Steric hindrance of growth of filamentous fungi in solid substrate fermentation of wheat straw.

abstract：:The feasibility of continuous ester synthesis in a membrane bioreactor (MBR) by a recombinant cutinase from Fusarium solani pisi was investigated, using the optimal conditions previously attained by medium engineering. The objective was to analyze the MBR behavior as a differential or an integral reactor. The main com...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Carvalho CM,Aires-Barros MR,Cabral JM

更新日期：2001-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous biotechnological production processes are based on the submerse cultivation of filamentous fungi. Process design, however, is often hampered by the complex growth pattern of these organisms. In the morphologic development of coagulating filamentous fungi, like Aspergillus niger, conidial aggregation is the fi...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Lin PJ,Grimm LH,Wulkow M,Hempel DC,Krull R

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The yeast Pachysolen tannophilus was entrapped in calcium alginate beads to ferment D-xylose on a continous basis in the presence of high cell densities. Experimental operating variables included the feed D-xylose concentration, the dilution rate, and the fermentor biomass concentration. Under favorable operating cond...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Slininger PJ,Bothast RJ,Black LT,McGhee JE

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas putida cells were grown in confined volumes in dual-membrane immobilized cell reactors constructed from microporous polyethylene hollow fibers and silicone rubber tubules as a model system for the study of mass transport in microbial aggregates. Local cell concentrations in the reactors reached 300 g dry m...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Karel SF,Robertson CR

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sequencing batch membrane biofilm reactor (SBMBfR) was developed for simultaneous carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus removal from wastewater. This reactor was composed of two functional parts: (1) a gas-permeable membrane on which a nitrifying biofilm formed and (2) a bulk solution in which bacteria, mainly denitrifyi...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Terada A,Yamamoto T,Tsuneda S,Hirata A

更新日期：2006-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A phenomenological model of biocide action against microbial biofilms was derived. Processes incorporated in the model include bulk flow in and out of a well-mixed reactor, transport of dissolved species into the biofilm, substrate consumption by bacterial metabolism, bacterial growth, advection of cell mass within th...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Stewart PS,Hamilton MA,Goldstein BR,Schneider BT

更新日期：1996-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Screening fifteen strains of white-rot fungi for their ability to decolorize combined bleached kraft effluent showed that Coriolus versicolor in liquid culture removed over 60% of the color of the effluent within six days in the presence of sucrose. Treatment of the same effluent with this fungus, immobilized in beads...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Livernoche D,Jurasek L,Desrochers M,Dorica J,Veliky IA

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lignin peroxidases (LIP) and manganese peroxidases (MNP) of Phanerochaete chrysosporium catalyze a wide range of lignin depolymerization reactions with lignin models and synthetic lignins in solution. However, their ability to degrade insoluble natural lignin in aqueous media has not been demonstrated. Insoluble i...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Thompson DN,Hames BR,Reddy CA,Grethlein HE

更新日期：1998-03-20 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：:A model for cometabolism is verified experimentally for a defined methanotrophic mixed culture. The model includes the effects of cell growth, endogenous cell decay, product toxicity, and competitive inhibition with the assumption that cometabolic transformation rates are enhanced by reducing power obtained from oxida...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Chang WK,Criddle CS

更新日期：1997-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The G-H loop of foot-and-mouth disease virus is a disordered protrusion of the VP1 protein exposed on the virion surface. This short stretch includes an arginine-glycine-aspartic acid tripeptide, a recognized integrin-binding motif, which is responsible for cell attachment and infection. Eight copies of a peptide repr...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Villaverde A,Feliu JX,Arís A,Harbottle RP,Benito A,Coutelle C

更新日期：1998-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The major objectives for preparative protein chromatography are maximal loading and increased flow rate while maintaining defined resolution. Conventionally a series of chromatographic experiments are performed and the optimal conditions are selected according to the separation criteria. Computer-aided process design ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Jungbauer A,Kaltenbrunner O

更新日期：1996-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A model for the prediction of protein partition coefficients in aqueous two-phase systems has been developed. This model accounts for both charge-independent and electrostatic effects. The determination of nonelectrostatic effects was based on the model of Eiteman and Gainer for uncharged solutes while the electrostat...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Sebastião MJ,Martel P,Baptista A,Petersen SB,Cabral JM,Aires-Barros MR

更新日期：1997-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Trehalase is the enzyme which hydrolyzes the disaccharide trehalose into two alpha-D-glucose molecules. In this article, we present the immobilization of trehalase on aminopropyl glass particles. The enzyme was extracted from Escherichia coli Mph2, a strain harboring the pTRE11 plasmid, which contains the trehalase ge...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Bachinski N,Martins AS,Paschoalin VM,Panek AD,Paiva CL

更新日期：1997-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Buddleja davidii is a unique biomass that has many attractive agroenergy features, especially its wide range of growth habitat. The anatomical characteristics of B. davidii were investigated before and after ethanol organosolv pretreatment (one of the leading pretreatment technologies) in order to further understand t...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Hallac BB,Ray M,Murphy RJ,Ragauskas AJ

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell culture longevity in fed-batch culture of hybridomas is often limited by elevated medium osmolality caused by repeated nutrient feeding. Shotwise feeding of 10x Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium (DMEM) concentrates elevated the osmolality of medium up to 540 mOsm/kg at the end of fed-batch culture of S3H5/gamma2...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Ryu JS,Lee GM

更新日期：1999-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Three micronization techniques, based on the use of supercritical carbon dioxide, were investigated to produce microspheres of a natural biocompatible polysaccharide. Particles smaller than 20 mum were obtained by means of the rapid expansion of a supercritical solution method (RESS), both with and without cosolvents....

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Benedetti L,Bertucco A,Pallado P

更新日期：1997-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Being biosurfactants, rhamnolipids create severe foaming when produced in aerobic Pseudomonas aeruginosa fermentation. The necessary reduction of aeration causes oxygen limitation and restricts cell and product concentrations. In this study, we evaluate the new strategy of rhamnolipid production under denitrification ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Chayabutra C,Wu J,Ju LK

更新日期：2001-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The heterogeneous nature of hollow fiber reactors for cell cultivation requires special considerations for proper design and operation. Downstream concentration of high-molecular-weight proteins has been measured in the shell side of ultrafiltration hollow fiber bioreactors. This distribution resulted from shell-side ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Piret JM,Cooney CL

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A thermodynamic model was used in this study to predict the adhesion of Phanerochaete chrysosporium INA-12 as conidiospores or mycelium to various solid carriers. Theoretical predictions were closely reflected by experimental results. Amount of immobilized mycelium was higher for hydrophobic (polypropylene and polyure...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Asther M,Bellon-Fontaine MN,Capdevila C,Corrieu G

更新日期：1990-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Equilibrium isotherms for adsorption of bovine serum albumin (BSA) on a new adsorbent, a strongly basic crosslinked chitosan (Chitopearl 2503), which is hard and is not compressed by pressure in a column, have been presented and compared with diethylaminoethyl (DEAE) Sepharose Fast Flow (hard gel). In Chitopearl 2503,...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Yoshida H,Nishihara H,Kataoka T

更新日期：1994-05-01 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：: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：:A recently discovered thermophilic bacterium, Geobacillus thermoglucosidasius M10EXG, ferments a range of C5 (e.g., xylose) and C6 sugars (e.g., glucose) and is tolerant to high ethanol concentrations (10%, v/v). We have investigated the central metabolism of this bacterium using both in vitro enzyme assays and 13C-ba...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Tang YJ,Sapra R,Joyner D,Hazen TC,Myers S,Reichmuth D,Blanch H,Keasling JD

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many enzymes or fluorescent proteins produced in Escherichia coli are enzymatically active or fluorescent respectively when deposited as inclusion bodies. The occurrence of insoluble but functional protein species with native-like secondary structure indicates that solubility and conformational quality of recombinant ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Martínez-Alonso M,García-Fruitós E,Villaverde A

更新日期：2008-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The thermo-responsive polymer poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) has received widespread attention for its in vitro application in the non-invasive, non-destructive release of adherent cells on two dimensional surfaces. In this study, 3D non-woven scaffolds fabricated from poly(propylene) (PP), poly(ethylene terephthalate) (...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Rossouw CL,Chetty A,Moolman FS,Birkholtz LM,Hoppe H,Mancama DT

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contactless simultaneous positioning of micrometer-sized particles in suspension (e.g., copolymer beads, living cells, silicon microparts) can be performed using ultrasound. Current devices are capable of collecting particles into planes or lines by exciting a resonance in the fluid by means of a piezoelectric transdu...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Neild A,Oberti S,Radziwill G,Dual J

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During lignocellulosic ethanol fermentation, yeasts are exposed to various lignocellulose-derived inhibitors, which disrupt the efficiency of hexose and pentose co-fermentation. To understand the metabolic response of fermentation microbes to these inhibitors, a comparative metabolomic investigation was performed on a...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Wang X,Jin M,Balan V,Jones AD,Li X,Li BZ,Dale BE,Yuan YJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using (13)C-labeled glucose fed to a penicillin-overproducing strain of Penicillium chrysogenum, the intracellular fluxes were quantified, and the presence of two new pathways, not previously described in this organism, is suggested. Thus, glycine was synthesized not only by serine hydroxymethyltransferase, but also b...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Christensen B,Nielsen J

更新日期：2000-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A microfluidic system containing a chamber for heart tissue biopsies, perfused with Krebs-Henseleit buffer containing glucose and antibiotic (KHGB) using peristaltic pumps and continuously stimulated, was used to evaluate tissue viability under redox-magnetohydrodynamics (redox-MHD) conditions. Redox-MHD possesses uni...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Cheah LT,Fritsch I,Haswell SJ,Greenman J

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00