Abstract:
A microorganism of the genus Escherichia having enhanced L-amino acid productivity, wherein the microorganism is transformed to have an enhanced NAD kinase activity and an inactivated activity of an enzyme having an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2 encoded by tehB gene and a method for producing L-amino acids using the microorganism of the genus Escherichia.
Abstract:
The invention provides novel personalized therapies, kits, transmittable forms of information and methods for use in treating patients having cancer, wherein the cancer is MTAP-deficient and/or MTA-accumulating and thus amenable to therapeutic treatment with a PRMT5 inhibitor. Kits, methods of screening for candidate PRMT5 inhibitors, and associated methods of treatment are also provided.
Abstract:
Methods and compositions related to the use of Mobile Element Insertions and their adjacent genomic sequences. Methods using MEIs as markers for cellular proliferation, as targets for pharmaceuticals, as markers for tissue fingerprinting and in related methods and compositions are disclosed herein. Methods and compositions relate to the detection, treatment and ongoing monitoring of cell proliferation events, cancer, and deleterious effects of mobile elements in aging, and to the selection, use and monitoring of the success of treatment regimens to address these conditions.
Abstract:
Synthesis of enantiopure cis-α-irone from a renewable carbon source Disclosed herein are natural and synthetic enzymes capable of performing a method of producing cis-α-irone. The method comprises providing an enzyme capable of converting psi-ionone to cis-α-irone; and contacting the enzyme and psi-ionone under suitable conditions to produce cis-α-irone. The enzyme may be a methyltransferase from Streptomyces albireticuli (SaMT), a promiscuous bifunctional methyltransferase/cyclase (pMT1) enzyme from Streptomyces, or a modified pMT1 enzyme with at least one substitution. The enzymes allow the in-vivo and in-vitro production of cis-α-irone including the use of glucose as feedstock for the biotransformation into cis-α-irone.
Abstract:
The invention describes the discovery and novel application of a bacterial ubiquitin transferase (Cap2). Specifically, the invention describes the novel activity of the enzyme Cap2 which is capable of creating a specific fusion between two proteins implementing a standalone catalytic mechanism to create the fusion.
Abstract:
Methods and kits are disclosed for measuring activity of a methyltransferase or a radical SAM enzyme or for screening for an inhibitor of a methyltransferase or a radical SAM enzyme, where the methods and kits comprise, respectively, deaminase TM0936 for a MTase coupled assay and deaminase PA3170 for a radical SAM coupled assay.
Abstract:
Provided herein is a non-naturally occurring microbial organism having a methanol metabolic pathway that can enhance the availability of reducing equivalents in the presence of methanol. Such reducing equivalents can be used to increase the product yield of organic compounds produced by the microbial organism, such as 1,4-butanediol (BDO). Also provided herein are methods for using such an organism to produce BDO.
Abstract:
A method of manufacturing methoxy-isoflavones by biotransformation and a use thereof are revealed herein. The method comprises the steps of synthesizing a nucleic acid sequence including a SpOMT2884 gene ofStreptomyces peucetius; cloning the nucleic acid sequence into an expression vector to form a cyclic recombinant plasmid; transforming the cyclic recombinant plasmid into a microbial expression system (Escherichia coli); and incubating the microbial expression system in a medium containing 8-hydroxydaidzeins therein for generating methoxy-isoflavones.