over the years, the use of plastics has complicated the problem of disposal of solid wastes. one strategy to reduce plastic waste is the use of biodegradable plastics. a group of these plastics are polyhydroxyalkanoates (phas). to date more than 250 different microorganisms are known to synthesize and accumulate pha. most pseu-domonas strains are able to accumulate mcl-pha. in previous studies,...

BACKGROUND The recognition that human tumors stimulate the production of autoantibodies has initiated the use of this immune response as serological markers for the early diagnosis and management of cancer. The enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) is the most common method used in detecting autoantibodies, which involves coating the microtiter plate with the tumor associated antigen (TAA) ...

human insulin-like growth factor 1 (higf-1) consists of 70 amino acids in a single chain with three intermolecular disulfide bridges possessing valuable therapeutic effects. to date, numerous variants of specifically engineered higf-1 have been produced so as to improve higf-1 biological activity, stability and stronger binding to igf-1 receptor. mecasermin is one of the modified variants with ...

conclusions reteplase was expressed in e. coli top 10 after activation of pbad/giiia promoter region by arabinose and optimized. results the obtained recombinant plasmid was sequenced to confirm the presence and correct framing of reteplase gene regarding the expression of reteplase. maximum production of this enzyme was obtained under the following condition: 0.0002% l-arabinose at 37°c for 2 ...

In most eukaryotes, the histone methyltransferase SU(VAR)3-9 and its orthologues play amajor role in the function of centromeric heterochromatin. Although the methyltransferase domain isrequired for the formation of a fully functional centromere, mutations within other regions of the genesuch as the N-terminus also have a strong impact on its in vivo function. To analyze the contrib...

Site-directed mutagenesis is a powerful tool for producing mutants to assess the importance of specific amino acid residues in a protein’s structure and/or function. We wanted to generate mutants of human ETS1 cDNA in the pET15b vector (Novagen, Madison, WI, USA) from which we had been producing wild-type protein for structural studies (11). Since we were subject to the constraints of this vect...