Cell growth and differentiation on feeder layers is predicted to be influenced by bioreactor geometry.

abstract：:Abnormal airway mucus presents a significant challenge for inhalational drug delivery. Recognizing the thick and tenacious airway mucus seen in the cystic fibrosis (CF) patients as a critical barrier to effective drug delivery, both into the mucus layer itself as well as across that layer to the underlying airway epit...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Yang Y,Tsifansky MD,Shin S,Lin Q,Yeo Y

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Batch kinetic and inhibition studies were performed for the aerobic cometabolism of 1,1,1-trichloroethane (1,1,1-TCA), 1,1-dichloroethylene (1,1-DCE), and 1,1-dichloroethane (1,1-DCA) by a butane-grown mixed culture. These chlorinated aliphatic hydrocarbons (CAHs) are often found together as cocontaminants in groundwa...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Kim Y,Arp DJ,Semprini L

更新日期：2002-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Frozen bagged seed inoculum was prepared, thawed and tested for seven cultures. Thawing techniques were developed and other key influences on thawing rate were quantified; seed bag thawing without a water bath rarely required more than 4 to 5 h and was as short as 0.5 to 1 h for lower fill volume bags. Testing include...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Junker B,Seeley A,Lester M,Kovatch M,Schmitt J,Boryscwicz S,Lynch J,Zhang J,Greasham R

更新日期：2002-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:An in vitro toxicity testing system that combines perfusion of a membrane-supported tissue model with measurement of trans-epithelial electrical resistance (TER) is described. The system is fully automated and allows for continuous TER measurements during exposure to a test agent. The utility of this system is demonst...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Pasternak AS,Miller WM

更新日期：1996-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The reconstruction of functioning human tissues ex vivo is becoming an important part of biotechnology. There are compelling scientific, clinical, and biotechnological reasons for fully or partially reconstituting human tissues such as skin, bone marrow, and liver ex vivo. In particular, bone marrow is a tissue of muc...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Koller MR,Palsson BO

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Connexin-43 (Cx43) containing giant liposomes (GL) were prepared by a baculovirus expression-liposome fusion method. Recombinant budded viruses expressing Cx43 were prepared and then fused with GLs containing DOPG/DOPC at pH 4.5. Connexon formation on the GL membrane was observed by transmission electron microscope. H...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Kamiya K,Tsumoto K,Arakawa S,Shimizu S,Morita I,Yoshimura T,Akiyoshi K

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A set of eight closely related plasmid constructs carrying CI857-controlled recombinant genes has been used as a model to study plasmid stability in Escherichia coli, in the absence of antibiotic selection. Plasmid loss rates and relative interdivision times of plasmid-bearing cells and plasmid-free cells have been an...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Corchero JL,Villaverde A

更新日期：1998-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Steady-state simulations using our previously developed structured kinetic model of antibody synthesis and secretion by hybridoma cells are used here in conjunction with factorial design analysis to identify intracellular parameters important in determining the specific antibody secretion rate and predict the dependen...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Bibila TA,Flickinger MC

更新日期：1992-02-05 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：:A framework using material balances in metabolic pathways to study cellular metabolism is examined and the results are discussed. Rate measurements on extracellular compounds alone were found to be not always sufficient to validate proposed unique intracellular mechanisms. The conditions to delineate among candidate m...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Niranjan SC,San KY

更新日期：1989-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:After injury to the central nervous system, a glial scar develops that physically and biochemically inhibits axon growth. In the scar, activated astrocytes secrete inhibitory extracellular matrix, of which chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans (CSPGs) are considered the major inhibitory component. An inhibitory interface ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Tuinstra HM,Ducommun MM,Briley WE,Shea LD

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than 80 years after its discovery, penicillin is still a widely used and commercially highly important antibiotic. Here, we analyse the metabolic network of penicillin synthesis in Penicillium chrysogenum based on the concept of elementary flux modes. In particular, we consider the synthesis of the invariant mole...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Prauße MT,Schäuble S,Guthke R,Schuster S

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During continuous lipase-catalyzed oleic acid esterification by ethanol in n-hexane, the oleic acid conversion, initially at 95%, decreases to 20% after 2 h. This decrease is caused by the accumulation of the water produced in the course of the reaction in the packed-bed reactor (PBR). In order to improve the PBR effi...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Colombié S,Tweddell RJ,Condoret JS,Marty A

更新日期：1998-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:At the laboratory scale, sudden step increases from 30 to 42 degrees C can be readily accomplished when expressing heterologous proteins in heat-inducible systems. However, for large scale-cultures only slow ramp-type increases in temperature are possible due to heat transfer limitations, where the heating rate decrea...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Caspeta L,Flores N,Pérez NO,Bolívar F,Ramírez OT

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using our recently developed sensor reactor approach, lysine-producing, nongrowing Corynebacterium glutamicum MH20-22B cells were subjected to serial (13)C-labeling experiments for flux analysis during the leucine-limited fed-batch production phase in a 300-L bioreactor. Based on two-dimensional (2D) nuclear magnetic ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Drysch A,El Massaoudi M,Wiechert W,de Graaf AA,Takors R

更新日期：2004-03-05 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：: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：: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：:In order to effectively treat obesity, it must be better understood at the cellular level with respect to metabolic state and environmental stress. However, current two-dimensional (2D) in vitro cell culture methods do not represent the in vivo adipose tissue appropriately due to the absence of complex architecture an...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Turner PA,Harris LM,Purser CA,Baker RC,Janorkar AV

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One unique to detect cytotoxicity is to utilize reporter gene assays for promoters that respond to stress-induced effects. In the present study, we discovered that the DNA sequence from nt -287 to +110 of the heat shock protein 70B' (HSP70B') gene could be used as a functional promoter to detect cytotoxicity of cadmiu...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Wada K,Taniguchi A,Xu L,Okano T

更新日期：2005-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A two-stage deterministic model of the growth of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is presented. The cell cycle of this organism was used to suggest the basic model structure. The model represents the preparatory processes of substrate uptake and conversion separately from replication and division. The regulation of the fracti...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Bijkerk AH,Hall RJ

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While many pretreatments attempt to improve the enzymatic digestibility of biomass by removing lignin, this study shows that improving the surface area accessible to cellulase is a more important factor for achieving a high sugar yield. Here we compared the pretreatment of switchgrass by two methods, cellulose solvent...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Rollin JA,Zhu Z,Sathitsuksanoh N,Zhang YH

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The desired product of bioprocesses is often produced in particulate form, either as an inclusion body (IB) or as a crystal. Particle harvesting is then a crucial and attractive form of product recovery. Because the liquid phase often contains other bioparticles, such as cell debris, whole cells, particulate biocataly...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： van Hee P,Hoeben MA,van der Lans RG,van der Wielen LA

更新日期：2006-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellulase was modified with amphilic copolymers made of alpha-allyl-omega-methoxy polyoxyalkylene (POA) and maleic acid anhydride (MAA) to improve the cellulose hydrolytic reactivity and cellulase separation. Amino groups of the cellulase molecule are covalently coupled with the MAA functional groups of the copolymer....

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Park JW,Kajiuchi T

更新日期：1995-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Poly lactic acid (PLA) based plastics is renewable, bio-based, and biodegradable. Although present day PLA is composed of mainly L-LA, an L- and D- LA copolymer is expected to improve the quality of PLA and expand its use. To increase the number of thermotolerant microbial biocatalysts that produce D-LA, a derivative ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Awasthi D,Wang L,Rhee MS,Wang Q,Chauliac D,Ingram LO,Shanmugam KT

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the enzymic activity of bilirubin oxidase when it is suspended as a lyophilized powder in a low-water system. The enzyme required buffer salts and a source of water to show activity. This study investigated the complete range of water thermodynamic activity (a(w)) by combining the use of salt hydrates ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Alston MJ,Freedman RB

更新日期：2002-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Feasibility of elemental sulfur reduction by Desulfovibrio desulfuricans in anaerobic conditions in a stirred reactor was studied. Hydrogen was used as energy source, whereas the carbonated species were bicarbonate and yeast extract. Attention was paid to reactor engineering aspects, biofilm formation on the sulfur su...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Escobar C,Bravo L,Hernández J,Herrera L

更新日期：2007-10-15 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：:Lipid productivity and fatty acid composition are important metrics for the production of high quality biodiesel from algae. Our previous results showed that co-culturing the green alga Chlorella minutissima with Escherichia coli under high-substrate mixotrophic conditions enhanced both culture growth and crude lipid ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Higgins BT,Labavitch JM,VanderGheynst JS

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An integrated solvent (ABE) fermentation and product removal process was investigated. A stable solvent productivity of 3.5 g/L h was achieved by using cells of Clostridium acetobutylicum immobilized onto a packed bed of bonechar, coupled with continuous product removal by pervaporation. Using a concentrated feed solu...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Friedl A,Qureshi N,Maddox IS

更新日期：1991-08-20 00:00:00