Temperature and oxygen level determine N2 O respiration activities of heterotrophic N2 O-reducing bacteria: Biokinetic study.

abstract：:Hydrogen production by Rhodobacter capsulatus is an anaerobic, photobiological process requiring specific mixing conditions. In this study, an innovative design of a photobioreactor is proposed. The design is based on a plate-type photobioreactor with an interconnected meandering channel to allow culture mixing and H2...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Turon V,Ollivier S,Cwicklinski G,Willison JC,Anxionnaz-Minvielle Z

更新日期：2020-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A balance between proliferation and cell death is critical for achieving desirable high cell densities in mammalian cell culture. In this study, we evaluate a recently discovered anti-apoptotic gene, aven, and examine its effectiveness alone and in combination with a member of the Bcl-2 family, bcl-xL. The commerciall...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Figueroa B Jr,Chen S,Oyler GA,Hardwick JM,Betenbaugh MJ

更新日期：2004-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein switches have a variety of potential applications in biotechnology and medicine that motivate efforts to accelerate their development. Switches can be built by the proper fusion of two proteins with the prerequisite input and output functions. However, the exact fusion geometry for switch creation, which typic...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Tullman J,Nicholes N,Dumont MR,Ribeiro LF,Ostermeier M

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane morphology is compared to protein depostion under passive adsorption and ultrafiltration conditions. Solute resistance of protein deposits for membranes of varying roughness, structure, and permeability can vary dramatically with operating conditions. Using Brunauer-Emmett-Teller adsorption isotherm (BET), st...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Chen V,Kim KJ,Fane AG

更新日期：1995-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The catalytic properties of bovine serum albumin (BSA) have been studied rather extensively. The protein has shown catalytic activities toward a variety of reactions in aqueous media. However, there appears to be no reports of reactions catalyzed exclusively in organic media. In this study, we report the catalytic pro...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Liu XC,Lemma-Gray P

更新日期：2001-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanoparticles (NPs) are able to deliver a variety of substances into eukaryotic cells. However, their usage is often hampered by a lack of specificity, leading to the undesired uptake of NPs by virtually all cell types. In contrast to this, yeast is known to be specifically taken up into immune cells after entering th...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Kiefer R,Jurisic M,Dahlem C,Koch M,Schmitt MJ,Kiemer AK,Schneider M,Breinig F

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to evaluate the sensitivity of hepatocellular cultures to variations in both substrate stiffness and bioactive ligand presentation, hepatocytes were cultured on differentially compliant polyacrylamide gel discs functionalized with varying amounts of the ECM ligand, fibronectin (FN). Subconfluent cell cultures...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Semler EJ,Lancin PA,Dasgupta A,Moghe PV

更新日期：2005-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine the feasibility of using high pressure CO2 for sterilization of Ginseng powder, as an alternative method to conventional techniques such as gamma-irradiation and ethylene oxide. The Ginseng sample used in this study was originally contaminated with fungi and 5 x 10(7) bacteria/g ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Dehghani F,Annabi N,Titus M,Valtchev P,Tumilar A

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective enzyme-mediated viscosity reduction, disaggregation, or "liquefaction," is required to overcome the rheological challenges resulting from the fibrous, hygroscopic nature of lignocellulosic biomass, particularly at the high solids loadings that will be required for an economically viable process. However, the...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： van der Zwan T,Hu J,Saddler JN

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The surface hydrophobicity of a protein is an important factor for its interactions in solution and thus the outcome of its production process. Yet most of the methods are not able to evaluate the influence of these hydrophobic interactions under natural conditions. In the present work we have established a high resol...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Amrhein S,Bauer KC,Galm L,Hubbuch J

更新日期：2015-12-01 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：:A starvation-based dissolved oxygen (DO) transient controller was developed to supply growth-limiting substrate to high cell density fed-batch cultures of recombinant Escherichia coli. The algorithm adjusted a preexisting feed rate in proportion to the culture's oxygen demand, which was estimated from transients in th...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Whiffin VS,Cooney MJ,Cord-Ruwisch R

更新日期：2004-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of soluble microbial products (SMP) in anaerobic systems was evaluated using chemostat reactors. Results from steady-state and tracer experiments with (14)C-glucose and (14)C-acetate showed that significant amounts of SMP were produced during the acidogenesis of glucose, but that SMP did not accumulate ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Noguera DR,Araki N,Rittmann BE

更新日期：1994-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The unicellular green alga Haematococcus pluvialis has been exploited as a cell factory to produce the high-value antioxidant astaxanthin for over two decades, due to its superior ability to synthesize astaxanthin under adverse culture conditions. However, slow vegetative growth under favorable culture conditions and ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Zhang Z,Wang B,Hu Q,Sommerfeld M,Li Y,Han D

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant cell walls are composed primarily of cellulose, hemicelluloses, lignins, and pectins. Of these components, lignins exhibit unique chemistry and physiological functions. Although lignins can be used as a product feedstock or as a fuel, lignins are also generally seen as a barrier to efficient enzymatic breakdown ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Donohoe BS,Decker SR,Tucker MP,Himmel ME,Vinzant TB

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium tyrobutyricum ATCC 25755 is known as a natural hyper-butyrate producer with great potentials as an excellent platform to be engineered for valuable biochemical production from renewable resources. However, limited transformation efficiency and the lack of genetic manipulation tools have hampered the broade...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Zhang J,Hong W,Guo L,Wang Y,Wang Y

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal cell culture is widely used in biotechnology for the production of many biological products. In situ microscopes acquire images directly from cell suspensions and analyze the images in matters of cell concentration, cell size distribution and cell morphology. Their applicability was already proven for yeast and...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Rudolph G,Lindner P,Gierse A,Bluma A,Martinez G,Hitzmann B,Scheper T

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In eukaryotes, secretory proteins are folded and assembled in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Many heterologous proteins are retained in the ER due to suboptimal folding conditions. We previously reported that heterologous secretion of Pyrococcus furiosus beta-glucosidase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae resulted in the ac...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Smith JD,Tang BC,Robinson AS

更新日期：2004-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a simple and robust transient expression system utilizing the 25 kDa branched cationic polymer polyethylenimine (PEI) as a vehicle to deliver plasmid DNA into suspension-adapted Chinese hamster ovary cells synchronized in G2/M phase of the cell cycle by anti-mitotic microtubule disrupting agents. The...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Tait AS,Brown CJ,Galbraith DJ,Hines MJ,Hoare M,Birch JR,James DC

更新日期：2004-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Pretreatment methods were compared with steam explosion, and differing views on the relative importance of mechanical and chemical effects were outlined. Hydrolysis was desirable; pyrolysis was undesirable. The effects of initial moisture content on steam consumption, mechanism and rate of heat transfer, pentosan solu...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Brownell HH,Saddler JN

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-cycling fermentation (SCF), a cyclical, semi-continuous process that induces cell synchrony, was incorporated into a recombinant protein production scheme. Escherichia coli CY15050, a lac(-) mutant lysogenized with temperature-sensitive phage λ modified to over-express β-galactosidase, was used as a model system....

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Storms ZJ,Brown T,Sauvageau D,Cooper DG

更新日期：2012-09-01 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：:Many microorganisms are capable of sequestering and concentrating heavy metals from their aqueous environment. While much research has beep carried out on the uptake of single species of metal ions, little attention seems to have been given to the study of multimetal ion systems. A mathematical model has previously be...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Ting YP,Prince IG,Lawson F

更新日期：1991-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A major challenge when designing cell scaffolds for chondrocyte delivery in vivo is creating scaffolds with sufficient mechanical properties to restore initial function while simultaneously controlling temporal changes in the gel structure to facilitate tissue formation. To address this design challenge, degradable ph...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Bryant SJ,Bender RJ,Durand KL,Anseth KS

更新日期：2004-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Pretreatment of rice straw by using renewable cholinium amino acids ionic liquids ([Ch][AA] ILs)-water mixtures and the subsequent enzymatic hydrolysis of the residues were conducted in the present work. Of the eight mixtures composed of ILs and water, most were found to be effective for rice straw pretreatment. After...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Hou XD,Li N,Zong MH

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene coding for human parathyroid hormone (hPTH) was synthesized and cloned into a yeast expression and secretion vector containing the mating factor alpha pre-pro leader sequence and the galactose-inducible promoter, GAL10. The intact hPTH(1-84) was found to be secreted into the culture medium. As observed in the p...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Chung BH,Park KS

更新日期：1998-01-20 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 effect of formate and hydrogen on isomerization and syntrophic degradation of butyrate and isobutyrate was investigated using a defined methanogenic culture, consisting of syntrophic isobutyrate-butyrate degrader strain IB, Methanobacterium formicicum strain T1N, and Methanosarcina mazeii strain T18. Formate and h...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Wu WM,Jain MK,Hickey RF,Zeikus JG

更新日期：1996-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The insect larvae/baculovirus protein production process was dramatically simplified by expressing fusion proteins containing green fluorescent protein (GFP) and the product-of-interest. In this case, human interleukin-2 (hIL-2) and chloramphenicol acetyl-transferase (CAT) were model products. Specifically, our fusion...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Cha HJ,Dalal NG,Pham MQ,Vakharia VN,Rao G,Bentley WE

更新日期：1999-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The mean sizes and size distributions of air bubbles and viscous castor oil drops were studied in a salt-rich aqueous solution (medium), first separately, and then simultaneously as a three-phase system. The dispersion was created in a 150-mm-diameter stirred tank equipped with a Rushton turbine, and the sizes were me...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Galindo E,Pacek AW,Nienow AW

更新日期：2000-07-20 00:00:00