Bidirectional reporter assay using HAL promoter and TOPFLASH improves specificity in high-throughput screening of Wnt inhibitors.

abstract：:Two kinds of disposable bioreactors, air-lift disposable bioreactors (ADB) and wave disposable bioreactors (WDB) were compared with stirred-tank reactors (5-L STR). These bioreactors were successfully applied to transgenic rice cell cultures for the production of recombinant human cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen 4-immu...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Kwon JY,Yang YS,Cheon SH,Nam HJ,Jin GH,Kim DI

更新日期：2013-09-01 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：:Phosphite dehydrogenase represents a new enzymatic system for regenerating reduced nicotinamide cofactors for industrial biocatalysis. We previously engineered a variant of phosphite dehydrogenase with relaxed cofactor specificity and significantly increased activity and stability. Here we performed one round of rando...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： McLachlan MJ,Johannes TW,Zhao H

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bioluminescence from the lux-based bacterial reporter Pseudomonas fluorescens HK44 was experimentally investigated under growth substrate-rich and limiting conditions in batch, continuous stirred tank (CSTR), and turbidostat reactors. A mechanistically based, mathematical model was developed to describe bioluminescenc...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Kelly CJ,Hsiung CJ,Lajoie CA

更新日期：2003-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The removal of N-compounds in the sequencing batch airlift reactor (SBAR) containing granular sludge was studied under conditions of decreased dissolved oxygen (DO). A simulation model was developed to describe and evaluate the effects of several process conditions in the SBAR on N-removal performance. The model descr...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Beun JJ,Heijnen JJ,van Loosdrecht MC

更新日期：2001-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Modern large-scale agricultural practices that incorporate high density farming with subtherapeutic antibiotic dosing are considered a major contributor to the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections of humans with species of Salmonella being a leading agriculture-based bacterial infection. Microcin J25, a p...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Ritter SC,Yang ML,Kaznessis YN,Hackel BJ

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate measurement of enzymatic cellulose digestibility (X) is important in evaluating the efficiency of lignocellulose pretreatment technologies, assessing the performance of reconstituted cellulase mixtures, and conducting economic analysis for biorefinery processes. We analyzed the effect of sugars contained in e...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Zhang YH,Schell DJ,McMillan JD

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using (13)C-labeled glucose fed to a penicillin-overproducing strain of Penicillium chrysogenum, the intracellular fluxes were quantified, and the presence of two new pathways, not previously described in this organism, is suggested. Thus, glycine was synthesized not only by serine hydroxymethyltransferase, but also b...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Christensen B,Nielsen J

更新日期：2000-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of algae and bacteria to accumulate heavy metals from the surrounding environment is a widely recognized phenomenon that has a number of important implications. This work reports on the development of a quantitative model that addresses the basic mechanisms inherent in many uptake processes. The model post...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Ting YP,Lawson F,Prince IG

更新日期：1989-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:An experimental device was constructed to allow nearly simultaneous measurements to be made on temperature and gas composition at different depths in a solid-substrate fermentation bed. The time-dependent values of temperature, mol % O(2) and mol % CO(2) were measured at five positions in beds 6.35 cm (2.5 in.) deep. ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Rathbun BL,Shuler ML

更新日期：1983-04-01 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：:Stability of heterologous protein expression during production is critical for regulatory approval of vaccine and therapeutic products. Leishmania GP63, a zinc metalloproteinase that is a potential vaccine candidate, has been expressed on the surface of Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells. Flow cytometry was used to fol...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Morrison CJ,McMaster WR,Piret JM

更新日期：1997-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The ferrous-iron oxidation kinetics of a bacterial culture consisting predominantly of Leptospirillum ferrooxidans were studied in continuous-flow bioreactors. The bacterial culture was fed with a salts solution containing 12 g/L ferrous-iron, at dilution rates ranging from 0.01 to 0.06 l/h, and temperatures ranging f...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Breed AW,Dempers CJ,Searby GE,Gardner MN,Rawlings DE,Hansford GS

更新日期：1999-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellulase (Cellulosin AC-8) was immobilized on poly-L-glutamic acid. This immobilized cellulase (IC) is water soluble in the neutral and alkaline solutions, where IC has the activity, while IC can be made insoluble by lowering the pH so that it can be recovered from the reaction mixture with its activity. The optimum ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Takeuchi T,Makino K

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the resolution of racemic glycidol through esterification with butyric acid catalyzed by porcine pancreatic lipase in organic media. A screening of seven solvents (log P values between 0.49 and 3.0, P being the n-octanol-water partition coefficient of the solvent) showed that neither log P nor the logarithm...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Martins JF,Da Ponte MN,Barreiros S

更新日期：1993-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A mechanistic model-based soft sensor is developed and validated for 550L filamentous fungus fermentations operated at Novozymes A/S. The soft sensor is comprised of a parameter estimation block based on a stoichiometric balance, coupled to a dynamic process model. The on-line parameter estimation block models the cha...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Mears L,Stocks SM,Albaek MO,Sin G,Gernaey KV

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immobilized enzyme hollow fibers may be useful in the purification or treatment of whole blood under clinical conditions. In this study, catalytically pure heparinase was immobilized to cellulose to analyze the feasibility for the removal of heparin's anticoagulant activity from whole blood. The kinetics of catalytica...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Comfort AR,Albert E,Langer R

更新日期：1989-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant Escherichia coli harboring the medium-chain-length (MCL) polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) synthase gene has been shown to accumulate MCL-PHAs from fatty acids when FadB is inactive. However, the enzymes in fadB mutant E. coli responsible for channeling the beta-oxidation intermediates to PHA biosynthesis have no...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Park SJ,Yup Lee S

更新日期：2004-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterokinase and recombinant enterokinase light chain (rEK(L)) have been used widely to cleave fusion proteins with the target sequence of (Asp)(4)-Lys. In this work, we show that their utility as a site-specific cleavage agent is compromised by sporadic cleavage at other sites, albeit at low levels. Further degradati...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Choi SI,Song HW,Moon JW,Seong BL

更新日期：2001-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains from Trichoderma reesei have been used for cellulase production with a long history. It has been well known that cellulase biosynthesis by the fungal species is controlled through regulators, and elucidation of their regulation network is of great importance for engineering T. reesei with robust cellulase prod...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Meng QS,Zhang F,Liu CG,Zhao XQ,Bai FW

更新日期：2020-06-01 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：:The kinetic behavior of soluble and insoluble forms of dextransucrase from Leuconostoc mesenteroides NRRL B-1299 was investigated with sucrose as substrate and maltose as acceptor. To study the parameters involved, a kinetic model was applied that was previously developed for L. mesenteroides NRRL B-512F dextransucras...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Dols M,Remaud-Simeon M,Willemot RM,Demuth B,Jordening HJ,Buchholz K,Monsan P

更新日期：1999-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Frozen bagged seed inoculum was prepared, thawed and tested for seven cultures. Thawing techniques were developed and other key influences on thawing rate were quantified; seed bag thawing without a water bath rarely required more than 4 to 5 h and was as short as 0.5 to 1 h for lower fill volume bags. Testing include...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Junker B,Seeley A,Lester M,Kovatch M,Schmitt J,Boryscwicz S,Lynch J,Zhang J,Greasham R

更新日期：2002-09-20 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：:The stoichiometry and kinetics of the spontaneous, chemical reaction between pyrite and ferric iron was studied at 30, 45, and 70 degrees C in shake flasks at pH 1.5 by monitoring the ferrous iron, total iron, elemental sulfur, and sulfate concentration profiles in time. It was found that the sulfur moiety of pyrite w...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Boogerd FC,van den Beemd C,Stoelwinder T,Bos P,Kuenen JG

更新日期：1991-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Many bacteria used for biotechnological applications are naturally motile. Their "bio-nanopropeller" driven movement allows searching for better environments in a process called chemotaxis. Since bacteria are extremely small in size compared to the bulk fluid volumes in bioreactors, single cell motility is not conside...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Arora S,Bhat V,Mittal A

更新日期：2007-08-15 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：:A dynamic model for the degradation of phenol in a two-phase partitioning bioreactor has been developed based on mechanistic balances around the bioreactor. The key process characteristics including substrate transfer between the organic and aqueous phases, substrate inhibition, oxygen limitation, and cell entrainment...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Cruickshank SM,Daugulis AJ,McLellan PJ

更新日期：2000-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The marine diatom Cyclotella cryptica was grown over a period of 13 months in a 48-m(2) shallow outdoor flume. The use of foil arrays at intervals of 1.2 m to effect systematic vertical mixing in the flume was found to significantly enhance microalgal production (p = 0.006). Average photosynthetic efficiencies (based ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Laws EA,Taguchi S,Hirata J,Pang L

更新日期：1988-07-05 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