Hydrodynamic characteristics of immobilized cell beads in a liquid-solid fluidized-bed bioreactor.

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to understand bacteria profile modification and its applications in subsurface biological operations such as biobarrier formation, in situ bioremediation, and microbial-enhanced oil recovery. Biomass accumulation and evolution in porous media were investigated both experimentally and theo...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Kim DS,Fogler HS

更新日期：2000-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Spores, although often considered metabolically inert, catalyze a variety of reactions. The use of spores instead of mycelium for bioconversions has several advantages. In this paper, we describe the difference in susceptibility of mycelium and spores against toxic substrates and products. A higher resistance of spore...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Wolken WA,Tramper J,van der Werf MJ

更新日期：2002-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A key challenge for bioprocess engineering is the identification of the optimum process conditions for the production of biochemical and biopharmaceutical compounds using prokaryotic as well as eukaryotic cell factories. Shake flasks and bench-scale bioreactor systems are still the golden standard in the early stage o...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Totaro D,Rothbauer M,Steiger MG,Mayr T,Wang HY,Lin YS,Sauer M,Altvater M,Ertl P,Mattanovich D

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Remarkable increases in enzyme catalytic stability resulting from addition of charged water-soluble polymers have recently been reported, suggesting that use of these polymers may be an attractive general strategy for enzyme stabilization. To test the proposed hypothesis that coulombic forces between water-soluble pol...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Foreman TM,Khalil M,Meier P,Brainard JR,Vanderberg LA,Sauer NN

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a model for nutrient removal in an aerobic granular sludge system. This model can quantitatively describe the start-up of the system by coupling a model for studying the population dynamics of the granules in the reactor (reactor-scale model) and a model for studying the microbial community structure in t...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Kagawa Y,Tahata J,Kishida N,Matsumoto S,Picioreanu C,van Loosdrecht MC,Tsuneda S

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural oxygen gradients occur in tissues of biological organisms and also in the context of three-dimensional (3D) in vitro cultivation. Oxygen diffusion limitation and metabolic oxygen consumption by embedded cells produce areas of hypoxia in the tissue/matrix. However, reliable systems to detect oxygen gradients an...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Schmitz C,Pepelanova I,Seliktar D,Potekhina E,Belousov VV,Scheper T,Lavrentieva A

更新日期：2020-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Many bacteria used for biotechnological applications are naturally motile. Their "bio-nanopropeller" driven movement allows searching for better environments in a process called chemotaxis. Since bacteria are extremely small in size compared to the bulk fluid volumes in bioreactors, single cell motility is not conside...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Arora S,Bhat V,Mittal A

更新日期：2007-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurements of k(L)a were carried out in 1. 5- and 5-L New Brunswick Scientific CelliGen bioreactors. The measured k(L)a in water were identical for both vessel sizes operated in similar condition. The mass transfer rate increased with temperature, mixing speed, and aeration rate, with this last parameter being the m...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Johnson M,André G,Chavarie C,Archambault J

更新日期：1990-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between local mass transfer coefficient and fluid velocity in heterogenous biofilms was investigated by combining microelectrodes and confocal scanning laser microscopy (CSLM). The biofilms were grown for up to 7 days and consisted of cell clusters separated by interstitial channels. Mass transfer coe...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Stoodley P,Yang S,Lappin-Scott H,Lewandowski Z

更新日期：1997-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The second messenger cyclic dimeric (3'→5') GMP (cyclic di-GMP or c-di-GMP) has been implicated in the transition between motile and sessile lifestyles in bacteria. In this study, we demonstrate that biofilm formation, cellular aggregation or flocculation, and cellular buoyancy are under the control of c-di-GMP in Syn...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Agostoni M,Waters CM,Montgomery BL

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agility to schedule and execute cell culture manufacturing campaigns quickly in a multi-product facility will play a key role in meeting the growing demand for therapeutic proteins. In an effort to shorten campaign timelines, maximize plant flexibility and resource utilization, we investigated the initiation of cell c...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Seth G,Hamilton RW,Stapp TR,Zheng L,Meier A,Petty K,Leung S,Chary S

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two empirical models for the enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose are used to analyze the same set of experimental data to determine if one model is superior to the other. Both models adequately describe the data. The parameters in both models may be correlated to the hydrolysis conditions of enzyme, substrate, and produ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Holtzapple MT,Caram HS,Humphrey AE

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo kinetics of Saccharomyces cerevisiae are studied, in a time window of 150 s, by analyzing the response of O(2) and CO(2) in the fermentor off-gas after perturbation of chemostat cultures by metabolite pulses. Here, a new mathematical method is presented for the estimation of the in vivo oxygen uptake rate (OUR...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Wu L,Lange HC,Van Gulik WM,Heijnen JJ

更新日期：2003-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is equipped with G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR). Because the yeast GPCR signaling mechanism is partly similar to that of the mammalian system, S. cerevisiae can be used for a host of mammalian GPCR expression and ligand-mediated activation assays. However, currently avail...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Fukutani Y,Ishii J,Kondo A,Ozawa T,Matsunami H,Yohda M

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein localization in Saccharomyces cerevisiae was studied with two plasmid systems used as a model: one containing the SUC2 structural gene fused with the MFalpha1 (alpha-factor) promoter and signal-sequence, the other containing the entire SUC2 gene. Special emphasis was placed on the effect of promoter/signal-seq...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Marten MR,Seo JH

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural networks are formed by accurate connectivity of neurons and glial cells in the brain. These networks employ a three-dimensional bio-surface that both assigns precise coordinates to cells during development and facilitates their connectivity and functionality throughout life. Using specific topographic and chemi...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Bani-Yaghoub M,Tremblay R,Voicu R,Mealing G,Monette R,Py C,Faid K,Sikorska M

更新日期：2005-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A new method is presented to precipitate proteins and amino acids from reverse micelles by dehydrating the micelles with molecular sieves. Nearly complete precipitation is demonstrated for alpha-chymotrypsin, cytochromec, and trytophan from 2-ethylhexyl sodium sulfosuccinate (AOT)/isooctane/water reverse micelle solut...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Gupta RB,Han CJ,Johnston KP

更新日期：1994-09-20 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：:CO(2) partial pressure (pCO(2)) in industrial cell culture reactors may reach 150-200 mm Hg, which can significantly inhibit cell growth and recombinant protein production. The inhibitory effects of elevated pCO(2) at constant pH are due to a combination of the increases in pCO(2) and [HCO(-) (3)], per se, and the ass...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： deZengotita VM,Schmelzer AE,Miller WM

更新日期：2002-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of recombinant proteins by mammalian cells demands a highly controlled environment for cell cultivation. Temperature stress represents a commonly encountered disturbance in both research and process environments. In this study, we examined the effects of heat shock on the expression of recombinant human...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Tsao EI,Bohn MA,Omstead DR,Munster MJ,Numsuwan V

更新日期：1992-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormal airway mucus presents a significant challenge for inhalational drug delivery. Recognizing the thick and tenacious airway mucus seen in the cystic fibrosis (CF) patients as a critical barrier to effective drug delivery, both into the mucus layer itself as well as across that layer to the underlying airway epit...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Yang Y,Tsifansky MD,Shin S,Lin Q,Yeo Y

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic carbon labelling experiments enable a large amount of extracellular fluxes and intracellular carbon isotope enrichments to be measured. Since the relation between the measured quantities and the unknown intracellular metabolic fluxes is given by bilinear balance equations, flux determination from this data s...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Wiechert W,Siefke C,de Graaf AA,Marx A

更新日期：1997-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In the first part of our work, we combined compositional analysis, pretreatment and enzyme hydrolysis for fractionated pith, rind, and leaf tissues from a hybrid stay-green corn, in order to identify the role of structural characteristics on enzyme hydrolysis of cell walls. Hydrolysis experiments coupled with chemical...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Zeng M,Ximenes E,Ladisch MR,Mosier NS,Vermerris W,Huang CP,Sherman DM

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:13C metabolic flux analysis (MFA) is based on carbon-labeling experiments where a specifically (13)C labeled substrate is fed. The labeled carbon atoms distribute over the metabolic network and the label enrichment of certain metabolic pools is measured by using different methods. Recently, MS methods have been dramat...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Wahl SA,Dauner M,Wiechert W

更新日期：2004-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium formicoaceticum homofermentatively converts lactate to acetate at 37 degrees C and pH 6.6-9.6. However, this fermentation is strongly inhibited by acetic acid at acidic pH. The specific growth rate of this organism decreased from a maximum at pH 7.6 to zero at pH 6.6. This inhibition effect was found to be...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Tang IC,Okos MR,Yang ST

更新日期：1989-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A stimulus-response tracer technique has been used to characterize packed beds of untreated, as well as acid prehydrolyzed, and enzymatically hydrolyzed aspen wood chips. Glucose was used as the tracer. Bulk liquid phase dispersion, interphase mass transfer, and intraparticle diffusion coefficients were determined for...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Hradil G,Calo JM,Wunderlich TK Jr

更新日期：1993-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) kill microbes by non-specific membrane permeabilization, making them ideal templates for designing novel peptide-based antibiotics that can combat multi-drug resistant pathogens. For maximum efficacy in vivo and in vitro, AMPs must be biocompatible, salt-tolerant and possess broad-spectru...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Saravanan R,Li X,Lim K,Mohanram H,Peng L,Mishra B,Basu A,Lee JM,Bhattacharjya S,Leong SS

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present investigation molecular sieve has been found to be a suitable carrier for the immobilization of enzymes. From the present study it may be specifically found that trypsin and pappain can be immobilized by molecular sieve type 4a following a very simple techniqure. The immobilized enzyme can be used both ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Mukherjea RN,Bhattacharya P,Ghosh BK,Taraphdar DK

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cost-effective production of biopharmaceuticals on a large scale can be carried out by perfusion cultures of mammalian cells. One problem with this mode of operation for submerged free-cell cultures is the requirement for an efficient cell separation device located in the effluent stream. The present work investigates...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Docoslis A,Kalogerakis N,Behie LA,Kaler KV

更新日期：1997-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The stability of immobilized preparations of xanthine oxidase and urate oxidase was studied, and optimized, because of the potential joint use of both enzymes in clinical analysis. Xanthine oxidase was immobilized on cellulose, Sepharose, hornblende, Enzacryl-TIO, and porous glass. Thehalf-lives of these preparations ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Johnson DB,Coughlan MP

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00