Permeability of a growing biofilm in a porous media fluid flow analyzed by magnetic resonance displacement-relaxation correlations.

abstract：:The thickness variability of biofilms of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and the binary population combination of these two species was quantified. The experimental method involved cryoembedding biofilms with a commercial tissue embedding agent, sectioning, and applying image analysis to construct thick...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Murga R,Stewart PS,Daly D

更新日期：1995-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal cell culture is widely used in biotechnology for the production of many biological products. In situ microscopes acquire images directly from cell suspensions and analyze the images in matters of cell concentration, cell size distribution and cell morphology. Their applicability was already proven for yeast and...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Rudolph G,Lindner P,Gierse A,Bluma A,Martinez G,Hitzmann B,Scheper T

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The removal of substate molecules from aerobic microbial cultures is due to both consumption by microorganisms and stripping by the air stream. The air stripping component can be described by a constant parameter for low concentrations of volatile substrates. This air stripping parameter was found to have a value of 0...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Singh N,Hill GA

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli cells with formate hydrogenlyase activity that were immobilized in agar beads produced hydrogen from glucose at the approximate yield of 0.6 mole of hydrogen per mole. Succinate or thiosulphate added to glucose increased hydrogen production two-fold. Thiosulphate did not increase the rate of hydrogen ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Nandi R,Dey S,Sengupta S

更新日期：2001-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic engineering of isopropyl alcohol (IPA)-producing Escherichia coli strains was conducted along with 13 C-metabolic flux analysis (MFA). A metabolically engineered E. coli strain expressing the adc gene derived from Clostridium acetobutylicum and the IPADH gene from C. beijerinckii did not produce IPA during i...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Okahashi N,Matsuda F,Yoshikawa K,Shirai T,Matsumoto Y,Wada M,Shimizu H

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemotaxis has been shown to be beneficial for the migration of soil-inhabiting bacteria towards industrial chemical pollutants, which they degrade. Many studies have demonstrated the importance of this microbial property under various circumstances; however, few quantitative analyses have been undertaken to measure t...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Wang X,Atencia J,Ford RM

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Steam explosion after sulphur dioxide impregnation of wood chips is an effective method for improving the enzymatic digestibility of cellulose in the softwood Pinus radiata. Digestibility of pretreated fiber was progressively increased by altering the conditions of steam explosion. With increasing digestibility, there...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Wong KK,Deverell KF,Mackie KL,Clark TA,Donaldson LA

更新日期：1988-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Phage Φ80 can infect Escherichia coli in a stealthy manner and persist by forming lysogens. Such Φ80 lysogens are fairly common and often go undetected unless the host is grown at temperatures below 37°C. Since low growth temperatures are required for growing temperature-sensitive mutants and often preferred for large...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Srinivas S,Cronan JE

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An extractive acetonobutylic fermentation process is developed by integrating bioproduction, Ultrafiltration, and distillation, providing simultaneous retention of biomass, selective removal of inhibitors from the permeate, as well as separation and purification of acetone-butanol-ethanol solvents. Successive batch fe...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Minier M,Grateloup R,Blanc-Ferras E,Goma G

更新日期：1990-04-15 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：:Mass balances were performed on an alkaline lysis operation for the primary recovery of supercoiled plasmid DNA as part of a process for plasmid gene preparation. Escherichia coli DH5alpha/pSVbeta was cultured in defined medium by fed-batch fermentation and harvested at the end of the exponential phase. Alkaline lysis...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Ciccolini LA,Shamlou PA,Titchener-Hooker N

更新日期：2002-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Microplates with integrated optical oxygen sensors are a new tool to study metabolic rates and enzyme activities. Precise measurements are possible only if oxygen exchange between the sample and the environment is known. In this study we quantify gas exchange in plastic microplates. Dissolved oxygen was detected using...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Arain S,Weiss S,Heinzle E,John GT,Krause C,Klimant I

更新日期：2005-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The biotransformation of benzaldehyde and glucose to L-phenylacetylcarbinol (PAC) using Candida utilis was demonstrated in a solid-liquid two-phase partitioning bioreactor (TPPB) with the aim of reducing substrate, product, and by-product toxicity via sequestration. Previous work in the field had used octanol as the s...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Khan TR,Daugulis AJ

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine the feasibility of using high pressure CO2 for sterilization of Ginseng powder, as an alternative method to conventional techniques such as gamma-irradiation and ethylene oxide. The Ginseng sample used in this study was originally contaminated with fungi and 5 x 10(7) bacteria/g ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Dehghani F,Annabi N,Titus M,Valtchev P,Tumilar A

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Continuous virus inactivation (VI) has received little attention in the efforts to realize fully continuous biomanufacturing in the future. Implementation of continuous VI must assure a specific minimum incubation time, typically 60 min. To guarantee the minimum incubation time, we implemented a packed bed continuous ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Martins DL,Sencar J,Hammerschmidt N,Flicker A,Kindermann J,Kreil TR,Jungbauer A

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which forms large, multicellular flocs in liquid culture, rapidly fermented media containing high concentrations of glucose (100-180 g/L) in a continuous nonaerated tower fermentor at 30 degrees C. The fermentor operated continuously for seven months. Batch and tower fermentor dat...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Jones ST,Korus RA,Admassu W,Heimsch RC

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular metabolite concentration and enzyme activity measurements were made to explain the new metabolic and growth phenomena seen in the micro-aerobic, continuous yeast cultures described in Part I. The results of these assays suggested mechanisms for the observed maximum in the specific ethanol productivity as...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Grosz R,Stephanopoulos G

更新日期：1990-12-05 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：:Physical damage of animal cells in suspension culture, due to stirring and sparging, is coupled with complex metabolic responses. Nylon microcapsules, therefore, were used as a physical model to study the mechanisms of damage in a stirred bioreactor and in a bubble column. Microcapsule breaskage folowed first-order ki...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Lu GZ,Gray MR,Thompson BG

更新日期：1992-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Human tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA) contains a variably occupied glycosylation site at Asn-184 in naturally produced t-PA and in t-PA produced in recombinant Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells. The presence of an oligosaccharide at this site has previously been shown to reduce specific activity and fibrin bi...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Andersen DC,Bridges T,Gawlitzek M,Hoy C

更新日期：2000-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The key objective for recombinant protein production in bacteria is the maximum exploitation of the cell factory's potential, whereby often strong expression vectors are used to increase product yield. If the metabolic load caused by recombinant expression exceeds the host's capacity, the system exhausts itself, resul...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Grabherr R,Nilsson E,Striedner G,Bayer K

更新日期：2002-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A metabolic shift from lactate production (LP) to net lactate consumption (LC) phenotype was observed in certain Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell lines during the implementation of a new chemically defined medium (CDM) formulation for antibody production. In addition, this metabolic shift typically leads to process pe...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Luo J,Vijayasankaran N,Autsen J,Santuray R,Hudson T,Amanullah A,Li F

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extractive work-up of whole-cell biotransformations generally suffers from the formation of stable gels and slimes upon addition of the organic solvent to the cell suspension and the cell-free solution, respectively. This problem has been overcome by enzymatic lysis of emulsifying agents present in the medium through ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Jörg G,Leppchen K,Daussmann T,Bertau M

更新日期：2004-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The solution structure of plasmid DNA is known to be a strong function of solution conditions due to intramolecular electrostatic interactions between the charged phosphate groups along the DNA backbone. The objective of this work was to determine whether it was possible to enhance the use of ultrafiltration for separ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Li Y,Currie D,Zydney AL

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spores, although often considered metabolically inert, catalyze a variety of reactions. The use of spores instead of mycelium for bioconversions has several advantages. In this paper, we describe the difference in susceptibility of mycelium and spores against toxic substrates and products. A higher resistance of spore...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Wolken WA,Tramper J,van der Werf MJ

更新日期：2002-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Miniaturized bioreactors for suspension cultures of animal cells, such as Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cells, could improve bioprocess development through the ability to cheaply explore a wide range of bioprocess operating conditions. A miniaturized pressure-cycled bioreactor for animal cell cultures, described previou...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Kim BJ,Zhao T,Young L,Zhou P,Shuler ML

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility of biologically detoxifying a contaminated soil from an Italian dump site containing about 1500 mg/kg (in dry soil) of polychlorinated biphenyls was studied in the laboratory in this work. The soil, which contained indigenous aerobic bacteria capable of growing on biphenyl or on monochlorobenzoic acids...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Fava F,Bertin L

更新日期：1999-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In the first part of our work, we combined compositional analysis, pretreatment and enzyme hydrolysis for fractionated pith, rind, and leaf tissues from a hybrid stay-green corn, in order to identify the role of structural characteristics on enzyme hydrolysis of cell walls. Hydrolysis experiments coupled with chemical...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Zeng M,Ximenes E,Ladisch MR,Mosier NS,Vermerris W,Huang CP,Sherman DM

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular chaperones in aqueous-organic mixtures can broaden the utility of biocatalysis by stabilizing enzymes in denaturing conditions. We have designed a self-renaturing enzyme-chaperone chimera consisting of penicillin amidase and a thermophilic chaperonin that functions in aqueous-organic mixtures. The flexible l...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Bergeron LM,Gomez L,Whitehead TA,Clark DS

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Supercritical fluid technology offers the possibility to produce dry powder formulations of biocompatible materials, overcoming the drawbacks of classical micronization processes. In this work, Supercritical Assisted Atomization (SAA) has been used to micronize alpha-cyclodextrin (alpha-CD) and hydroxypropyl-beta-cycl...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Reverchon E,Antonacci A

更新日期：2006-07-05 00:00:00