Elucidation of enzyme control mechanisms using macroscopic measurements in a mixed substrate fermentation system.

abstract：:Protein dynamic binding capacities on ion exchange resins are typically expected to decrease with increasing conductivity and decreasing protein charge. There are, however, conditions where capacity increases with increasing conductivity and decreasing protein charge. Capacity measurements on two different commercial ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Harinarayan C,Mueller J,Ljunglöf A,Fahrner R,Van Alstine J,van Reis R

更新日期：2006-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Axial and radial oxygen depletion are believed to be critical scale-limiting factors in the design of cell culture hollow fiber bioreactors. A mathematical analysis of oxygen depletion has been performed in order to develop effectiveness factor plots to aid in the scaling of hollow fiber bioreactors with cells immobil...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Piret JM,Cooney CL

更新日期：1991-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:High methanol concentrations have a negative effect on the growth rate and the biomass yield of growth transients induced by methanol pulses in continuous cultures of Methylomonas L3. The physiological basis of this effect is investigated by measuring the effect of the methanol pulse on the cell energy charge (EC) and...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Chu IM,Papoutsakis ET

更新日期：1987-01-01 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：:Nitrifying bacteria, cyanobacteria, and algae are important microorganisms in open pond wastewater treatment systems. Nitrification involving the sequential oxidation of ammonia to nitrite and nitrate, mainly due to autotrophic nitrifying bacteria, is essential to biological nitrogen removal in wastewater and global n...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Choi O,Das A,Yu CP,Hu Z

更新日期：2010-12-15 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：:To monitor gas reaction rates in animal cell culture at constant dissolved oxygen concentration (DO) and constant pH it was necessary to develop improved control methods. Decoupling of both controllrs was obtained by manipulation of molar fractions of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the gas phase. Two pairs of DO and pH ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Oeggerli A,Eyer K,Heinzle E

更新日期：1995-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:This research investigates the effect of solids retention time (SRT) on the acid-phase anaerobic digestion of primary sludge. A series of experiments were conducted using two continuous-flow 3-L units with the following configuration: a completely mixed reactor (CMR) with clarifier and solids recycle and an upflow ana...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Elefsiniotis P,Oldham WK

更新日期：1994-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrinsic models, which take into account biomass volume fraction, must be formulated for adequate simulation of high-biomass-density fermentations with cell recycle. Through comparison of corresponding intrinsic and non-intrinsic models in dimensionless form, constraints for non-intrinsic model usage in terms of biok...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Monbouquette HG

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel process has been developed which uses reversed micelles to isolate denatured protein molecules from each other and allows them to refold individually. These reversed micelles are aqueous phase droplets stabilized by the surfactant AOT and suspended in isooctane. By adjusting conditions such that only one prote...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Hagen AJ,Hatton TA,Wang DI

更新日期：1990-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobic digestion of biological organic particulates to methane has been described by a structured mathematical model based on multiple-reaction stoichiometry, conventional material balances, and liquid phase equilibrium chemistry. A general stoichiometric treatment for any set of multiple biological reactions is de...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Bryers JD

更新日期：1985-05-01 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：:In this study it is reported the operation of a horizontal-flow anaerobic immobilized biomass (HAIB) reactor under sulfate-reducing condition which was also exposed to different amounts of ethanol and toluene. The system was inoculated with sludge taken from up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactors treating re...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Cattony EB,Chinalia FA,Ribeiro R,Zaiat M,Foresti E,Varesche MB

更新日期：2005-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Cost-effective production of biopharmaceuticals on a large scale can be carried out by perfusion cultures of mammalian cells. One problem with this mode of operation for submerged free-cell cultures is the requirement for an efficient cell separation device located in the effluent stream. The present work investigates...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Docoslis A,Kalogerakis N,Behie LA,Kaler KV

更新日期：1997-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In large-scale mammalian cell culture, the key toxic by-products assessed and monitored are lactate and ammonia. Often no distinction between the two isoforms of lactate is made. Here, we present profiles of both D- and L-lactate. D-Lactate is the end molecule of the methylglyoxal pathway. D-Lactate unlike L-lactate i...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Paoli T,Faulkner J,O'kennedy R,Keshavarz-Moore E

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel deuterium ((2)H) NMR technique as developed for measuring the total number of deuterons exchanged by lyophilised protein samples following hydrogen-deuterium (H-D) exchange. Using this methodology differences in the H-D exchange behaviour of the proteolytic enzyme subtilisin Carlsberg hydrated either in air or...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Hutcheon GA,Parker MC,Moore BD

更新日期：2000-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Control of cell shape and behavior through the micropattern technique by spatial immobilization of adhesive proteins on a surface has provided novel insights in several aspects of cell biology, such as tissue morphogenesis, cell growth and cell differentiation, and apoptosis. In this work, we present the use of poly(e...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Racine J,Cheradame H,Chu YS,Thiery JP,Rodriguez I

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Affinity chromatography using immobilized S-protein was used for the screening of affinity peptide ligands from two soluble peptide libraries. Peptide library I consisted of octamers with glycine (G) at both termini of each peptide, i.e. GXXXXXXG. The six center positions were constructed using random sequences of six...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Huang PY,Carbonell RG

更新日期：1999-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The denitrification capability of Cluster 1 Defluviicoccus vanus-related glycogen-accumulating organisms (DvGAOs) is investigated. A sequencing batch reactor (SBR) fed with acetate as the sole carbon source was operated under alternating anaerobic-aerobic conditions to enrich Cluster 1 DvGAOs. Fluorescence in situ hyb...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Wang X,Zeng RJ,Dai Y,Peng Y,Yuan Z

更新日期：2008-04-15 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：:Two instruments were developed to mechanize the handling of anaerobic microorganisms for microbial mutant isolation. The instruments automatically dispense liquid or agar medium to large and small 96-well platesand petridishes. Protocols were developed for inoculating different microorganisms, and calibration curves o...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Stieglitz B,Defelice CP

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of pyruvate kinase (PK), pyruvate: formate-lyase (PFL), pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH), and citrate synthase (CS) involved in the anaerobic glycerol conversion by Klebsiella pneumoniae were studied in continuous culture under conditions of steady states and sustained oscillations. Both the in vitro and in...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Menzel K,Ahrens K,Zeng A,Deckwer W

更新日期：1998-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichoplusia ni larvae were infected with baculoviruses containing genes for the expression of ultraviolet optimized green fluorescent protein (GFPuv) and several product proteins. A GFP-specific optical probe was used to both excite the green fluorescent protein (lambda(ex) = 385 nm), and subsequently monitor fluores...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Kramer SF,Kostov Y,Rao G,Bentley WE

更新日期：2003-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A xenogeneic hollow fiber bioreactor utilizing collagen-entrapped dispersed hepatocytes has been developed as an extracorporeal bioartificial liver (BAL) for potential treatment of acute human fulminant hepatitis. Prolonged viability, enhanced liver-specific functions, and differentiated state have been observed in pr...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Wu FJ,Friend JR,Lazar A,Mann HJ,Remmel RP,Cerra FB,Hu WS

更新日期：1996-10-05 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：:We propose that transcript levels for some genes are affected by the bacterial cell division cycle and this may be an important factor to consider when designing synthetic bacterial genomes. To test this hypothesis, transcript levels of 58 genes in Escherichia coli B/r A were determined at five times during the cell d...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Echtenkamp PL,Wilson DB,Shuler ML

更新日期：2009-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Crossflow nanofiltration experiments were performed to investigate the factors influencing the removal of amino acids by a commercially available polymeric thin-film composite membrane. The removals of five monoprotic (Ala, Val, Leu, Gly, and Thr), one diprotic (Asp), and one dibasic (Arg) amino acids in a range of pe...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Shim Y,Chellam S

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A kinetic model for anaerobic digestion of insoluble solid-state substrates was developed. Rate equations for cell growth and substrate consumption were derived based on the assumption that the microorganisms assimilate the substrate mainly at the point of contact where they grow. The model emphasizes effects of subst...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Huang SY,Chou MS

更新日期：1990-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown previously that a sequence-specific DNA-binding protein based on the Lac repressor protein can isolate pre-purified DNA efficiently from simple buffer solution but our attempts to purify plasmids directly from crude starting materials were disappointing with impractically low DNA yields. We have optimize...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Darby RA,Forde GM,Slater NK,Hine AV

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A kinetic resolution process for the production of chiral amines was developed using an enzyme-membrane reactor (EMR) and a hollow-fiber membrane contactor with (S)-specific omega-transaminases (omega-TA) from Vibrio fluvialis JS17 and Bacillus thuringiensis JS64. The substrate solution containing racemic amine and py...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Shin JS,Kim BG,Liese A,Wandrey C

更新日期：2001-05-05 00:00:00