Tissue-engineering approaches in pancreatic islet transplantation.

abstract：:Aryl-alcohol oxidase (AAO) plays a fundamental role in the fungal ligninolytic secretome, acting as a supplier of H2 O2 . Despite its highly selective mechanism of action, the presence of this flavooxidase in different biotechnological settings has hitherto been hampered by the lack of appropriate heterologous express...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Viña-Gonzalez J,Elbl K,Ponte X,Valero F,Alcalde M

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of low intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) on proliferation and chondrogenic differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) seeded on 3D printed poly-(ethylene glycol)-diacrylate (PEG-DA) scaffolds with varying pore geometries (square and hexagonal channels) were investigated. The scaffold with sq...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Aliabouzar M,Lee SJ,Zhou X,Zhang GL,Sarkar K

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzymatic hydrolysis of olive oil using Chromobacterium viscosum lipase B encapsulated in reversed micelles of dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate (AOT) in isooctane was investigated in an ultrafiltration ceramic membrane reactor of tubular type, operating in a batch mode. Water concentration was found to be a critical ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Prazers DM,Garcia FA,Cabral JM

更新日期：1993-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:By feeding ethanol at various high rates to low cell density cultures of Saccharomyces cerevisiae it was shown that the sharp fall in viability when ethanol is produced during rapid fermentations is in part a direct consequence of the high rate of change of extracellular ethanol concentration. Nevertheless, the fall i...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Dasari G,Worth MA,Connor MA,Pamment NB

更新日期：1990-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduced downstream costs, together with high purity recovery of polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA), will accelerate the commercialization of high quality PHA-based products. In this work, a process was designed for effective recovery of the copolymer poly(hydroxybutyrate-co-hydroxyhexanoate) (P(HB-co-HHx)) containing high lev...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Riedel SL,Brigham CJ,Budde CF,Bader J,Rha C,Stahl U,Sinskey AJ

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After separation by microscale non-denaturing two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2DE) and transferring to a blotting membrane, major proteins are detected by a staining of direct blue 71 in a neutral solution. The carboxylesterase on the membrane hydrolyzes phosphatidylcholine after the spot of carboxylesterase is e...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Shimazaki Y,Miyamoto M

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On-line NAD(P)H fluorescence and culture redox potential (CRP) measurements were utilized to investigate the role of Vitreoscilla hemoglobin (VHb) in perturbing oxygen metabolism of microaerobic Escherichia coli Batch cultures of a VHb-synthesizing E. coli strain and the iso-genic control under fully aerated condition...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Tsai PS,Rao G,Bailey JE

更新日期：1995-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:This article develops and utilizes an in situ technique to estimate the Monod half-maximum rate concentration, K(s) and the maximum specific utilization rate constant, k, for biofilms. The technique employs a curve-matching method with kinetic results from several short-term experiments with completely mixed biofilm r...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Rittmann BE,Crawford L,Tuck CK,Namkung E

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of drug delivery is to improve the safety and therapeutic efficacy of drugs. This review focuses on delivery platforms that are either derived from endogenous pathways, long-circulating biomolecules and cells or that piggyback onto long-circulating biomolecules and cells. The first class of such platforms is ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Yousefpour P,Chilkoti A

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial profile modification (BPM), a form of tertiary oil recovery, diverts water from the water-flooded high-permeability zone into the oil-bearing low-permeability zone. During field use, exopolymer-producing bacteria plug the high-permeability zone only in the immediate vicinity of the injection point (the near-...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Wolf BF,Fogler HS

更新日期：2005-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple approach was developed to determine the half-saturation coefficient for dissolved oxygen (K(DO)) for three bacteria by maintaining a constant oxygen concentration in continuous culture, and employing a dynamic method to obtain the specific growth rate (mu) for each species. Measurement of mu at selected disso...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Hao OJ,Richard MG,Jenkins D,Blanch HW

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The flotation of Streptomyces pilosus was studied in the absence and presence of adsorbed Pb(II) ions on the cell walls and with and without using sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS) as collector. Adsorption of SDS onto the organism in the absence and presence of Pb(II) ions was also investigated. It was found that in the abs...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Sadowski Z,Golab Z,Smith RW

更新日期：1991-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the isolation of mutant strains of the methylotrophic yeast Hansenula polymorpha that are able to efficiently oxidize ethanol to acetaldehyde in an intact cell system. The oxidation reaction is catalyzed by alcohol oxidase (AOX), a key enzyme in the methanol metabolic pathway that is typically present only i...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Moroz OM,Gonchar MV,Sibirny AA

更新日期：2000-04-05 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：:Enzymatic acrylation is a process of potentially strong interest to the chemical industry. Direct esterification involving acrylic acid is unfortunately rather slow, with inhibition phenomena appearing at high acid concentrations. In the present study the acrylation of 1-octanol catalyzed by immobilized Candida antarc...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Nordblad M,Adlercreutz P

更新日期：2008-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobic digestion of biological organic particulates to methane has been described by a structured mathematical model based on multiple-reaction stoichiometry, conventional material balances, and liquid phase equilibrium chemistry. A general stoichiometric treatment for any set of multiple biological reactions is de...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Bryers JD

更新日期：1985-05-01 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：:Thermochemical pretreatment and enzymatic hydrolysis are the areas contributing most to the operational costs of second generation ethanol in lignocellulosic biorefineries. The improvement of lignocellulosic enzyme cocktails has been significant in the recent years. Although the needs for the reduction of the energy i...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Martín Pérez L,Benítez Casanova L,Moreno Pérez AJ,Pérez Gómez D,Gavaldá Martín S,Ledesma-García L,Valbuena Crespo N,Díez García B,Reyes-Sosa FM

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular descriptors represent structural and physicochemical features of compounds. They have been extensively used for developing statistical models, such as quantitative structure activity relationship (QSAR) and artificial neural networks (NN), for computer prediction of the pharmacodynamic, pharmacokinetic, or t...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Li ZR,Han LY,Xue Y,Yap CW,Li H,Jiang L,Chen YZ

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A packed granular activated carbon (GAC) biobed, inoculated with the ethane-degrading strain Mycobacterium E3, was used to study ethene removal from a synthetic waste gas. Ethene, for which the dimensionless partition coefficient for an air-water system at 20 degrees C is about 7.6, was used as a model compound for po...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： De Heyder B,Overmeire A,Van Langenhove H,Verstraete W

更新日期：1994-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactor systems based on tapered fluidized beds are being developed for aqueous bioprocesses in which adhering microorganisms or immobilized active biological fractions are used. The use of a fluidized bed prevents biomass buildup, accommodates particulates in the feed stream, is compatible with gas sparging, and allo...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Scott CD,Hancher CW

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodococcus rhodochrous IGTS8 was previously isolated because of its ability to use coal as its sole source of sulfur for growth. Subsequent growth studies have revealed that IGTS8 is capable of using a variety of organosulfur compounds as sources of sulfur but not carbon. In this article, the ability of IGTS8 to sele...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Kilbane JJ 2nd,Jackowski K

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High throughput pretreatment (HTPH) and enzymatic hydrolysis systems are now vital for screening large numbers of biomass samples to investigate biomass recalcitrance over various pretreatment and enzymatic hydrolysis conditions. Although hydrothermal pretreatment is currently being employed in most high throughput ap...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Li H,Gao X,Demartini JD,Kumar R,Wyman CE

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used a novel approach in conjunction with flow cytometry to quantify the biological heterogeneity of populations of the ciliate Tetrahymena pyriformis. It was found that the rate of particle uptake of exponentially growing cells is not uniform among cells and partially correlated with cell size. The physiologi...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Hatzis C,Srienc F,Fredrickson AG

更新日期：1994-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue function is comprised of a complex interplay between biological and physicochemical rate processes. The design of bioreactors for tissue engineering must account for these processes simultaneously in order to obtain a bioreactor that provides a uniform environment for tissue growth and development. In the prese...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Peng CA,Palsson BØ

更新日期：1996-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of external calcium concentrations on biosynthesis of ginsenoside Rb1 and several calcium signal sensors were quantitatively investigated in suspension cultures of Panax notoginseng cells. It was observed that the synthesis of intracellular ginsenoside Rb1 in 3-day incubation was dependent on the medium Ca...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Yue CJ,Zhong JJ

更新日期：2005-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Trehalase is the enzyme which hydrolyzes the disaccharide trehalose into two alpha-D-glucose molecules. In this article, we present the immobilization of trehalase on aminopropyl glass particles. The enzyme was extracted from Escherichia coli Mph2, a strain harboring the pTRE11 plasmid, which contains the trehalase ge...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Bachinski N,Martins AS,Paschoalin VM,Panek AD,Paiva CL

更新日期：1997-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipases are versatile biocatalists showing multiple applications in a wide range of biotechnological processes. The gene lipA coding for Lipase A from Bacillus subtilis was isolated by PCR amplification, cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli, Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Bacillus subtilis strains, using pBR322, YEp...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Sánchez M,Prim N,Rández-Gil F,Pastor FI,Diaz P

更新日期：2002-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A MATLAB-based program was developed to simulate the distributions of states and behaviors of microbial storage product-accumulating bacteria in suspended growth systems. Currently available computer simulators of these systems predict dynamic behaviors by numerically solving differential biokinetic equations using av...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Schuler AJ

更新日期：2005-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The implementation of control algorithms to batch bioreactors is often complicated by variations in process dynamics that occur during the course of fermentation. Such a wide operating range often renders the performance of fixed gain proportional-integral-differential (PID) controllers unsatisfactory. In this work, d...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Cardello RJ,San KY

更新日期：1988-08-05 00:00:00