Essays about: "whole-cell screening"

Found 2 essays containing the words whole-cell screening.

1. 1. Development of a Novel Selection Method for Protease Engineering : A high-throughput fluorescent reporter-based method for characterization and selection of proteases

   University essay from KTH/Skolan för teknik och hälsa (STH)

   Author : Natalie Hendrikse; [2016]
   Keywords : protein engineering; protease engineering; high-throughput selection method; fluorescent reporter;

   Abstract : Proteases are crucial to many biological processes and have become an important field of biomedical and biotechnological research. Engineering of proteases towards therapeutic applications has been limited due to the lack of high-throughput methods for characterization and selection. READ MORE

3. 2. Isolating microorganisms from marine and marine-associated samples : a targeted search for novel natural antibiotics

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Microbiology

   Author : Tua Lilja; [2013]
   Keywords : antibiotics; natural products; marine microorganisms; isolation methods; actinomycetes; rare actinomycetes; whole-cell screening; antimicrobials; antibiotic resistance;

   Abstract : The search for antibiotic compounds from the natural environment has been going on for seven decades, ever since penicillin entered the market and antibiotic treatments became routine. The evolutionary pressure put on the pathogenic microorganisms induced a rapid spreading of naturally occurring resistance genes, leaving only the option of finding new antibiotics to treat the resistant pathogens. READ MORE