Newly identified bacteriolytic enzymes that target a wide range of clinical isolates of Clostridium difficile.

abstract：:In this study we report the isolation of four denitrifying bacteria from a batch reactor, where the progress of hydrogenotrophic denitrification was examined. Only three of the strains had the ability to use hydrogen as electron donor. In the present work, kinetic batch experiments were carried out in order to study t...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Vasiliadou IA,Siozios S,Papadas IT,Bourtzis K,Pavlou S,Vayenas DV

更新日期：2006-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Two instruments were developed to mechanize the handling of anaerobic microorganisms for microbial mutant isolation. The instruments automatically dispense liquid or agar medium to large and small 96-well platesand petridishes. Protocols were developed for inoculating different microorganisms, and calibration curves o...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Stieglitz B,Defelice CP

更新日期：1986-09-01 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：:A pure culture of Pseudomonas fluorescens was used as a model system to study the kinetics of denitrification. An exponentially growing culture was harvested and resuspended in an anoxic acetate solution buffered with K/Na phosphate at pH values of 6.6, 7.0, 7.4, and 7.8. The temperature was kept at 28 degrees C in al...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Almeida JS,Reis MA,Carrondo MJ

更新日期：1995-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypsin inhibitor was converted to hydrophobic states by covalently combining cholesteryl groups using an acylation reaction, and was immobilized in reverse micelles composed of a nonionic surfactant. Using this reverse micellar phase containing trypsin inhibitor as an affinity ligand, trypsin was selectively separate...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Adachi M,Yamazaki M,Harada M,Shioi A,Katch S

更新日期：1997-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, we present the factors which influence the stability of the emulsion forming under the circumstances of the direct extraction of penicillin fermentation broth and the conditions of demulsification. A laboratory method has been developed for testing demulsifiers and a quantitative evaluation of the pro...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Szabó C

更新日期：1992-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A high-rate anaerobic digestion of food waste leachate were tested using intermittent continuously stirred tank reactors (iCSTRs) to evaluate how severe ammonia inhibition could be mitigated with internal dilution strategy, and to identify how bacterial and archaeal community respond in genus and species level. Experi...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Yun YM,Kim DH,Cho SK,Shin HS,Jung KW,Kim HW

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A thermodynamic framework (UNIQUAC model with temperature dependent parameters) is applied to model the salt-induced protein crystallization equilibrium, i.e., protein solubility. The framework introduces a term for the solubility product describing protein transfer between the liquid and solid phase and a term for th...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Agena SM,Pusey ML,Bogle ID

更新日期：1999-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth of microorganisms on substitutable substrate mixtures display diverse growth dynamics characterized by simultaneous or preferential uptake of carbon sources. This article shows that cybernetic modeling concepts which were successful in predicting diauxic growth patterns can be extended to describe simultaneous ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Ramakrishna R,Ramkrishna D,Konopka AE

更新日期：1996-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to carry out an effective enzyme reaction, the preparation of soluble-insoluble immobilized enzyme was investigated. Proteases were selected as model enzymes, and their immobilization was carried out by using an enteric coating polymer as a carrier. Among the polymers tested, methacrylic acid-methylacrylate-m...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Fujimura M,Mori T,Tosa T

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anoxic and metabolic stresses in large-scale cell culture during biopharmaceutical production can induce apoptosis. Strategies designed to ameliorate the problem of apoptosis in cell culture have focused on mRNA knockdown of pro-apoptotic proteins and over-expression of anti-apoptotic ones. Apoptosis in cell culture i...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Cost GJ,Freyvert Y,Vafiadis A,Santiago Y,Miller JC,Rebar E,Collingwood TN,Snowden A,Gregory PD

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzyme clustering into compact agglomerates could accelerate the processing of intermediates to enhance metabolic pathway flux. However, enzyme clustering is still a challenging task due to the lack of universal assembly strategy applicable to all enzymes. Therefore, we proposed an alternative enzyme assembly strategy...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Lv X,Jin K,Wu Y,Zhang C,Cui S,Zhu X,Li J,Du G,Liu L

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two types of polyethylenimine-coated glass microbeads (13-44 micrometer) were synthesized and used for the immobilization of glucose oxidase from Aspergillus niger and catalase from A. niger and beef liver. The two types of beads were distinguishable by differences in their surface topography. Immobilizations were per...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Wasserman BP,Hultin HO,Jacobson BS

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are a series of examples in which phenols appear as contaminants in process streams and their selective removal is required for waste minimization. For the selective removal of a phenol from a mixture, we are exploiting the substrate specificity of the enzyme tyrosinase to convert phenols into reactive o-quinone...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Sun WQ,Payne GF

更新日期：1996-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Immobilization of Streptomyces phaerochromogenes was studied by radiation-induced polymerization of 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate at low temperatures. Radiation damage of the enzyme could be avoided by choosing irradiation at low temperatures. The enzymatic activity of immobilized cells increased remarkably with a decre...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Kumakura M,Yoshida M,Kaetsu I

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In enzymatic lysis of yeast for the recovery of intracellular proteins, the rupture of whole cells is caused by the action of a lytic system consisting primarily of protease and glucanase. A first-principles mechanism for the lytic reaction based on a two-layer model of the wall structure and a burst model for the dis...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Liu LC,Prokopakis GJ,Asenjo JA

更新日期：1988-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal biofilters have been recently studied as an alternative to the bacterial systems for the elimination of hydrophobic volatile organic compounds (VOC). Fungi foster reduced transport limitation of hydrophobic VOCs due to their hydrophobic surface and extended gas exchange area associated to the hyphal growth. Nev...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Vergara-Fernández A,Hernández S,Revah S

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A model for radial flow mammalian cell culture has been developed. Two situations, one with permeable hollow fibers and the other with a porous matrix in the annulus, were considered. The hollow fibers were modeled as continuously distributed sinks. Numerical solutions are presented for the complete model as well as l...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Tharakan JP,Chau PC

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, an analysis of the transition between the inactive ("closed") and active ("open") conformations of Candida rugosa lipase in solution is performed using irreversible enzyme inhibitors, cyclic saligenin phosphates. It is shown that >90% inhibition of the enzyme activity toward water-soluble substrates (es...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Turner NA,Needs EC,Khan JA,Vulfson EN

更新日期：2001-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Biopharmaceutical production would benefit from rapid methods to optimize production of therapeutic proteins by screening host cell line/vector combination, culture media, and operational parameters such as timing of induction. Miniaturized bioreactors are an emerging research area aiming at improving the development ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Diao J,Young L,Zhou P,Shuler ML

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relative levels of many individual proteins in Escherichia coli HB101 strains with 0, 37, 56, and 240 plasmids per chromosome were determined by computer image analysis of two-dimensional gel electrophoresis patterns. The plasmids investigated had very similar sequences except for small domains encoding the repressor ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Birnbaum S,Bailey JE

更新日期：1991-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) promoter is induced by the addition of a glucocorticoid hormone or analog such as dexamethasone. The hormone binds to its specific transcription factor, glucocorticoid receptor (GR), and the activated complex then binds to the glucocorticoid response elements (GREs) in the enhancer...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： James RI,Elton JP,Todd P,Kompala DS

更新日期：2000-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential of bacteriophage lambda as an expression vector for a large scale production of cloned-gene proteins was evaluated in batch and continuous bioreactors using a temperature-sensitive mutant in the cl gene, which allows a simple manipulation of temperature as a means to control the phage in the lysogenic or...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Park TH,Seo JH,Lim HC

更新日期：1991-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:An unadapted mixed methanogenic sludge transformed formaldehyde into methanol and formate. The methanol to formate ratio obtained was 1:1. Formaldehyde conversion proceeded without any lag phase, suggesting the constitutive character of the formaldehyde conversion enzymes involved. Because the rate of formaldehyde con...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Gonzalez-Gil G,Kleerebezem R,Lettinga G

更新日期：2002-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven different supports were compared in solid-phase S(N)Ar and S(N)2 macrocyclization reactions. Product purities were assayed for a relatively facile ring-closure process to give products 1 and 3. Some less-facile ring-closure reactions give the undesired dimeric macrocyclization by-products 2; some of these more-d...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Feng Y,Burgess K

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytidine-5'-diphosphocholine (CDP-choline) is a widely used neuroprotective drug for multiple indications. In industry, CDP-choline is synthesized by a two-step cell culture/permeabilized cell biotransformation method because substrates often do not enter cells in an efficient manner. This study develops a novel one-s...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Ren Y,Liu Q,Liu H,Zhou X,Zhang Y,Cai M

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linear relations among net conversion rates of primary metabolites in fermentation processes can be determined by using the macroscopic or pathway balancing methods. It is shown that the process observability can be improved by incorporating both the abiotic proton balance and the pH control reagent addition rate meas...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Siano SA

更新日期：1996-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown previously that a sequence-specific DNA-binding protein based on the Lac repressor protein can isolate pre-purified DNA efficiently from simple buffer solution but our attempts to purify plasmids directly from crude starting materials were disappointing with impractically low DNA yields. We have optimize...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Darby RA,Forde GM,Slater NK,Hine AV

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A desirable feature of many therapeutic glycoprotein production processes is to maximize the final sialic acid content. In this study, the effect of applying a novel chemical analog of the sialic acid precursor N-acetylmannosamine (ManNAc) on the sialic acid content of cellular proteins and a model recombinant glycopr...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Yin B,Wang Q,Chung CY,Bhattacharya R,Ren X,Tang J,Yarema KJ,Betenbaugh MJ

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dilute aqueous solutions of polymers released by marine phytoplankton (microalgae) were shown to effectively reduce drag in capillary pipe flow. Tests were performed in a capillary turbulent flow viscometer which extruded small samples under high pressures. In all, 22 species were screened, and the products of one chl...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Ramus J,Kenney BE,Shaughnessy EJ

更新日期：1989-01-25 00:00:00