Saccharification of bamboo carbohydrates for the production of ethanol.

abstract：:Low-temperature plasma was employed for activation of polymer membranes as a carrier for enzyme immobilization. Glucose oxidase was immobilized on polypropylene (PP), polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), or polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) membrane surfaces treated by nitrogen or ammonia gas plasma using glutaraldehyde as a ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Kawakami M,Koya H,Gondo S

更新日期：1988-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The simultaneous growth and product formation in a microbial culture is an important feature of several laboratory, industrial, and environmental bioprocesses. Metabolic burden associated with product formation in these bioprocesses may lead to growth advantage of a nonproducing mutant leading to a loss of the produci...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Varma A,Palsson BO

更新日期：1994-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a mathematical model which includes TNF-alpha initiated survival and apoptotic cascades, as well as nuclear transcription of IkappaB. These pathways play a crucial role in deciding cell fate in response to inflammation and infection. Our model incorporates known specific protein-protein interactions as iden...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Rangamani P,Sirovich L

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reaction kinetics for phenol biodegradation at low substrate concentrations can be estimated based on the analysis of changes in the dissolved oxygen concentration in the bulk liquid during biodegradation. The measured oxygen concentration changes with an interesting behavior as biodegradation proceeds. The oxygen...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Shishido M,Toda M

更新日期：1996-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of this work was to measure and model the effect of thermal exposure on the fluorescence emission of R-phycoerythrin (R-PE). The long-term objective of our work is to assess the feasibility of encapsulating R-PE for use as the critical component of a time-temperature integrator (TTI) for ascertaining the degr...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Vaidya S,Orta-Ramirez A,Smith DM,Ofoli RY

更新日期：2003-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzyme cellulase, a multienzyme complex made up of several proteins, catalyzes the conversion of cellulose to glucose in an enzymatic hydrolysis-based biomass-to-ethanol process. Production of cellulase enzyme proteins in large quantities using the fungus Trichoderma reesei requires understanding the dynamics of g...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Tholudur A,Ramirez WF,McMillan JD

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The performance of an industrial pharmaceutical process (production of an active pharmaceutical ingredient by fermentation, API) was modeled by multiblock partial least squares (MBPLS). The most important process stages are inoculum production and API production fermentation. Thirty batches (runs) were produced accord...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Lopes JA,Menezes JC,Westerhuis JA,Smilde AK

更新日期：2002-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Wastewater-fed microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are a promising technology to treat low-organic carbon wastewater and recover part of the chemical energy in wastewater as electrical power. However, the interactions between electrochemically active and fermentative microorganisms cannot be easily studied in wastewater-fed M...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Bourdakos N,Marsili E,Mahadevan R

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Equilibrium adsorption studies on Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces sp. revealed the capacity and affinity of these organisms for the surfaces of powdered charcoal and nickel. In simple salt solutions both organisms readily adsorbed to each solid with an affinity and maximum loading capacity individual to each cell-s...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Protheroe RG,Cumming RH,Matchett A

更新日期：1989-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Isothermal microcalorimeters (IMC) are highly sensitive instruments that allow the measurement of heat flow in the microwatt range. Due to their detection of minute thermal heat, IMC techniques have been used in numerous biological applications, including the study of fermentation processes, pharmaceutical development...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Santoro R,Braissant O,Müller B,Wirz D,Daniels AU,Martin I,Wendt D

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A model for radial flow mammalian cell culture has been developed. Two situations, one with permeable hollow fibers and the other with a porous matrix in the annulus, were considered. The hollow fibers were modeled as continuously distributed sinks. Numerical solutions are presented for the complete model as well as l...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Tharakan JP,Chau PC

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The characteristics of horseradish peroxidase (HRP) immobilized onto Sepharose by a photochemical-initiated graft copolymerization are presented. Active copolymers were synthesized using different amounts of glycidylmethacrylate (GMA), bisacryloylpiperazine (BAP), or 1,3,5-hexhydrotriacryloyl-(s)-triazine (HTsT) as fu...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Cremonesi P,D'Angiuro L

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The C-terminal lysine variation is commonly observed in biopharmaceutical monoclonal antibodies. This modification can be important since it is found to be sensitive to the production process. The methods commonly used to probe this charge variation, including IEF, cIEF, ion-exchange chromatography, and LC-MS, were ev...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Dick LW Jr,Qiu D,Mahon D,Adamo M,Cheng KC

更新日期：2008-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular metabolite concentration and enzyme activity measurements were made to explain the new metabolic and growth phenomena seen in the micro-aerobic, continuous yeast cultures described in Part I. The results of these assays suggested mechanisms for the observed maximum in the specific ethanol productivity as...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Grosz R,Stephanopoulos G

更新日期：1990-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A means of rapidly renaturing denatured protein was devised and evaluated. Three liquids were laminarly layered in a centrifuge tube, in which two solutions sandwiched liquid paraffin so as to form a pseudolipid bilayer. Denatured and aggregted protein placed on the upper surface of liquid paraffin was renatured as it...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Yoshii H,Kojima T,Furuta T,Yasunishi A

更新日期：1994-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular events that take place during influenza virus replication in animal cells are well understood qualitatively. However, to better understand the complex interaction of the virus with its host cell and to quantitatively analyze the use of cellular resources for virion formation or the overall dynamic for th...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Sidorenko Y,Reichl U

更新日期：2004-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:This study addresses the characterization of human islet-like structures generated from a newly discovered sparse population of precursor cells (Petropavlovskaia and Rosenberg, 2002) in the human pancreas. These cells may be progenitor cells capable of producing pancreatic cells suitable for the treatment of type 1 di...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Bodnar CA,Sen A,Kallos MS,Behie LA,Petropavlovskaia M,Rosenberg L

更新日期：2006-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The conditions for the introduction of active carbonate groups into supports containing hydroxyl groups by reaction with 5-norbornene-2.3-dicarboximido carbonochloridate are described. Up to 1.5 mmol carbonate groups/g dry Sepharose 4B could be bound. In the case of glycine the reaction of the activated supports with ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Büttner W,Becker M,Rupprich C,Boeden HF,Henklein P,Loth F,Dautzenberg H

更新日期：1989-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics in batch culture of the acetone butanol fermentation by Clostridium acetobutylicum is compared on glucose, xylose, and mixtures of both sugars. The fastest initial growth and transition from an acid to a solvent metabolism occurs on glucose, with a final 62 g/L glucose conversion. On xylose, an initial sl...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Fond O,Engasser JM,Matta-El-Amouri G,Petitdemange H

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellulase production from lignocellulosic materials was studied in solid-state cultivation by both static and mixed techniques under nonaseptic conditions. The effects of fermentation conditions, such as moisture content, pH, temperature, and aeration, on cellulase production by Trichoderma harzianum using a mixture o...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Deschamps F,Giuliano C,Asther M,Huet MC,Roussos S

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel fed-batch approach for the production of L-phenylalanine (L-Phe) with recombinant E. coli is presented concerning the on-line control of the key fermentation parameters glucose and tyrosine. Two different production strains possessing either the tyrosine feedback resistant aroF(fbr) (encoding tyrosine feedback...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Gerigk M,Bujnicki R,Ganpo-Nkwenkwa E,Bongaerts J,Sprenger G,Takors R

更新日期：2002-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work the question was addressed if in nitrite-oxidizing activated sludge systems the environmental competition between Nitrobacter spp. and Nitrospira spp., which only recently has been discovered to play a role in these systems, is affected by the nitrite concentrations. Two parallel chemostats were inoculate...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Nogueira R,Melo LF

更新日期：2006-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The combination of Sephadex G-15 and ion-exchange resin columns allows one-step desalting and separation of cellodextrins using water as the sole eluent. The column apparatus described in this paper has the potential of producing up to 3 g cellodextrins in one day. In addition, the columns described are stable and do ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Markovits A

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flow cytometry is a fast and sensitive method that allows monitoring of different cellular parameters on large samples of a population. Protein distributions give relevant information on growth dynamics, since they are related to the age distribution and depend on the law of growth of the population and the law of pro...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Alberghina L,Mariani L,Martegani E,Vanoni M

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diffusivities of glucose and ethanol in cell-free and cell-occupied membranes of calcium alginate were measured in a diffusion cell. The lag time analysis was used. Diffusivities decreased with increasing alginate concentration and were comparable with those in water for a 2% alginate membrane. Glucose and ethanol...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Hannoun BJ,Stephanopoulos G

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By investigating the effects of four operating variables-volume (V), Ultrafiltration flux (J), enzyme concentration (E), and substrate concentration (S)-on capacity (K) and conversion rate (epsilon) of a hollow fiber CSTR, the performances of the CSTR and the kinetic constants of the reaction were determined. A model ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Bressollier P,Petit JM,Julien R

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellulolytic fungi, such as Trichoderma reesei, T. lignorum, and Chaetomium cellulolyticum reach a low packing density of mycelia when grown on straw under conditions of solid substrate fermentation. The low packing density is shown to be caused partially by the geometric limitation of the growth of mycelia in the sub...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Laukevics JJ,Apsite AF,Viesturs US,Tengerdy RP

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Batch fermentations of glucose to ethanol by Z. Mobilis.(ATCC 10988) were examined in several semidefined nutrient media. The measurement of acid produced by the microorganism was used to study its transient fermentation characteristics. Limitation of nitrogen source in the semidefined medium of Rogers and coworkers(2...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Veeramallu U,Agrawal P

更新日期：1988-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We present an evaluation of the qualitative and quantitative effects that high concentrations of benzene and toluene have on the growth rate of several pure cultures that use these compounds as their sole carbon and energy source. The cultures employed were five widely studied environmental isolates: Pseudomonas putid...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Alagappan G,Cowan R

更新日期：2003-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In a stirred culture of hybridoma cells, the effects of serum reduction from 2.5% to 0% on growth and monoclonal antibody production have been investigated. The shear sensitivity of cells from the same culture has been tested in a bubble column. Serum reduction does not greatly affect viable-cell concentrations, but c...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： van der Pol L,Bakker WA,Tramper J

更新日期：1992-06-05 00:00:00