Efficient bioconversion of ethanol to acetaldehyde using a novel mutant strain of the methylotrophic yeast Hansenula polymorpha.

abstract：:The use of a hydrogen-sensitive palladium-metal oxide semiconductor (Pd-MOS) sensor in combination with a membrane for liquid-to-gas transfer for the detection of dissolved hydrogen was investigated. The system was evaluated with known concentrations of dissolved hydrogen in water. The lowest concentration detected wi...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Björnsson L,Hörnsten EG,Mattiasson B

更新日期：2001-04-05 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：:Kluyveromyces marxianus is a promising nonconventional yeast for biobased chemical production due to its rapid growth rate, high TCA cycle flux, and tolerance to low pH and high temperature. Unlike Saccharomyces cerevisiae, K. marxianus grows on low-cost substrates to cell densities that equal or surpass densities in ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： McTaggart TL,Bever D,Bassett S,Da Silva NA

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hairy roots grow quickly, reach high densities, and can produce significant amounts of secondary metabolites, yet their scale-up to bioreactors remains challenging. Artemisia annua produces a rich array of terpenoids, including the sesquiterpene, artemisinin, and transformed roots of this species provide a good model ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Souret FF,Kim Y,Wyslouzil BE,Wobbe KK,Weathers PJ

更新日期：2003-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this article is to provide a few concrete examples of the potential to acceptably reduce the scope of validation and qualification testing based on scientific justification for the specific area of microbial fermentation. The key areas explored include: autoclave operational qualification (OQ) testing, ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Junker B

更新日期：2001-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In biotechnology and biomedicine reliable models of cell proliferation kinetics need to capture the relevant phenomena taking place during the mitotic cycle. To this aim, a novel mathematical model helpful to investigate the intrinsic kinetics of in vitro culture of adherent cells up to confluence is proposed in this ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Fadda S,Cincotti A,Cao G

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene coding for human parathyroid hormone (hPTH) was synthesized and cloned into a yeast expression and secretion vector containing the mating factor alpha pre-pro leader sequence and the galactose-inducible promoter, GAL10. The intact hPTH(1-84) was found to be secreted into the culture medium. As observed in the p...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Chung BH,Park KS

更新日期：1998-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose for sugar production offers advantages of higher conversion, minimal by-product formation, low energy requirements, and mild operating conditions over other chemical conversions. The development of a kinetic model, based on observable, macroscopic properties of the overall system, is ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Wald S,Wilke CR,Blanch HW

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of microalgal biomass for metal pollutant bioremediation might be improved by genetic engineering to modify the selectivity or capacity of metal biosorption. A plant cadmium (Cd) and zinc (Zn) transporter (AtHMA4) was used as a transgene to increase the ability of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii to tolerate 0.2 mM C...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Ibuot A,Webster RE,Williams LE,Pittman JK

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myristic acid esterification has been performed by an immobilized lipase from Mucor Miehei both in n-hexane and in supercritical carbon dioxide (SCCO(2)). The enzyme is stable in SCCO(2) at 15 MPa and 323 K. The reaction rate is influenced by the concentration of water and by the reaction medium composition. A reactio...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Dumont T,Barth D,Corbier C,Branlant G,Perrut M

更新日期：1992-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Three micronization techniques, based on the use of supercritical carbon dioxide, were investigated to produce microspheres of a natural biocompatible polysaccharide. Particles smaller than 20 mum were obtained by means of the rapid expansion of a supercritical solution method (RESS), both with and without cosolvents....

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Benedetti L,Bertucco A,Pallado P

更新日期：1997-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Foam separation may have potential for protein recovery. However, for foam separation to be a viable protein recovery technique it is important to demonstrate, not only that high enrichments and recoveries can be achieved for single proteins, but also that high enrichments and recoveries, together with selectivity of ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Brown AK,Kaul A,Varley J

更新日期：1999-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been much effort exerted to reduce one carbon (C1) gas emission to address climate change. As one promising way to more conveniently utilize C1 gas, several technologies have been developed to convert C1 gas into useful chemicals such as formic acid (FA). In this study, systems metabolic engineering was util...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Ahn JH,Bang J,Kim WJ,Lee SY

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes a methodology that implements a Markov decision process (MDP) optimization technique in a real time fed-batch experiment. Biological systems can be better modeled under the stochastic framework and MDP is shown to be a suitable technique for their optimization. A nonlinear input/output model is ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Saucedo VM,Karim MN

更新日期：1997-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Kluyveromyces marxianus UCD (FST) 55-82 cells were immobilized in Na alginate beads and used in a packed-bed bioreactor system for the continuous production of ethanol from the extract of Jerusalem artichoke tubers. Volumetric ethanol productivities of 104 and 80 g ethanol/ L/h were obtained at 80 and 92% sugar utiliz...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Margaritis A,Bajpai P

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linear relations among net conversion rates of primary metabolites in fermentation processes can be determined by using the macroscopic or pathway balancing methods. It is shown that the process observability can be improved by incorporating both the abiotic proton balance and the pH control reagent addition rate meas...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Siano SA

更新日期：1996-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Microaerobic (oxygen-limited) conditions are critical for inducing many important microbial processes in industrial or environmental applications. At very low oxygen concentrations, however, the process performance often suffers from technical limitations. Available dissolved oxygen measurement techniques are not sens...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Carius L,Rumschinski P,Faulwasser T,Flockerzi D,Grammel H,Findeisen R

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular beta-xylosidase (1,4-beta-D-xylan xylohydrolase, EC 3.2.1.37) from culture filtrates of Neurospora crassa was purified to homogeneity by preparative isoelectric focusing followed by gel electrophoresis. The molecular weight of the purified xylosidase was 83,000 D and the K(m) on p-nitrophenyl-beta-D-xylo...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Deshpande V,Lachke A,Mishra C,Keskar S,Rao M

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The downstream processing of virus particles for vaccination or gene therapy is becoming a critical bottleneck as upstream titers keep improving. Moreover, the growing pressure to develop cost-efficient processes has brought forward new downstream trains. This review aims at analyzing the state-of-the-art in viral dow...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Nestola P,Peixoto C,Silva RR,Alves PM,Mota JP,Carrondo MJ

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Copolymers of N-isopropylacrylamide and N-acryloyl amino acid spacers of varying chain length were synthesized. p-Aminobenzamidine (PABA) was chemically linked to the pendant carboxyl groups of these polymers to obtain thermoprecipitating affinity polymers. The inhibition constant (Ki) of these polymers for trypsin de...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Vaidya AA,Lele BS,Kulkarni MG,Mashelkar RA

更新日期：1999-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Green fluorescent protein (GFP) was used to study the regulation of the galactose-inducible GAL1 promoter in yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains. GFP was cloned into the pGAL110 vector and transformed into the yeast strains. Time course studies comparing culture fluorescence intensity and GFP concentration were con...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Li J,Wang S,VanDusen WJ,Schultz LD,George HA,Herber WK,Chae HJ,Bentley WE,Rao G

更新日期：2000-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrated process concepts for enzymatic cephalexin synthesis were investigated by our group, and this article focuses on the integration of reactions and product removal during the reactions. The last step in cephalexin production is the enzymatic kinetic coupling of activated phenylglycine (phenylglycine amide or p...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Schroën CG,Nierstrasz VA,Bosma R,Kroon PJ,Tjeerdsma PS,DeVroom E,VanderLaan JM,Moody HM,Beeftink HH,Janssen AE,Tramper J

更新日期：2002-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) Type II is caused by mutations in the gene encoding the lysosomal enzyme, iduronate 2-sulfatase (IDS). The majority of MPSII cases affect the brain. However, enzyme replacement therapy with recombinant IDS does not treat the brain, because IDS is a large molecule drug that does not cross th...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Boado RJ,Ka-Wai Hui E,Zhiqiang Lu J,Pardridge WM

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of enantioseparation methods alone can only yield up to 50% of the desired chiral product. Thus enantioseparation becomes more attractive when accompanied by the racemization of the counter-enantiomer. Here we present first results of dynamic kinetic resolution of L-asparagine (L-Asn) via preferential ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Würges K,Petrusevska-Seebach K,Elsner MP,Lütz S

更新日期：2009-12-15 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：:The Model presented in this work demonstrates the combination of cell-cycle model with a model describing the growth and conversion kinetics of hybridoma cells in a steady-state continuous culture. The cell-cycle model is based upon a population balance model as described by Cazzador et al. and assumes the existence o...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Martens DE,Sipkema EM,de Gooijer CD,Beuvery EC,Tramper J

更新日期：1995-10-05 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：:Vascular leak is a key driver of organ injury in diseases, and strategies that reduce enhanced permeability and vascular inflammation are promising therapeutic targets. Activation of the angiopoietin-1 (ANG1)-Tie2 tyrosine kinase signaling pathway is an important regulator of vascular quiescence. Here we describe the ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Liu P,Ryczko M,Xie X,Baardsnes J,Lord-Dufour S,Duroche Y,Hicks EA,Taiyab A,Sheardown H,Quaggin SE,Jin J

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:UV-visible spectroscopy (UV-Vis) is routinely used in microbiology as a tool to check the optical density (OD) pertaining to the growth stages of microbial cultures at the single wavelength of 600 nm, better known as the OD600 . Typically, modern UV-Vis spectrophotometers can scan in the region of approximately 200-10...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Chapman J,Orrell-Trigg R,Kwoon KY,Truong VK,Cozzolino D

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The conditions for the introduction of active carbonate groups into supports containing hydroxyl groups by reaction with 5-norbornene-2.3-dicarboximido carbonochloridate are described. Up to 1.5 mmol carbonate groups/g dry Sepharose 4B could be bound. In the case of glycine the reaction of the activated supports with ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Büttner W,Becker M,Rupprich C,Boeden HF,Henklein P,Loth F,Dautzenberg H

更新日期：1989-01-05 00:00:00