Algal productivity modeling: a step toward accurate assessments of full-scale algal cultivation.

abstract：:Oil residues arising from the Christos-Bitas spillage were found to contain 28% of oil extractable by carbon tetrachloride; the remainder consisted of water and undefined solids. Christos-Bitas mousse was added to 1.18 m(3) liquor inoculated with oil-contaminated marine mud, and aerated with a 1.5-hp vortex pump and v...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Berwick PG

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the major bottlenecks in the bioconversion of lignocelluosic feedstocks to liquid ethanol is the recalcitrance of residue following pretreatment, specifically softwood derived residues. Peroxide delignification has previously been shown to effectively aid in the removal of condensed lignaceous moieties from sub...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Cullis IF,Mansfield SD

更新日期：2010-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Fatty aldehydes and alcohols are valuable precursors used in the industrial manufacturing of a myriad of specialty products. Herein, we demonstrate the de novo production of odd chain-length fatty aldehydes and fatty alcohols in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by expressing a novel biosynthetic pathway involving cytosolic th...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Jin Z,Wong A,Foo JL,Ng J,Cao YX,Chang MW,Yuan YJ

更新日期：2016-04-01 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：: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：:For the application of immobilized enzymes, fixed bed reactors are used almost exclusively. Fixed bed reactors have specific disadvantages, especially for processes with a deactivating catalyst. Therefore, we have studied a novel reactor type with continuous transport of the immobilized biocatalyst. Flow of biocatalys...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Vos HJ,Groen DJ,Potters JJ,Luyben KC

更新日期：1990-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous paper, the overall or macrokinetics of the immobilized glucose oxidase--catalase system has been presented. In this paper a detailed analysis of the interaction of diffusion and reaction in this system will be presented. The mathematical treatment includes two consecutive reactions with two-substrate kin...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Reuss M,Buchholz K

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among various routes for the biological hydrogen production, the NAD(P)H-dependent pentose phosphate (PP) pathway is the most efficient for the dark fermentation. Few studies, however, have focused on the glucose-6-phosphate 1-dehydrogenase, encoded by zwf, as a key enzyme activating the PP pathway. Although the gluco...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Kim YM,Cho HS,Jung GY,Park JM

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mobility of water in intact biofilms was measured with pulsed field gradient nuclear magnetic resonance (PFG-NMR) and used to characterise their diffusive properties. The results obtained with several well-defined systems, viz. pure water, agar, and agar containing inert particles or active bacteria were compared ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Beuling EE,van Dusschoten D,Lens P,van den Heuvel JC,Van As H,Ottengraf SP

更新日期：1998-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:13C metabolic flux analysis (MFA) is based on carbon-labeling experiments where a specifically (13)C labeled substrate is fed. The labeled carbon atoms distribute over the metabolic network and the label enrichment of certain metabolic pools is measured by using different methods. Recently, MS methods have been dramat...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Wahl SA,Dauner M,Wiechert W

更新日期：2004-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological molecule responsible for the suppression of pyritic sulfur in fine coal simulated froth flotation treated with bacteria was identified. Protein was found to be the most effective agent in pyrite suppression of the three cell components (protein, lipid, and carbohydrate) assayed. Coal recovery and ash re...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Stainthorpe AC

更新日期：1989-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Ralstonia eutropha grows on and produces polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) from fermentation acids. Acetic acid, one major organic acid from acidogenesis of organic wastes, has an inhibitory effect on the bacterium at slightly alkaline pH (6 g HAc/L at pH 8). The tolerance of R. eutropha to acetate, however, was increased ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Yu J,Wang J

更新日期：2001-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Disulfide-rich peptides isolated from cone snails are of great interest as drug leads due to their high specificity and potency toward therapeutically relevant ion channels and receptors. They commonly contain the inhibitor cystine knot (ICK) motif comprising three disulfide bonds forming a knotted core. Here we repor...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Kwon S,Bosmans F,Kaas Q,Cheneval O,Conibear AC,Rosengren KJ,Wang CK,Schroeder CI,Craik DJ

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli and Desulfovibrio desulfuricans reduce Tc(VII) (TcO(4)(-)) with formate or hydrogen as electron donors. The reaction is catalyzed by the hydrogenase component of the formate hydrogenlyase complex (FHL) of E. coli and is associated with a periplasmic hydrogenase activity in D. desulfuricans. Tc(VII) re...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Lloyd JR,Thomas GH,Finlay JA,Cole JA,Macaskie LE

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glial cell-line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) is a potent neurotrophic factor known to enhance motor nerve regeneration following its delivery. However, recent studies have determined that extended GDNF delivery to regenerating axons can entrap motor axons at the site of GDNF delivery. This entrapment leads to re...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Wu-Fienberg Y,Moore AM,Marquardt LM,Newton P,Johnson PJ,Mackinnon SE,Sakiyama-Elbert SE,Wood MD

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Past technoeconomic modeling work has identified the relatively large contribution that enzymatic hydrolysis adds to the total cost of producing ethanol from lignocellulosic substrates. This cost was primarily due to the high concentration of enzyme and long incubation time that was required to obtain complete hydroly...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Gregg DJ,Saddler JN

更新日期：1996-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of recombinant adenoviral vectors for vaccination and gene therapy requires the development of purification processes that are cost-effective, scalable, and capable of robust host cell DNA clearance. An adenovirus purification process was developed which incorporates selective precipitation of host cell DNA, e...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Goerke AR,To BC,Lee AL,Sagar SL,Konz JO

更新日期：2005-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Compared to the conventional microbial and mammalian systems, transgenic plants produce proteins in a different matrix. This provides opportunities and challenges for downstream processing. In the context of the plant host Brassica napus (canola), this work addresses the bioprocessing challenges of solid fractionation...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Bai Y,Glatz CE

更新日期：2003-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipase (EC 3.1.1.3., from Pseudomonas sp.) was entrapped in collagen membrane containing liquid crystal (4-methoxybenzilidene-4'-n-butylaniline). The activity of the lipase-liquid crystal membrane at an applied voltage of 4 V was 3.4 compared to a membrane tested without imposition of an external electric field. A lin...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Karube I,Yugeta Y,Suzuki S

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three cell lines, that is, the human breast cancer cell line (MCF-7) and the human mammary epithelial cell line (S-1) and its malignant form (T4-2) were embedded in a reconstituted basement membrane (Matrigel) that had 20-nL pyramid-shaped silicon microstructures. The proliferative behavior of the MCF-7 cells was depe...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Torisawa YS,Nashimoto Y,Yasukawa T,Shiku H,Matsue T

更新日期：2007-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to predict the potential benefit associated with mixing devices designed to introduce periodic light modulations in dense cultures of microalgae, it is necessary to develop a quantitative understanding of the relationship between the frequency of the modulations and the resulting photosynthetic efficiency enh...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Terry KL

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The progression of liver disease from normal to cirrhotic state is characterized by modulation of the stiffness of the extracellular matrix (ECM). Mimicking this modulation in vitro scaffold could provide a better insight into hepatic cell behavior. In this study, interpenetrating poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-co-gelatin...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Sarkar J,Kamble SC,Patil R,Kumar A,Gosavi SW

更新日期：2020-02-01 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：:The engineering of production cell lines to express anti-apoptotic genes has been pursued in recent years due to potential process benefits, including enhanced cell survival, increased protein expression, and improved product quality. In this study, a baby hamster kidney cell line secreting recombinant factor VIII (BH...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Nivitchanyong T,Martinez A,Ishaque A,Murphy JE,Konstantinov K,Betenbaugh MJ,Thrift J

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemicellulose residues can be hydrolyzed into a sugar syrup using dilute mineral acids. Although this syrup represents a potential feedstock for biofuel production, toxic compounds generated during hydrolysis limit microbial metabolism. Escherichia coli LY01, an ethanologenic biocatalyst engineered to ferment the mixe...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Zaldivar J,Ingram LO

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellulase system of Bacteroides cellulosolvens was subjected to both catabolite repression and feedback inhibition by cellobiose. Cellulose-solubilizing activity was 50% inhibited at a cellobiose concentration of 2.6 g/L and completely inhibited by 12 g/L. Glucose at 12 g/L (the highest concentration tested) had n...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Murray WD

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A model was developed to evaluate the effects of cells and surfactants on oxygen transfer in surface-aerated bioreactors. The model assumed the presence of serial layers of adsorbed surfactants and microorganisms directly adjacent to the gas-liquid interface due to their surface activities, followed by a stagnant liqu...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Ju LK,Sundarajan A

更新日期：1992-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Utilising whole cells of recombinant Escherichia coli K27 (pCYP102, pGEc47) containing active cytochrome P450BM-3 monooxygenase [E.C. 1. 14.14.1], multiple oxidations of saturated and unsaturated fatty acids were performed by the enzyme under conditions of excess oxygen. The amount of oxygen dissolved in the culture m...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Schneider S,Wubbolts MG,Oesterhelt G,Sanglard D,Witholt B

更新日期：1999-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, novel conductive composite nanofiber mesh possessing reactive groups was electrospun from solutions containing poly(acrylonitrile-co-acrylic acid) (PANCAA) and multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) for redoxase immobilization, assuming that the incorporated MWCNTs could behave as electrons transferor du...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Wang ZG,Ke BB,Xu ZK

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The specific uptake rate of phenol by washed cells of Pseudomonas putida grown on phenol in steady-state continuous culture at various dilution rates was studied. The Monod-Haldane-type equation was applied to fit the data and the best kinetic parameters were determined by nonlinear least-squares techniques. The value...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Sokol W

更新日期：1987-12-05 00:00:00