abstract：:The United States produces more than 10 million tons of waste oils and fats each year. This paper aims to establish a new biomanufacturing platform that converts waste oils or fats into a series of value-added products. Our research employs the oleaginous yeast Yarrowia lipolytica as a case study for citric acid (CA) ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Liu N,Soong YV,Mirzaee I,Olsen A,Yu P,Wong HW,Xie D

更新日期：2021-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has spread rapidly throughout the whole world and caused significant difficulties in the prevention and control of the epidemic. In this case, several detection methods have been established based on nucleic acid diagnostic techniques and immunoassays to ach...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Huang D,Shi Z,Qian J,Bi K,Fang M,Xu Z

更新日期：2021-01-06 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：:UV-visible spectroscopy (UV-Vis) is routinely used in microbiology as a tool to check the optical density (OD) pertaining to the growth stages of microbial cultures at the single wavelength of 600 nm, better known as the OD600 . Typically, modern UV-Vis spectrophotometers can scan in the region of approximately 200-10...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Chapman J,Orrell-Trigg R,Kwoon KY,Truong VK,Cozzolino D

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular leak is a key driver of organ injury in diseases, and strategies that reduce enhanced permeability and vascular inflammation are promising therapeutic targets. Activation of the angiopoietin-1 (ANG1)-Tie2 tyrosine kinase signaling pathway is an important regulator of vascular quiescence. Here we describe the ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Liu P,Ryczko M,Xie X,Baardsnes J,Lord-Dufour S,Duroche Y,Hicks EA,Taiyab A,Sheardown H,Quaggin SE,Jin J

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herein, we report the development of a microbial bioprocess for high-level production of 5-aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA), a valuable non-proteinogenic amino acid with multiple applications in medical, agricultural, and food industries, using Escherichia coli as a cell factory. We first implemented the Shemin (i.e., C4) ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Miscevic D,Mao JY,Kefale T,Abedi D,Moo-Young M,Perry Chou C

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chondral and osteochondral lesions represent one of the most challenging problems in the orthopedic field, as these types of injuries lead to disability and worsened quality of life for patients and have an economic impact on the healthcare system. The aim of this in vivo study was to develop a new tissue engineering ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Tschon M,Brogini S,Parrilli A,Bertoldi S,Silini A,Parolini O,Faré S,Martini L,Veronesi F,Fini M,Giavaresi G

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sufficient provision of oxygen is mandatory for enzymatic oxidations in aqueous solution, however, in process optimization this still is a bottleneck that cannot be overcome with the established methods of macrobubble aeration. Providing higher mass transfer performance through microbubble aerators, inefficient ae...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Thomas B,Ohde D,Matthes S,Engelmann C,Bubenheim P,Terasaka K,Schlüter M,Liese A

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of rational design in reallocating metabolic flux to accumulate desired chemicals is always restricted by the native regulatory network. In this study, recombinant Pichia pastoris was constructed for malic acid production from sole methanol through rational redistribution of metabolic flux. Different m...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Guo F,Dai Z,Peng W,Zhang S,Zhou J,Ma J,Dong W,Xin F,Zhang W,Jiang M

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Liver tissue engineering aims to create transplantable liver grafts that can serve as substitutes for donor's livers. One major challenge in creating a fully functional liver tissue has been to recreate the biliary drainage in an engineered liver construct through integration of bile canaliculi (BC) with the biliary d...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Hafiz EOA,Bulutoglu B,Mansy SS,Chen Y,Abu-Taleb H,Soliman SAM,El-Hindawi AAF,Yarmush ML,Uygun BE

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autotrophic or mixotrophic use of one-carbon (C1) compounds is gaining importance for sustainable bioproduction. In an effort to integrate the reductive glycine pathway (rGP) as a highly promising pathway for the assimilation of CO2 and formate, genes coding for glycine synthase system from Gottschalkia acidurici were...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Hong Y,Arbter P,Wang W,Rojas LN,Zeng AP

更新日期：2020-12-17 00:00:00

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：:Nitrous oxide (N2 O), a potent greenhouse gas, is reduced to N2 gas by N2 O-reducing bacteria (N2 ORB), a process which represents an N2 O sink in natural and engineered ecosystems. The N2 O sink activity by N2 ORB depends on temperature and O2 exposure, yet the specifics are not yet understood. This study explores th...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Zhou Y,Suenaga T,Qi C,Riya S,Hosomi M,Terada A

更新日期：2020-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The investigation of new adjuvants is essential for the development of efficacious vaccines. Chitosan (CS), a derivative of chitin, has been shown to act as an adjuvant, improving vaccine-induced immune responses. However, the effect of CS molecular weight (MW) on this adjuvanticity has not been investigated, despite ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Lampe AT,Farris EJ,Brown DM,Pannier AK

更新日期：2020-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Lignocellulosic biofuels and chemicals have great potential to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and mitigate air pollution by cutting down on greenhouse gas emissions. Chemical, thermal, and enzymatic processes are used to release the sugars from the lignocellulosic biomass for conversion to biofuels. These proce...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Kasirajan L,Maupin-Furlow JA

更新日期：2020-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) has been extensively used in the past decades for the detection and localization of microorganisms. However, a mechanistic approach of the whole FISH process is still missing, and the main limiting steps for the hybridization to occur remain unclear. In here, FISH is approache...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Lima JF,Maia P,T Magalhães B,Cerqueira L,Azevedo NF

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of microalgal biomass for metal pollutant bioremediation might be improved by genetic engineering to modify the selectivity or capacity of metal biosorption. A plant cadmium (Cd) and zinc (Zn) transporter (AtHMA4) was used as a transgene to increase the ability of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii to tolerate 0.2 mM C...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Ibuot A,Webster RE,Williams LE,Pittman JK

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells are characterized by a low glucose catabolic efficiency, resulting in undesirable lactate production. Here, it is hypothesized that such low efficiency is determined by the transport of pyruvate into the mitochondria. The mitochondrial pyruvate carrier (MPC), responsible for introduci...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Bulté DB,Palomares LA,Parra CG,Martínez JA,Contreras MA,Noriega LG,Ramírez OT

更新日期：2020-09-01 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：:In crude extract-based cell-free protein synthesis (CFPS), DNA templates are transcribed and translated into functional proteins. Although linear expression templates (LETs) are less laborious and expensive to generate, plasmid templates are often desired over polymerase chain reaction-generated LETs due to increased ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Zhu B,Gan R,Cabezas MD,Kojima T,Nicol R,Jewett MC,Nakano H

更新日期：2020-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth decoupling can be used to optimize the production of biochemicals and proteins in cell factories. Inhibition of excess biomass formation allows for carbon to be utilized efficiently for product formation instead of growth, resulting in increased product yields and titers. Here, we used CRISPR interference to in...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Landberg J,Wright NR,Wulff T,Herrgård MJ,Nielsen AT

更新日期：2020-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of volatile industrial chemicals utilizing metabolically engineered extreme thermophiles offers the potential for processes with simultaneous fermentation and product separation. An excellent target chemical for such a process is acetone (Tb  = 56°C), ideally produced from lignocellulosic biomass. Caldi...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Straub CT,Bing RG,Otten JK,Keller LM,Zeldes BM,Adams MWW,Kelly RM

更新日期：2020-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA sequencing (RNASeq) has been widely used to associate alterations in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell gene expression with bioprocess phenotypes; however, alternative messenger RNA (mRNA) splicing, has thus far, received little attention. In this study, we utilized RNASeq for transcriptomic analysis of a monoclona...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Tzani I,Monger C,Motheramgari K,Gallagher C,Hagan R,Kelly P,Costello A,Meiller J,Floris P,Zhang L,Clynes M,Bones J,Barron N,Clarke C

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Squalene is a lipophilic and non-volatile triterpene with many industrial applications for food, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics. Metabolic engineering focused on optimization of the production pathway suffer from little success in improving titers because of a limited space of the cell membrane accommodating the lipop...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Meng Y,Shao X,Wang Y,Li Y,Zheng X,Wei G,Kim SW,Wang C

更新日期：2020-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Although several compelling benefits for bioprocess intensification have been reported, the need for a streamlined integration of perfusion cultures with capture chromatography still remains unmet. Here, a robust solution is established by conducting tangential flow filtration-based perfusion with a wide-surface pore ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Pinto NDS,Brower M

更新日期：2020-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural oxygen gradients occur in tissues of biological organisms and also in the context of three-dimensional (3D) in vitro cultivation. Oxygen diffusion limitation and metabolic oxygen consumption by embedded cells produce areas of hypoxia in the tissue/matrix. However, reliable systems to detect oxygen gradients an...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Schmitz C,Pepelanova I,Seliktar D,Potekhina E,Belousov VV,Scheper T,Lavrentieva A

更新日期：2020-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell lines derived from Trichoplusia ni (Tn) are widely used as hosts in the baculovirus-insect cell system (BICS). One advantage of Tn cell lines is they can produce recombinant proteins at higher levels than cell lines derived from other insects. However, Tn cell lines are persistently infected with an alphanodaviru...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Maghodia AB,Geisler C,Jarvis DL

更新日期：2020-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilms commonly develop in flowing aqueous environments, where the flow causes the biofilm to deform. Because biofilm deformation affects the flow regime, and because biofilms behave as complex heterogeneous viscoelastic materials, few models are able to predict biofilm deformation. In this study, a phase-field (PF)...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Li M,Matouš K,Nerenberg R

更新日期：2020-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In macroscopic dynamic models of fermentation processes, elementary modes (EM) derived from metabolic networks are often used to describe the reaction stoichiometry in a simplified manner and to build predictive models by parameterizing kinetic rate equations for the EM. In this procedure, the selection of a set of EM...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Hebing L,Neymann T,Engell S

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A key challenge for bioprocess engineering is the identification of the optimum process conditions for the production of biochemical and biopharmaceutical compounds using prokaryotic as well as eukaryotic cell factories. Shake flasks and bench-scale bioreactor systems are still the golden standard in the early stage o...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Totaro D,Rothbauer M,Steiger MG,Mayr T,Wang HY,Lin YS,Sauer M,Altvater M,Ertl P,Mattanovich D

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a bioelectrochemical system (BES), microbial community of anode biofilm is crucial to BES performance. In this study, the stratified pattern of community structure and activity of an anode-respiring biofilm in a BES fueled with brewery wastewater was investigated over time. The anode biofilm exhibited a superior pe...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Mai Q,Yang G,Cao J,Zhang X,Zhuang L

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As cartilage is incapable of self-healing upon severe degeneration because of the lack of blood vessels, cartilage tissue engineering is gaining importance in the treatment of cartilage defects. This study was designed to improve cartilage tissue regeneration by expressing tissue transglutaminase variant 2 (TGM2_v2) i...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Calikoglu Koyuncu AC,Nayman AH,Telci D,Torun Kose G

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzyme engineering is a powerful tool to fine-tune the enzymes. It is a technique by which the stability, activity, and specificity of the enzymes can be altered. The characteristic properties of an enzyme can be amended by immobilization and protein engineering. Among them, protein engineering is the most promising, ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Ali M,Ishqi HM,Husain Q

更新日期：2020-06-01 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 this study, a non-sterile (open) continuous fermentation (OCF) process with no-carbon loss was developed to improve lactic acid (LA) productivity and operational stability from the co-utilization of lignocellulose-derived sugars by thermophilic Enterococcus faecium QU 50. The effects of different sugar mixtures on ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Abdel-Rahman MA,Tan J,Tashiro Y,Zendo T,Sakai K,Sonomoto K

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A propanologenic (i.e., 1-propanol-producing) bacterium Escherichia coli strain was previously derived by activating the genomic sleeping beauty mutase (Sbm) operon. The activated Sbm pathway branches out of the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle at the succinyl-CoA node to form propionyl-CoA and its derived metabolites o...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Miscevic D,Mao JY,Moo-Young M,Chou CP

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzyme clustering into compact agglomerates could accelerate the processing of intermediates to enhance metabolic pathway flux. However, enzyme clustering is still a challenging task due to the lack of universal assembly strategy applicable to all enzymes. Therefore, we proposed an alternative enzyme assembly strategy...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Lv X,Jin K,Wu Y,Zhang C,Cui S,Zhu X,Li J,Du G,Liu L

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Continuous virus inactivation (VI) has received little attention in the efforts to realize fully continuous biomanufacturing in the future. Implementation of continuous VI must assure a specific minimum incubation time, typically 60 min. To guarantee the minimum incubation time, we implemented a packed bed continuous ...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Martins DL,Sencar J,Hammerschmidt N,Flicker A,Kindermann J,Kreil TR,Jungbauer A

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytidine-5'-diphosphocholine (CDP-choline) is a widely used neuroprotective drug for multiple indications. In industry, CDP-choline is synthesized by a two-step cell culture/permeabilized cell biotransformation method because substrates often do not enter cells in an efficient manner. This study develops a novel one-s...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Ren Y,Liu Q,Liu H,Zhou X,Zhang Y,Cai M

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mathematical modeling of animal cell growth and metabolism is essential for the understanding and improvement of the production of biopharmaceuticals. Models can explain the dynamic behavior of cell growth and product formation, support the identification of the most relevant parameters for process design, and signifi...

journal_title：Biotechnology and bioengineering

authors： Ramos JRC,Rath AG,Genzel Y,Sandig V,Reichl U

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00