A synthetic enzymatic pathway for extremely thermophilic acetone production based on the unexpectedly thermostable acetoacetate decarboxylase from Clostridium acetobutylicum.

abstract：:The effects of dilution rates on the performance of a two-stage fermentation system for a recombinant Escherichia coli culture were studied. Dilution rate determines the apparent or averaged specific growth rate of a heterogeneous population of cells in the recombinant culture. The specific growth rate affects the gen...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Hortacsu A,Ryu DD

更新日期：1991-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The attrition bioreactor (ABR) combines wet ball milling and enzymatic hydrolysis in one process step. It was found that the ABR did not accelerate enzyme deactivation. Interfacial forces, not shear forces, caused the most deactivation. Elimination of the air-liquid interface by covering the reactor substantially incr...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Jones EO,Lee JM

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An efficient method was developed for media separation and cell collection for eukaryotic cells growing in suspension. The method is based on tangential flow microfiltration using an open channel arrangement in a hollow fiber configuration. Best results (highest processing flux rate) for polysulfone hollow fibers were...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Trinh L,Shiloach J

更新日期：1995-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A priori knowledge of the dissolved oxygen (O2) concentration profile within a hepatic hollow fiber (HF) bioreactor is important in developing an effective bioartificial liver assist device (BLAD). O2 provision is limiting within HF bioreactors and we hypothesize that supplementing a hepatic HF bioreactor's circulatin...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Sullivan JP,Gordon JE,Palmer AF

更新日期：2006-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A newly designed batch calorimeter was used to investigate the degradability of some celluloses having varying degrees of crystallinity. The PTC of an aerobic culture of Cellulomonas uda ATCC 21399 obtained revealed a diauxic growth which is attributed to the presence of hemicellulose contaminating Avicel and MN300 ce...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Dermoun Z,Belaich JP

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of lipase from Candida cylindracea and Rhizopus delemar have been investigated in water/AOT/iso-octane reverse micellar media through the use of two esterification reactions: fatty acid-alcohol esterification and glyceride synthesis. Such media promotes the occurrence of these two lipase-catalyzed react...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Hayes DG,Gulari E

更新日期：1990-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Fast and efficient production of recombinant proteins for structural and functional studies is a crucial issue for research and for industry. To this end, we have developed an efficient system to generate in less than 2 months, starting from the cDNA, pools of CHO cells stably expressing high-level of recombinant prot...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Gaillet B,Gilbert R,Broussau S,Pilotte A,Malenfant F,Mullick A,Garnier A,Massie B

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phage Φ80 can infect Escherichia coli in a stealthy manner and persist by forming lysogens. Such Φ80 lysogens are fairly common and often go undetected unless the host is grown at temperatures below 37°C. Since low growth temperatures are required for growing temperature-sensitive mutants and often preferred for large...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Srinivas S,Cronan JE

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a simple method to rapidly generate very large libraries of genes encoding mutant proteins without the use of DNA amplification, and the application of this methodology in the construction of synthetic immunoglobulin variable heavy (V(H)) and light (V(kappa)) libraries. Four high quality, chemically synth...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Ge X,Mazor Y,Hunicke-Smith SP,Ellington AD,Georgiou G

更新日期：2010-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Biosorption of elements is a little understood phenomenon exhibited by some types of even nonliving microbial biomass. A common fungus Rhizopus arrhizus has been reported to take up uranium from aqueous solutions to the extent of 180 mg U(6+)/g. The mechanism of uranium sequestering by this type of biomass was studied...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Tsezos M,Volesky B

更新日期：1982-02-01 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：:Hairy root cultures of Catharanthus roseus were established by infection of seedlings with Agrobacterium rhizogenes 15834. Approximately 150 transformants from four different. C. roseus cultivars were screened for desirable traits in growth and indole alkaloid production. Five hairy root clones grew well in liquid cul...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Bhadra R,Vani S,Shanks JV

更新日期：1993-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydraulic characteristics of biological wastewater treatment systems were shown to affect bacterial state distributions and system performance through mathematical simulations. The term "state" is used here to mean the microbial storage product and biomass content of a bacterium. The traditional approach to simulating...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Schuler AJ

更新日期：2006-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The biotransformation of benzaldehyde and glucose to L-phenylacetylcarbinol (PAC) using Candida utilis was demonstrated in a solid-liquid two-phase partitioning bioreactor (TPPB) with the aim of reducing substrate, product, and by-product toxicity via sequestration. Previous work in the field had used octanol as the s...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Khan TR,Daugulis AJ

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maintenance of high cell viability was the main characteristic of our new strains of thermotolerant Saccharomyces. Total sugar conversion to ethanol was observed for sugarcane juice fermentation at 38-40 degrees C in less than 10 h and without continuous aeration of the culture. Invertase activity differed among the s...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Laluce C,Palmieri MC,Lopes da Cruz RC

更新日期：1991-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzymatic bioreactors with both high flow characteristics and mechanical stability based on macroporous poly(2-vinyl-4, 4-dimethylazlactone-co-acrylamide-co-ethylene dimethacrylate) monoliths have been prepared. Covalent immobilization of trypsin on these support is achieved in a single reaction step using the azlacto...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Xie S,Svec F,Fréchet JM

更新日期：1999-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel endoglucanase gene, celM , was cloned from a thermal spring metagenome. The gene was expressed in Escherichia coli, and the protein was extracted and purified. The protein catalyzed the hydrolysis of amorphous cellulose in a wide range of temperatures, 30-95°C, with optimal activity at 80°C. It was able to tol...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Joshi N,Kaushal G,Singh SP

更新日期：2021-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:An innovative type of biofilm model is derived by combining an individual description of microbial particles with a continuum representation of the biofilm matrix. This hybrid model retains the advantages of each approach, while providing a more realistic description of the temporal development of biofilm structure in...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Alpkvist E,Picioreanu C,van Loosdrecht MC,Heyden A

更新日期：2006-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Bioartificial liver (BAL) devices have been developed to treat patients undergoing acute liver failure. One of the most important parameters to consider in designing these devices is the oxygen consumption rate of the seeded hepatocytes which are known to have oxygen consumption rates 10 times higher than most other c...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Cho CH,Park J,Nagrath D,Tilles AW,Berthiaume F,Toner M,Yarmush ML

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a model for nutrient removal in an aerobic granular sludge system. This model can quantitatively describe the start-up of the system by coupling a model for studying the population dynamics of the granules in the reactor (reactor-scale model) and a model for studying the microbial community structure in t...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Kagawa Y,Tahata J,Kishida N,Matsumoto S,Picioreanu C,van Loosdrecht MC,Tsuneda S

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bioconversion of octanoic acid into 2-heptanone by spores of Penicillium roquefortii is performed using a fed-batch technique with pH control by addition of the liquid substrate itself. The early stage of this process takes place with a high bioconversion rate and high yield. These values then decrease as a result...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Larroche C,Besson I,Gros JB

更新日期：1994-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal morphology in many filamentous fungal fermentations leads to high broth viscosity which limits oxygen mass transfer, and often results in reduced productivity. The objective in this study was to determine if a simple, fed-batch, process strategy-pulsed addition of limiting-carbon source-could be used to reduce ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Bhargava S,Wenger KS,Marten MR

更新日期：2003-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The production and specific productivity of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) in recombinant Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells were increased by 81% and threefold, respectively, when supplemented with 1.5% dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) in the culture medium. To investigate the mechanism of DMSO effect on HBsAg productio...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Wang W,Yi X,Zhang Y

更新日期：2007-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous studies on poly γ-d-glutamicacid (γ-PGA) production have investigated terrestrial renewable sources for reducing production costs, but there are no studies using waste marine resources so far. We aimed to develop a cost-effective production method of γ-d-PGA by Bacillus sp. SJ-10 using green macroalgae (Ulva ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Kim JH,Lee JM,Jang WJ,Park HD,Kim YO,Kim CH,Kong IS

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas putida cells were grown in confined volumes in dual-membrane immobilized cell reactors constructed from microporous polyethylene hollow fibers and silicone rubber tubules as a model system for the study of mass transport in microbial aggregates. Local cell concentrations in the reactors reached 300 g dry m...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Karel SF,Robertson CR

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an attempt to extend and intensify the productive periods of bioprocesses, a self-cleaning tangential filtration device was examined. Built into a special-design bioreactor, its cell retention was evaluated for continuous-flow operation with selected examples of bacteria (Escherichia coli), yeasts (Sacharomyces cer...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Naja G,Volesky B,Schnell A

更新日期：2006-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Two strains of Pseudomonas able to grow on phenol or p-nitrophenol (PNP) were isolated from sewage. Pseudomonas sp. PN101 mineralized and formed nitrite from PNP but did not mineralize phenol, and Pseudomonas sp. PH111 mineralized phenol but not PNP. Phenol increased the lag period before Pseudomonas sp. PN101 grew on...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Murakami Y,Alexander M

更新日期：1989-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The fim inversion system of Escherichia coli (E. coli) can behave as a unidirectional switch in an efficient manner. We have developed a new expression system for E. coli, comprising the arabinose-inducible fimE gene and the fim invertible DNA segment containing a constitutively active promoter. In this system, the ta...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Ham TS,Lee SK,Keasling JD,Arkin AP

更新日期：2006-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Relatively conservative modifications of three proteins were carried out to alter their surface properties. The protein properties modified were hydrophobicity and charge. This was done by acylation of amino groups with anhydrides. For the hydrophobic modification experiments, two proteins (beta-lactoglobulin and bovi...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Franco TT,Andrews AT,Asenjo JA

更新日期：1996-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The reporter bacterium, Pseudomonas fluorescens HK44 (HK44), was characterized in an immobilized state to investigate utility for deployment as a remote sensor in the subsurface. A packed-bed reactor with alginate-immobilized HK44 simulated hydrodynamic conditions such as might be found in a subsurface environment. Th...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Webb OF,Bienkowski PR,Matrubutham U,Evans FA,Heitzer A,Sayler GS

更新日期：1997-06-05 00:00:00