Microbial synthesis of polyhydroxybutyrate from glycerol: gluconeogenesis, molecular weight and material properties of biopolyester.

abstract：:Recombinant cell growth and protein synthesis by a recombinant Escherichia coli under various inducing conditions are compared to the predictions of a mathematical model. The mathematical model used was a combination of two literature models: (1) an empirical kinetic model for recombinant growth and product formation ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Betenbaugh MJ,Dhurjati P

更新日期：1990-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial biofilms are a major obstacle challenging the development of more effective therapies to treat implant infections. Oxygen availability to bacterial cells has been implicated in biofilm formation and planktonic cell detachment; however, there are insufficient tools available to measure oxygen concentrations w...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Acosta MA,Velasquez M,Williams K,Ross JM,Leach JB

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We consider the application of high-throughput experimentation (HTE), including combinatorial methods, to catalyst discovery and early-phase optimization. While combinatorial- and parallel-testing methods have an already substantial history in catalysis, recent work by several groups promises significant efficiency ga...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Newsam JM,Schüth F

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a method by which the degree of bubble saturation can be determined by measuring the velocity of single bubbles at different heights from the bubble source in pure water containing increasing concentrations of surfactants. The highest rising velocities were measured in pure water. Addition of surfactants c...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Jordan M,Eppenberger HM,Sucker H,Widmer F,Einsele A

更新日期：1994-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The nar promoter of Escherichia coli, which is maximally induced under anaerobic conditions in the presence of nitrate, was characterized to see whether the nar promoter cloned onto pBR322 can be used as an inducible promoter. To increase the expression level, the nar promoter was expressed in E. coli where active nit...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Lee J,Cho MH,Lee J

更新日期：1996-12-05 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：:The possibility of enhancing the biomass productivity of a continuous culture of Saccharomyces cerevisiae growing on a glucose-limited medium is addressed. An unstructured Monod-type model is first identified using steady-state data. The culture is subjected to step changes in dilution rate, and it is seen that the Mo...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Abulesz EM,Lyberatos G

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stoichiometry and kinetics of the spontaneous, chemical reaction between pyrite and ferric iron was studied at 30, 45, and 70 degrees C in shake flasks at pH 1.5 by monitoring the ferrous iron, total iron, elemental sulfur, and sulfate concentration profiles in time. It was found that the sulfur moiety of pyrite w...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Boogerd FC,van den Beemd C,Stoelwinder T,Bos P,Kuenen JG

更新日期：1991-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A generic "system on a plate" modular multicompartmental bioreactor array which enables microwell protocols to be transferred directly to the bioreactor modules, without redesign of cell culture experiments or protocols is described. The modular bioreactors are simple to assemble and use and can be easily compared wit...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Mazzei D,Guzzardi MA,Giusti S,Ahluwalia A

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based upon the general characteristics of the optimal feed rate profiles presented in an earlier article, efficient computational algorithms have been developed for fed-batch fermentation processes described by four or less mass balance equations. These algorithms make computations of optimal substrate feed rate profi...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Lim HC,Tayeb YJ,Modak JM,Bonte P

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Empirical estimations of H2O2 concentration in a system containing bovine liver catalase and continually supplied with H2O2 were done to evaluate the efficiency of the enzyme to cleave H2O2. It was found that the continuous addition of H2O2 leads to the formation of steady-state concentrations of H2O2 in the medium. A...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Ibrahim M,Schlegel HG

更新日期：1980-09-01 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：:The bioconversion of octanoic acid into 2-heptanone by spores of Penicillium roquefortii is performed using a fed-batch technique with pH control by addition of the liquid substrate itself. The early stage of this process takes place with a high bioconversion rate and high yield. These values then decrease as a result...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Larroche C,Besson I,Gros JB

更新日期：1994-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-autologous somatic gene therapy is an alternate approach to delivering recombinant gene products through implantation of a "universal" donor cell line engineered to produce a therapeutic gene product. The cells are immunologically isolated by enclosure in immunoprotective microcapsules fabricated from alginate-pol...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Awrey DE,Tse M,Hortelano G,Chang PL

更新日期：1996-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Addition of Tween 85 to aqueous suspensions of Anabaena variabilis induced photosynthetic evolution of hydrogen over a time span of several weeks: As much as 148 nmol H(2)/h . mg dry weight was produced in the first week by a suspension containing 4.2 mg dry weight of cells and 77 mM Tween 85. The chemical structure o...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Famiglietti M,Hochkoeppler A,Luisi PL

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological sulfate reduction was studied in laboratory-scale gas-lift reactors. Synthesis gas (gas mixtures of H(2)/CO/CO(2)) was used as energy and carbon source. The required biomass retention was obtained by aggregation and immobilization on pumice particles. Special attention was paid to the effect of CO addition ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： van Houten RT,van der Spoel H,van Aelst AC,Hulshoff Pol LW,Lettinga G

更新日期：1996-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Isothermal microcalorimeters (IMC) are highly sensitive instruments that allow the measurement of heat flow in the microwatt range. Due to their detection of minute thermal heat, IMC techniques have been used in numerous biological applications, including the study of fermentation processes, pharmaceutical development...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Santoro R,Braissant O,Müller B,Wirz D,Daniels AU,Martin I,Wendt D

更新日期：2011-12-01 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：: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：:Membrane chromatography (MC) systems are finding increasing use in downstream processing trains for therapeutic proteins due to the unique mass-transfer characteristics they provide. As a result, there is increased need for model-based methods to scale-up MC units using data collected on a scaled-down unit. Here, a st...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Ghosh P,Lin M,Vogel JH,Choy D,Haynes C,von Lieres E

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene transcription is regulated by transcription factors that can bind to specific regions on DNA. Antigene oligonucleotides (oligos) can bind to specific regions on DNA and form a triplex with the double-stranded DNA. The triplex can competitively inhibit the binding of transcription factors and, as a result, transcr...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Cheng B,Fournier RL,Relue PA

更新日期：2000-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel reaction system was developed to maximize the catalytic efficiency of chloroperoxidase (CPO, from Caldariomyces fumago) toward the oxidation of hydrocarbons. The reaction system consisted of an organic/aqueous emulsion comprising pure substrate and aqueous buffer supplemented with the surfactant dioctyl sulfos...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Park JB,Clark DS

更新日期：2006-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Overexpression of the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p27 and exposure to low temperature (30 degrees C) represent two strategies to establish controlled proliferation processes for production of therapeutic proteins using Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells. Here we analyze the effect of growth inhibition on the qual...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Kaufmann H,Mazur X,Marone R,Bailey JE,Fussenegger M

更新日期：2001-03-20 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：:In vivo kinetics of Saccharomyces cerevisiae are studied, in a time window of 150 s, by analyzing the response of O(2) and CO(2) in the fermentor off-gas after perturbation of chemostat cultures by metabolite pulses. Here, a new mathematical method is presented for the estimation of the in vivo oxygen uptake rate (OUR...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Wu L,Lange HC,Van Gulik WM,Heijnen JJ

更新日期：2003-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultural conditions optimum for beta-galactosidase production by Saccharomyces anamensis are pH 4.5, temperature 26 +/- 2 degrees C, and 30 h of incubation period. Addition of lactose at 24 h fermentation greatly increase the level of enzyme. Optimum pHl, temperature, pH stability, and thermostability of yeast beta-ga...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Banerjee M,Chakrabarty A,Majumdar SK

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrinsic models, which take into account biomass volume fraction, must be formulated for adequate simulation of high-biomass-density fermentations with cell recycle. Through comparison of corresponding intrinsic and non-intrinsic models in dimensionless form, constraints for non-intrinsic model usage in terms of biok...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Monbouquette HG

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface modified bioactive glass with surface properties akin to those of the bone mineral phase is an attractive candidate for use as a microcarrier material for 3-D growth of bone-like tissue in rotating wall vessel bioreactors (RWVs). The critical surface properties of this material are the result of reaction in so...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Radin S,Ducheyne P,Ayyaswamy PS,Gao H

更新日期：2001-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective and efficient breakdown of lignocellulosic biomass remains a primary barrier for its use as a feedstock for renewable transportation fuels. A more detailed understanding of the material properties of biomass slurries during conversion is needed to design cost-effective conversion processes. A series of enzym...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Roche CM,Dibble CJ,Knutsen JS,Stickel JJ,Liberatore MW

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The secretion of heterologous IgG proteins in the baculovirus-insect cell expression system is accompanied by substantial insoluble immunoglobulin in the infected cells. The accumulation of these insoluble forms suggests a limitation in the processing and secretory pathway of the infected cells. As a result, cytosolic...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Ailor E,Betenbaugh MJ

更新日期：1998-04-20 00:00:00