Volume 17, Issue 1 (2021) | American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology

Preparation of Collagen Casings with High Mechanical Properties using Response Surface Methodology

Zhike Xie — 2021-01-16

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Published online: 16 January 2021; doi:10.3844/ajbbsp.2021.1.15

Usages of plastic casing have a number of drawbacks like generation of waste associated with the materials used to package foods and the source of natural casings is limited. So, the interest in the d...

Variants Within over a Hundred Complete COVID-19 Genomes and the Impact on Health Security

Sayed A.M. Amer — 2021-01-28

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Published online: 28 January 2021; doi:10.3844/ajbbsp.2021.16.27

102 complete COVID-19 genomes have been collected from the viral genomes database to track and characterize novel variants. The data were treated bioinformatically so that 172 variants, with 127 uniqu...

Safe Ulvan Silver Nanoparticles Composite Films for Active Food Packaging

Hadear Hanie Amin — 2021-01-28

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Published online: 28 January 2021; doi:10.3844/ajbbsp.2021.28.39

Protecting food from the corruption caused by different microbes is a big problem, as we need safe methods for food packaging. In this study, Ulvan (U), edible sulfated polysaccharide extracted from U...

Essential Oils from The Dropped Flowers of Camellia japonica: Extraction Optimization, Chemical Profile and Antibacterial Property

Yunqi Kong — 2021-01-27

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Published online: 27 January 2021; doi:10.3844/ajbbsp.2021.40.49

Camellia japonica is one of the most economically valuable species that can be taxonomically placed in the Theaceae family. Many horticultural varieties of C. japonica have been cultivated as ornament...

Predicting Microbe-Drug Association based on Similarity and Semi-Supervised Learning

Lingzhi Zhu — 2021-03-09

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Published online: 9 March 2021; doi:10.3844/ajbbsp.2021.50.58

Increasing clinic evidences have showed that microbial communities play important roles in human health and disease. Predicting hidden microbe-drug associations can be helpful in understanding the mic...

Molecular Dynamics Simulation and Analysis of Crystallization System in PVC Tunnel Drain-Pipe at Different Temperatures

Zhongwei Hou — 2021-03-09

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Published online: 9 March 2021; doi:10.3844/ajbbsp.2021.59.66

Aiming at the problem that carbonate and calcium ions are easy to crystallize and precipitate in the drain-pipes of limestone tunnels and then adsorb on PVC pipes in Western China, a "solid-liquid int...

Optimization Design of Sea Cucumber Cleaning Parameters by Water Jet

Xu Zhang — 2021-03-15

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Published online: 15 March 2021; doi:10.3844/ajbbsp.2021.67.75

Aiming at the problem that the cleaning effect and surface integrity of the mechanical cleaning process cannot be solved simultaneously in the pretreatment of sea cucumber and according to the require...

KRLSMDA: Identifying Human miRNA–Disease Association Based on Similarity and Kronecker Regularized Least Squares Method

Lingzhi Zhu — 2021-03-15

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Published online: 15 March 2021; doi:10.3844/ajbbsp.2021.76.84

A growing number of studies have suggested that miRNAs (microRNAs) have associations with human diseases, the design and discovery of drug. But so far, we do not yet fully understand the molecular mec...

Experimental Study on the Microbial Community Structure of the Sediment of Pi River under the Different pH in Winter

Cairui Yu — 2021-03-15

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Published online: 15 March 2021; doi:10.3844/ajbbsp.2021.85.96

In order to solve the poor self-purification ability of low temperature water in winter, the microbial community structure in the sediment of Pi River water (located in West Anhui) was investigated ex...

Flavonoids from the Zizania latifolia Bracts: Extraction Optimization, Antioxidant Activity and Exploration in Strawberry Preservation

Tong Wang — 2021-03-15

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Published online: 15 March 2021; doi:10.3844/ajbbsp.2021.97.108

Zizania latifolia bracts are Z. latifolia-based agricultural waste materials, distributed in various parts of the world. In the current study, the Response Surface Method (RSM) was used to optimize th...

The Effects of Moisture Content and Loading Orientation on Some Physical and Mechanical Properties of Tiger Nut

Long Wang — 2021-03-19

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Published online: 19 March 2021; doi:10.3844/ajbbsp.2021.109.117

The physical and mechanical properties of the newly “Zhongyousha No.1” and the traditional “Yousha” Chinese tiger nut varieties are studied. Several physical and mechanical properties of the t...

Characterization, Antioxidant Activities and Optimization of Preparation Process of a Auricularia Polytricha Polysaccharide-Zinc (II) Complex

Xinyi Wu — 2021-03-25

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Published online: 25 March 2021; doi:10.3844/ajbbsp.2021.118.129

In our previous work, a novel polysaccharide APP3a from Auricularia polytricha was successfully isolated and purified. Response surface methodology was used to optimize the preparation process of APP3...