Optimization of rifamycin B fermentation in shake flasks via a machine-learning-based approach.

abstract：:We have identified an error in the published integral form of the modified Michaelis-Menten equation that accounts for endogenous substrate production. The correct solution is presented and the error in both the substrate concentration, S, and the kinetic parameters Vm , Km , and R resulting from the incorrect solutio...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Goudar CT

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a method by which the degree of bubble saturation can be determined by measuring the velocity of single bubbles at different heights from the bubble source in pure water containing increasing concentrations of surfactants. The highest rising velocities were measured in pure water. Addition of surfactants c...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Jordan M,Eppenberger HM,Sucker H,Widmer F,Einsele A

更新日期：1994-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Bioprocesses operated in batch mode can induce adverse effects like overflow metabolism, substrate inhibition, osmotic inhibition, oxygen limitation, and catabolite repression. To avoid these adverse effects, fed-batch is the predominant operation mode in industrial production. Nevertheless, screening for optimal prod...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Habicher T,Czotscher V,Klein T,Daub A,Keil T,Büchs J

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellulase (Cellulosin AC-8) was immobilized on poly-L-glutamic acid. This immobilized cellulase (IC) is water soluble in the neutral and alkaline solutions, where IC has the activity, while IC can be made insoluble by lowering the pH so that it can be recovered from the reaction mixture with its activity. The optimum ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Takeuchi T,Makino K

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetate accumulation is a common problem observed in aerobic high cell density Escherichia coli cultures. A previous report has hypothesized that the glyoxylate shunt is active in a low acetate producer, E. coli BL21, and inactive in a high acetate producer, JM109. To further investigate this hypothesis, we now develo...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Noronha SB,Yeh HJ,Spande TF,Shiloach J

更新日期：2000-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of microalgae for biofuel production will be beneficial to society if we can produce biofuels at large scales with minimal mechanical energy input in the production process. Understanding micro-algal physiological responses under variable environmental conditions in bioreactors is essential for the optimizatio...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Hansen TJ,Hondzo M,Mashek MT,Mashek DG,Lefebvre PA

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two metabolic engineering tools, namely gene inactivation and gene overexpression, were employed to examine the effects of two genetic modifications on the fermentation characteristics of Clostridium acetobutylicum. Inactivation of the butyrate kinase gene (buk) was examined using strain PJC4BK, while the combined eff...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Harris LM,Desai RP,Welker NE,Papoutsakis ET

更新日期：2000-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ff filamentous bacteriophages show potential as a new class of therapeutics, displaying utility in materials science as well as pharmaceutical applications. These phages are produced by the infection of E. coli, a Gram-negative bacterium which unavoidably sheds endotoxins into the extracellular space during growth...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Branston SD,Wright J,Keshavarz-Moore E

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To gain insight on the fate of arsenic (As) from drinking water treatment residuals in landfills, the mobilization of arsenate adsorbed onto granular ferric hydroxide (GFH) was studied in continuous anaerobic columns fed with a synthetic landfill leachate. The release of As was compared in biologically active and abio...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Cortinas I,Sierra-Alvarez R,Field JA

更新日期：2008-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Two strains of Pseudomonas able to grow on phenol or p-nitrophenol (PNP) were isolated from sewage. Pseudomonas sp. PN101 mineralized and formed nitrite from PNP but did not mineralize phenol, and Pseudomonas sp. PH111 mineralized phenol but not PNP. Phenol increased the lag period before Pseudomonas sp. PN101 grew on...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Murakami Y,Alexander M

更新日期：1989-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A low-density, porous chitosan/poly-(dl-lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA) microparticle composite scaffold was produced by thermally induced phase separation followed by lyophilization, to provide a bicontinuous microstructure potentially suitable for tissue engineering and locally controlled drug release. PLGA particles w...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Nygaard JV,Andersen MØ,Howard KA,Foss M,Bünger C,Kjems J,Besenbacher F

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient cofactor regeneration and reuse are highly desired for many important biotransformation applications. Here we show for the first time that cofactor NAD(H) covalently attached to micro particles, which can be easily recovered and reused, effectively mediated multistep reactions catalyzed by enzymes that were ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： El-Zahab B,Donnelly D,Wang P

更新日期：2008-02-15 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：: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：:We have used a novel approach in conjunction with flow cytometry to quantify the biological heterogeneity of populations of the ciliate Tetrahymena pyriformis. It was found that the rate of particle uptake of exponentially growing cells is not uniform among cells and partially correlated with cell size. The physiologi...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Hatzis C,Srienc F,Fredrickson AG

更新日期：1994-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of lipase from Candida cylindracea and Rhizopus delemar have been investigated in water/AOT/iso-octane reverse micellar media through the use of two esterification reactions: fatty acid-alcohol esterification and glyceride synthesis. Such media promotes the occurrence of these two lipase-catalyzed react...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Hayes DG,Gulari E

更新日期：1990-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The inhibitory effect of ethanol on yeast growth and fermentation has been studied for the strain Saccharomyces cerevisiae ATCC No. 4126 under anaerobic batch conditions. The results obtained reveal that there is no striking difference between the response of growth and ethanol fermentation. Two kinetic models are als...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Luong JH

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:James (Jay) E. Bailey was a pioneer in biotechnology and biochemical engineering. During his 30 years in academia he made seminal contributions to many fields of chemical engineering science, including catalysis and reaction engineering, bioprocess engineering, mathematical modeling of cellular processes, recombinant ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Dordick JS,Khosla C

更新日期：2002-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Urea, ammonium, and free amino acid contents were quantified in biological aging of a young wine under two flor film forming yeast strains, Saccharomyces cerevisiae race capensis and S. cerevisiae race bayanus, and compared. Cell viability in the film was different for the two yeast strains. Thus, capensis maintained ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Mauricio JC,Ortega JM

更新日期：1997-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of Bacillus subtilis to a shear rate of 1,482/s leads to a rapid loss of cell viability after 10 h of growth. Biochemical and molecular evidences provided below strongly suggest that cell death under high shear results from an apoptosis-like process similar to that described in eukaryotes, with activation of ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Sahoo S,Rao KK,Suraishkumar GK

更新日期：2006-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultural conditions optimum for beta-galactosidase production by Saccharomyces anamensis are pH 4.5, temperature 26 +/- 2 degrees C, and 30 h of incubation period. Addition of lactose at 24 h fermentation greatly increase the level of enzyme. Optimum pHl, temperature, pH stability, and thermostability of yeast beta-ga...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Banerjee M,Chakrabarty A,Majumdar SK

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Steam explosion after sulphur dioxide impregnation of wood chips is an effective method for improving the enzymatic digestibility of cellulose in the softwood Pinus radiata. Digestibility of pretreated fiber was progressively increased by altering the conditions of steam explosion. With increasing digestibility, there...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Wong KK,Deverell KF,Mackie KL,Clark TA,Donaldson LA

更新日期：1988-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The progression of liver disease from normal to cirrhotic state is characterized by modulation of the stiffness of the extracellular matrix (ECM). Mimicking this modulation in vitro scaffold could provide a better insight into hepatic cell behavior. In this study, interpenetrating poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-co-gelatin...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Sarkar J,Kamble SC,Patil R,Kumar A,Gosavi SW

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant cell walls are composed primarily of cellulose, hemicelluloses, lignins, and pectins. Of these components, lignins exhibit unique chemistry and physiological functions. Although lignins can be used as a product feedstock or as a fuel, lignins are also generally seen as a barrier to efficient enzymatic breakdown ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Donohoe BS,Decker SR,Tucker MP,Himmel ME,Vinzant TB

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alkyl beta-D-glucosides were synthesized from D-glucose and alcohols by reverse hydrolysis using the commercially available almond beta-D-glucosidase in 9:1 (v/v) acetonitrile-water medium. The main characteristics of this enzyme-catalyzed glucosylation were established by using 2-hydroxybenzyl alcohol. The reaction i...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Vic G,Biton J,Le Beller D,Michel JM,Thomas D

更新日期：1995-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:An aeration tank/sedimentation tank system is considered for large variations of organic loading. In this case, it is important to take into account the variability of the characteristics describing the oxidation of activated sludge as well as its sedimentation. The minimum cost of the treatment system is also evaluat...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Vasiliev VB,Vavilin VA

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduced downstream costs, together with high purity recovery of polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA), will accelerate the commercialization of high quality PHA-based products. In this work, a process was designed for effective recovery of the copolymer poly(hydroxybutyrate-co-hydroxyhexanoate) (P(HB-co-HHx)) containing high lev...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Riedel SL,Brigham CJ,Budde CF,Bader J,Rha C,Stahl U,Sinskey AJ

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biotransformation of benzaldehyde and glucose to L-phenylacetylcarbinol (PAC) using Candida utilis was demonstrated in a solid-liquid two-phase partitioning bioreactor (TPPB) with the aim of reducing substrate, product, and by-product toxicity via sequestration. Previous work in the field had used octanol as the s...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Khan TR,Daugulis AJ

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beta defensins are antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) with a broad spectrum antimicrobial behavior against pathogens while having minimal tendency to incur pathogen resistance. Human β-defensin 28 (hBD28) is a strongly cationic AMP and hence hypothesized to be highly effective in permeabilizing negatively-charged pathogen ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Tay DK,Rajagopalan G,Li X,Chen Y,Lua LH,Leong SS

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipase from Candida cylindracea (CCL) was incorporated into polymerizable positively charged dialkylammonium bromide surfactant vesicles. The enzyme was incorporated by the use of the dehydration-rehydration method or by incubation. In the latter case, trapping efficiencies of up to 100% could be obtained. Activities ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Mosmuller EW,Franssen MC,Engbersen JF

更新日期：1993-06-20 00:00:00