A process for microbial hydrocarbon synthesis: Overproduction of fatty acids in Escherichia coli and catalytic conversion to alkanes.

abstract：:This article reports a study of the performance of membrane-attached biofilms grown in a single tube extractive membrane bioreactor (STEMS) used for the treatment of a synthetic wastewater containing a toxic VOC (1,2-dichloroethane [DCE]). Mass balances show that complete mineralization of DCE was achieved, and that t...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Dos Santos LM,Livingston AG

更新日期：1995-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian cell lines for recombinant protein production need to maintain productivity over extended cultivation times. Long-term stability studies are time and resource intensive, but are widely performed to identify and eliminate unstable candidates during cell line development. Production instability of manufacturin...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Osterlehner A,Simmeth S,Göpfert U

更新日期：2011-11-01 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：:We developed a kinetic model that describes a heterogeneous reaction system for the production of D-p-hydroxyphenylglycine from D,L-p-hydroxyphenyl-hydantoin using D-hydantoinase of Bacillus stearothermophilus SD1 and N-carbamoylase of Agrobacterium tumefaciens NRRL B11291. As a biocatalyst, whole cells with separatel...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Park JH,Oh KH,Lee DC,Kim HS

更新日期：2002-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Shikimic acid is one of several industrially interesting chiral starting materials formed in the aromatic amino acid pathway of plants and microorganisms. In this study, the physiology of a shikimic acid producing strain of Escherichia coli (derived from W3110) deleted in aroL (shikimic acid kinase II gene), was compa...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Johansson L,Lindskog A,Silfversparre G,Cimander C,Nielsen KF,Lidén G

更新日期：2005-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing demand for petroleum has stimulated industry to develop sustainable production of chemicals and biofuels using microbial cell factories. Fatty acids of chain lengths from C6 to C16 are propitious intermediates for the catalytic synthesis of industrial chemicals and diesel-like biofuels. The abundance of gen...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Tee TW,Chowdhury A,Maranas CD,Shanks JV

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A computer-controlled headspace gas chromatograph was used to monitor the progress of ethanol production from both aerobic batch and anaerobic continuous fermentations. Using an automatic, electropneumatic sampling system, aliquots of fermentation headspace gas were injected directly onto the column for quantitative e...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Comberbach DM,Bu'lock JD

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmid gene product accumulation in a cell population depends on the fraction of plasmid-containing cells and the distribution of single-cell plasmid content. These important population properties have been related to plasmid replication regulation and kinetics and to plasmid segregation rules at the single-cell leve...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Hjortso MA,Bailey JE

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article deals with the modeling of the oxygen transfer in an industrial airlift fermentor used for lactic yeast production on whey substrates. The purpose of this study was to improve the understanding of the interactions among the various parameters that govern the oxygen transfer phenomena in this type of ferme...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Pigache S,Dhoms P,Trystram G

更新日期：1992-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A cyclic fed-batch bioprocess is designed and a significant improvement of rice alpha-amylase productivity of recombinant Yarrowia lipolytica is illustrated. A bioprocess control strategy developed and reported here entails use of a genetically stable recombinant cloned for heterologous protein, use of optimized media...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Chang CC,Ryu DD,Park CS,Kim JY

更新日期：1998-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:This work investigated the use of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy in combination with a mathematical model of an encapsulated cell system as a method for rapidly assessing the status of a pancreatic substitute. To validate this method, an in vitro experiment was performed in which the encapsulated cells ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Gross JD,Long RC Jr,Constantinidis I,Sambanis A

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antibiotic, difficidin, and its hydroxylated derivative oxydifficidin, were synthesized by cultures of Bacillus subtilis grown on a complex medium. Maximum titers of about 200 and 130 mg/L, respectively, were obtained. In fermentations where the dissolved oxygen tension (DOT) was controlled, the maximum specific g...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Suphantharika M,Ison AP,Lilly MD,Buckland BC

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A spinning cylindrical filter, known as a spinfilter, permits the mammalian cell bioreactor operation at high perfusion rates leading to very high cell densities (10(7) mL(-1)). Filter screens with openings (25 mum) slightly larger than the average cell size have been used to retain single cells in suspension over a l...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Yabannavar VM,Singh V,Connelly NV

更新日期：1994-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanical forces regulate the structure and function of many tissues in vivo; recent results indicate that the mechanical environment can decisively influence the development of engineered tissues cultured in vitro. To investigate the effects of the hydrodynamic environment on tissue-engineered cartilage, primary bov...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Gooch KJ,Kwon JH,Blunk T,Langer R,Freed LE,Vunjak-Novakovic G

更新日期：2001-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The twin arginine translocation (Tat) pathway occurs naturally in E. coli and has the distinct ability to translocate folded proteins across the inner membrane of the cell. It has the potential to export commercially useful proteins that cannot be exported by the ubiquitous Sec pathway. To better understand the biopro...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Branston SD,Matos CF,Freedman RB,Robinson C,Keshavarz-Moore E

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A model for cometabolism is verified experimentally for a defined methanotrophic mixed culture. The model includes the effects of cell growth, endogenous cell decay, product toxicity, and competitive inhibition with the assumption that cometabolic transformation rates are enhanced by reducing power obtained from oxida...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Chang WK,Criddle CS

更新日期：1997-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant retroviruses are effective vectors able to integrate transgenes into the target cell's genome to achieve longer-term expression. This study investigates the effect of cell lysis products, a common cell culture by-product, on the transduction of suspension cells by gammaretroviral vectors. Cell lysates deri...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Beauchesne PR,Bruce KJ,Bowen BD,Piret JM

更新日期：2010-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNFalpha) plays an important role in a number of chronic inflammatory disorders. Monoclonal camelidae variable heavy chain domain-only antibodies (V(H)H) have been developed to antagonize the action of human TNFalpha (anti-TNF-V(H)H). Here we describe a strategy to obtain functional di...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Giersberg M,Floss DM,Kipriyanov S,Conrad U,Scheller J

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of growing Clostridium acetobutylicum NCIB 8052 in a chemostat under conditions of glucose, NH(4) (+), PO(4) (3-), Mg(2+), and Fe(2+) limitation were examined. It was noted that limitation of any major nutrient resulted in the same fermentation pattern. Conditions where minor nutrient levels were reduced a...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： McNeil B,Kristiansen B

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of fluid-dynamic conditions on the yield of Phaeodactylum tricornutum microalgal cultures was analyzed in two stages: first, the influence of air flow rate; second, the influence of using fluid-moving pumps for recirculating the culture. With respect to the air flow rate, the yield of the cultures increa...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Alías CB,García-Malea López MC,Acién Fernández FG,Ferníndez Sevilla JM,García Sánchez JL,Molina Grima E

更新日期：2004-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A protein loaded three-dimensional scaffold can be used for protein delivery and bone tissue regeneration. The main objective of this project was to develop recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 (rhBMP-2) loaded poly(D,L-lactide-co-glycolide)/hydroxylapatite (PLGA/HAp) composite fibrous scaffolds through a pr...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Nie H,Soh BW,Fu YC,Wang CH

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood vessel development is critical for the continued growth and progression of solid tumors and, therefore, makes an attractive target for improving cancer therapy. Indeed, vascular-targeted therapies have been extensively explored but they have shown minimal efficacy as monotherapies. Combretastatin A4 (CA-4) is a ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Liu Y,Kim YJ,Siriwon N,Rohrs JA,Yu Z,Wanga P

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mechanistic model-based soft sensor is developed and validated for 550L filamentous fungus fermentations operated at Novozymes A/S. The soft sensor is comprised of a parameter estimation block based on a stoichiometric balance, coupled to a dynamic process model. The on-line parameter estimation block models the cha...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Mears L,Stocks SM,Albaek MO,Sin G,Gernaey KV

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To widen the biological control function of a genetically modified Bacillus thuringiensis subsp leesis strain BMB-005, an acyl homoserine lactonase (AHL lactonase) gene aiiA transcribed by the promoter of insecticidal crystal protein coding gene cry3A, was transformed into strain BMB-005. The amount of AHL lactonase p...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Zhu C,Yu Z,Sun M

更新日期：2006-10-20 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：: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：:We developed a novel method to load and unload molecular cargos to and from microtubules (MTs) that move on kinesin-coated surfaces. Quantum dots (Qds) (molecular cargo) connected to 21-mer DNA can be selectively loaded on DNA-conjugated MTs through DNA hybridization. The average velocity of the Qd-loaded MTs (0.43 +/...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Taira S,Du YZ,Hiratsuka Y,Uyeda TQ,Yumoto N,Kodaka M

更新日期：2008-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential of bacteriophage lambda as an expression vector for a large scale production of cloned-gene proteins was evaluated in batch and continuous bioreactors using a temperature-sensitive mutant in the cl gene, which allows a simple manipulation of temperature as a means to control the phage in the lysogenic or...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Park TH,Seo JH,Lim HC

更新日期：1991-02-20 00:00:00

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：:The possibility of following the biomass growth by pressure drop measurement was investigated in an aerated cocurrent upflow fixed-bed bioreactor continuously fed with wastewater containing industrial organic pollutants. The experiments were carried out in a biological filtration oxygenated reactor (Biofor) pilot plan...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Deront M,Samb FM,Adler N,Peringer P

更新日期：1998-10-05 00:00:00