Coupling the pretreatment and hydrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass by the expression of beta-xylosidases.

abstract：:Genetically-engineered cells offer a solution to the cell availability problem in tissue engineering a pancreatic substitute for the treatment of insulin-dependent diabetes. These cells can be non-beta cells, such as hepatocytes or myoblasts, retrieved as a biopsy from the same patient and genetically engineered to se...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Cheng SY,Constantinidis I,Sambanis A

更新日期：2006-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The damaging and degenerative effects in autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis and Crohn's disease often manifests as the formation of lesions that feature a high local concentration of granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF). GM-CSF along with other pro-inflammatory fa...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Mosabbir AA,Qudrat A,Truong K

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Engineered strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae are used for industrial production of succinic acid. Optimal process conditions for dicarboxylic-acid yield and recovery include slow growth, low pH, and high CO2 . To quantify and understand how these process parameters affect yeast physiology, this study investigates in...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Hakkaart X,Liu Y,Hulst M,El Masoudi A,Peuscher E,Pronk J,van Gulik W,Daran-Lapujade P

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new method is described for the immobilization of biologically active proteins onto several types of organic polymer beads. First, the soluble protein is modified by reaction with an excess of a hydrophobic imidoester, for example methyl 4-phenyl-butyrimidate, at ca. pH 9 and 0 degrees . Excess imidoester and side p...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Ampon K,Means GE

更新日期：1988-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite wide applications of l-tyrosine in the market, microbial overproduction of l-tyrosine has been a great challenge due to the complex gene regulations involved in its biosynthetic pathway. To this end, effects of knocking out tyrR on the l-tyrosine production were further explored during the strain development. ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Kim B,Binkley R,Kim HU,Lee SY

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An in-situ, mid-infrared sensor was used to monitor the major analyte concentrations involved in the cultivation of Gluconacetobacter xylinus and the production of gluconacetan, a food-grade exopolysaccharide. To predict the analyte concentrations, three different sets of standard spectra were used to develop calibrat...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Kornmann H,Rhiel M,Cannizzaro C,Marison I,von Stockar U

更新日期：2003-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The diffusion characteristics of sucrose, a nutrient, and yohimbine, a secondary metabolite, in alginate gel beads, with or without entrapped periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus) or apple (Malus domestica) cells, were investigated. Effective diffusivities of both solutes in the gel beads were determined by two different m...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Pu HT,Yang RY

更新日期：1988-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The feasibility of anaerobic methanethiol (MT) degradation at elevated sodium concentrations was investigated in a mesophilic (30 degrees C) lab-scale upflow anaerobic sludge bed (UASB) reactor, inoculated with estuarine sediment originating from the Wadden Sea (The Netherlands). MT was almost completely degraded (>95...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： van Leerdam RC,de Bok FA,Lens PN,Stams AJ,Janssen AJ

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates the scaling of photobioreactor productivity based on the growth of Nannochloropsis salina incorporating the effects of direct and diffuse light. The scaling and optimization of photobioreactor geometry was analyzed by determining the growth response of a small-scale system designed to represent...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Quinn JC,Turner CW,Bradley TH

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A modified mixing plane approach for steady state simulation of flow field in fully baffled biological reactor is presented and discussed. Without requiring any experimental input, this approach of dividing the vessel into suitable number of connected and disconnected zones; solving steady state equation separately in...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Dubey H,Das SK,Panda T

更新日期：2006-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNFalpha) plays an important role in a number of chronic inflammatory disorders. Monoclonal camelidae variable heavy chain domain-only antibodies (V(H)H) have been developed to antagonize the action of human TNFalpha (anti-TNF-V(H)H). Here we describe a strategy to obtain functional di...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Giersberg M,Floss DM,Kipriyanov S,Conrad U,Scheller J

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo kinetics of Saccharomyces cerevisiae are studied, in a time window of 150 s, by analyzing the response of O(2) and CO(2) in the fermentor off-gas after perturbation of chemostat cultures by metabolite pulses. Here, a new mathematical method is presented for the estimation of the in vivo oxygen uptake rate (OUR...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Wu L,Lange HC,Van Gulik WM,Heijnen JJ

更新日期：2003-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In three-phase internal loop airlift reactors, the detachment of biomass from suspended biofilm pellets in the presence of bare carrier particles was investigated under nongrowth conditions. The detachment rate was dominated by collisions between bare carrier particles and biofilm pellets. The concentration of bare ca...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Gjaltema A,Tijhuis L,van Loosdrecht MC,Heijnen JJ

更新日期：1995-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanoma is now the fifth most common type of cancer in North America. At present, there is no optimal treatment for this cancer. However, the lowering of the tyrosine level can inhibit the growth of melanoma. Unfortunately, this diet restriction cannot be humanly tolerated and causes vomiting, nausea, and severe body...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Yu B,Chang TM

更新日期：2004-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The treatment of large segmental bone defects remains a challenge as infection, delayed union, and nonunion are common postoperative complications. A three-dimensional printed bioresorbable and physiologically load-sustaining graft substitute was developed to mimic native bone tissue for segmental bone repair. Fabrica...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Chung R,Kalyon DM,Yu X,Valdevit A

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various esters were synthesized in nearly anhydrous hexane from alcohols and carboxylic acids using a lipase from Candida cylindracea. The enzyme was immobilized on a nylon support and protein loadings as high as 10 mg/g were obtained. The activity of the immobilized enzyme was maximum in a range of temperatures from ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Carta G,Gainer JL,Benton AH

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficiency of lgM production by hybridoma cells (1) cultured in suspension; (2) entrapped in alginate beads; or (3) packed in hollowfiber cartridge bioreactors, were compared in long-term perfusion cultures. The results showed that steady-state cell concentration and antibody production, per liter of perfused medi...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： de la Broise D,Noiseux M,Massie B,Lemieux R

更新日期：1992-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A sequencing batch membrane biofilm reactor (SBMBfR) was developed for simultaneous carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus removal from wastewater. This reactor was composed of two functional parts: (1) a gas-permeable membrane on which a nitrifying biofilm formed and (2) a bulk solution in which bacteria, mainly denitrifyi...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Terada A,Yamamoto T,Tsuneda S,Hirata A

更新日期：2006-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Penicillinase (beta-lactamase I, EC 3.5.2.6) secreted by Bacillus cereus, strain 569/H, was covalently attached to aminoethyl cellulose via glutaraldehyde. The immobilized derivative shows increased thermostability and decreased susceptibility to conformational changes induced by certain substrates of penicillinase. T...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Klemes Y,Citri N

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An aeration tank/sedimentation tank system is considered for large variations of organic loading. In this case, it is important to take into account the variability of the characteristics describing the oxidation of activated sludge as well as its sedimentation. The minimum cost of the treatment system is also evaluat...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Vasiliev VB,Vavilin VA

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient cofactor regeneration and reuse are highly desired for many important biotransformation applications. Here we show for the first time that cofactor NAD(H) covalently attached to micro particles, which can be easily recovered and reused, effectively mediated multistep reactions catalyzed by enzymes that were ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： El-Zahab B,Donnelly D,Wang P

更新日期：2008-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic mixtures of predominant lignocellulosic hexose sugars were supplemented with separate aliquots of three inhibitory compounds (furfural, hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF), and acetic acid) in a series of concentrations and fermented by the spent sulfite liquor (SSL)-adapted yeast strain Tembec T1 and the natural is...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Keating JD,Panganiban C,Mansfield SD

更新日期：2006-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of conditions for guided and specific differentiation of human stem cell and progenitor cells is important for continued development and engineering of in vitro cell culture systems for use in regenerative medicine, drug discovery, and human toxicology. Three-dimensional (3D) and organotypic cell cultur...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Nierode GJ,Gopal S,Kwon P,Clark DS,Schaffer DV,Dordick JS

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：:This article studies the operation of a new process for the production of biopolymers (polyhydroxyalkanoates, PHAs) at different applied organic load rates (OLRs). The process is based on the aerobic enrichment of activated sludge to obtain mixed cultures able to store PHAs at high rates and yields. A mixture of aceti...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Dionisi D,Majone M,Vallini G,Di Gregorio S,Beccari M

更新日期：2006-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth dynamics of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Burkholderia cepacia, and Staphylococcus aureus in a batch and chemostat, were investigated as a laboratory model system for persistent infections in cystic fibrosis. Most species-specific enumeration methods for mixed cultures are laborious or only qualitative, and therefore...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Schmidt JK,König B,Reichl U

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) solutions (approximately 1 mg/ml, pH 7) were sheared in a coaxial cylindrical viscometer. This was fitted with a lid sealing the contents from the atmosphere and preventing evaporation. At 30 degrees C after a total of 5 hr intermittent shearing at 683 sec-1 no losses of activity were...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Thomas CR,Nienow AW,Dunnill P

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

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：:Oral delivery of insulin to diabetic patients is highly desirable because it would be non-invasive and more closely mimic normal physiology, but this route of administration typically results in low bioavailability due to low pH and enzymatic degradation along the gastrointestinal tract. To explore an alternative appr...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Ng DT,Sarkar CA

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The specific monoclonal antibody productivity (q(Mab)) of a murine hybridoma (CC9C10) increased with incubation temperature in the range 33 degrees C to 39 degrees C. q(Mab) was constant at each temperature and was independent of the phase of culture. The q(Mab) increased 97% at 39 degrees C and decreased by 21% at 33...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Barnabé N,Butler M

更新日期：1994-11-20 00:00:00