The design of controllers for batch bioreactors.

abstract：:The development of new gene delivery technologies is a prerequisite towards gene therapy clinical trials. Because gene delivery mediated by viral vectors remains of limited scope due to immunological and propagation risks, the development of new non-viral gene delivery systems is of crucial importance. We have synthes...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Byk G,Soto J,Mattler C,Frederic M,Scherman D

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glycosylation patterns of recombinant therapeutic glycoproteins can be engineered by overexpression of glycosyltransferases in the host cells used for glycoprotein production. Most prior glycosylation engineering experiments have involved constitutive expression of cloned glycosyltransferases. Here we use tetracyc...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Umaña P,Jean-Mairet J,Bailey JE

更新日期：1999-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient xylose utilization will facilitate microbial conversion of lignocellulosic sugar mixtures into valuable products. In Escherichia coli, xylose catabolism is controlled by carbon catabolite repression (CCR). However, in E. coli such as the succinate-producing strain KJ122 with disrupted CCR, xylose utilization...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Kurgan G,Sievert C,Flores A,Schneider A,Billings T,Panyon L,Morris C,Taylor E,Kurgan L,Cartwright R,Wang X

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermodynamic feasibility analysis (TFA) has been used as a tool capable of providing additional constraints to the mass balance-based methods of analysis of metabolic networks (e.g., flux balance analysis). Several publications have recently appeared in which TFA of different metabolic pathways from relatively simple...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Vojinović V,von Stockar U

更新日期：2009-07-01 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：:Rhodococcus rhodochrous IGTS8 was previously isolated because of its ability to use coal as its sole source of sulfur for growth. Subsequent growth studies have revealed that IGTS8 is capable of using a variety of organosulfur compounds as sources of sulfur but not carbon. In this article, the ability of IGTS8 to sele...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Kilbane JJ 2nd,Jackowski K

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanotechnology is becoming increasingly important for products used in our daily lives, such as the masses of titanium dioxide nanoparticle agglomerates (TiO(2) NPs) used in the pharmaceutical industry, for cosmetic products, or for pigments. Meanwhile, a serious lack of detailed information concerning the interaction...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Chen P,Kanehira K,Sonezaki S,Taniguchi A

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of soluble microbial products (SMP) in anaerobic systems was evaluated using chemostat reactors. Results from steady-state and tracer experiments with (14)C-glucose and (14)C-acetate showed that significant amounts of SMP were produced during the acidogenesis of glucose, but that SMP did not accumulate ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Noguera DR,Araki N,Rittmann BE

更新日期：1994-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:For direct and on-line study of the physiological states of cell cultures, a robust flow injection system has been designed and interfaced with flow cytometry (FI-FCM). The core of the flow injection system includes a microchamber designed for sample processing. The design of this microchamber allows not only an accur...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Zhao R,Natarajan A,Srienc F

更新日期：1999-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:To alleviate plasmid instability and to prolong the production phase of subtilisin, integrable plasmid and spore mutants are used. Compared with batch-type shake flask cultures, spore mutants' ability to produce subtilisin can be well pronounced in fed-batch and continuous cultures. Hence, the two culture methods make...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Oh MK,Kim BG,Park SH

更新日期：1995-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We Propose a kinetic expression which accounts for the temperature dependence of ethanol yield losses in batch alcoholic fermentation. Moreover, the characteristic parameters of the microbial growth equation have been calculated for Saccharomyces cerevisiae under typical wine industry conditions. A substrate consumpti...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Caro I,Pérez L,Cantero D

更新日期：1991-10-05 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：:Numerous high-value proteins are secreted into the Escherichia coli periplasm by the General Secretory (Sec) pathway, but Sec-based production chassis cannot handle many potential target proteins. The Tat pathway offers a promising alternative because it transports fully folded proteins; however, yields have been too ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Browning DF,Richards KL,Peswani AR,Roobol J,Busby SJW,Robinson C

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus terreus cadA, encoding cis-aconitate decarboxylase, is an essential gene for itaconic acid (IA) biosynthesis, but it is primarily expressed as insoluble aggregates in most industrial hosts. This has been a hurdle for the development of recombinant strategies for IA production. Here, we created a library of...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Jeon HG,Cheong DE,Han Y,Song JJ,Choi JH

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The catalytic properties of bovine serum albumin (BSA) have been studied rather extensively. The protein has shown catalytic activities toward a variety of reactions in aqueous media. However, there appears to be no reports of reactions catalyzed exclusively in organic media. In this study, we report the catalytic pro...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Liu XC,Lemma-Gray P

更新日期：2001-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate a novel application of (13)C pulsed field gradient (PFG) NMR to monitor mass transfer, due to both flow and diffusion, in a 3D complex porous support structure modified by biofilm growth. This enables timescales an order of magnitude larger than previously possible to be accessed with respect to displac...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Graf von der Schulenburg DA,Akpa BS,Gladden LF,Johns ML

更新日期：2008-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Refiner mechanical pulp was biologically treated with several higher fungi in order to test their potential for increasing the strength of paper. It was among the white-rot fungi that the best results were obtained. Polyporus versicolor gave the best overall improvement in handsheet properties with no reduction in tea...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Pilon L,Barbe MC,Desrochers M,Jurasek L,Neumann PJ

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The microbial degradation of quinoline by Comamonas acidovorans was studied in a laboratory scale stirred tank reactor. In continuous culture experiments using quinoline as a sole source of carbon and nitrogen, it was shown by means of mass balances that quinoline was converted completely to biomass, carbon dioxide, a...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Miethling R,Hecht V,Deckwer WD

更新日期：1993-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the lactose (lac) operon in the Escherichia coli chromosome has been studied in mixed-sugar chemostat cultures under steady-state and transient conditions. A unified model has been formulated which involves regulation of active inducer (lactose) transport, promoter-operator regulated expression of the la...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Ray NG,Vieth WR,Venkatasubramanian K

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The placement of the reference electrode (RE) in various bioelectrochemical systems is often varied to accommodate different reactor configurations. While the effect of the RE placement is well understood from a strictly electrochemistry perspective, there are impacts on exoelectrogenic biofilms in engineered systems ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Zhang F,Liu J,Ivanov I,Hatzell MC,Yang W,Ahn Y,Logan BE

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatic embryogenesis is among the most promising means of large scale plant micropropagation. The development of somatic embryos is characterized by their morphological changes. Embryos in culture usually exhibit high heterogeneity and abnormality. As conventional microscopic observation is laborious and subjective, ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Chi CM,Zhang C,Staba EJ,Cooke TJ,Hu WS

更新日期：1996-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonads are serious candidates for siderophore production applied to toxic metal (TM) solubilization. The bioaugmentation of contaminated soils by these TM-solubilizing bacteria combined with phytoextraction is an emerging clean-up technology. Unfortunately, siderophore synthesis may be drastically reduced by sol...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Braud A,Jézéquel K,Léger MA,Lebeau T

更新日期：2006-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzyme engineering is a powerful tool to fine-tune the enzymes. It is a technique by which the stability, activity, and specificity of the enzymes can be altered. The characteristic properties of an enzyme can be amended by immobilization and protein engineering. Among them, protein engineering is the most promising, ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Ali M,Ishqi HM,Husain Q

更新日期：2020-06-01 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：:Detachment from biofilms was evaluated using a mixed culture biofilm grown on primary wastewater in a tube reactor. The growth of biofilms and the detachment of biomass from biofilms are strongly influenced by hydrodynamic conditions. In a long-term study, three biofilms were cultivated in a biofilm tube reactor. The ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Horn H,Reiff H,Morgenroth E

更新日期：2003-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The microscopic morphology of Trichoderma reesei QM 9414, growing in submerged culture, was studied by image analysis. The morphology was characterized by the total hyphal length, the total number of tips, the number of actively growing tips, and the length of the main hypha. To describe the growth of a single myceliu...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Lejeune R,Nielsen J,Baron GV

更新日期：1995-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:An immobilized enzyme reactor has been developed to remove heparin, the anticoagulant that is required in all extracorporeal devices for patients undergoing open-heart surgery or kidney dialysis. The device uses the enzyme heparinase (EC 4.2.2.7), which is covalently linked to agarose with cyanogen bromide. A critical...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Bernstein H,Yang VC,Langer R

更新日期：1987-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of five different N-terminal protecting groups (For, Ac, Boc, Z, and Fmoc) and reaction conditions (temperature and dimethylformamide content) on the alpha-chymotrypsin-catalyzed synthesis of the dipeptide derivative X-Phe-Leu-NH(2) was studied. Groups such as For, Ac, Boc, and Z always rendered good pep...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Calvet S,Clapés P,Vigo JP,Xaus N,Jorba X,Mas RM,Torres JL,Valencia G,Serralheiro ML,Cabral JM,Empis JM

更新日期：1992-03-05 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：:While feeding protocols and ectopic expression of anti-apoptotic genes have been used to improve the viability of hybridoma cell lines, the effect of the expression levels of survival genes on the behavior of hybridomas following nutrient supplementation is unknown. In this study, we compared the behavior of the Sp2/0...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Charbonneau JR,Furtak T,Lefebvre J,Gauthier ER

更新日期：2003-02-05 00:00:00