TY - JOUR A1 - Balakrishnan, Karthikeyan A1 - Andrei-Selmer, Luminita-Cornelia A1 - Selmer, Thorsten A1 - Bacher, Michael A1 - Dodel, Richard T1 - Comparison of Intravenous Immunoglobulins for Naturally Occurring Autoantibodies against Amyloid-β JF - Journal of Alzheimer's Disease Y1 - 2010 SN - 1387-2877 VL - 20 IS - 1 SP - 135 EP - 143 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Barbazán, Paula A1 - Hagenbach, Adelheid A1 - Paulßen, Elisabeth A1 - Abram, Ulrich A1 - Carballo, Rosa A1 - Rodriguez-Hermida, Sabina A1 - Vázquez-López, Ezequiel M. T1 - Tricarbonyl Rhenium(I) and Technetium(I) Complexes with Hydrazones Derived from 4,5-Diazafluoren-9-one and 1,10-Phenanthroline-5,6-dione JF - European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry N2 - Tricarbonylrhenium(I) and -technetium(I) halide (halide = Cl and Br) complexes of ligands derived from 4,5-diazafluoren-9-one (df) and 1,10-phenanthroline-5,6-dione (phen) derivatives of benzoic and 2-hydroxybenzoic acid hydrazides have been prepared. The complexes have been characterized by elemental analysis, MS, IR, 1H NMR and absorption and emission UV/Vis spectroscopic methods. The metal centres (ReI and TcI) are coordinated through the nitrogen imine atoms and establish five-membered chelate rings, whereas the hydrazone groups stand uncoordinated. The 1H NMR spectra suggest the same behaviour in solution on the basis of only marginal variations in the chemical shifts of the hydrazine protons. Y1 - 2010 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ejic.201000522 SN - 1099-0682 IS - 29 SP - 4622 EP - 4630 PB - Wiley-VCH CY - Weinheim ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Biselli, Manfred A1 - Bäcker, Matthias A1 - Poghossian, Arshak A1 - Schöning, Michael Josef A1 - Schnitzler, Thomas A1 - Zang, Werner A1 - Wagner, P. T1 - Entwicklung eines modularen festkörperbasierten Sensorsystems für die Überwachung von Zellkulturfermenationen JF - Sensoren und Messsysteme 2010 [Elektronische Ressource] : Vorträge der 15. ITG/GMA-Fachtagung vom 18. bis 19. Mai 2010 in Nürnberg / Informationstechnische Gesellschaft im VDE (ITG); VDI/VDE-Gesellschaft Mess- und Automatisierungstechnik (GMA) Y1 - 2010 SN - 978-3-8007-3260-9 N1 - Fachtagung Sensoren und Messsysteme 15, 2010, Nürnberg ; Gesellschaft Mess- und Automatisierungstechnik SP - 688 EP - 691 PB - VDE Verlag CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Claessen, O. A1 - Grefen, Dana A1 - Mang, Thomas A1 - Dikland, H. G. A1 - Dikland, H. G. A1 - Duin, M. van T1 - Helle Fensterprofilmaterialien : Alterungsverhalten auf Basis von peroxidisch vernetztem EPDM JF - Kautschuk, Gummi, Kunststoffe : KGK Y1 - 2010 SN - 0948-3276 VL - 63 IS - 9 SP - 350 EP - 360 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Degering, Christian A1 - Eggert, Thorsten A1 - Puls, Michael A1 - Bongaerts, Johannes A1 - Evers, Stefan A1 - Maurer, Karl-Heinz A1 - Jaeger, Karl-Erich T1 - Optimization of protease secretion in Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus licheniformis by screening of homologous and herologous signal peptides JF - Applied and environmental microbiology N2 - Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus licheniformis are widely used for the large-scale industrial production of proteins. These strains can efficiently secrete proteins into the culture medium using the general secretion (Sec) pathway. A characteristic feature of all secreted proteins is their N-terminal signal peptides, which are recognized by the secretion machinery. Here, we have studied the production of an industrially important secreted protease, namely, subtilisin BPN′ from Bacillus amyloliquefaciens. One hundred seventy-three signal peptides originating from B. subtilis and 220 signal peptides from the B. licheniformis type strain were fused to this secretion target and expressed in B. subtilis, and the resulting library was analyzed by high-throughput screening for extracellular proteolytic activity. We have identified a number of signal peptides originating from both organisms which produced significantly increased yield of the secreted protease. Interestingly, we observed that levels of extracellular protease were improved not only in B. subtilis, which was used as the screening host, but also in two different B. licheniformis strains. To date, it is impossible to predict which signal peptide will result in better secretion and thus an improved yield of a given extracellular target protein. Our data show that screening a library consisting of homologous and heterologous signal peptides fused to a target protein can identify more-effective signal peptides, resulting in improved protein export not only in the original screening host but also in different production strains. Y1 - 2010 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.01146-10 SN - 1098-5336 (E-Journal); 0003-6919 (Print); 0099-2240 (Print) VL - 76 IS - 19 SP - 6370 EP - 6378 PB - American Society for Microbiology CY - Washington, DC ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kowollik, S. A1 - Schnitzler, Thomas A1 - Biselli, Manfred A1 - Krueger, R. A1 - Zang, Werner A1 - Peuscher, A. A1 - Schillberg, S. A1 - Fischer, R. T1 - Die Rolle des Respirationsquotienten in der Zellkulturfermentation JF - Chemie Ingenieur Technik Y1 - 2010 SN - Chemie Ingenieur Tec N1 - Special Issue: ProcessNet-Jahrestagung 2010 und 28. Jahrestagung der Biotechnologen VL - 82 IS - 9 SP - 1505 EP - 1506 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Paulßen, Elisabeth A1 - Alberto, Roger A1 - Abram, Ulrich T1 - Synthesis, Characterization, and Structures of R3EOTcO3 Complexes (E = C, Si, Ge, Sn, Pb) and Related Compounds JF - Inorganic Chemistry N2 - AgTcO4 reacts with R3ECl compounds (E = C, Si, Ge, Sn, Pb; R = Me, iPr, tBu, Ph), tBu2SnCl2, or PhMgCl under formation of novel trioxotechnetium(VII) derivatives. The carbon and silicon derivatives readily undergo decomposition, which was proven by 99Tc NMR spectroscopy and the isolation of decomposition products such as [TcOCl3(THF)(OH2)]. Compounds [Ph3GeOTcO3], [(THF)Ph3SnOTcO3], [(O3TcO)SntBu2(OH)]2, and [(THF)4Mg(OTcO3)2] are more stable and were isolated in crystalline form and characterized by X-ray diffraction. Y1 - 2010 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ic1001094 SN - 1520-510X VL - 49 IS - 7 SP - 3525 EP - 3530 PB - American Chemical Society CY - Washington ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Paulßen, Elisabeth A1 - Schweighöfer, Philip V. A1 - Abram, Ulrich T1 - Reactions of [ReOX3(PPh3)2] Complexes (X = Cl, Br) with Phenylacetylene and the Structures of the Products JF - Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie : ZAAC = Journal of inorganic and general chemistry N2 - Oxorhenium(V) complexes [ReOX3(PPh3)2] (X = Cl, Br) react with phenylacetylene under formation of complexes with ylide-type ligands. Compounds of the compositions [ReOCl3(PPh3){C(Ph)C(H)(PPh3)}] (1), [ReOBr3(OPPh3){C(Ph)C(H)(PPh3)}] (2), and [ReOBr3(OPPh3){C(H)C(Ph)(PPh3)}] (3) were isolated and characterized by X-ray diffraction. They contain a ligand, which was formed by a nucleophilic attack of released PPh3 at coordinated phenylacetylene. The structures of the products show that there is no preferable position for this attack. Cleavage of the Re–C bond in 3 and dimerization of the organic ligand resulted in the formation of the [{(PPh3)(H)CC(Ph)}2]2+ cation, which crystallized as its [(ReOBr4)(OReO3)]2– salt. Y1 - 2010 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/zaac.200900478 SN - 1521-3749 VL - 636 IS - 5 SP - 779 EP - 783 PB - Wiley-VCH CY - Weinheim ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ribitsch, D. A1 - Karl, W. A1 - Birner-Gruenberger, R. A1 - Gruber, K. A1 - Eiteljoerg, I. A1 - Remler, P. A1 - Wieland, S. A1 - Siegert, Petra A1 - Maurer, Karl-Heinz A1 - Schwab, H. T1 - C-terminal truncation of a metagenome-derived detergent protease for effective expression in E. coli JF - Journal of biotechnology N2 - Recently, a new alkaline protease named HP70 showing highest homology to extracellular serine proteases of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia and Xanthomonas campestris was found in the course of a metagenome screening for detergent proteases (Niehaus et al., submitted for publication). Attempts to efficiently express the enzyme in common expression hosts had failed. This study reports on the realization of overexpression in Escherichia coli after structural modification of HP70. Modelling of HP70 resulted in a two-domain structure, comprising the catalytic domain and a C-terminal domain which includes about 100 amino acids. On the basis of the modelled structure the enzyme was truncated by deletion of most of the C-terminal domain yielding HP70-C477. This structural modification allowed effective expression of active enzyme using E. coli BL21-Gold as the host. Specific activity of HP70-C477 determined with suc-l-Ala-l-Ala-l-Pro-l-Phe-p-nitroanilide as the substrate was 30 ± 5 U/mg compared to 8 ± 1 U/mg of the native enzyme. HP70-C477 was most active at 40 °C and pH 7–11; these conditions are prerequisite for a potential application as detergent enzyme. Determination of kinetic parameters at 40 °C and pH = 9.5 resulted in KM = 0.23 ± 0.01 mM and kcat = 167.5 ± 3.6 s⁻¹. MS-analysis of peptide fragments obtained from incubation of HP70 and HP70-C477 with insulin B indicated that the C-terminal domain influences the cleavage preferences of the enzyme. Washing experiments confirmed the high potential of HP70-C477 as detergent protease. Y1 - 2010 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiotec.2010.09.947 SN - 1873-4863 (E-Journal); 0168-1656 (Print) VL - 150 IS - 3 SP - 408 EP - 416 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ross, Jillian A1 - Plummer, Simon M. A1 - Rode, Anja A1 - Scheer, Nico A1 - Bower, Conrad C. A1 - Vogel, Ortwin A1 - Henderson, Colin J. A1 - Wolf, C. Roland A1 - Elcombe, Clifford R. T1 - Human constitutive androstane receptor (CAR) and pregnane X receptor (PXR) support the hypertrophic but not the hyperplastic response to the murine nongenotoxic hepatocarcinogens phenobarbital and chlordane in vivo JF - Toxicological Sciences N2 - Mouse nongenotoxic hepatocarcinogens phenobarbital (PB) and chlordane induce hepatomegaly characterized by hypertrophy and hyperplasia. Increased cell proliferation is implicated in the mechanism of tumor induction. The relevance of these tumors to human health is unclear. The xenoreceptors, constitutive androstane receptors (CARs), and pregnane X receptor (PXR) play key roles in these processes. Novel “humanized” and knockout models for both receptors were developed to investigate potential species differences in hepatomegaly. The effects of PB (80 mg/kg/4 days) and chlordane (10 mg/kg/4 days) were investigated in double humanized PXR and CAR (huPXR/huCAR), double knockout PXR and CAR (PXRKO/CARKO), and wild-type (WT) C57BL/6J mice. In WT mice, both compounds caused increased liver weight, hepatocellular hypertrophy, and cell proliferation. Both compounds caused alterations to a number of cell cycle genes consistent with induction of cell proliferation in WT mice. However, these gene expression changes did not occur in PXRKO/CARKO or huPXR/huCAR mice. Liver hypertrophy without hyperplasia was demonstrated in the huPXR/huCAR animals in response to both compounds. Induction of the CAR and PXR target genes, Cyp2b10 and Cyp3a11, was observed in both WT and huPXR/huCAR mouse lines following treatment with PB or chlordane. In the PXRKO/CARKO mice, neither liver growth nor induction of Cyp2b10 and Cyp3a11 was seen following PB or chlordane treatment, indicating that these effects are CAR/PXR dependent. These data suggest that the human receptors are able to support the chemically induced hypertrophic responses but not the hyperplastic (cell proliferation) responses. At this time, we cannot be certain that hCAR and hPXR when expressed in the mouse can function exactly as the genes do when they are expressed in human cells. However, all parameters investigated to date suggest that much of their functionality is maintained. Y1 - 2010 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/toxsci/kfq118 SN - 1096-0929 VL - 116 IS - 2 SP - 452 EP - 466 PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford ER -