The water-dependence of the catalytic activity of bilirubin oxidase suspensions in low-water systems.

abstract：:The performance and microbial communities of three differently inoculated biotrickling filters removing dimethyl sulfide (DMS) were compared. The biotrickling filters were inoculated with Thiobacillus thioparus TK-m (THIO), sludge (HANDS) and sludge + T. thioparus TK-m + Hyphomicrobium VS (HANDS++), respectively. The ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Sercu B,Boon N,Beken SV,Verstraete W,Van Langenhove H

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A packed granular activated carbon (GAC) biobed, inoculated with the ethane-degrading strain Mycobacterium E3, was used to study ethene removal from a synthetic waste gas. Ethene, for which the dimensionless partition coefficient for an air-water system at 20 degrees C is about 7.6, was used as a model compound for po...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： De Heyder B,Overmeire A,Van Langenhove H,Verstraete W

更新日期：1994-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:An immobilized enzyme (pancreatic ribonuclease bound to porous titania) was investigated for the degradation of purified yeast ribonucleic acid as a substrate. The immobilized enzyme is active and stable in the pH range 4--8. Dependence of enzymatic activity on ionic strength, pH, temperature, fluid flow rate, and sub...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Dale BE,White DH

更新日期：1979-09-01 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：:An efficient method was developed for media separation and cell collection for eukaryotic cells growing in suspension. The method is based on tangential flow microfiltration using an open channel arrangement in a hollow fiber configuration. Best results (highest processing flux rate) for polysulfone hollow fibers were...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Trinh L,Shiloach J

更新日期：1995-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Centrifugal adsorption technology (CAT) is a new compact, countercurrent technology for efficient adsorption from large liquid streams by using adsorbent particles in the micrometer range. CAT seems particularly suited for the recovery of macromolecules at low concentrations, because the small particle dimensions lead...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Peet DJ,Bisschops MA,van Hateren SH,van der Wielen LA

更新日期：2002-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:An algorithm for operating a fed-batch fermentor at an optimum specific fermentation rate is proposed. It does not require on-line measurement of nutrient concentration in the culture medium. An on-line estimate of the specific fermentation rate is sufficient for implementation of this scheme. The algorithm is model i...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Agrawal P,Koshy G,Ramseier M

更新日期：1989-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A systematic, kinetic study and comparison of the leaching of mixed metal sulfides by galvanic conversion and in the presence of bacteria has been carried out for the first time using both powder (-100 to -400 mesh) and larger (bulk) specimen systems. The rates of dissolution of copper from chalcopyrite and zinc from ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Mehta AP,Murr LE

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoflocculation and bioflocculation are considered to be the most promising means for the economical harvesting of microalgae. We have therefore studied these phenomena with cultures of Scenedesmus obliquus produced during biological tertiary wastewater treatment. The quantity of extracellular polymers produced durin...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Lavoie A,de la Noüe J

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A titration bioassay, designed to accurately determine the activity of acetoclastic methanogens, is described that also allows evaluation of inhibition due to potential toxicants on the active biomass. The instrument is made of a pH-stat connected to an anaerobic batch reactor. Acetate is blended and mixed with anaero...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Rozzi A,Castellazzi L,Speece RE

更新日期：2002-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A model for cometabolism is verified experimentally for a defined methanotrophic mixed culture. The model includes the effects of cell growth, endogenous cell decay, product toxicity, and competitive inhibition with the assumption that cometabolic transformation rates are enhanced by reducing power obtained from oxida...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Chang WK,Criddle CS

更新日期：1997-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Low-temperature plasma was employed for activation of polymer membranes as a carrier for enzyme immobilization. Glucose oxidase was immobilized on polypropylene (PP), polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), or polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) membrane surfaces treated by nitrogen or ammonia gas plasma using glutaraldehyde as a ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Kawakami M,Koya H,Gondo S

更新日期：1988-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Invertase from Candida utilis was immobilized on porous cellulose beads by an ionic-quanidino bond. The immobilized invertase showed optimum activity between pH 4.0 and 5.4, while the free enzyme had a sharp optimum at pH 4.1. Both temperature profiles were fairly similar up to 55 degrees C. However, above this temper...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Dickensheets PA,Chen LF,Tsao GT

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently in America the biofuel ethanol is primarily being produced by the dry grind technique to obtain the starch contained in the corn grains and subsequently subjected to fermentation. This so-called 1st generation technology has two setbacks; first the lingering debate whether its life cycle contributes to a red...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Brehmer B,Bals B,Sanders J,Dale B

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ralstonia eutropha grows on and produces polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) from fermentation acids. Acetic acid, one major organic acid from acidogenesis of organic wastes, has an inhibitory effect on the bacterium at slightly alkaline pH (6 g HAc/L at pH 8). The tolerance of R. eutropha to acetate, however, was increased ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Yu J,Wang J

更新日期：2001-06-20 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：:The denitrification capability of Cluster 1 Defluviicoccus vanus-related glycogen-accumulating organisms (DvGAOs) is investigated. A sequencing batch reactor (SBR) fed with acetate as the sole carbon source was operated under alternating anaerobic-aerobic conditions to enrich Cluster 1 DvGAOs. Fluorescence in situ hyb...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Wang X,Zeng RJ,Dai Y,Peng Y,Yuan Z

更新日期：2008-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Utilising whole cells of recombinant Escherichia coli K27 (pCYP102, pGEc47) containing active cytochrome P450BM-3 monooxygenase [E.C. 1. 14.14.1], multiple oxidations of saturated and unsaturated fatty acids were performed by the enzyme under conditions of excess oxygen. The amount of oxygen dissolved in the culture m...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Schneider S,Wubbolts MG,Oesterhelt G,Sanglard D,Witholt B

更新日期：1999-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A respiratory-deficient, mutant of Kluyveromyces fragilis was isolated using a ethidium bromide mutagenesis. It was characterized by a loss of cytochromes a + a3 and by an improvement of its inulinase activity. Under anaerobic conditions this mutant was always better than the wild strain for ethanol production especia...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Guiraud JP,Bourgi J,Stervinou M,Claisse M,Galzy P

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In glutamic acid fermentation, the molasses feeding policy and time of penicillin addition significantly affected glutamic acid production, and a fuzzy supervisory control system was developed for their quasi-optimal regulation.From the trend of the experimental data, production rules and membership functions of fuzzy...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Kitsuta Y,Kishimoto M

更新日期：1994-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Pretreatment plays an important role in the efficient enzymatic hydrolysis of biomass into fermentable sugars for biofuels. A highly effective pretreatment method is reported for corn stover which combines mild alkali-extraction followed by ionic liquid (IL) dissolution of the polysaccharides and regeneration (recover...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Geng X,Henderson WA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A microarray presenting glycerol nanodroplets of fluorogenic peptide substrates was used as a biosensor for the detection of multiple enzyme activities within human plasma. Using 10 different plasma proteases (kallikrein, factor XIIa, factor XIa, factor IXa, factor VIIa, factor Xa, thrombin, activated protein C, uPA a...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Gosalia DN,Denney WS,Salisbury CM,Ellman JA,Diamond SL

更新日期：2006-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The productivity of Escherichia coli as a producer of recombinant proteins is affected by its metabolic properties, especially by acetate production. Two commercially used E. coli strains, BL21 (lambdaDE3) and JM109, differ significantly in their acetate production during batch fermentation at high initial glucose con...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： van de Walle M,Shiloach J

更新日期：1998-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein-protein interactions were measured for ovalbumin and for lysozyme in aqueous salt solutions. Protein-protein interactions are correlated with a proposed potential of mean force equal to the free energy to desolvate the protein surface that is made inaccessible to the solvent due to the protein-protein interact...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Curtis RA,Ulrich J,Montaser A,Prausnitz JM,Blanch HW

更新日期：2002-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The effective diffusivity of oxygen, D(e), in Ca-alginate and PVA-SbQ gels was measured using a two-chamber vessel with a membrane between the two chambers. The effect of cell density, C(c), on D(e) in Ca-alginate gels was studied. The effective diffusivity of oxygen decreased with increasing cell density, to C(c) = 1...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Sun Y,Furusaki S,Yamauchi A,Ichimura K

更新日期：1989-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A soil with aged contamination from lubricating oil (LO) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) was treated in a bioslurry reactor to investigate in-soil biosurfactant production by Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the most abundant indigenous, culturable, hydrocarbon-degrading microorganism. After 2 days of growth on LO, a depl...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Hudak AJ,Cassidy DP

更新日期：2004-12-30 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：:A spinning cylindrical filter, known as a spinfilter, permits the mammalian cell bioreactor operation at high perfusion rates leading to very high cell densities (10(7) mL(-1)). Filter screens with openings (25 mum) slightly larger than the average cell size have been used to retain single cells in suspension over a l...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Yabannavar VM,Singh V,Connelly NV

更新日期：1994-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study evaluated the influence of water activity and lactose concentration on the synthesis of galactooligosaccharides (GOS), by means of a hyperthermophilic beta-glycosidase in an organic system. The production of GOS gradually grew as water activity increased in the reaction system; later, their synthesis...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Cruz-Guerrero AE,Gómez-Ruiz L,Viniegra-González G,Bárzana E,García-Garibay M

更新日期：2006-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which forms large, multicellular flocs in liquid culture, rapidly fermented media containing high concentrations of glucose (100-180 g/L) in a continuous nonaerated tower fermentor at 30 degrees C. The fermentor operated continuously for seven months. Batch and tower fermentor dat...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Jones ST,Korus RA,Admassu W,Heimsch RC

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00