Characterization of human islet-like structures generated from pancreatic precursor cells in culture.

abstract：:Experimental and theoretical studies are conducted to understand the dynamic behavior of a continuous-flow fixed-bed reactor in which an esterification is catalyzed by an immobilized enzyme in an organic solvent medium. The experimental system consists of a commercial immobilized lipase preparation known as Lipozyme a...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Mensah P,Gainer JL,Carta G

更新日期：1998-11-20 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：:A continuous viral inactivation (CVI) chamber has been designed to operate with acceptable residence time distribution (RTD) characteristics. However, altering the CVI's geometry and operation to accommodate the scale was not obvious. In this work, we elucidate the influence of Dean vortices and leverage the transitio...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Brown MR,Orozco R,Coffman J

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The treatment of meta- and para-nitrobenzoic acid in an industrial wastestream by Comamonas sp. JS46 and Comamonas sp. JS47 is investigated. The most important feature of the wastestream is the constantly changing concentration ratio of the two isomers. The most extreme occurrence is considered here: the complete chan...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Goodall JL,Thomas SM,Spain JC,Peretti SW

更新日期：1998-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Co-culture of hepatocytes or hepatocyte spheroids with the supporting NIH3T3 in a 3D microcapsule formed with a hybrid natural/synthetic matrix has led to enhanced hepatocyte functions. We investigated the mechanism of the functional enhancement in co-culture with respect to the contributions of soluble factors and di...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Chia SM,Lin PC,Yu H

更新日期：2005-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Mass balances were performed on an alkaline lysis operation for the primary recovery of supercoiled plasmid DNA as part of a process for plasmid gene preparation. Escherichia coli DH5alpha/pSVbeta was cultured in defined medium by fed-batch fermentation and harvested at the end of the exponential phase. Alkaline lysis...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Ciccolini LA,Shamlou PA,Titchener-Hooker N

更新日期：2002-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Actively growing Escherichia coli C600(pBR322), immobilized within the macroporous matrix of asymmetric-wall hollow-fiber membranes, has been propagated to extremely high densities, typically more than 10(12) cells/mL of accessible void volume, in some regions cells accounting for nearly 100% of the available macrovoi...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Inloes DS,Smith WJ,Taylor DP,Cohen SN,Michaels AS,Robertson CR

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biomass autoflocculation in outdoor algal cultures was found to be associated with increases of culture pH levels, due to CO(2) consumption by the algal photosynthetic activity. Under these alkaline conditions, some medium chemical ions precipitated together with the algal biomass. The chemical substances involved wit...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Sukenik A,Shelef G

更新日期：1984-02-01 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：: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：:Thermochemical pretreatment and enzymatic hydrolysis are the areas contributing most to the operational costs of second generation ethanol in lignocellulosic biorefineries. The improvement of lignocellulosic enzyme cocktails has been significant in the recent years. Although the needs for the reduction of the energy i...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Martín Pérez L,Benítez Casanova L,Moreno Pérez AJ,Pérez Gómez D,Gavaldá Martín S,Ledesma-García L,Valbuena Crespo N,Díez García B,Reyes-Sosa FM

更新日期：2017-11-01 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：:Saccharomyces cerevisiae (yeast) cells were employed as a source of alcohol dehydrogenase in the NAD(+)-to-NADH reaction. The cells were immobilized in calcium alginate monofilament fibers and used in a biological reactor. The alginate could not be heat sterilized since temperatures above 80 degrees C caused the polym...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Ibbotson PG,Spedding PL,Otterburn MS

更新日期：1990-10-05 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：:Gene expression circuitries with time-delayed expression profiles regulate key events, such as oscillating systems, noise elimination, and coordinated multi-step processes, in all organisms from bacteria to mammalian cells. We present the rational synthesis of a genetic circuit displaying time-delayed expression in si...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Weber W,Kramer BP,Fussenegger M

更新日期：2007-11-01 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：:Biosorption of elements is a little understood phenomenon exhibited by some types of even nonliving microbial biomass. A common fungus Rhizopus arrhizus has been reported to take up uranium from aqueous solutions to the extent of 180 mg U(6+)/g. The mechanism of uranium sequestering by this type of biomass was studied...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Tsezos M,Volesky B

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mathematical model has been employed to examine the interplay of reaction and mass transfer in immobilized enzyme systems involving reaction-generated enzyme poisions. Deactivation rates can be significantly reduced in some cases by catalyzing a purification reaction in which the poison is transformed into an innocu...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Yeung SY,Cho Y,Bailey JE

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The United States produces more than 10 million tons of waste oils and fats each year. This paper aims to establish a new biomanufacturing platform that converts waste oils or fats into a series of value-added products. Our research employs the oleaginous yeast Yarrowia lipolytica as a case study for citric acid (CA) ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Liu N,Soong YV,Mirzaee I,Olsen A,Yu P,Wong HW,Xie D

更新日期：2021-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is one of the most sensitive and accurate methods for quantifying transcript levels especially for those expressed at low abundance. The selective amplification of target DNA over multiple cycles allows its initial concentration to be determined. The amplification rate is a co...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Mehra S,Hu WS

更新日期：2005-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Mathematical models to describe transcription (Arnold et al. (2001); Biotech Bioeng 72:548-561) and translation (Mehra et al. (2003); Biotech Bioeng 84:822-841) in bacteria are modified in order to improve reaction kinetics and to include the number of polymerase molecules that are active on the DNA, as well as to inc...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Kremling A

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current animal and 2-D cell culture models employed in metastasis research and drug discovery remain poor mimics of human cancer physiology. Here we describe a "metastasis-on-a-chip" system allowing real time tracking of fluorescent colon cancer cells migrating from hydrogel-fabricated gut constructs to downstream liv...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Skardal A,Devarasetty M,Forsythe S,Atala A,Soker S

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mevalonate is a useful metabolite synthesized from three molecules of acetyl-CoA, consuming two molecules of NADPH. Escherichia coli ( E. coli) catabolizes glucose to acetyl-CoA via several routes, such as the Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas (EMP) and the oxidative pentose phosphate (oxPP) pathways. Although the oxPP pathway s...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Kamata K,Toya Y,Shimizu H

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus licheniformis ATCC 9945A was grown on Medium E in batch fermentations in which the pH was maintained at 5.5., 6.5, 7.4, and 8.25. The effects of pH on cell growth, carbon source utilization, and gamma-polyglutamic acid (gamma-PGA) production, molecular weight, and polymer stereochemistry were determined. The ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Cromwick AM,Birrer GA,Gross RA

更新日期：1996-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:CTLA4 is a membrane receptor on cytotoxic T cells whose interaction with the B7 counterreceptor on B cells is important in alloantigen responses. Soluble recombinant human and murine CTLA4 were produced using either Chinese hamster ovary or NS-0 cell lines. Expression vectors were constructed containing the gene codin...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Flesher AR,Marzowski J,Wang WC,Raff HV

更新日期：1995-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Product inhibition of biological production systems is a widely observed phenomenon with prominent implications for the design and ultimately the success of biotechnological processes. In order to investigate whether such effects could limit the maximal concentrations in the production of the beta-lactamase inhibitor ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Brethauer S,Held M,Panke S

更新日期：2008-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Bifidobacterium animalis ATCC 27536 represents among bifidobacteria a host-model for cloning experiments. The segregational and structural stabilities of a family of cloning vectors with different molecular weights but sharing a common core were studied in continuous fermentation of the hosting B. animalis without sel...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： González Vara A,Rossi M,Altomare L,Eikmanns B,Matteuzzi D

更新日期：2003-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichoderma reesei (QM 9414) produced cellulase in continuous culture, on media containing xylose (1%) supplemented with sorbose (0.3%) to induce cellulase production. Maximum cell mass of 4.54 kg/m(3) occurred at pH 4.0 and a dilution rate of 0.0391 h(-1) where residual substrate was 0.43 kg/m(3), but no cellulase wa...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Schafner DW,Toledo RT

更新日期：1992-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro engineering systems can be powerful tools for studying tissue development in response to biophysical stimuli as well as for evaluating the functionality of engineered tissue grafts. It has been challenging, however, to develop systems that adequately integrate the application of biomimetic mechanical strain t...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Cook CA,Huri PY,Ginn BP,Gilbert-Honick J,Somers SM,Temple JP,Mao HQ,Grayson WL

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) can differentiate into all somatic cell types, but the development of effective strategies to direct ESC fate is dependent upon defining environmental parameters capable of influencing cell phenotype. ESCs are commonly differentiated via cell aggregates referred to as embryoid bodies (EBs),...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Sargent CY,Berguig GY,Kinney MA,Hiatt LA,Carpenedo RL,Berson RE,McDevitt TC

更新日期：2010-02-15 00:00:00