Some comments on respiratory quotient (RQ) determination from the analysis of exit gas from a fermentor.

abstract：:The effects of oxygen transfer on the production and product distribution in serine alkaline protease (SAP) fermentation by Bacillus licheniformis and oxygen-transfer strategy in relation to the physiology of the bacilli were investigated on a defined medium with citric acid as sole carbon source in 3.5-dm(3) batch bi...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Calik P,Calik G,Ozdamar TH

更新日期：2000-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A spinning cylindrical filter is often used to retain mammalian cells in a continuous perfusion bioreactor. This device, known as a spinfilter, has typically been with pore size smaller than the cell particles (single cells or aggregates) in order to achieve cell separation. For single cells in suspension, such an ope...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Yabannavar VM,Singh V,Connelly NV

更新日期：1992-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Highly substituted polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are known to be very resistant to aerobic biodegradation, particularly the initial attack by biphenyl dioxygenase. Functional evolution of the substrate specificity of biphenyl dioxygenase was demonstrated by DNA shuffling and staggered extension process (StEP) of th...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Brühlmann F,Chen W

更新日期：1999-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The hydrolysis of lactose by a beta-galactosidase from the thermophilic microorganism Thermus sp. strain T2, both in solution and immobilized on a commercial silica-alumina, has been studied. The enzyme has been previously produced by Escherichia coli JM101 harboring the plasmid pBGT1, which contains the codifying gen...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Ladero M,Perez MT,Santos A,Garcia-Ochoa F

更新日期：2003-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Supercritical fluid technology offers the possibility to produce dry powder formulations of biocompatible materials, overcoming the drawbacks of classical micronization processes. In this work, Supercritical Assisted Atomization (SAA) has been used to micronize alpha-cyclodextrin (alpha-CD) and hydroxypropyl-beta-cycl...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Reverchon E,Antonacci A

更新日期：2006-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Dielectric spectroscopy was applied to two industrial high cell density culture processes and used to determine on-line the concentration of CHO cells immobilized on macroporous microcarriers in a stirred bioreactor and in a packed-bed of disk carriers. The cell concentration predicted from the spectroscopic data was ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Ducommun P,Kadouri A,von Stockar U,Marison IW

更新日期：2002-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The addition of simple inorganic salts to aqueous enzyme solutions prior to lyophilization results in a dramatic activation of the dried powder in organic media relative to enzyme with no added salt. Activation of both the serine protease subtilisin Carlsberg and lipase from Mucor javanicus resulting from lyophilizati...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Ru MT,Dordick JS,Reimer JA,Clark DS

更新日期：1999-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ff filamentous bacteriophages show potential as a new class of therapeutics, displaying utility in materials science as well as pharmaceutical applications. These phages are produced by the infection of E. coli, a Gram-negative bacterium which unavoidably sheds endotoxins into the extracellular space during growth...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Branston SD,Wright J,Keshavarz-Moore E

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Utilising whole cells of recombinant Escherichia coli K27 (pCYP102, pGEc47) containing active cytochrome P450BM-3 monooxygenase [E.C. 1. 14.14.1], multiple oxidations of saturated and unsaturated fatty acids were performed by the enzyme under conditions of excess oxygen. The amount of oxygen dissolved in the culture m...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Schneider S,Wubbolts MG,Oesterhelt G,Sanglard D,Witholt B

更新日期：1999-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:There are a series of examples in which phenols appear as contaminants in process streams and their selective removal is required for waste minimization. For the selective removal of a phenol from a mixture, we are exploiting the substrate specificity of the enzyme tyrosinase to convert phenols into reactive o-quinone...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Sun WQ,Payne GF

更新日期：1996-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A balance between proliferation and cell death is critical for achieving desirable high cell densities in mammalian cell culture. In this study, we evaluate a recently discovered anti-apoptotic gene, aven, and examine its effectiveness alone and in combination with a member of the Bcl-2 family, bcl-xL. The commerciall...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Figueroa B Jr,Chen S,Oyler GA,Hardwick JM,Betenbaugh MJ

更新日期：2004-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Uranium contamination is a serious concern at several sites motivating the development of novel treatment strategies such as the Geobacter-mediated reductive immobilization of uranium. However, this bioremediation strategy has not yet been optimized for the sustained uranium removal. While several reactive-transport m...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Zhao J,Scheibe TD,Mahadevan R

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytidine-5'-diphosphocholine (CDP-choline) is a widely used neuroprotective drug for multiple indications. In industry, CDP-choline is synthesized by a two-step cell culture/permeabilized cell biotransformation method because substrates often do not enter cells in an efficient manner. This study develops a novel one-s...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Ren Y,Liu Q,Liu H,Zhou X,Zhang Y,Cai M

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metastatic disease remains one of the primary reasons for cancer-related deaths, yet the majority of in vitro cancer models focus on the primary tumor sites. Here, we describe a metastasis-on-a-chip device that houses multiple bioengineered three-dimensional (3D) organoids, established by a 3D photopatterning techniqu...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Aleman J,Skardal A

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we describe a model that estimates the extracellular (nonfungal) and overall water contents of wheat grains during solid-state fermentation (SSF) with Aspergillus oryzae, using on-line measurements of oxygen, carbon dioxide, and water vapor in the gas phase. The model uses elemental balances to predict s...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Nagel FJ,Tramper J,Bakker MS,Rinzema A

更新日期：2001-01-20 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：:Recombinant Escherichia coli JM101 was used for the in vivo biocatalytic synthesis of 3-tert-butyl- catechol. The bacterial strain synthesized the laboratory-evolved variant HbpA(T2) of 2-hydroxybiphenyl 3-monooxygenase (HbpA, EC 1.14.13.44) from Pseudomonas azelaica HBP1. The mutant enzyme HbpA(T2) is able to hydroxy...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Meyer A,Held M,Schmid A,Kohler HP,Witholt B

更新日期：2003-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A submerged anaerobic dynamic membrane bioreactor (AnDMBR) was operated for treatment of concentrated wastewater. The dynamic membrane (DM) or cake layer was characterized on its physicochemical and biological composition and the role of the DM layer in treatment and filtration performances was assessed. The results s...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Ersahin ME,Tao Y,Ozgun H,Spanjers H,van Lier JB

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies have been conducted in a gas circulation type fermentor in order to characterize the ethanol fermentation of uncooked cassava starch with Rhizopus koji. Results showed that ethanol concentration reached 13-14% (v/v) in 4-day broth, and the maximum productivity of ethanol was 2.3 g ethanol/L broth h. This produ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Fujio Y,Ogata M,Ueda S

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cobalt chromium (CoCr) alloy is widely used in orthopedic implants but its functional longevity is susceptible to inflammation related complications. Reduction of the development of chronic inflammation on the biomaterial surface would enhance direct bone-implant bonding and improve implant survival and long-term resu...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Tan HC,Poh CK,Cai Y,Soe MT,Wang W

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmid propagation in populations of unstable, binary fission recombinant organisms has been studied using a segregated, population balance mathematical model. Segregated models have the advantage of direct incorporation of basic information on mechanisms and kinetics of plasmid replication and segregation at the sin...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Seo JH,Bailey JE

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of the factors acetic acid, furfural, and p-hydroxybenzoic acid on the ethanol yield (YEtOH) of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, bakers' yeast, S. cerevisiae ATCC 96581, and Candida shehatae NJ 23 was investigated using a 2(3)-full factorial design with 3 centrepoints. The results indicated that acetic acid inh...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Palmqvist E,Grage H,Meinander NQ,Hahn-Hägerdal B

更新日期：1999-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene for ethionine resistance isolated from the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae DKD-5D-H conferred on the yeast cells resistance to seleno-L-methionine and capability to produce S-adenosyl-L-methionine in the cells. An enzymatic study of the L-methionine synthetic pathway of L-methionine proto- and auxotrophs and in ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Shiomi N,Fukuda H,Fukuda Y,Murata K,Kimura A

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a bioelectrochemical system (BES), microbial community of anode biofilm is crucial to BES performance. In this study, the stratified pattern of community structure and activity of an anode-respiring biofilm in a BES fueled with brewery wastewater was investigated over time. The anode biofilm exhibited a superior pe...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Mai Q,Yang G,Cao J,Zhang X,Zhuang L

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been much effort exerted to reduce one carbon (C1) gas emission to address climate change. As one promising way to more conveniently utilize C1 gas, several technologies have been developed to convert C1 gas into useful chemicals such as formic acid (FA). In this study, systems metabolic engineering was util...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Ahn JH,Bang J,Kim WJ,Lee SY

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolically active resting (i.e., nongrowing) bacterial cells have a high potential in cofactor-dependent redox biotransformations. Where growing cells require carbon and energy for biomass production, resting cells can potentially exploit their metabolism more efficiently for redox biocatalysis allowing higher spec...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Julsing MK,Kuhn D,Schmid A,Bühler B

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an attempt to extend and intensify the productive periods of bioprocesses, a self-cleaning tangential filtration device was examined. Built into a special-design bioreactor, its cell retention was evaluated for continuous-flow operation with selected examples of bacteria (Escherichia coli), yeasts (Sacharomyces cer...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Naja G,Volesky B,Schnell A

更新日期：2006-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorotelomer alcohols [FTOHs, F(CF(2))(n) CH(2)CH(2)OH, n = 4, 6, and 8] are emerging environmental contaminants. Biotransformation of FTOHs by mixed bacterial cultures has been reported; however, little is known about the microorganisms responsible for the biotransformation. Here we reported biotransformation of FTO...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Kim MH,Wang N,McDonald T,Chu KH

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current human gene therapy relies on genetic modification of the patient's own cells. An alternate nonautologous approach is to use universal cell lines engineered to secrete therapeutic products. Protection with immunoisolation devices before implantation would allow the use of the same recombinant cell line for trea...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Tse M,Uludag H,Sefton MV,Chang PL

更新日期：1996-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to capture cell-free DNA from the gastrointestinal tract, in a minimally invasive manner, could enhance our ability to diagnose gastrointestinal disease, or gain a better understanding of the spatial mapping of the intestinal microbiota. We, therefore, sought to identify a class of capture agents that coul...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Hilmer AJ,Jeffrey RB,Park WG,Khosla C

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00