Biocatalytic reduction of short-chain carboxylic acids into their corresponding alcohols with syngas fermentation.

abstract：:Refiner mechanical pulp was biologically treated with several higher fungi in order to test their potential for increasing the strength of paper. It was among the white-rot fungi that the best results were obtained. Polyporus versicolor gave the best overall improvement in handsheet properties with no reduction in tea...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Pilon L,Barbe MC,Desrochers M,Jurasek L,Neumann PJ

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A newly designed batch calorimeter was used to investigate the degradability of some celluloses having varying degrees of crystallinity. The PTC of an aerobic culture of Cellulomonas uda ATCC 21399 obtained revealed a diauxic growth which is attributed to the presence of hemicellulose contaminating Avicel and MN300 ce...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Dermoun Z,Belaich JP

更新日期：1985-07-01 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：:This study deals with the use of an upward gas/liquid slug flow to reduce tubular mineral membrane fouling. The injection of air into the feedstream is designed to create hydrodynamic conditions that destabilize the cake layer over the membrane surface inside the filtration module complex. Experimental study was carri...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Mercier M,Maranges C,Fonade C,Lafforgue-Delorme C

更新日期：1998-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The anaerobic digestion of a cellulose-enriched fraction of domestic refuse by means of rumen microorganisms in an "artificial rumen" digester was studied. Various combinations of solid and liquid retention times and loading rates were applied to establish optimum conditions for the acidogenic phase digestion of the r...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Gijzen HJ,Zwart KB,Teunissen MJ,Vogels GD

更新日期：1988-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular events that take place during influenza virus replication in animal cells are well understood qualitatively. However, to better understand the complex interaction of the virus with its host cell and to quantitatively analyze the use of cellular resources for virion formation or the overall dynamic for th...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Sidorenko Y,Reichl U

更新日期：2004-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Actively growing Escherichia coli C600(pBR322), immobilized within the macroporous matrix of asymmetric-wall hollow-fiber membranes, has been propagated to extremely high densities, typically more than 10(12) cells/mL of accessible void volume, in some regions cells accounting for nearly 100% of the available macrovoi...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Inloes DS,Smith WJ,Taylor DP,Cohen SN,Michaels AS,Robertson CR

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bioartificial livers (BALs) are a potentially effective countermeasure against liver failure, particularly in cases of acute or fulminant liver failure. It is hoped these devices can sustain a patient's liver function until recovery or transplant. However, no large-scale clinical trial has yet proven that BALs are par...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Davidson AJ,Ellis MJ,Chaudhuri JB

更新日期：2010-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Squalene is a lipophilic and non-volatile triterpene with many industrial applications for food, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics. Metabolic engineering focused on optimization of the production pathway suffer from little success in improving titers because of a limited space of the cell membrane accommodating the lipop...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Meng Y,Shao X,Wang Y,Li Y,Zheng X,Wei G,Kim SW,Wang C

更新日期：2020-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) are invaluable research tools for studying gene functions in mammalian cells. siRNAs are mainly produced by chemical synthesis or by enzymatic digestion of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) produced in vitro. Recently, bacterial cells, engineered with ectopic plant viral siRNA binding protein...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Kaur G,Cheung HC,Xu W,Wong JV,Chan FF,Li Y,McReynolds L,Huang L

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A kinetic model describing the cephalosporin biosynthesis in Streptomyces clavuligerus was developed. Using previously reported kinetic data of biosynthetic enzymes, we examined the kinetics of cephalosporin production. The predicted time profile of the specific production rate during a batch culture parallels that of...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Malmberg LH,Hu WS

更新日期：1991-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolite accumulation has pleiotropic, toxic, or beneficial effects on cell physiology, but such effects are not well understood at the molecular level. Cells respond and adapt to metabolite stress by mechanisms largely unexplored, especially in the context of multiple and simultaneous stresses. Solventogenic and re...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Alsaker KV,Paredes C,Papoutsakis ET

更新日期：2010-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Invertase from Candida utilis was immobilized on porous cellulose beads by an ionic-quanidino bond. The immobilized invertase showed optimum activity between pH 4.0 and 5.4, while the free enzyme had a sharp optimum at pH 4.1. Both temperature profiles were fairly similar up to 55 degrees C. However, above this temper...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Dickensheets PA,Chen LF,Tsao GT

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular leak is a key driver of organ injury in diseases, and strategies that reduce enhanced permeability and vascular inflammation are promising therapeutic targets. Activation of the angiopoietin-1 (ANG1)-Tie2 tyrosine kinase signaling pathway is an important regulator of vascular quiescence. Here we describe the ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Liu P,Ryczko M,Xie X,Baardsnes J,Lord-Dufour S,Duroche Y,Hicks EA,Taiyab A,Sheardown H,Quaggin SE,Jin J

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A process is described in which the baboon endogenous virus (BaEV) is produced under optimum conditions in cell culture, and concentrated by hollow-fiber ultrafiltration technology under conditions of large-scale production. This system has advantages over conventional systems in that the flow rate is increased 2.5-fo...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Weiss SA

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermodynamic feasibility analysis (TFA) has been used as a tool capable of providing additional constraints to the mass balance-based methods of analysis of metabolic networks (e.g., flux balance analysis). Several publications have recently appeared in which TFA of different metabolic pathways from relatively simple...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Vojinović V,von Stockar U

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The productivity of Escherichia coli as a producer of recombinant proteins is affected by its metabolic properties, especially by acetate production. Two commercially used E. coli strains, BL21 (lambdaDE3) and JM109, differ significantly in their acetate production during batch fermentation at high initial glucose con...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： van de Walle M,Shiloach J

更新日期：1998-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:An immobilized enzyme reactor has been developed to remove heparin, the anticoagulant that is required in all extracorporeal devices for patients undergoing open-heart surgery or kidney dialysis. The device uses the enzyme heparinase (EC 4.2.2.7), which is covalently linked to agarose with cyanogen bromide. A critical...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Bernstein H,Yang VC,Langer R

更新日期：1987-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The accumulation of inorganic phosphate inhibits protein synthesis in cell-free protein synthesis reactions that are energized by high-energy-phosphate-containing compounds. This study developed a new scheme for supplying energy using dual energy sources to enhance the regeneration of ATP and lower the rate of phospha...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Kim TW,Oh IS,Keum JW,Kwon YC,Byun JY,Lee KH,Choi CY,Kim DM

更新日期：2007-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The performance of an industrial pharmaceutical process (production of an active pharmaceutical ingredient by fermentation, API) was modeled by multiblock partial least squares (MBPLS). The most important process stages are inoculum production and API production fermentation. Thirty batches (runs) were produced accord...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Lopes JA,Menezes JC,Westerhuis JA,Smilde AK

更新日期：2002-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The simultaneous growth and product formation in a microbial culture is an important feature of several laboratory, industrial, and environmental bioprocesses. Metabolic burden associated with product formation in these bioprocesses may lead to growth advantage of a nonproducing mutant leading to a loss of the produci...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Varma A,Palsson BO

更新日期：1994-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A systematic, kinetic study and comparison of the leaching of mixed metal sulfides by galvanic conversion and in the presence of bacteria has been carried out for the first time using both powder (-100 to -400 mesh) and larger (bulk) specimen systems. The rates of dissolution of copper from chalcopyrite and zinc from ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Mehta AP,Murr LE

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A model that portrays substrate profiles in a steady-state multispecies granular biofilm is developed and coupled with a biofilm detachment model. The model accounts for glucose, propionate, hydrogen, and acetate transformations performed by three bacterial trophic groups: acidogens, syntrophic bacterial consortia, an...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Tartakovsky B,Guiot SR

更新日期：1997-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Agility to schedule and execute cell culture manufacturing campaigns quickly in a multi-product facility will play a key role in meeting the growing demand for therapeutic proteins. In an effort to shorten campaign timelines, maximize plant flexibility and resource utilization, we investigated the initiation of cell c...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Seth G,Hamilton RW,Stapp TR,Zheng L,Meier A,Petty K,Leung S,Chary S

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel feeding strategy that prolongs rapid growth rates for Escherichia coli fermentations to moderately high cell density is presented. High-density fermentations are a common and successful means of producing biological products. However, acetate accumulation can be a substantial problem in these procedures. To av...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Zawada J,Swartz J

更新日期：2005-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The production and specific productivity of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) in recombinant Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells were increased by 81% and threefold, respectively, when supplemented with 1.5% dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) in the culture medium. To investigate the mechanism of DMSO effect on HBsAg productio...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Wang W,Yi X,Zhang Y

更新日期：2007-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobic biological wastewater treatment has numerous advantages over conventional aerobic processes; anaerobic biotechnologies, however, still have a reputation for low-quality effluents and operational instabilities. In this study, anaerobic bioreactors were augmented with an oxygen-transferring membrane to improve...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Kappell AS,Semmens MJ,Novak PJ,LaPara TM

更新日期：2005-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In this short review, we describe the use of high molecular weight proteins produced in the glands of several arthropods-commonly called silks-for the purpose to enhance human skin wound healing. To this end an extensive literature search has been performed, the publications have been categorized concerning silk prepa...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Reimers K,Liebsch C,Radtke C,Kuhbier JW,Vogt PM

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most biotherapeutic drugs are recombinant monoclonal antibodies which are mostly produced in monoclonal cell lines derived from Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells. Various clones expressing a monoclonal recombinant antibody were analyzed and a correlation of the antibody concentration and the relative mRNA level of cal...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Kober L,Zehe C,Bode J

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00