A simplified material and energy balance approach for process development and scale-up of Coniothyrium minitans conidia production by solid-state cultivation in a packed-bed reactor.

abstract：:The release kinetics of beta-galactosidase protein have been determined during small-scale ultrasonication of E. coli cells. Among several studied parameters, ionic strength and cell concentration have the least influence on the rate of protein recovery, whereas sample volume and acoustic power dramatically affect the...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Feliu JX,Cubarsi R,Villaverde A

更新日期：1998-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Five microbial inocula were evaluated in batch tests for the ability to remediate mine drainage (MD). Dairy manure (DM), anaerobic digester sludge, substrate from the Luttrell (LUTR) and Peerless Jenny King (PJK) sulfate-reducing permeable reactive zones (SR-PRZs) and material from an MD-treatment column that had been...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Pereyra LP,Hiibel SR,Pruden A,Reardon KF

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) are invaluable research tools for studying gene functions in mammalian cells. siRNAs are mainly produced by chemical synthesis or by enzymatic digestion of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) produced in vitro. Recently, bacterial cells, engineered with ectopic plant viral siRNA binding protein...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Kaur G,Cheung HC,Xu W,Wong JV,Chan FF,Li Y,McReynolds L,Huang L

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A facile methodology has been developed for covalently derivatizing the surfaces of common materials with a designed antibacterial polycation, poly(vinyl-N-pyridinium bromide), wherein the first, key step involves surface coating with a nanolayer of silica. Various commercial synthetic polymers derivatized in this man...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Tiller JC,Lee SB,Lewis K,Klibanov AM

更新日期：2002-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor-targeted Salmonella VNP20009 preferentially replicate within tumor tissue and partially suppress tumor growth in murine tumor models. These Salmonella have the ability to locally induce apoptosis when they are in direct contact with cancer cells but they lack significant bystander killing, which may correlate wi...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Quintero D,Carrafa J,Vincent L,Bermudes D

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In eukaryotes, secretory proteins are folded and assembled in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Many heterologous proteins are retained in the ER due to suboptimal folding conditions. We previously reported that heterologous secretion of Pyrococcus furiosus beta-glucosidase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae resulted in the ac...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Smith JD,Tang BC,Robinson AS

更新日期：2004-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonads are serious candidates for siderophore production applied to toxic metal (TM) solubilization. The bioaugmentation of contaminated soils by these TM-solubilizing bacteria combined with phytoextraction is an emerging clean-up technology. Unfortunately, siderophore synthesis may be drastically reduced by sol...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Braud A,Jézéquel K,Léger MA,Lebeau T

更新日期：2006-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteinaceous organic wastes are suitable substrates to produce high added-value products in anaerobic mixed-culture fermentations. In these processes, the stoichiometry of the biotransformation depends highly on operational conditions such as pH or feeding characteristics and there are still no tools that allow the p...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Regueira A,Lema JM,Carballa M,Mauricio-Iglesias M

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although one of the major factors limiting the application of Bacillus subtilis as an expression host has been its production of at least eight extracellular proteases, researchers have also noticed that some proteases benefited the secretion of foreign proteins at times. Therefore, to maximize the yield of a foreign ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Zhao L,Ye B,Zhang Q,Cheng D,Zhou C,Cheng S,Yan X

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmid gene product accumulation in a cell population depends on the fraction of plasmid-containing cells and the distribution of single-cell plasmid content. These important population properties have been related to plasmid replication regulation and kinetics and to plasmid segregation rules at the single-cell leve...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Hjortso MA,Bailey JE

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing demand for petroleum has stimulated industry to develop sustainable production of chemicals and biofuels using microbial cell factories. Fatty acids of chain lengths from C6 to C16 are propitious intermediates for the catalytic synthesis of industrial chemicals and diesel-like biofuels. The abundance of gen...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Tee TW,Chowdhury A,Maranas CD,Shanks JV

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorus-31 nuclear magnetic resonance ((31)P NMR) was used to compare the anaerobic metabolism of glucose by suspended and gel-entrapped Saccharomyces bayanus cells. The fermentation of glucose was carried out in a reaction system with continuous circulation through the NMR sample tube. The intracellular pH and the...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Taipa MA,Cabral JM,Santos H

更新日期：1993-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular chaperones in aqueous-organic mixtures can broaden the utility of biocatalysis by stabilizing enzymes in denaturing conditions. We have designed a self-renaturing enzyme-chaperone chimera consisting of penicillin amidase and a thermophilic chaperonin that functions in aqueous-organic mixtures. The flexible l...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Bergeron LM,Gomez L,Whitehead TA,Clark DS

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein dynamic binding capacities on ion exchange resins are typically expected to decrease with increasing conductivity and decreasing protein charge. There are, however, conditions where capacity increases with increasing conductivity and decreasing protein charge. Capacity measurements on two different commercial ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Harinarayan C,Mueller J,Ljunglöf A,Fahrner R,Van Alstine J,van Reis R

更新日期：2006-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A limited life cycle assessment (LCA) was performed on a combined biological and chemical process for the production of adipic acid, which was compared to the traditional petrochemical process. The LCA comprises the biological conversion of the aromatic feedstocks benzoic acid, impure aromatics, toluene, or phenol fro...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： van Duuren JB,Brehmer B,Mars AE,Eggink G,Dos Santos VA,Sanders JP

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An integrated approach is used to develop a rapid sampling strategy for the quantitative analysis of in vivo kinetic behavior based on measured concentrations of intracellular metabolites in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Emphasis is laid on small sample sizes during sampling and analysis. Subsecond residence times are acc...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Lange HC,Eman M,van Zuijlen G,Visser D,van Dam JC,Frank J,de Mattos MJ,Heijnen JJ

更新日期：2001-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Bifidobacterium animalis ATCC 27536 represents among bifidobacteria a host-model for cloning experiments. The segregational and structural stabilities of a family of cloning vectors with different molecular weights but sharing a common core were studied in continuous fermentation of the hosting B. animalis without sel...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： González Vara A,Rossi M,Altomare L,Eikmanns B,Matteuzzi D

更新日期：2003-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Anerobic biofilms with dominantly acidogenic bacteria were grown in fixed-bed recycle reactors. The influence of calcium concentration in the culture medium on biofilm mass accumulation, immobilized calcium concentration, and biofilm-specific activity was investigated. The results indicate that the biofilm mass accumu...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Huang J,Pinder KL

更新日期：1995-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to eliminate organic pollutants in waste gases, a biological filter bed technique has been developed, with a high self-regenerating capacity and a low pressure drop. The bed consists of an appropriate filling material (mainly peat compost), in order to let the microorganisms grow on the solid surface and to s...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Ottengraf SP,Van Den Oever AH

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main processes involved in enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) under anaerobic and subsequently aerobic conditions are widely described in the literature. Polyphosphate accumulating organisms (PAO) are the organisms responsible for this process. However, the mechanisms of PAO are not fully established ye...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Guisasola A,Pijuan M,Baeza JA,Carrera J,Casas C,Lafuente J

更新日期：2004-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In analyzing microbial cellulose utilization, it would be useful to independently measure the mass concentration of cells and cellulase enzymes. Such measurements would allow investigation of the allocation of cellular resources between synthesis of cells and cellulase, in vivo cell- and cellulase-specific cellulose h...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Lynd LR,Zhang Y

更新日期：2002-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A specially designed model reactor based on a 42-L laboratory fermentor was equipped with six stirrers (Rushton turbines) and five cylindrical disks. In this model reactor, the mixing time, Theta(90), turned out to be 13 times longer compared with the 42-L standard laboratory fermentor fitted with two Rushton turbines...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Schilling BM,Pfefferle W,Bachmann B,Leuchtenberger W,Deckwer W

更新日期：1999-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed a macrokinetic and quantitative microbial investigation of a continuously operating bench-scale biofilter treating styrene-polluted gases. The device was filled with a mixture of peat and glass beads as packing medium and inoculated with the styrene-oxidizing strain, Rhodococcus rhodochrous AL NCIMB 13259...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Zilli M,Converti A,Di Felice R

更新日期：2003-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlorophyllide a was coupled with alpha-(3-aminopropyl)-omega-methoxypoly(oxyethylene) (PEG-NH2) to form a PEG-chlorophyllide conjugate through an acid-amide bond. The conjugate catalyzed the reduction of methylviologen in the presence of 2-mercaptoethanol. It also catalyzed the photoreduction of NADP+ or NAD+ in the ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Asada H,Itoh T,Kodera Y,Matsushima A,Hiroto M,Nishimura H,Inada Y

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reducing viscosities of concentrated solutions of therapeutic proteins is important for their subcutaneous and intravenous delivery. Although inorganic salts and optimizing the pH were previously reported to dramatically lower the viscosity of a monoclonal antibody solution, herein we have determined these effects not...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Du W,Klibanov AM

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A key point of protein stability engineering is to identify specific target residues whose mutations can stabilize the protein structure without negatively affecting the function or activity of the protein. Here, we propose a method called RiSLnet (Rapid identification of Smart mutant Library using residue network) to...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Upadhyay R,Kim JY,Hong EY,Lee SG,Seo JH,Kim BG

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) method has been developed to monitor on-line lipase-catalyzed esterification reactions without the need to sample the reaction medium. The technique, through (1)H NMR, measures the concentrations of alcohol, ester, hydroxylic hydrogens in the organic phase, and hydroxylic hydrogens i...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Sarazin C,Ergan F,Séguin JP,Goethals G,Legoy MD,Barbotin JN

更新日期：1996-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome c-oxidase, used as a model membrane-bound enzyme, was embedded in phospholipid bilayer membranes, attached to nanometer-sized Fe(3)O(4) colloids (so-called magnetoliposomes). In comparison with the lipid-depleted free enzyme, both the activity and the enzymatic stability of the complexes, stored at 4 degree...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： De Cuyper M,De Meulenaer B,Van der Meeren P,Vanderdeelen J

更新日期：1996-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) technique was used to directly detect an intact form of insect pathogen: the baculovirus, Autographa californica multiple nuclear polyhedrosis virus (AcMNPV). An SPR sensor chip with three bio-functional layers was used to detect the intact AcMNPV: amine-reactive crosslinker with a disu...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Baac H,Hajós JP,Lee J,Kim D,Kim SJ,Shuler ML

更新日期：2006-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, an autonomous four-compartment model that describes the endogenous respiration in an aerobic biodegradation process is proposed and analyzed theoretically. First, the multi-time scale of the system's behavior, to be taken into account in subsequent analyses, is emphasized. Then, an identifiability and...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Keesman KJ,Spanjers H,van Straten G

更新日期：1998-01-20 00:00:00