Kinetic model of biosurfactant-enhanced hexadecane biodegradation by Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

abstract：:Mathematical models to describe transcription (Arnold et al. (2001); Biotech Bioeng 72:548-561) and translation (Mehra et al. (2003); Biotech Bioeng 84:822-841) in bacteria are modified in order to improve reaction kinetics and to include the number of polymerase molecules that are active on the DNA, as well as to inc...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Kremling A

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate measurement of enzymatic cellulose digestibility (X) is important in evaluating the efficiency of lignocellulose pretreatment technologies, assessing the performance of reconstituted cellulase mixtures, and conducting economic analysis for biorefinery processes. We analyzed the effect of sugars contained in e...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Zhang YH,Schell DJ,McMillan JD

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three cell lines, that is, the human breast cancer cell line (MCF-7) and the human mammary epithelial cell line (S-1) and its malignant form (T4-2) were embedded in a reconstituted basement membrane (Matrigel) that had 20-nL pyramid-shaped silicon microstructures. The proliferative behavior of the MCF-7 cells was depe...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Torisawa YS,Nashimoto Y,Yasukawa T,Shiku H,Matsue T

更新日期：2007-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We present an evaluation of the qualitative and quantitative effects that high concentrations of benzene and toluene have on the growth rate of several pure cultures that use these compounds as their sole carbon and energy source. The cultures employed were five widely studied environmental isolates: Pseudomonas putid...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Alagappan G,Cowan R

更新日期：2003-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Fatty aldehydes and alcohols are valuable precursors used in the industrial manufacturing of a myriad of specialty products. Herein, we demonstrate the de novo production of odd chain-length fatty aldehydes and fatty alcohols in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by expressing a novel biosynthetic pathway involving cytosolic th...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Jin Z,Wong A,Foo JL,Ng J,Cao YX,Chang MW,Yuan YJ

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crossflow nanofiltration experiments were performed to investigate the factors influencing the removal of amino acids by a commercially available polymeric thin-film composite membrane. The removals of five monoprotic (Ala, Val, Leu, Gly, and Thr), one diprotic (Asp), and one dibasic (Arg) amino acids in a range of pe...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Shim Y,Chellam S

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An option for fertility preservation for women facing a cancer diagnosis involves the cryopreservation of ovarian tissue for later re-transplantation or in vitro culture, with in vitro culture preferred to avoid reintroduction of the cancer. Small, immature follicles survive the freeze-thaw process, and can be matured...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Xu M,Banc A,Woodruff TK,Shea LD

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The partitioning behavior of viruses in the two-phase aqueous nonionic n-decyl tetra(ethylene oxide) (C10E4) micellar system cannot be fully explained by considering solely the repulsive, steric, excluded-volume interactions that operate between the viruses and the nonionic C10E4 micelles. Specifically, an excluded-vo...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Kamei DT,Liu CL,Haase-Pettingell C,King JA,Wang DI,Blankschtein D

更新日期：2002-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:This study addresses the characterization of human islet-like structures generated from a newly discovered sparse population of precursor cells (Petropavlovskaia and Rosenberg, 2002) in the human pancreas. These cells may be progenitor cells capable of producing pancreatic cells suitable for the treatment of type 1 di...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Bodnar CA,Sen A,Kallos MS,Behie LA,Petropavlovskaia M,Rosenberg L

更新日期：2006-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Stem cell self-renewal versus differentiation fate decisions are difficult to characterize and analyze due to multiple competing rate processes occurring simultaneously among heterogeneous cell subpopulations. To address this challenge, we describe a mathematical model for cell population dynamics that allows flow cyt...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Prudhomme WA,Duggar KH,Lauffenburger DA

更新日期：2004-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobic methanethiol (MT) degradation by mesophilic (30 degrees C) alkaliphilic (pH 10) communities was studied in a lab-scale Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Bed (UASB) reactor inoculated with a mixture of sediments from the Wadden Sea (The Netherlands), Soap Lake (Central Washington), and Russian soda lakes. MT degradatio...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： van Leerdam RC,Bonilla-Salinas M,de Bok FA,Bruning H,Lens PN,Stams AJ,Janssen AJ

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is strong evidence in the literature supporting the existence of significant mass transfer limitations on the kinetics of exogenous H(2) consumption by methanogens. The half saturation constant for H (2) uptake by a mixed-culture, CH(4) producing enrichment was measured using an experimental protocol that avoide...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Giraldo-Gomez E,Goodwin S,Switzenbaum MS

更新日期：1992-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzyme cellulase, a multienzyme complex made up of several proteins, catalyzes the conversion of cellulose to glucose in an enzymatic hydrolysis-based biomass-to-ethanol process. Production of cellulase enzyme proteins in large quantities using the fungus Trichoderma reesei requires understanding the dynamics of g...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Tholudur A,Ramirez WF,McMillan JD

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro gliding assay, microtubule translocation by kinesin motor proteins on a surface, has been used as an engineering tool in analyte detection, molecular cargo transport, and other applications. Although controlling the moving direction is often necessary to realize these applications, current direction control m...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Li F,Pan J,Choi JH

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A computer-controlled headspace gas chromatograph was used to monitor the progress of ethanol production from both aerobic batch and anaerobic continuous fermentations. Using an automatic, electropneumatic sampling system, aliquots of fermentation headspace gas were injected directly onto the column for quantitative e...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Comberbach DM,Bu'lock JD

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) has been extensively used in the past decades for the detection and localization of microorganisms. However, a mechanistic approach of the whole FISH process is still missing, and the main limiting steps for the hybridization to occur remain unclear. In here, FISH is approache...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Lima JF,Maia P,T Magalhães B,Cerqueira L,Azevedo NF

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 11-L helical ribbon impeller (HRI) bioreactor was tested for the culture of Spodoptera frugiperda (Sf-9) cells. This impeller and surface baffling ensured homogeneous mixing and high oxygen transfer through surface aeration and surface-induced babble generation. Serum-supplemented and serum-free cultures, using TNM...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Kamen AA,Tom RL,Caron AW,Chavarie C,Massie B,Archambault J

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of ligand density on anion-exchange membrane chromatography (AEXmc) for the purification of recombinant baculoviruses (rBVs), potential viral vectors in clinical applications, is studied by surface plasmon resonance on customized AEX surfaces and gradient elution experiments on Sartobind D membrane prototyp...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Vicente T,Fáber R,Alves PM,Carrondo MJ,Mota JP

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two attractive features of ELISA are the specificity of antibody-antigen recognition and the sensitivity achieved by enzymatic amplification. This report describes the development of a non-enzymatic molecular recognition platform adaptable to point-of-care clinical settings and field detection of biohazardous material...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Stone GP,Mernaugh R,Haselton FR

更新日期：2005-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Unsaturated fatty acid alpha-butylglucoside esters were prepared by enzymatic esterification of alpha-butylglucoside in nonaqueous media. Conditions were firstly optimized using oleic acid as acyl group. Synthesis was possible in several solvents but the presence of water co-product in the medium limited the reaction ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Bousquet MP,Willemot RM,Monsan P,Boures E

更新日期：1999-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzymatic acrylation is a process of potentially strong interest to the chemical industry. Direct esterification involving acrylic acid is unfortunately rather slow, with inhibition phenomena appearing at high acid concentrations. In the present study the acrylation of 1-octanol catalyzed by immobilized Candida antarc...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Nordblad M,Adlercreutz P

更新日期：2008-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The reaction kinetics for phenol biodegradation at low substrate concentrations can be estimated based on the analysis of changes in the dissolved oxygen concentration in the bulk liquid during biodegradation. The measured oxygen concentration changes with an interesting behavior as biodegradation proceeds. The oxygen...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Shishido M,Toda M

更新日期：1996-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Lentiviral vectors (LVs) enveloped with an engineered Sindbis virus glycoprotein can specifically bind to dendritic cells (DCs) through the surface receptor DC-SIGN and induce antigen expression, thus providing an efficient method for delivering DC-directed vaccines. In this study, we constructed a stable producer lin...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Lee CL,Chou M,Dai B,Xiao L,Wang P

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microfiltration is an important unit operation in downstream processing. However, due to the influence of membrane fouling, prediction of the filtration performance for biological suspensions is difficult. This paper describes a modeling approach that allows a comprehensive description of filtration performance. On th...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Meyer F,Gehmlich I,Guthke R,Górak A,Knorre WA

更新日期：1998-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of new gene delivery technologies is a prerequisite towards gene therapy clinical trials. Because gene delivery mediated by viral vectors remains of limited scope due to immunological and propagation risks, the development of new non-viral gene delivery systems is of crucial importance. We have synthes...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Byk G,Soto J,Mattler C,Frederic M,Scherman D

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental observations indicate that the rates of cometabolic transformation are linked to the consumption of growth substrate during growth and to the consumption of cell mass and/or energy substrate in the absence of growth substrate. Three previously proposed models (models 1 through 3) describing the kinetics o...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Criddle CS

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The thermo-responsive polymer poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) has received widespread attention for its in vitro application in the non-invasive, non-destructive release of adherent cells on two dimensional surfaces. In this study, 3D non-woven scaffolds fabricated from poly(propylene) (PP), poly(ethylene terephthalate) (...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Rossouw CL,Chetty A,Moolman FS,Birkholtz LM,Hoppe H,Mancama DT

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study demonstrates that masking the Feb regions of a monoclonal antibody (Mab) with synthetic antigens prior to covalent immobilization efficiency. Water-soluble adducts of poly(2-methyloxazoline) polymers and a synthetic-peptide epitope for the Mab were constructed. These synthetic antigens are referred to as Fa...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Velander WH,Subramanian A,Madurawe RD,Orthner CL

更新日期：1992-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial magnetic particles (BMPs) were used for the identification of cyanobacterial DNA. Genus-specific oligonucleotide probes for the detection of Anabaena spp., Microcystis spp., Nostoc spp., Oscillatoria spp., and Synechococcus spp. were designed from the variable region of the cyanobacterial 16S rDNA of 148 str...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Matsunaga T,Nakayama H,Okochi M,Takeyama H

更新日期：2001-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Using (13)C-labeled glucose fed to a penicillin-overproducing strain of Penicillium chrysogenum, the intracellular fluxes were quantified, and the presence of two new pathways, not previously described in this organism, is suggested. Thus, glycine was synthesized not only by serine hydroxymethyltransferase, but also b...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Christensen B,Nielsen J

更新日期：2000-06-20 00:00:00