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  1. Despite several effective treatment options available for prostate cancer, it remains the second leading cause of cancer death in American men. Thus, there is a great need for new treatments to improve outcome...

    Authors: Jan Woraratanadharm, Semyon Rubinchik, Hong Yu and John Y Dong
    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2007 7:9
  2. Environmental ozone can rapidly degrade cyanine 5 (Cy5), a fluorescent dye commonly used in microarray gene expression studies. Cyanine 3 (Cy3) is much less affected by atmospheric ozone. Degradation of the Cy...

    Authors: William S Branham, Cathy D Melvin, Tao Han, Varsha G Desai, Carrie L Moland, Adam T Scully and James C Fuscoe
    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2007 7:8
  3. Recombinant antibodies from Camelidae (VHHs) are potentially useful tools for both basic research and biotechnological applications because of their small size, robustness, easy handling and possibility to ref...

    Authors: Aurelien Olichon, Daniel Schweizer, Serge Muyldermans and Ario de Marco
    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2007 7:7
  4. The Tet-Off (tTA) and Tet-On (rtTA) regulatory systems are widely applied to control gene expression in eukaryotes. Both systems are based on the Tet repressor (TetR) from transposon Tn10, a dimeric DNA-binding p...

    Authors: Xue Zhou, Jori Symons, Rieuwert Hoppes, Christel Krueger, Christian Berens, Wolfgang Hillen, Ben Berkhout and Atze T Das
    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2007 7:6
  5. We constructed and characterized several new piggyBac vectors to provide transposition of constitutively- or inducibly-expressible heterologous gene pairs. The dual constitutive control element consists of back-t...

    Authors: Xianzong Shi, Robert L Harrison, Jason R Hollister, Ahmed Mohammed, Malcolm J Fraser Jr and Donald L Jarvis
    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2007 7:5
  6. Fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS) is a powerful technique for the qualitative and quantitative detection of biomolecules used widely in both basic research and clinical diagnostic applications. Beads ...

    Authors: B Thomas Bäckström, Jane A Brockelbank and Bernd HA Rehm
    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2007 7:3
  7. Advances in fluorescence microscopy and mouse transgenesis have made it possible to image molecular events in living animals. However, the generation of transgenic mice is a lengthy process and intravital imag...

    Authors: Adriaan D Bins, Jacco van Rheenen, Kees Jalink, Jonathan R Halstead, Nullin Divecha, David M Spencer, John BAG Haanen and Ton NM Schumacher
    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2007 7:2
  8. The cell-penetrating peptide derived from the Human immunodeficiency virus-1 transactivator protein Tat possesses the capacity to promote the effective uptake of various cargo molecules across the plasma membr...

    Authors: Johanna Rinne, Brian Albarran, Juulia Jylhävä, Teemu O Ihalainen, Pasi Kankaanpää, Vesa P Hytönen, Patrick S Stayton, Markku S Kulomaa and Maija Vihinen-Ranta
    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2007 7:1
  9. The availability of cell lines releasing fluorescent viral particles can significantly support a variety of investigations, including the study of virus-cell interaction and the screening of antiviral compound...

    Authors: Claudia Muratori, Paola D'Aloja, Fabiana Superti, Antonella Tinari, Nathalie Sol-Foulon, Sandra Sparacio, Valerie Bosch, Olivier Schwartz and Maurizio Federico
    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2006 6:52
  10. Enzymes have been extensively used in organic solvents to catalyze a variety of transformations of biological and industrial significance. It has been generally accepted that in dry aprotic organic solvents, e...

    Authors: Betzaida Castillo, Vibha Bansal, Ashok Ganesan, Peter Halling, Francesco Secundo, Amaris Ferrer, Kai Griebenow and Gabriel Barletta
    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2006 6:51
  11. RNA interference (RNAi) was originally identified as a biological process in which short double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) suppress the expression of genes complimentary to the dsRNA. This cellular intrinsic gene si...

    Authors: Shunqing Wang, Zhenqi Shi, Wei Liu, Joel Jules and Xu Feng
    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2006 6:50
  12. A variety of approaches to understanding protein structure and function require production of recombinant protein. Mammalian based expression systems have advantages over bacterial systems for certain classes ...

    Authors: Susan DJ Chapple, Anna M Crofts, S Paul Shadbolt, John McCafferty and Michael R Dyson
    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2006 6:49
  13. The signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT) family of transcription factors mediates a variety of cytokine dependent gene regulations. STAT1 has been mainly characterized by its role in interfe...

    Authors: Nicole R Leitner, Birgit Strobl, Marion Bokor, Ronald Painz, Thomas Kolbe, Thomas Rülicke, Mathias Müller and Marina Karaghiosoff
    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2006 6:48
  14. Isolation of recombinant antibody fragments from antibody libraries is well established using technologies such as phage display. Phage display vectors are ideal for efficient display of antibody fragments on ...

    Authors: Cecile D Martin, Gertrudis Rojas, Joanne N Mitchell, Karen J Vincent, Jiahua Wu, John McCafferty and Darren J Schofield
    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2006 6:46
  15. Taxol is an effective antineoplastic agent, originally extracted from the bark of Taxus brevifolia with a low yield. Many attempts have been made to produce Taxol by chemical synthesis, semi-synthesis and plant t...

    Authors: Federica Bestoso, Laura Ottaggio, Andrea Armirotti, Alessandro Balbi, Gianluca Damonte, Paolo Degan, Mauro Mazzei, Francesca Cavalli, Bernardetta Ledda and Mariangela Miele
    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2006 6:45
  16. In conventional PCR, total amplicon yield becomes independent of starting template number as amplification reaches plateau and varies significantly among replicate reactions. This paper describes a strategy fo...

    Authors: J Aquiles Sanchez, Jessica D Abramowitz, Jesse J Salk, Arthur H Reis Jr, John E Rice, Kenneth E Pierce and Lawrence J Wangh
    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2006 6:44
  17. A number of expression systems have been developed where transgene expression can be regulated. They all have specific characteristics making them more suitable for certain applications than for others. Since ...

    Authors: Alaka Mullick, Yan Xu, René Warren, Maria Koutroumanis, Claire Guilbault, Sophie Broussau, Félix Malenfant, Lucie Bourget, Linda Lamoureux, Rita Lo, Antoine W Caron, Amelie Pilotte and Bernard Massie
    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2006 6:43
  18. Tick-borne pathogens cause emerging zoonoses, and include fastidious organisms such as Anaplasma phagocytophilum. Because of their obligate intracellular nature, methods for mutagenesis and transformation have no...

    Authors: Roderick F Felsheim, Michael J Herron, Curtis M Nelson, Nicole Y Burkhardt, Anthony F Barbet, Timothy J Kurtti and Ulrike G Munderloh
    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2006 6:42
  19. An essential part of using real-time RT-PCR is that expression results have to be normalized before any conclusions can be drawn. This can be done by using one or multiple, validated reference genes, depending...

    Authors: Tim Erkens, Mario Van Poucke, Jo Vandesompele, Karen Goossens, Alex Van Zeveren and Luc J Peelman
    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2006 6:41
  20. Oncolytic herpes simplex virus (HSV) vectors that specifically replicate in and kill tumor cells sparing normal cells are a promising cancer therapy. Traditionally, recombinant HSV vectors have been generated ...

    Authors: Toshihiko Kuroda, Robert L Martuza, Tomoki Todo and Samuel D Rabkin
    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2006 6:40
  21. The detection of Premature Stop Codons (PSCs) in human genes is very useful for the genetic diagnosis of different hereditary cancers, e.g. Familial Breast Cancer and Hereditary Non-Polyposis Colorectal Cancer...

    Authors: Sebastián M Real, Diego M Marzese, Laura C Gomez, Luis S Mayorga and María Roqué
    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2006 6:38
  22. Real-time PCR is the technique of choice for nucleic acid quantification. In the field of detection of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) quantification of biotech products may be required to fulfil legisla...

    Authors: Katarina Cankar, Dejan Štebih, Tanja Dreo, Jana Žel and Kristina Gruden
    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2006 6:37
  23. Oncolytic adenoviruses are promising agents for the multimodal treatment of cancer. However, tumor-selectivity is crucial for their applicability in patients. Recent studies by several groups demonstrated that...

    Authors: Dennis Hoffmann and Oliver Wildner
    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2006 6:36
  24. Since a milestone work on Neisseria meningitidis B, Reverse Vaccinology has strongly enhanced the identification of vaccine candidates by replacing several experimental tasks using in silico prediction steps. The...

    Authors: Sandro Vivona, Filippo Bernante and Francesco Filippini
    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2006 6:35
  25. Lentiviral vectors are efficient vehicles for stable gene transfer in dividing and non-dividing cells. Several improvements in vector design to increase biosafety and transgene expression, have led to the appr...

    Authors: Martine Geraerts, Sofie Willems, Veerle Baekelandt, Zeger Debyser and Rik Gijsbers
    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2006 6:34
  26. Insertional mutagenesis techniques with transposable elements have been popular among geneticists studying model organisms from E. coli to Drosophila and, more recently, the mouse. One such element is the Sleepin...

    Authors: Aron M Geurts, Andrew Wilber, Corey M Carlson, Paul D Lobitz, Karl J Clark, Perry B Hackett, R Scott McIvor and David A Largaespada
    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2006 6:30
  27. Classical Swine Fever (CSFV) is one of the most important viral infectious diseases affecting wild boars and domestic pigs. The etiological agent of the disease is the CSF virus, a single stranded RNA virus be...

    Authors: Gianpiero Marconi, Emidio Albertini, Pierluigi Barone, Francesca De Marchis, Chiara Lico, Carla Marusic, Domenico Rutili, Fabio Veronesi and Andrea Porceddu
    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2006 6:29
  28. The use of small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) to silence target gene expression has greatly facilitated mammalian genetic analysis by generating loss-of-function mutants. In recent years, high-throughput, genome-...

    Authors: Cheng Du, Baosheng Ge, Zhongfeng Liu, Kai Fu, Wing C Chan and Timothy W McKeithan
    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2006 6:28
  29. Germ-line transformation of insects is now a widely used method for analyzing gene function and for the development of genetically modified strains suitable for pest control programs. The most widely used tran...

    Authors: Abhimanyu Sarkar, Asela Atapattu, Esther J Belikoff, Jörg C Heinrich, Xuelei Li, Carsten Horn, Ernst A Wimmer and Maxwell J Scott
    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2006 6:27
  30. The use of integrating viral vectors in Gene therapy clinical trials has pointed out the problem of the deleterous effect of the integration of the ectopic gene to the cellular genome and the safety of this st...

    Authors: Bettina Couderc, Marie Penary, Mustapha Tohfe, Anne Pradines, Antoine Casteignau, Danièle Berg and Gilles Favre
    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2006 6:26
  31. TH1 immune response antagonism is a desirable approach to mitigate some autoimmune and inflammatory reactions during the course of several diseases where IL-2 and IFN-γ are two central players. Therefore, the ...

    Authors: Iraldo Bello-Rivero, Yeny Torrez-Ruiz, Elizabeth Blanco-Garcés, Giselle Pentón-Rol, Osmani Fernández-Batista, Luís Javier-González, Haydee Gerónimo-Perez and Pedro López-Saura
    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2006 6:25
  32. Real-time quantitative PCR can be a very powerful and accurate technique to examine gene transcription patterns in different biological conditions. One of the critical steps in comparing transcription profiles...

    Authors: Lies Bogaert, Mario Van Poucke, Cindy De Baere, Luc Peelman, Frank Gasthuys and Ann Martens
    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2006 6:24
  33. Whole-cell biocatalysis in organic solvents has been widely applied to industrial bioprocesses. In two-phase water-solvent processes, substrate conversion yields and volumetric productivities can be limited by...

    Authors: Heung-Chae Jung, Seok-Joon Kwon and Jae-Gu Pan
    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2006 6:23
  34. Dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) and thymidylate synthase (TS) are crucial enzymes in DNA synthesis. In alveolata both enzymes are expressed as one bifunctional enzyme.

    Authors: Lutz Herrmann, Ulrike Bockau, Arno Tiedtke, Marcus WW Hartmann and Thomas Weide
    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2006 6:21
  35. A modification of a standard method of fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) is described, by which a combination of several substrates and probes on single microscope slides enables more accurate comparisons...

    Authors: Robert Hasterok, Joanna Dulawa, Glyn Jenkins, Mike Leggett and Tim Langdon
    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2006 6:20
  36. The non-pathogenic ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila is one of the best-characterized unicellular eucaryotes used in various research fields. Previous work has shown that this unicellular organism provides many bio...

    Authors: Thomas Weide, Lutz Herrmann, Ulrike Bockau, Nadine Niebur, Ingo Aldag, Wouter Laroy, Roland Contreras, Arno Tiedtke and Marcus WW Hartmann
    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2006 6:19
  37. Despite evidence suggesting a role in plant defence, the use of plant lectins in crop protection has been hindered by their low and species-specific insecticidal activity. Snowdrop lectin (Galanthus nivalis agglu...

    Authors: Nghia Pham Trung, Elaine Fitches and John A Gatehouse
    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2006 6:18
  38. Minicircle DNA is the non-replicating product of intramolecular site-specific recombination within a bacterial minicircle producer plasmid. Minicircle DNA can be engineered to contain predominantly human seque...

    Authors: Oleg Tolmachov, Iwona Palaszewski, Brian Bigger and Charles Coutelle
    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2006 6:17
  39. Optical imaging is an attractive non-invasive way to evaluate the expression of a transferred DNA, mainly thanks to its lower cost and ease of realization. In this study optical imaging was evaluated for monit...

    Authors: C Bloquel, C Trollet, E Pradines, J Seguin, D Scherman and MF Bureau
    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2006 6:16
  40. The identification of protein trafficking signals, and their interacting mechanisms, is a fundamental objective of modern biology. Unfortunately, the analysis of trafficking signals is complicated by their top...

    Authors: Lynn McKeown, Philip Robinson, Sam M Greenwood, Weiwen Hu and Owen T Jones
    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2006 6:15
  41. The use of highly reproducible and spatiallyhomogeneous thin film matrices permits automated microscopy and quantitative determination of the response of hundreds of cells in a population. Using thin films of ...

    Authors: Kurt J Langenbach, John T Elliott, Alex Tona, Dennis McDaniel and Anne L Plant
    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2006 6:14
  42. Recombinational systems have been developed to rapidly shuttle Open Reading Frames (ORFs) into multiple expression vectors in order to analyze the large number of cDNAs available in the post-genomic era. In th...

    Authors: Karen Colwill, Clark D Wells, Kelly Elder, Marilyn Goudreault, Kadija Hersi, Sarang Kulkarni, W Rod Hardy, Tony Pawson and Gregg B Morin
    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2006 6:13
  43. In the past few years, both automated and manual high-throughput protein expression and purification has become an accessible means to rapidly screen and produce soluble proteins for structural and functional ...

    Authors: Lisa D Cabrita, Weiwen Dai and Stephen P Bottomley
    Citation: BMC Biotechnology 2006 6:12

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