Biosensor and chemo-enzymatic one-pot cascade applications to detect and transform PET-derived terephthalic acid in living cells.

Plastic waste imposes a serious problem to the environment and society. Hence, strategies for a circular plastic economy are demanded. One strategy is the engineering of polyester hydrolases toward higher activity for the biotechnological recycling of polyethylene terephthalate (PET).

An ADH toolbox for raspberry ketone production from natural resources via a biocatalytic cascade.

Raspberry ketone is a widely used flavor compound in food and cosmetic industry. Several processes for its biocatalytic production have already been described, but either with the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) or incomplete conversion of the variety of precursors that are available in nature. Such natural precursors are rhododendrol glycosides with different proportions of (R)- and (S)-rhododendrol depending on the origin.

In vitro repair of a defective EGFP transcript and translation into a functional protein.

Twin ribozymes mediate the exchange of a short patch of RNA against an exogenous oligonucleotide within a suitable RNA substrate. Thus, twin ribozymes are promising tools for RNA repair, i.e.

Tissue resident cells play a dominant role in arteriogenesis and concomitant macrophage accumulation.

Collateral growth is characterized by macrophage accumulation, suggesting an important role of circulating cells. To study origin and function of macrophages during arteriogenesis, we related the extent of macrophage accumulation to vascular proliferation and investigated the fate of fluorescently (CMFDA) labeled blood cells that were injected at the time of femoral artery occlusion. The effect of bone marrow depletion via cyclophosphamide before femoral artery occlusion on collateral proliferation and macrophage accumulation was studied, and we looked for the presence of bone marrow-derived stem cells in the vicinity of growing collateral vessels.