Abstract:
:Many advantages have been claimed over the years for the use of immobilised cells, both as enzyme systems and as whole viable cell systems for complete fermentation reactions. However, few of the claims have been fully substantiated, and may not even be entirely justified. Most research is involved with single applications and the best that can be hoped for is some evidence that immobilised cells in each of these individual cases display some advantage over the equivalent free cell system. The purpose of this review is to assess the merits of viable cell immobilisation in the light of published literature and to elucidate the underlying mechanisms. Particular attention is paid to the generally unanticipated, but widely observed enhanced stability of immobilised cell fermentation processes.
journal_name
Biotechnol Advjournal_title
Biotechnology advancesauthors
Dervakos GA,Webb Cdoi
10.1016/0734-9750(91)90733-csubject
Has Abstractpub_date
1991-01-01 00:00:00pages
559-612issue
4eissn
0734-9750issn
1873-1899pii
073497509190733Cjournal_volume
9pub_type
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