TGF-beta1 regulation in hepatocyte-NIH3T3 co-culture is important for the enhanced hepatocyte function in 3D microenvironment.

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：: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：:The influence of microheterogeneity on enzyme inactivation kinetics is examined. A continuous normal distribution of the thermal activation energy is assumed, and using this, a simple mathematical model is developed to find the activity-time trajectories for a microheterogeneous enzyme. Using an example, the model is ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Malhotra A,Sadana A

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A transient, two-culture model simulating methane production from biomass has been developed. The simulator, based partially on the work by Andrews and McCarty, is capable of calculating the hydrolysis products of several common organic materials, accommodating various substrate feeding modes, and simulating the trans...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Kleinstreuer C,Poweigha T

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of conditions for guided and specific differentiation of human stem cell and progenitor cells is important for continued development and engineering of in vitro cell culture systems for use in regenerative medicine, drug discovery, and human toxicology. Three-dimensional (3D) and organotypic cell cultur...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Nierode GJ,Gopal S,Kwon P,Clark DS,Schaffer DV,Dordick JS

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pure culture of Pseudomonas fluorescens was used as a model system to study the kinetics of denitrification. An exponentially growing culture was harvested and resuspended in an anoxic acetate solution buffered with K/Na phosphate at pH values of 6.6, 7.0, 7.4, and 7.8. The temperature was kept at 28 degrees C in al...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Almeida JS,Reis MA,Carrondo MJ

更新日期：1995-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A model was developed to evaluate the effects of cells and surfactants on oxygen transfer in surface-aerated bioreactors. The model assumed the presence of serial layers of adsorbed surfactants and microorganisms directly adjacent to the gas-liquid interface due to their surface activities, followed by a stagnant liqu...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Ju LK,Sundarajan A

更新日期：1992-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrous oxide (N2 O), a potent greenhouse gas, is reduced to N2 gas by N2 O-reducing bacteria (N2 ORB), a process which represents an N2 O sink in natural and engineered ecosystems. The N2 O sink activity by N2 ORB depends on temperature and O2 exposure, yet the specifics are not yet understood. This study explores th...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Zhou Y,Suenaga T,Qi C,Riya S,Hosomi M,Terada A

更新日期：2020-12-11 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：:Two thermophilic bacteria, Thermus aquaticus ATCC 25104 and Thermus species ATCC 27978, were investigated for their abilities to degrade BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes). Thermus aquaticus and the Thermus sp. were grown in a nominal medium at 70 degrees C and 60 degrees C, respectively, and resting c...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Chen CI,Taylor RT

更新日期：1995-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The direct microbial conversion (DMC) process for the production of ethanol from lignocellulosic biomass is limited by low volumetric ethanol production rates due to the low cell densities of Clostridium thermosaccharolyticum which is a key organism for ethanol production in this process. Hence, this study focuses on ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Mistry FR,Cooney CL

更新日期：1989-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Three-dimensional cell culture models, such as spheroids, can be used in the process of the development of new anticancer agents because they are able to closely mimic the main features of human solid tumors, namely their structural organization, cellular layered assembling, hypoxia, and nutrient gradients. These prop...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Nunes AS,Barros AS,Costa EC,Moreira AF,Correia IJ

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article we present magnetic resonance microscopy (MRM) characterization of the advective transport in a biofilm capillary reactor. The biofilm generates non-axial flows that are up to 20% of the maximum axial velocity. The presence of secondary velocities of this magnitude alters the mass transport in the bior...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Gjersing EL,Codd SL,Seymour JD,Stewart PS

更新日期：2005-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygen and nutrient limitation was investigated in order to identify the origin of a lower specific ajmalicine production in Catharanthus roseus cultures at high cell densities in an induction medium. The effect of oxygen limitation was explored by comparing two identically aerated and agitated high cell density biore...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Schlatmann JE,Moreno PR,Vinke JL,Ten Hoopen HJ,Verpoorte R,Heijnen JJ

更新日期：1994-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A new type of liquid emulsion membrane containing reversed micelles for protein extraction is introduced. A three-step extraction mechanism is proposed including solubilization, transportation, and release of the protein. The surfactants Span80 and sodium di(2-ethylhexyl)sulfosuccinate (AOT) are used to stabilize the ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Stobbe H,Yunguang X,Zihao W,Jufu F

更新日期：1997-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The encapsulin nanocompartment from Rhodococcus erythropolis N771 (Reencapsulin) was expressed and purified in wild-type and C-terminally His-tagged forms. Negative-stained transmission electron microscopy, field-flow fractionation combined with multi-angle light scattering and dynamic light scattering analyses showed...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Tamura A,Fukutani Y,Takami T,Fujii M,Nakaguchi Y,Murakami Y,Noguchi K,Yohda M,Odaka M

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current approaches for purifying plasmids from bacterial production systems exploit the physiochemical properties of nucleic acids in non-specific capture systems. In this study, an affinity system for plasmid DNA (pDNA) purification has been developed utilizing the interaction between the lac operon (lacO) sequence c...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Forde GM,Ghose S,Slater NK,Hine AV,Darby RA,Hitchcock AG

更新日期：2006-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a widely used host organism for the production of heterologous proteins, often cultivated in glucose-based fed-batch processes. This production system however has many factors limiting the productivity, mainly towards the end of the fermentation. For the optimised production of a Camelid an...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： van de Laar T,Visser C,Holster M,López CG,Kreuning D,Sierkstra L,Lindner N,Verrips T

更新日期：2007-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Modification of cellular functions by overexpression of genes is being increasingly practiced for tissue engineering. In the present study, we investigated whether transfection efficiency could be enhanced by magnetofection that involves the use of plasmid DNA (pDNA)/magnetite cationic liposomes (MCLs) complexes (pDNA...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Ino K,Kawasumi T,Ito A,Honda H

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A drug-releasing model compound based on photosensitive acrylated ortho-nitrobenzylether (o-NBE) moiety and fluorescein was synthesized to demonstrate photolysis as a mechanism for drug release. Release of this model compound from a hydrogel network can be controlled with light intensity (5-20 mW/cm(2)), exposure dura...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Griffin DR,Patterson JT,Kasko AM

更新日期：2010-12-15 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：:Protein partitioning in aqueous two-phase systems based on phase-forming polymers is strongly affected by the net charge of the protein, but a thermodynamic description of the charge effects has been hindered by conflicting results. Many of the difficulties could be because of problems in isolating electrochemical eff...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Fan W,Bakir U,Glatz CE

更新日期：1998-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium tyrobutyricum ATCC 25755 is known as a natural hyper-butyrate producer with great potentials as an excellent platform to be engineered for valuable biochemical production from renewable resources. However, limited transformation efficiency and the lack of genetic manipulation tools have hampered the broade...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Zhang J,Hong W,Guo L,Wang Y,Wang Y

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane separation and chromatographic technologies are regarded as an attractive alternative to conventional academic small-scale ultracentrifugation procedures used for retrovirus purification. However, despite the increasing demands for purified retroviral vector preparations, new chromatography adsorbents with hi...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Segura MM,Kamen A,Trudel P,Garnier A

更新日期：2005-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The twin arginine translocation (Tat) pathway occurs naturally in E. coli and has the distinct ability to translocate folded proteins across the inner membrane of the cell. It has the potential to export commercially useful proteins that cannot be exported by the ubiquitous Sec pathway. To better understand the biopro...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Branston SD,Matos CF,Freedman RB,Robinson C,Keshavarz-Moore E

更新日期：2012-04-01 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：:Flow visualization using fluorescent microparticles and cell viability investigations are carried out to examine the mechanisms by which cells are seeded into scaffolds driven by surface acoustic waves. The former consists of observing both the external flow prior to the entry of the suspension into the scaffold and t...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Bok M,Li H,Yeo LY,Friend JR

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Utilization of renewable feedstocks for the production of bio-based chemicals such as d-lactic acid by engineering metabolic pathways in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has recently become an attractive option. In this study, to realize efficient d-lactic acid production by S. cerevisiae, the expression of 12 glyco...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Yamada R,Wakita K,Mitsui R,Ogino H

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lyophilized proteins exhibit "pH memory," i.e., their behavior in the solid form corresponds to the pH of the aqueous solution from which they were freeze dried. Herein, we directly tested whether the ionization state is "remembered" by model organic compounds containing various protein functional groups (amino, carbo...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Costantino HR,Griebenow K,Langer R,Klibanov AM

更新日期：1997-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The selectivity of protein extraction by reversed micellar solutions can be improved by the addition of affinity cosurfactants bearing ligands which bind strongly to the target protein. The interactions between cosurfactant and protein, as well as the interfacial activity of both the free cosurfactant and the protein-...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Kelley BD,Wang DI,Hatton TA

更新日期：1993-11-20 00:00:00