Comparative testing of tangential microfiltration for microbial cultures.

abstract：:Unsaturated fatty acid alpha-butylglucoside esters were prepared by enzymatic esterification of alpha-butylglucoside in nonaqueous media. Conditions were firstly optimized using oleic acid as acyl group. Synthesis was possible in several solvents but the presence of water co-product in the medium limited the reaction ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Bousquet MP,Willemot RM,Monsan P,Boures E

更新日期：1999-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of dilution rates on the performance of a two-stage fermentation system for a recombinant Escherichia coli culture were studied. Dilution rate determines the apparent or averaged specific growth rate of a heterogeneous population of cells in the recombinant culture. The specific growth rate affects the gen...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Hortacsu A,Ryu DD

更新日期：1991-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimizations of cell productivity and utility of gaseous substrates were investigated for Alcaligenes hydrogenophilus. Theoretical analyses for the cell productivity and substrate utility were discussed in the light of experimental data. It was proved from the theoretical analyses that the maximum cell productivity w...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Miura Y,Okazaki M,Ohi K,Nishimura T,Komemushi S

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both k(L)a and k(L) measurements were carried out by an unsteady state technique at impeller speeds ranging from 1.6 to 5.8 s(-1) in a mechanically agitated animal cell culture vessel of working volume 1.5 L. Checks were made that the time constant of the oxygen electrode was negligible compared to the time for aerati...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Lavery M,Nienow AW

更新日期：1987-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Relative levels of many individual proteins in Escherichia coli HB101 strains with 0, 37, 56, and 240 plasmids per chromosome were determined by computer image analysis of two-dimensional gel electrophoresis patterns. The plasmids investigated had very similar sequences except for small domains encoding the repressor ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Birnbaum S,Bailey JE

更新日期：1991-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes a methodology that implements a Markov decision process (MDP) optimization technique in a real time fed-batch experiment. Biological systems can be better modeled under the stochastic framework and MDP is shown to be a suitable technique for their optimization. A nonlinear input/output model is ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Saucedo VM,Karim MN

更新日期：1997-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A dynamic method is proposed for k(l)a measurement in aerated and agitated reactors, in which a change in the total pressure in the reactor by approximately 20% leads to a simultaneous change in the oxygen concentration in all the bubbles in the dispersion. This procedure suppresses the influence of nonideal mixing of...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Linek V,Benes P,Vacek V

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A technique has been developed for characterizing the in vivo behavior of key enzymes from intermediate measurements. The technique is based on the identification of characteristic reaction paths, and it depends on the time scale separation characteristics of the systems. It is shown that useful information can be obt...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Liao JC,Lightfoot EN Jr

更新日期：1988-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The high hydrophobicity of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) strongly reduces their bioavailability in aged contaminated soils, thus limiting their bioremediation. The biodegradation of PAHs in soils can be enhanced by employing surface-active agents. However, chemical surfactants are often recalcitrant and exer...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Fava F,Berselli S,Conte P,Piccolo A,Marchetti L

更新日期：2004-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) survival is relevant to therapeutic applications requiring engraftment and potentially to nonengraftment applications as well. MSCs are a mixture of progenitors at different stages of cellular aging, but the contribution of this heterogeneity to the survival of MSC implants is unkno...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Madsen SD,Jones SH,Tucker HA,Giler MK,Muller DC,Discher CT,Russell KC,Dobek GL,Sammarco MC,Bunnell BA,O'Connor KC

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nar promoter of Escherichia coli, which is maximally induced under anaerobic conditions in the presence of nitrate, was characterized to see whether the nar promoter cloned onto pBR322 can be used as an inducible promoter. To increase the expression level, the nar promoter was expressed in E. coli where active nit...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Lee J,Cho MH,Lee J

更新日期：1996-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the fragmentation activities of Thermomonospora fusca cellulases E(2), E(3), E(5), Trichoderma reesei CBHI, and their mixtures were measured to study synergism in fragmentation. Fragmentation studies revealed that only two pure cellulases, T. fusca E(2) and E(5) had significant fragmentation activity. T...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Walker LP,Wilson DB,Irvin DC,McQuire C,Price M

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although widely used in experimental and industrial situations, genetically engineered plasmids containing the lac promoter from Escherichia coli are subject to catabolite repression when grown in glucose-containing media. Several methods of overcoming this problem have been investigated by studying the expression of ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Warnes A,Stephenson JR,Fooks AR,Melling J,Brown MR

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial secondary metabolites are one of the sources of therapeutic molecules in the pharmaceutical industry. Product quality and high yields of secondary metabolites are the main goals for the commercial success of a fermentation process. Our novel approach was based on the decision-tree algorithm to determine the ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Bradamante S,Barenghi L,Beretta G,Bonfa' M,Rollini M,Manzoni M

更新日期：2002-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes the development of a transient expression system for CHO cells based on autonomous replication and retention of transfected plasmid DNA. A transient expression system that allows extrachromosomal amplification of plasmids permits more plasmid copies to persist in the transfected cell throughout th...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Kunaparaju R,Liao M,Sunstrom NA

更新日期：2005-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathway refactoring serves as an invaluable synthetic biology tool for natural product discovery, characterization, and engineering. However, the complicated and laborious molecular biology techniques largely hinder its application in natural product research, especially in a high-throughput manner. Here we report a p...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Ren H,Hu P,Zhao H

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Continuous manufacturing is currently being seriously considered in the biopharmaceutical industry as the possible new paradigm for producing therapeutic proteins, due to production cost and product quality related benefits. In this study, a monoclonal antibody producing CHO cell line was cultured in perfusion mode an...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Karst DJ,Steinebach F,Soos M,Morbidelli M

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The investigation of new adjuvants is essential for the development of efficacious vaccines. Chitosan (CS), a derivative of chitin, has been shown to act as an adjuvant, improving vaccine-induced immune responses. However, the effect of CS molecular weight (MW) on this adjuvanticity has not been investigated, despite ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Lampe AT,Farris EJ,Brown DM,Pannier AK

更新日期：2020-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Calculation of kinetic constants of an enzymatic reaction in organic solvents requires knowledge of the functional active-site concentration in organic solvents, and this can be significantly different than that in water. An experimental method for active-site titration of serine proteases in organic media has been de...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Wangikar PP,Carmichael D,Clark DS,Dordick JS

更新日期：1996-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of volatile industrial chemicals utilizing metabolically engineered extreme thermophiles offers the potential for processes with simultaneous fermentation and product separation. An excellent target chemical for such a process is acetone (Tb  = 56°C), ideally produced from lignocellulosic biomass. Caldi...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Straub CT,Bing RG,Otten JK,Keller LM,Zeldes BM,Adams MWW,Kelly RM

更新日期：2020-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The biosynthesis of invertase by Saccharomyces carlsbergensis LAM 1068 was studied in relation to its glucose effect at both unsteady and steady states of growth. Experimental correlations between the dilution rate and invertase specific activity (E/X) in chemostat cultures led to an optimum for the enzyme synthesis a...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Toda K

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stricter regulations on volatile organic compounds and hazardous air pollutants have increased the demand for abatement technologies. Biofiltration, a process in which contaminated air is passed through a biologically active bed, can be used to remove these pollutants from air streams. In this study, a fungal vapor-ph...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Woertz JR,Kinney KA,McIntosh ND,Szaniszlo PJ

更新日期：2001-12-05 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：:We report the first direct images of the hydration of protein powders. Using an environmental scanning electron microscope (ESEM) we have taken a series of micrographs of a region of the enzyme (subtilisin) power whilst hydrating the sample. In addition, the sample has been viewed during exposure to toluene vapors. Th...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Roziewski K,Russell AJ

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditional biological treatment models are "deduced" from formal chemical kinetics or dynamics of pure microorganism cultures growth. The best formal models give reasonable approximations of the biological treatment model with an ecosystem adaptation (ESA model). The model presented here explains some features of the...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Vavilin VA

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A structured kinetic model describing growth, differentiation, and penicillin production in submerged Penicillium chrysogenum fermentations is reported. The filamentous hyphae are divided into four distinct regions on the basis of the activities and structure of hyphal compartments, viz., actively growing (mainly apic...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Paul GC,Thomas CR

更新日期：1996-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the enzymic activity of bilirubin oxidase when it is suspended as a lyophilized powder in a low-water system. The enzyme required buffer salts and a source of water to show activity. This study investigated the complete range of water thermodynamic activity (a(w)) by combining the use of salt hydrates ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Alston MJ,Freedman RB

更新日期：2002-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial profile modification (BPM), a form of tertiary oil recovery, diverts water from the water-flooded high-permeability zone into the oil-bearing low-permeability zone. During field use, exopolymer-producing bacteria plug the high-permeability zone only in the immediate vicinity of the injection point (the near-...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Wolf BF,Fogler HS

更新日期：2005-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:UV-visible spectroscopy (UV-Vis) is routinely used in microbiology as a tool to check the optical density (OD) pertaining to the growth stages of microbial cultures at the single wavelength of 600 nm, better known as the OD600 . Typically, modern UV-Vis spectrophotometers can scan in the region of approximately 200-10...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Chapman J,Orrell-Trigg R,Kwoon KY,Truong VK,Cozzolino D

更新日期：2021-01-05 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