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Biogenetic Autonomy of Mitochondria and Its Limits
The past ten years have seen such an almost explosive growth of efforts devoted to studies on mitochondrial biogenesis that they occupy at least as much contemporary journal space as do studies on mitochondria...
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Effect of metabolic structures and energy requirements on curdlan production byAlcaligenes faecalis
A comprehensive metabolic network was proposed forAlcaligenes faecalis and employed in a stoichiometrically based flux balance model for curdlan production optimization. The maximal yield of curdlan was evaluated...
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Improvement of hEGF production with enhanced cell division ability using dissolved oxygen responses to pulse addition of tryptone
Tryptone has multiple and complex effects on cell physiology and process performance in pulse fed-batch cultivation of recombinant Escherichia coli. By applying feedback control of dissolved oxygen signal respond...
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Enhancement of polysialic acid yield by reducing initial phosphate and feeding ammonia water to Escherichia coli CCTCC M208088
Polysialic acid (PSA) is a capsular polysaccharide obtained from aerobic fermentation with Escherichia coli. To enhance PSA production and eliminate the influence of phosphate on the PSA purification process, a l...
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Improvement of the CuZn-superoxide dismutase enzyme activity and stability as a therapeutic agent by modification with polysialic acids
The optimal process for the polysialylation reaction was as follows: polysialicacid (PSA) was activated by periodate oxidation, then coupled to CuZn superoxide dismutase (SOD) with a PSA:SOD molar ratio of 40:...
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Enhanced curdlan production in Agrobacterium sp. ATCC 31749 by addition of low-polyphosphates
A large amount of adenosine triphosphate with high energy phosphate bonds is required for uridine triphosphate regeneration during curdlan biosynthesis by Agrobacterium sp. ATCC 31749. To supply high energy for c...
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Changes of Curdlan Biosynthesis and Nitrogenous Compounds Utilization Characterized in ntrC Mutant of Agrobacterium sp. ATCC 31749
The regulatory function of global regulator NtrC on curdlan biosynthesis and nitrogen consumption under nitrogen-limited condition in Agrobacterium sp. ATCC 31749 was investigated. The ntrC mutant of Agrobacteriu...
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Sequence and transcriptional analysis of the genes responsible for curdlan biosynthesis in Agrobacterium sp. ATCC 31749 under simulated dissolved oxygen gradients conditions
Expression at the mRNA level of ten selected genes in Agrobacterium sp. ATCC 31749 under various dissolved oxygen (DO) levels during curdlan fermentation related to electron transfer chain (ETC), tricarboxylic ac...
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Recent advances in curdlan biosynthesis, biotechnological production, and applications
Curdlan is a water-insoluble β-(1,3)-glucan produced by Agrobacterium species under nitrogen-limited condition. Its heat-induced gelling properties render curdlan to be very useful in the food industry initially....
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Improved curdlan fermentation process based on optimization of dissolved oxygen combined with pH control and metabolic characterization of Agrobacterium sp. ATCC 31749
A significant problem in scale-down cultures, rarely studied for metabolic characterization and curdlan-producing Agrobacterium sp. ATCC 31749, is the presence of dissolved oxygen (DO) gradients combined with pH ...
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Improvement of specific growth rate of Pichia pastoris for effective porcine interferon-α production with an on-line model-based glycerol feeding strategy
Effective expression of porcine interferon-α (pIFN-α) with recombinant Pichia pastoris was conducted in a bench-scale fermentor. The influence of the glycerol feeding strategy on the specific growth rate and prot...
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Identification and analysis of the metabolic functions of a high-salt-tolerant halophilic aromatic yeast Candida etchellsii for soy sauce production
Salt-tolerant yeasts are very important for the flavor formation in soy sauce fermentation production. A halophilic aromatic yeast was isolated on the basis of the molecular biological and metabolic functions ...
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An unstructured kinetic model to study NaCl effect on volatile ester fermentation by Candida etchellsii for soy sauce production
Salt-tolerant aromatic yeast is an important microorganism arising from the solid state fermentation of soy sauce. The fermentation kinetics of volatile esters by Candida etchellsii was studied in a batch system....
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Methanol/sorbitol co-feeding induction enhanced porcine interferon-α production by P. pastoris associated with energy metabolism shift
The production of porcine interferon-α (pIFN-α) by Pichia pastoris was largely enhanced when adopting sorbitol/methanol co-feeding induction strategy at 30 °C in a 10-L fermentor. Analysis of energy regeneration ...
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A new polysialic acid production process based on dual-stage pH control and fed-batch fermentation for higher yield and resulting high molecular weight product
To determine the factors influencing the resulting molecular weight of polysialic acid (PSA), batch fermentations by using Escherichia coli were conducted. It was found that temperature and pH were significant fa...
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Influence of sodium chloride on thermal denaturation of a high-salt-tolerant neutral protease from Aspergillus oryzae
The temperature and pH stability of proteases have been extensively investigated. A neutral protease produced by Aspergillus oryzae was thermodynamically characterized at high-salt environment. When the protease ...
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A new effective process for production of curdlan oligosaccharides based on alkali-neutralization treatment and acid hydrolysis of curdlan particles in water suspension
Biologically active β-1,3-oligosaccharides with rapidly growing biomedical applications are produced from hydrolysis of curdlan polysaccharide. The water-insoluble curdlan impedes its hydrolysis efficiency whi...
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Enhancing pIFN-α Production and Process Stability in Fed-Batch Culture of Pichia pastoris by Controlling the Methanol Concentration and Monitoring the Responses of OUR/DO Levels
Effective expression of porcine interferon-α (pIFN-α) with recombinant Pichia pastoris was conducted in a bench-scale fermentor using an in situ methanol electrode-based feeding process with the control level of ...
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Purification and characterization of a new endo-β-1,3-glucanase exhibiting a high specificity for curdlan for production of β-1,3-glucan oligosaccharides
Endo-β-1,3-glucanase (Endo23) was purified from a Trichoderma reesei GIMCC 3.498 fermentation broth using anion exchange and 2-stage size exclusion chromatography. Purification of 44.5× and a 12% recovery yield o...
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An unstructured kinetic model for the improvement of triterpenes production by Ganoderma lucidum G0119 based on nitrogen source effect
The kinetics of cell growth and triterpenes production for liquid submerged fermentation of the medicinal mushroom Ganoderma lucidum were investigated. A kinetic model was developed based on the Logistic and Lued...
