Co-opting biology to deliver drugs.

abstract：:Based on batch cultivation data for the production of L-glutamic acid from glucose, a comparative evaluation was made for repeated batch cultivations using one and more fermentors. The problem was formulated as maximizing the productivity of metabolic product with the specified conversion with respect to the cell age ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Shimizu K,Kobayashi T,Nagara A,Matsubara M

更新日期：1985-05-01 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：:In order to eliminate organic pollutants in waste gases, a biological filter bed technique has been developed, with a high self-regenerating capacity and a low pressure drop. The bed consists of an appropriate filling material (mainly peat compost), in order to let the microorganisms grow on the solid surface and to s...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Ottengraf SP,Van Den Oever AH

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlorella sp. strain VJ79 was isolated from a total heterotrophic count of a wastewater collector. It grows autotrophically, heterotrophically, and mixotrophically on a variety of organic substrates. Glucose and serine promote a mixotrophic growth from which the yield is higher than the sum of autotrophic and heterotr...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Lalucat J,Imperial J,Parés R

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of microalgal biomass for metal pollutant bioremediation might be improved by genetic engineering to modify the selectivity or capacity of metal biosorption. A plant cadmium (Cd) and zinc (Zn) transporter (AtHMA4) was used as a transgene to increase the ability of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii to tolerate 0.2 mM C...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Ibuot A,Webster RE,Williams LE,Pittman JK

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present an evaluation of the qualitative and quantitative effects that high concentrations of benzene and toluene have on the growth rate of several pure cultures that use these compounds as their sole carbon and energy source. The cultures employed were five widely studied environmental isolates: Pseudomonas putid...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Alagappan G,Cowan R

更新日期：2003-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of soluble microbial products (SMP) in anaerobic systems was evaluated using chemostat reactors. Results from steady-state and tracer experiments with (14)C-glucose and (14)C-acetate showed that significant amounts of SMP were produced during the acidogenesis of glucose, but that SMP did not accumulate ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Noguera DR,Araki N,Rittmann BE

更新日期：1994-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Polypeptides containing between 4 and 32 repeats of a resilin-inspired sequence AQTPSSYGAP, derived from the mosquito Anopheles gambiae, have been used as tags on recombinant fusion proteins. These repeating polypeptides were inspired by the repeating structures that are found in resilins and sequence-related proteins...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Lyons RE,Elvin CM,Taylor K,Lekieffre N,Ramshaw JA

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate of diffusion of serum albumin (MW 6.9 x 10(4) D) out of beads of calcium alginate gels depends upon the concentration and uronic acid composition of the alginate (ManA/GulA ratio), the conditions under which the beads are produced, the pH, and the temperature. The diffusion coefficient decreases with increasi...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Martinsen A,Storrø I,Skjårk-Braek G

更新日期：1992-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenoviruses are human pathogens increasingly used as gene therapy and vaccination vectors. However, their impact on cell metabolism is poorly characterized. We performed carbon labeling experiments with [1,2-13 C]glucose or [U-13 C]glutamine to evaluate metabolic alterations in the amniocyte-derived, E1-transformed 1...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Carinhas N,Koshkin A,Pais DA,Alves PM,Teixeira AP

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanotechnology is becoming increasingly important for products used in our daily lives, such as the masses of titanium dioxide nanoparticle agglomerates (TiO(2) NPs) used in the pharmaceutical industry, for cosmetic products, or for pigments. Meanwhile, a serious lack of detailed information concerning the interaction...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Chen P,Kanehira K,Sonezaki S,Taniguchi A

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Propionic acid (PA) and its salts are widely used in the food, pharmaceutical, and chemical industries. Microbial production of PA by propionibacteria is a typical product-inhibited process, and acid resistance is crucial in the improvement of PA titers and productivity. We previously identified two key acid resistanc...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Guan N,Li J,Shin HD,Du G,Chen J,Liu L

更新日期：2016-06-01 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：:Protein phosphorylation is an important post-translational modification for intracellular signaling molecules, mostly found in serine and threonine residues. Tyrosine phosphorylations are very few events (less than 0.1% to phosphorylated serine/threonine residues), but capable of governing cell fate decisions involved...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Yoshimoto N,Ikeda Y,Tatematsu K,Iijima M,Nakai T,Okajima T,Tanizawa K,Kuroda S

更新日期：2016-08-01 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：:This article provides the analysis on biomass yields and energetic yields of the oleaginous yeasts. The biomass yields of the oleaginous yeasts are consistently lower than nonoleaginous microorganisms, whereas their energetic yields are higher. Data inconsistencies of literature are explained by the variation of energ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Pan JG,Rhee JS

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A laboratory-scale multiphase hollow fiber membrane reactor was employed to investigate the lipase-catalyzed enzymatic resolution of racemic glycidyl butyrate. A mathematical formulation was developed to simulate the performance of this system. Model parameters were determined independently (except the effective rate ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Wu DR,Cramer SM,Belfort G

更新日期：1993-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A biosensor detecting estrogens, progestogens, and androgens in complex samples and in a single step is described. Three Arxula adeninivorans yeast strains were created, each strain producing a different recombinant human hormone receptor and a different fluorescent reporter protein. These strains were then mixed to c...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Chamas A,Pham HTM,Jähne M,Hettwer K,Uhlig S,Simon K,Einspanier A,Baronian K,Kunze G

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, a useful method was developed to fabricate array patterns of microparticles not on electrode surfaces, but on arbitrary surfaces, using negative-dielectrophoresis (n-DEP). First, electrodes were designed and electric field simulations were performed to manipulate microparticles toward target areas. Base...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Ino K,Shiku H,Ozawa F,Yasukawa T,Matsue T

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A model is developed to predict batch and continuous culture behavior of fermentations on two different carbon and energy sources. The basic assumption of the model is that the permease for the favored substrate is constitutive, whereas the premease for the second substrate is subject to induction and catabolite repre...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Van Dedem G,Moo-Young M

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crossflow nanofiltration experiments were performed to investigate the factors influencing the removal of amino acids by a commercially available polymeric thin-film composite membrane. The removals of five monoprotic (Ala, Val, Leu, Gly, and Thr), one diprotic (Asp), and one dibasic (Arg) amino acids in a range of pe...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Shim Y,Chellam S

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A directed differentiation between the biofilm and suspension was observed in the molecular microbial ecology and gene expression of different bacteria in a biofilm nitritation-anammox process operated at varying hydraulic residence times (HRT) and nitrogen loading rates (NLR). The highest degree of enrichment observe...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Park H,Sundar S,Ma Y,Chandran K

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein aggregation of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) is a common phenomenon associated with the production of these biopharmaceuticals. These aggregates can lead to adverse side effects in patients upon administration, thus expensive downstream processing steps to remove the higher molecular weight species are inevitab...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Paul AJ,Handrick R,Ebert S,Hesse F

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To gain insight on the fate of arsenic (As) from drinking water treatment residuals in landfills, the mobilization of arsenate adsorbed onto granular ferric hydroxide (GFH) was studied in continuous anaerobic columns fed with a synthetic landfill leachate. The release of As was compared in biologically active and abio...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Cortinas I,Sierra-Alvarez R,Field JA

更新日期：2008-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:An alkali stable polyamidase was isolated from a new strain of Nocardia farcinica. The enzyme consists of four subunits with a total molecular weight of 190 kDa. The polyamidase cleaved amide and ester bonds of water insoluble model substrates like adipic acid bishexylamide and bis(benzoyloxyethyl)terephthalate and hy...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Heumann S,Eberl A,Fischer-Colbrie G,Pobeheim H,Kaufmann F,Ribitsch D,Cavaco-Paulo A,Guebitz GM

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzymatic synthesis of polyesters from activated diesters and diols has been investigated. Differences between enzymatic synthesis and traditional chemical condensation processes are discussed. The disappearance of monomers during the initial phase of reaction indicates that enzyme has a higher specificity for tra...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Chaudhary AK,Beckman EJ,Russell AJ

更新日期：1997-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A combined approach based on the use of ATR-FT/IR and steady-state fluorescence spectroscopy allowed to shed light on the effects of the additive methoxypolyethylene glycol (MePEG) on the hydration, conformation and dynamic properties of lipase from Burkholderia cepacia dehydrated to form a film. Spectroscopic data sh...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Secundo F,Barletta G,Mazzola G

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In crude extract-based cell-free protein synthesis (CFPS), DNA templates are transcribed and translated into functional proteins. Although linear expression templates (LETs) are less laborious and expensive to generate, plasmid templates are often desired over polymerase chain reaction-generated LETs due to increased ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Zhu B,Gan R,Cabezas MD,Kojima T,Nicol R,Jewett MC,Nakano H

更新日期：2020-08-20 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：:CTLA4 is a membrane receptor on cytotoxic T cells whose interaction with the B7 counterreceptor on B cells is important in alloantigen responses. Soluble recombinant human and murine CTLA4 were produced using either Chinese hamster ovary or NS-0 cell lines. Expression vectors were constructed containing the gene codin...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Flesher AR,Marzowski J,Wang WC,Raff HV

更新日期：1995-06-05 00:00:00