Enzymatic reaction kinetic: comparison in an organic solvent and in supercritical carbon dioxide.

abstract：:Yeast alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) solutions (approximately 1 mg/ml, pH 7) were sheared in a coaxial cylindrical viscometer. This was fitted with a lid sealing the contents from the atmosphere and preventing evaporation. At 30 degrees C after a total of 5 hr intermittent shearing at 683 sec-1 no losses of activity were...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Thomas CR,Nienow AW,Dunnill P

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Continuous propionic acid fermentations of lactate by Propionibacterium acidipropionici were studied in spiral wound fibrous bed bioreactors. Cells were imobilized by natural attachment to fiber surfaces and entrapment in the void volume within the fibrous matrix. A high cell density of approximately 37 g/L was attain...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Lewis VP,Yang ST

更新日期：1992-08-05 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：:As photoautotrophic prokaryotes, cyanobacteria are promising platforms for producing value-added bioproducts. However, few regulatory genetic parts and devices (e.g., inducible promoters and regulatory circuits) have been developed for these potential hosts. Furthermore, the devices that have been created respond only...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Immethun CM,Ng KM,DeLorenzo DM,Waldron-Feinstein B,Lee YC,Moon TS

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of precipitation of soya protein has been examined in a tubular flow reactor with the precipitants, ammonium sulfate, ethanol, divalent calcium, and sulfuric acid. The precipitate growth profiles obtained in all cases showed the rapid formation of a precipitate phase and the attainment of a final size wit...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Chan MY,Hoare M,Dunnill P

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional analysis of plant cells at the cellular and subcellular levels requires novel technologies for the directed manipulation of individual cells. In this report, we demonstrate the use of an infrared (1,064 nm) picosecond laser for the perforation of tobacco cell protoplasts. A single pulse was sufficient t...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Schinkel H,Jacobs P,Schillberg S,Wehner M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benzil was reduced stereospecifically to (S)-benzoin by Bacillus cereus strain Tim-r01. To isolate the gene responsible for asymmetric reduction, we constructed a library consisting of Escherichia coli clones that harbored plasmids expressing Bacillus cereus genes. The library was screened using the halo formation ass...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Maruyama R,Nishizawa M,Itoi Y,Ito S,Inoue M

更新日期：2001-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Physical damage of animal cells in suspension culture, due to stirring and sparging, is coupled with complex metabolic responses. Nylon microcapsules, therefore, were used as a physical model to study the mechanisms of damage in a stirred bioreactor and in a bubble column. Microcapsule breaskage folowed first-order ki...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Lu GZ,Gray MR,Thompson BG

更新日期：1992-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Proper analysis of label distribution in metabolic pathway intermediates is critical for correct interpretation of experimental data and strategic experimental design. While, for example, 13C nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is usually limited to the measurement of degrees of 13C enrichment, more informat...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Klapa MI,Park SM,Sinskey AJ,Stephanopoulos G

更新日期：1999-02-01 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：:Molecular descriptors represent structural and physicochemical features of compounds. They have been extensively used for developing statistical models, such as quantitative structure activity relationship (QSAR) and artificial neural networks (NN), for computer prediction of the pharmacodynamic, pharmacokinetic, or t...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Li ZR,Han LY,Xue Y,Yap CW,Li H,Jiang L,Chen YZ

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A modified mixing plane approach for steady state simulation of flow field in fully baffled biological reactor is presented and discussed. Without requiring any experimental input, this approach of dividing the vessel into suitable number of connected and disconnected zones; solving steady state equation separately in...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Dubey H,Das SK,Panda T

更新日期：2006-11-05 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：: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：: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：:Reduced downstream costs, together with high purity recovery of polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA), will accelerate the commercialization of high quality PHA-based products. In this work, a process was designed for effective recovery of the copolymer poly(hydroxybutyrate-co-hydroxyhexanoate) (P(HB-co-HHx)) containing high lev...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Riedel SL,Brigham CJ,Budde CF,Bader J,Rha C,Stahl U,Sinskey AJ

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CTLA4 is a membrane receptor on cytotoxic T cells whose interaction with the B7 counterreceptor on B cells is important in alloantigen responses. Soluble recombinant human and murine CTLA4 were produced using either Chinese hamster ovary or NS-0 cell lines. Expression vectors were constructed containing the gene codin...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Flesher AR,Marzowski J,Wang WC,Raff HV

更新日期：1995-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:All bacteria release organic compounds called soluble microbial products (SMP) as a part of their normal metabolism. In photobioreactor (PBR) settings, SMP produced by cyanobacteria represent a major pool of carbon and electrons available to heterotrophic bacteria. Thus, SMP in PBRs are a major driver for the growth o...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Zevin AS,Nam T,Rittmann B,Krajmalnik-Brown R

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mechanistic model of enzymatic hydrolysis taking into account the morphology of the cellulosic particles and its evolution with time was developed. The individual behavior of the main enzymes involved in the reaction (cellobiohydrolases, endoglucanases, and β-glucosidases), as well as synergy effects, were also incl...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Huron M,Hudebine D,Lopes Ferreira N,Lachenal D

更新日期：2016-05-01 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：:Immunotherapy with ex vivo cultured T cells depends on a large supply of biologically active cells. Understanding the effects of culture parameters is essential for improving the proliferation and efficacy of the expanded cells. Low oxygen tension (5% pO(2)) was previously reported to improve T-cell expansion and alte...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Haddad H,Windgassen D,Ramsborg CG,Paredes CJ,Papoutsakis ET

更新日期：2004-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:It is shown that the mass transfer resistance can significantly distort the linearity of the Lineweaver-Burk plot of the kinetic data for a microbial culture which forms aggregates. For small flocs, the linearity of the Lineweaver-Burk plot is largely retained, but a different slope and intercept will be obtained comp...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Ngian KF,Lin SH,Martin WR

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bioartificial pancreas encapsulating pancreatic islets in immunoprotective hydrogel is a promising therapy for Type 1 diabetes. As pancreatic islets are highly metabolically active and exquisitely sensitive to hypoxia, maintaining O2 supply after transplantation remains a major challenge. In this study, we address...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Mouré A,Bacou E,Bosch S,Jegou D,Salama A,Riochet D,Gauthier O,Blancho G,Soulillou JP,Poncelet D,Olmos E,Bach JM,Mosser M

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cometabolic transformation of 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) by an immobilized Phanerochaete chrysosporium culture was investigated under different TNT and/or glycerol feeding conditions in a 5-L reactor. In the fed-batch feeding mode, as a result of four spiking events at an average feeding rate of 20 mg TNT L(-1) d...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Rho D,Hodgson J,Thiboutot S,Ampleman G,Hawari J

更新日期：2001-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Shake flask and stirred tank bioleaching experiments showed that the dissolution of chalcopyrite is inhibited by ferric ion concentrations as low as 200 mg L(-1) and redox potentials >420 mV (vs. Ag/AgCl). Chemical leaching of chalcopyrite (4% suspension, surface area 2.3 m2 g(-1)) was enhanced fourfold in the presenc...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Third KA,Cord-Ruwisch R,Watling HR

更新日期：2002-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The utilization and conversion of D-xylose, D-xylulose, L-arabinose, and xylitol by yeast strains have been investigated with the following results: (1) The majority of yeasts tested utilize D-xylose and produce polyols, ethanol, and organic acids. The type and amount of products formed varies with the yeast strains u...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Gong CS,Claypool TA,McCracken LD,Maun CM,Ueng PP,Tsao GT

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) technique was used to directly detect an intact form of insect pathogen: the baculovirus, Autographa californica multiple nuclear polyhedrosis virus (AcMNPV). An SPR sensor chip with three bio-functional layers was used to detect the intact AcMNPV: amine-reactive crosslinker with a disu...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Baac H,Hajós JP,Lee J,Kim D,Kim SJ,Shuler ML

更新日期：2006-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Modifications are made to an earlier thermodynamic model (TEEM1) for prediction of maximum microbial yields from aerobic and anaerobic as well as heterotrophic and autotrophic growth. The revised model (TEEM2) corrects for lower yields found with aerobic oxidations of organic compounds where an oxygenase is involved a...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： McCarty PL

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatic steatosis is a process of abnormal lipid deposition within the liver cells, often caused by excessive alcohol uptake or obesity. A conventional in vitro model for hepatic steatosis uses a liver cell culture, treated with fatty acids and measures accumulation of lipids within the cells. This model does not reca...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Lee SY,Sung JH

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aggregates of Escherichia coli confined within hollowfiber reactors were either formed in place by culturing cells within the reactors, or were prepared by injecting a cell suspension that had been concentrated by centrifugation. The effective diffusive permeability of an uncharged nonreacting tracer, nitrous oxide, w...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Libicki SB,Salmon PM,Robertson CR

更新日期：1988-06-20 00:00:00