Morten Frödin

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2021 21:9

    Content type: Research article

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  39. Nowadays, the number of cancer survivors is significantly increasing as a result of efficient chemo/radio therapeutic treatments. Female cancer survivors may suffer from decreased fertility. In this regard, di...

    Authors: Hossein Nikniaz, Zahra Zandieh, Mohammad Nouri, Neda Daei-farshbaf, Reza Aflatoonian, Mazaher Gholipourmalekabadi and Seyed Behnamedin Jameie

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2021 21:8

    Content type: Research article

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  40. Bacterial degradation/transformation of steroids is widely investigated to create biotechnologically relevant strains for industrial application. The strain of Nocardioides simplex VKM Ac-2033D is well known main...

    Authors: Victoria Yu Shtratnikova, Mikhail I. Sсhelkunov, Victoria V. Fokina, Eugeny Y. Bragin, Andrey A. Shutov and Marina V. Donova

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2021 21:7

    Content type: Research article

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  41. Microcapsule is considered as a promising 3D microenvironment for Bone Tissue Engineering (BTE) applications. Microencapsulation of cells in an appropriate scaffold not only protected the cells against excess ...

    Authors: Mahdieh Alipour, Nima Firouzi, Zahra Aghazadeh, Mohammad Samiei, Soheila Montazersaheb, Ali Baradar Khoshfetrat and Marziyeh Aghazadeh

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2021 21:6

    Content type: Research article

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  43. As bioprocess intensification has increased over the last 30 years, yields from mammalian cell processes have increased from 10’s of milligrams to over 10’s of grams per liter. Most of these gains in productiv...

    Authors: Dylan G. Chitwood, Qinghua Wang, Kathryn Elliott, Aiyana Bullock, Dwon Jordana, Zhigang Li, Cathy Wu, Sarah W. Harcum and Christopher A. Saski

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2021 21:4

    Content type: Research article

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  45. The initial step of influenza infection is binding of the virus to specific sialic acid receptors expressed by host cells. This is followed by cell entry via endocytosis. Cleavage of the influenza virus hemagg...

    Authors: Kelly Chungu, Young Hyun Park, Seung Je Woo, Su Bin Lee, Deivendran Rengaraj, Hong Jo Lee and Jae Yong Han

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2021 21:2

    Content type: Research article

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  46. Small animals that show a deficiency in klotho exhibit extremely shortened life span with multiple aging-like phenotypes. However, limited information is available on the function of klotho in large animals su...

    Authors: Sanghoon Lee, Min Hee Jung, Kilyoung Song, Jun-Xue Jin, Anukul Taweechaipaisankul, Geon A. Kim, Hyun Ju Oh, Ok Jae Koo, Se Chang Park and Byeong Chun Lee

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2021 21:1

    Content type: Research article

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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Biotechnology 2021 21:10

  47. Chicken feathers are the most abundant agro-wastes emanating from the poultry processing farms and present major concerns to environmentalists. Bioutilization of intractable feather wastes for the production o...

    Authors: Nonso E. Nnolim and Uchechukwu U. Nwodo

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2020 20:65

    Content type: Research article

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  48. Lignin in sugarcane bagasse (SB) hinders its utilization by microorganism, therefore, pretreatment methods are employed to make fermentable components accessible to the microbes. Multivariate analysis of diffe...

    Authors: Rozina Rashid, Uroosa Ejaz, Firdous Imran Ali, Imran Ali Hashmi, Ahmed Bari, Jing Liu, Li Wang, Pengcheng Fu and Muhammad Sohail

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2020 20:64

    Content type: Research article

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  49. As a main drug for diseased thrombus, some clinically used thrombolytic agents have various disadvantages, safer novel thrombolytic agents are of great demand. This study aimed to achieve high and efficient pr...

    Authors: Zhiqun Che, Xiaoyan Cao, Guiguang Chen and Zhiqun Liang

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2020 20:63

    Content type: Research article

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  50. Elaboration of the epigenetic regulation of chromatin is a long-standing aim in molecular and cellular biology. Hence, there is a great demand for the development of in vitro methods to reconstitute chromatin ...

    Authors: Kei-ichi Okimune, Szilvia K. Nagy, Shogo Hataya, Yaeta Endo and Taichi E. Takasuka

    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2020 20:62

    Content type: Methodology article

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