The majority of the world’s most widespread and problematic pathogens evade host immune responses by inducing strain-specific immunity. The host immune system seems to induce a vigorous immune response towards hypervariable ...

Secreted proteins offer the potential to reduce purification cost to enzyme and therapeutic proteins. While many bacterial transport signal sequences have been tested, few have been used across species. This study explores ...

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Over the past few years, the use of enzymes as catalysts for the preparation of novel organic molecules has received a steadily increasing amount of attention. Lipolytic enzymes are widely distributed in nature and attract ...

Biofilms are bacterial communities that adhere to biotic and abiotc surfaces, and are embedded in a polymeric matrix composed mainly of polysaccharides and proteins. Not only are biofilms a public health problem, but they ...

Reporter gene technology has facilitated greatly the analysis of gene expression and the study of individual promoters and their regulation. Although various reporter gene systems are available, none of them are universally ...

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African horse sickness virus (AHSV), a member of the Orbivirus genus in the family Reoviridae, is the causative agent of the most devastating and rapidly fatal disease of horses. Control of the disease is based on the use ...

Botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) produced by Clostridium botulinum are the causative agents of botulism and represents a family of seven structurally similar but antigenically different serotypes (A to G). The BoNTs are ...

Bacillus cereus is a Gram-positive, spore-forming bacterium that is frequently identified as the causative agent of food-borne diseases and is also implicated in food spoilage of especially dairy products. The capacity of ...