Volume 12, Issue 4 (2016) | American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology

Cocoa-Butter-Equivalent Production from Yarrowia lipolytica by Optimization of Fermentation Technology

Lina Zhao — 2016-12-29

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Published online: 29 December 2016; doi:10.3844/ajbbsp.2016.196.205

In order to obtain the optimal control point for single-cell lipid production with fatty acid profile similar to cocoa butter, this study explored the effects of carbon source, nitrogen source, temper...

The Effect of Explant Type and 6-Benzyl Adenine (BAP) In Sapodilla (Achras zapota) Micropropagation

Endang Yuniastuti — 2016-09-30

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Published online: 30 September 2016; doi:10.3844/ajbbsp.2016.206.213

Sapodilla (Achras zapota) is one type of tropical fruits with high economic value that are easily found in Indonesia. However, the number of productive plants has been decreased and affected the rate ...

Coenzyme Q10 and its Effective Sources

Hamideh Vaghari — 2016-10-10

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Published online: 10 October 2016; doi:10.3844/ajbbsp.2016.214.219

Coenzyme Q10 (2,3-dimethoxy, 5-methyl, 6-decaprenyl benzoquinone, CoQ10) is naturally present in many organisms. It has key roles in several biochemical pathways. CoQ10, as an electron and proton carr...

Optimization of Hydrolysis Conditions for the Production of Iron-Binding Peptides from Scad (Decapterus maruadsi) Processing Byproducts

Wenting Zhang — 2016-10-17

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Published online: 17 October 2016; doi:10.3844/ajbbsp.2016.220.229

The scad (Decapterus maruadsi) processing byproduct (SPB) was hydrolyzed by four commercial enzymes, namely, trypsin, flavourzyme, protamex and alcalase, for preparing high Iron-Binding Capacity (IBC)...

Identification and Characterization of Diacylglycerol Acyltransferase in Oleaginous Yeast Rhodosporidium toruloides

Zhen Wang — 2016-10-17

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Published online: 17 October 2016; doi:10.3844/ajbbsp.2016.230.240

Diacylglycerol acyltransferase (DGAT), which catalyzes TAG formation from DAG and acyl-CoA, has been considered to play a vital role in TAG accumulation in oleaginous microorganisms. The genome of ole...

Optimization of Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Freeze-Dried Sea Cucumber Powder with Response Surface Methodology and Its Antioxidant Evaluation

Yahui Pang — 2016-10-17

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Published online: 17 October 2016; doi:10.3844/ajbbsp.2016.241.252

In this study, freeze-dried sea cucumber powder was used as raw material and the preparation processing conditions were studied for hydrolysis of sea cucumber powder with neutral protease using Respon...

3D-QSAR and SVM Prediction of BRAF-V600E and HIV Integrase Inhibitors: A Comparative Study and Characterization of Performance with a New Expected Prediction Performance Metric

Leonard Wesley — 2016-10-17

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Published online: 17 October 2016; doi:10.3844/ajbbsp.2016.253.262

The results of directly comparing the prediction accuracy of optimized 3D Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (3D-QSAR) models and linear Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifiers to identify ...

A Phenolic Ester of O-Desmethylvenlafaxine (ODV) Improves Uptake of ODV into the Brain

Yang Zhang — 2016-12-11

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Published online: 11 December 2016; doi:10.3844/ajbbsp.2016.263.269

In this study, the in vitro stabilities of a promising O-Desmethylvenlafaxine (ODV) phenolic ester prodrug O-19 in aqueous solution, rat whole blood and rat liver microsomes were investigated. In addi...

Biofidel FEA Modeling of Customized Hybrid Biological Hip Joint Prostheses, Part I: Biomechanical Behavior of Implanted Femur

Raffaella Aversa — 2016-12-16

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Published online: 16 December 2016; doi:10.3844/ajbbsp.2016.270.276

Biofidel femur Finite Element Models have been developed using specific combination of Computer Tomography segmentation and solid modeling software tools able to represent bone physiology and structur...

Biofidel FEA Modeling of Customized Hybrid Biological Hip Joint Design Part II: Flexible Stem Trabecular Prostheses

Raffaella Aversa — 2016-12-16

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Published online: 16 December 2016; doi:10.3844/ajbbsp.2016.277.285

New biomechanical criteria for the design of biomimetic hip joint prostheses are presented. Biofidel Finite Element Models have been used both to correctly analyze femur physiological and structural b...