Continuous acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation using immobilized cells of Clostridium acetobutylicum in a packed bed reactor and integration with product removal by pervaporation.

abstract：:Knowledge of the aqueous phase methane concentration is critical to understanding and controlling process kinetics in methanotrophic bioreactors. Unfortunately since no dissolved methane probe is commercially available, this data must be obtained off-line by the time-consuming gas-liquid partition method. In this stud...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Yu Y,Ramsay JA,Ramsay BA

更新日期：2006-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular delivery of functional proteins is of great interest for basic biological research as well as for clinical applications. Transfection is the most commonly used method, however, it is not applicable to large-scale manipulation and inefficient in important cell types implicated in biomedical applications, ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Li Z,Cai Z,Fu W,Liu Y,Tian C,Wang H,Fu T,Wu Z,Wu D,Jin Y,Cheng Z,Terada N,Liu L,Wu W,Jin S,Bai F

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mean sizes and size distributions of air bubbles and viscous castor oil drops were studied in a salt-rich aqueous solution (medium), first separately, and then simultaneously as a three-phase system. The dispersion was created in a 150-mm-diameter stirred tank equipped with a Rushton turbine, and the sizes were me...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Galindo E,Pacek AW,Nienow AW

更新日期：2000-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We designed a bioartificial liver support system in which encapsulated multicellular spheroids of rat hepatocytes were utilized as a bioreactor in a hollow fiber cartridge. The spheroids, formed in a positively charged polystyrene dish that contained hormonally defined medium, were encapsulated into microdroplets of a...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Shiraha H,Koide N,Hada H,Ujike K,Nakamura M,Shinji T,Gotoh S,Tsuji T

更新日期：1996-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Short-chain carboxylic acids generated by various mixed- or pure-culture fermentation processes have been considered valuable precursors for production of bioalcohols. While conversion of carboxylic acids into alcohols is routinely performed with catalytic hydrogenation or with strong chemical reducing agents, here, a...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Perez JM,Richter H,Loftus SE,Angenent LT

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygenases catalyze, among other interesting reactions, highly selective hydrocarbon oxyfunctionalizations, which are important in industrial organic synthesis but difficult to achieve by chemical means. Many enzymatic oxygenations have been described, but few of these have been scaled up to industrial scales, due to ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Bühler B,Bollhalder I,Hauer B,Witholt B,Schmid A

更新日期：2003-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper proposes a new metabolic model for acetate uptake by a mixed culture of phosphate- and glycogen-accumulating organisms (PAOs and GAOs) under anaerobic conditions. The model uses variable overall stoichiometry based on the assumption that PAOs may have the ability of using the glyoxylate pathway to produce t...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Yagci N,Artan N,Cokgör EU,Randall CW,Orhon D

更新日期：2003-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Many bacteria used for biotechnological applications are naturally motile. Their "bio-nanopropeller" driven movement allows searching for better environments in a process called chemotaxis. Since bacteria are extremely small in size compared to the bulk fluid volumes in bioreactors, single cell motility is not conside...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Arora S,Bhat V,Mittal A

更新日期：2007-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Alginate microparticles produced by emulsification/internal gelation were investigated as a promising carrier for insulin delivery. The procedure involves the dispersion of alginate solution containing insulin protein, into a water immiscible phase. Gelation is triggered in situ by instantaneous release of ionic calci...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Reis CP,Ribeiro AJ,Neufeld RJ,Veiga F

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One potential advantage of an extremely thermophilic metabolic engineering host (T opt ≥ 70°C) is facilitated recovery of volatile chemicals from the vapor phase of an active fermenting culture. This process would reduce purification costs and concomitantly alleviate toxicity to the cells by continuously removing solv...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Zeldes BM,Straub CT,Otten JK,Adams MWW,Kelly RM

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zymomonas mobilis is a very important gram-negative bacterium having a potential application to simultaneous co-production of biofuel and other high value-added products through biorefinery process technology development. Up to now, pLOI193 has been used as the plasmid of choice for Z. mobilis strains. However, its ap...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Dong HW,Bao J,Ryu DD,Zhong JJ

更新日期：2011-07-01 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：:Batch fermentations of glucose to ethanol by Z. Mobilis.(ATCC 10988) were examined in several semidefined nutrient media. The measurement of acid produced by the microorganism was used to study its transient fermentation characteristics. Limitation of nitrogen source in the semidefined medium of Rogers and coworkers(2...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Veeramallu U,Agrawal P

更新日期：1988-05-20 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：: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：:Ethanol-producing bioreactors employing cells of Zymomonas mobilis attached to glass-fiber pads were operated continuously for as long as 28 days. Ethanol production, which is related to bed-associated biomass levels, was found to occur in three distinct phases: an exponential phase, a linear phase, and a "steady-stat...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Arcuri EJ

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue function is comprised of a complex interplay between biological and physicochemical rate processes. The design of bioreactors for tissue engineering must account for these processes simultaneously in order to obtain a bioreactor that provides a uniform environment for tissue growth and development. In the prese...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Peng CA,Palsson BØ

更新日期：1996-06-05 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：:A dynamic method is proposed for k(l)a measurement in aerated and agitated reactors, in which a change in the total pressure in the reactor by approximately 20% leads to a simultaneous change in the oxygen concentration in all the bubbles in the dispersion. This procedure suppresses the influence of nonideal mixing of...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Linek V,Benes P,Vacek V

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The design and operation of an industrial penicillin-V deacylation reactor is simulated, using a kinetic expression and mass transport parameters for the immobilized enzyme particles which were determined experimentally in a previous study. It is desirable to use a series of equalsized plug flow reactors with pH contr...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Karlsen LG,Villadsen J

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A poly(acrylic acid)-polyethylene graft copolymer was prepared and used initially to couple to acid phosphatase, using soluble carbodiimides. Yields which were quite good were obtained with CMC but not with EDAC. The copolymers was used to couple trypsin using EEDQ. Several organic solvents were investigated for the p...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Beddows CG,Gil MH,Guthrie JT

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant protein glycosylation profiles have been shown to affect the in-vivo half-life, and therefore the efficacy and economics, for many therapeutics. While much research has been conducted correlating the effects of various stimuli on recombinant protein glycosylation characteristics, relatively little work has...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Clark KJ,Griffiths J,Bailey KM,Harcum SW

更新日期：2005-06-05 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：:Pretreatment plays an important role in the efficient enzymatic hydrolysis of biomass into fermentable sugars for biofuels. A highly effective pretreatment method is reported for corn stover which combines mild alkali-extraction followed by ionic liquid (IL) dissolution of the polysaccharides and regeneration (recover...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Geng X,Henderson WA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optically pure compounds are important in the synthesis of fine chemicals. Using directed evolution of enzymes to obtain biocatalysts that can selectively produce high-value chiral chemicals is often time-, money-, and resource-intensive; traditional semi-rational designs based on structural data and docking experimen...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Cheng Z,Peplowski L,Cui W,Xia Y,Liu Z,Zhang J,Kobayashi M,Zhou Z

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acid phosphatase thermal deactivation follows a complex path: an initial decay toward an equilibrium distribution of at least two intermediate structures, mutually at the equilibrium, followed by a final breakdown toward a completely inactive enzyme configuration. The results obtained in the presence of sorbitol have ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Gianfreda L,Toscano G,Pirozzi D,Greco G Jr

更新日期：1991-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The treatment of large segmental bone defects remains a challenge as infection, delayed union, and nonunion are common postoperative complications. A three-dimensional printed bioresorbable and physiologically load-sustaining graft substitute was developed to mimic native bone tissue for segmental bone repair. Fabrica...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Chung R,Kalyon DM,Yu X,Valdevit A

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modification of cellular functions by overexpression of genes is being increasingly practiced for tissue engineering. In the present study, we investigated whether transfection efficiency could be enhanced by magnetofection that involves the use of plasmid DNA (pDNA)/magnetite cationic liposomes (MCLs) complexes (pDNA...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Ino K,Kawasumi T,Ito A,Honda H

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In glutamic acid fermentation, the molasses feeding policy and time of penicillin addition significantly affected glutamic acid production, and a fuzzy supervisory control system was developed for their quasi-optimal regulation.From the trend of the experimental data, production rules and membership functions of fuzzy...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Kitsuta Y,Kishimoto M

更新日期：1994-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Propionic acid (PA) and its salts are widely used in the food, pharmaceutical, and chemical industries. Microbial production of PA by propionibacteria is a typical product-inhibited process, and acid resistance is crucial in the improvement of PA titers and productivity. We previously identified two key acid resistanc...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Guan N,Li J,Shin HD,Du G,Chen J,Liu L

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00