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  • 1
    ISSN: 0006-3592
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
    Notes: Aspen (Populus tremuloides) and black cottonwood (Populus trichocarpa) organosolv pulps produced in a wide range of solvent composition (between 30 and 70% by volume of methanol) and catalysts (H2SO4 and H3PO4) such that the cooking liquor pH ≤ 3 are easily digested by enzymes. The total yields of hydrolysis residues (pulps) are in the 40-60% range; the acid-catalyzed delignification followed by enzyme hydrolysis can generate 70-88% of the original six-carbon sugars contained in the wood. Glucomannan and arablnogalactan are dissolved into the pulping liquor in the pH range of 2-4.5. Lower pH (≤3) leads to additional solubilization of six-carbon sugars. These sugars may be fermented directly. From the insoluble hydrolysis residues, 36-41% conversions of wood into fermentable sugars were obtained after enzyme hydrolysis; the starting feedstocks contain 50.8 and 46.6% hexosans, respectively, for aspen and black cotton-wood. The kinetics of enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose can be formally treated as two simultaneous pseudo-first-order reactions in which fast and slow hydrolyses of cellulose occur. Correlations between the glucan digestibility and the effect of the pretreatment have been made. The higher residual xylan content reduces the amount of the rapidly hydrolyzable glucan fraction and lowers the glucan digestibility. The proposed simple kinetic treatment is very helpful in assessing the effect of the pretreatment on pulp enzyme hydrolyzability.
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    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 53 (1997), S. 547-559 
    ISSN: 0006-3592
    Keywords: recombinant protein production ; protein folding ; protein secretion ; human antithrombin III ; Chinese hamster ovary cells ; serum-free culture ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
    Notes: Overexpression of recombinant proteins in animal cells is commonly achieved by using gene amplification techniques. Gene amplified cells possess up to several thousand genes coding for the target protein. Constitutive expression of these genes leads to high levels of the corresponding mRNA species and the immature protein in the cell. Inefficient processing of these precursors may result from their great abundance in the cell. To study the influence of elevated intracellular levels of a recombinant protein on its maturation and secretion, we examined the maturation and secretion of human antithrombin III (hATIII) in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells at different levels of gene amplification. No loss of vitality was caused by elevated secretion of hATIII. As the intracellular hATIII content increased, the efficiency of hATIII secretion decreased steadily. The state of intracellular hATIII from the different cell lines was studied by determining the specific heparin cofactor activity of hATIII. Intracellular hATIII from the highest amplified cell line displayed a lowered specific heparin cofactor activity indicating the presence of malfolded, only partially folded, or incompletely or incorrectly posttranslationally modified hATIII in this cell line. Thus, the ability of CHO cells to fold and/or introduce posttranslational modifications and subsequently to secrete the recombinant protein becomes saturated, and therefore these processes may become limiting for protein secretion at highly elevated expression levels. This limitation was not due to a general exhaustion of the secretory capacity of the cells because hATIII constituted only a minor fraction of the secreted proteins, even at high expression levels. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Biotechnol Bioeng 53: 547-559, 1997.
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    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 54 (1997), S. 567-576 
    ISSN: 0006-3592
    Keywords: continuous cultivation ; unstable steady state ; substrate inhibition ; phenol degradation ; Pseudomonas cepacia G4 ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
    Notes: Multiplicity of steady states of a continuous culture with an inhibitory substrate was used to estimate kinetic parameters under steady-state conditions. A continuous culture of Pseudomonas cepacia G4, using phenol as the sole source of carbon and energy, was overloaded by increasing the dilution rate above the critical dilution rate. The culture was then stabilized in the inhibitory branch by a proportional controller using the carbon dioxide concentration in the reactor exhaust gas as the controlled variable and the dilution rate as the manipulated variable. By variation of the set point, several unstable steady states in the inhibitory branch were investigated and the specific phenol conversion rates calculated. In addition, phenol degradation was investigated under substrate limitation (chemostat operation).The results show that the phenol degradation by P. cepacia can be described by the same set of inhibition parameters under substrate limitation and under high substrate concentrations in the inhibitory branch. Biomass yield and maintenance coefficients were identical. Fitting of the data to various inhibition models resulted in the best fit for the Yano and Koga equation. The well-known Haldane model, which is most often used to describe substrate inhibition by phenol, gave the poorest fit. The described method allows a precise data estimation under steady-state conditions from the maximum of the biological reaction rate up to high substrate concentrations in the inhibitory branch. Inhibition parameter estimation by controlling unstable steady states may thus be useful in avoiding discrepancies between data generated by batch runs and their application to continuous cultures which have been often described in the literature. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Biotechnol Bioeng 54: 567-576, 1997.
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    Biotechnology and Bioengineering 58 (1998), S. 408-415 
    ISSN: 0006-3592
    Keywords: nitric oxide ; NOx ; flue gas ; denitrification ; aerobic ; biofilter ; aerosol ; biomass control ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
    Notes: The presence of significant denitrification activity in an aerobic toluene-treating biofilter was demonstrated under batch and flow-through conditions. N2O concentrations of 9.2 ppmv were produced by denitrifying bacteria in the presence of 15% acetylene, in a flow-through system with a bulk gas phase O2 concentration of 〉17%. The carbon source for denitrification was not toluene but a byproduct or metabolite of toluene catabolism. Denitrification conditions were successfully used for the reduction of 60 ppmv nitric oxide to 15 ppmv at a flow rate of 3 L min-1 (EBRT of 3 min) in a fully aerated, 17% v/v O2 (superficially aerobic) biofilter. Higher NO removal efficiency (97%) was obtained by increasing the toluene supply to the biofilter. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Biotechnol Bioeng 58:408-415, 1998.
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    Electrophoresis 9 (1988), S. 393-397 
    ISSN: 0173-0835
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: A practical method for haptoglobin subtyping is described utilizing fast sample preparation by means of batch adsorption to DEAE-cellulose and subsequent isoelectric focusing of reductively cleaved samples. The expanded haptoglobin polymorphism leads to an increase of the theoretical paternity exclusion rate to approximately 33 %. Hence, the system appears to be highly attractive for paternity assessment.
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    Cell Biochemistry and Function 11 (1993), S. 1-11 
    ISSN: 0263-6484
    Keywords: Prion protein ; prion gene expression ; scrapie ; N2a cells ; mouse neuroblastoma cells ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: The scrapie prion protein, PrPSc, is formed from its isoform, the cellular PrPc. There is evidence available indicating that PrPSc is necessary component of the infectious prion particle to cause a series of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. We have used immunocytochemistry and RNA blotting techniques to investigate if infection with prions results in an increased PrP gene expression. For the experiments we used N2a cells which had been infected with prions (ScN2a cells). We demonstrated by confocal laser scanning microscopy that PrP-protein was present in the nucleus (predominantly in the nucleoli) of ScN2a cells. Analysis of the PrP-mRNA levels both in N2a- and in ScN2a cells using cDNA encoding PrPc revealed no marked alteration of the mRNA steady state level between the two cell strains. Likewise, in run-off experiments no changes in either PrP-specific transcription or in general transcriptional activity were found. The half-life of PrP-mRNA was found to be identical in both cell strains (7 h). Taken together, these results show that PrPSc and /or PrPc is present in the nucleus (nucleoli) of ScN2a cells but does not display and effect on the expression of the PrP gene.
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    ISSN: 0263-6484
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: The antileukemic and anti-HTLV-III (anti-HIV) agent avarol, a sesquiterpenoid hydroquinone, was determined to be converted into its corresponding quinone derivative avarone via the semiquinone free radical. Its g-value was 2·0047; after hyperfine splitting the energy levels revealed 16 isotropic Hfs. The redox reaction products were identified at the pH values 4·0, 7·0 and 12·0 and the overall reaction pathways were formulated. In vivo experiments with L5178y mouse lymphoma cells in the ascites of mice revealed that the cytostatic potencies of avarol and avarone cannot be augmented by lowering the pH value. Incubation studies with L5178y cells in vitro showed that the intracellular levels of superoxide dismutases (SODases) and of glutathione (GSH) peroxidase activities significantly change after avarol administration. While both the Mn-SODase and the Cu/Zn-SODase activities dropped significantly, the GSH peroxidase activity increased inversely. From these experiments we assume that the anti-tumour and the antiviral effects of avarol/avarone may be due to an increase, induced by the drug, of the intracellular concentrations of superoxide radicals.
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    Electrophoresis 8 (1987), S. 221-223 
    ISSN: 0173-0835
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Transcobalamin was separated by isoelectric focusing and by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Isoelectric focusing showed one band in homozygotes and two bands in heterozygotes, with isoelectric points between 6.3 and 7.0, while polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis produced two and four bands, respectively. Addition of neuraminidase, urea or EDTA had no effect on the separation of transcobalamin at isoelectric focusing. The results obtained by the two methods are comparable and in accord with the nomenclature of transcobalamin variants.
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    ISSN: 0173-0835
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: When neuraminidase-treated sera are analyzed by agarose gel isoelectric focusing, the factor B (BF) banding pattern is reduced to predominantly one major band without cathodically positioned bands. This not only makes unequivocal typing of BF allotypes possible but also the reliable distinction of all BF F subtype phenotypes with delimitation of “BF F subtype variants”. With this new method, serum aging affects the BF determination to a lesser extent than when applying methods that separate native sera. We show that sialylation is not responsible for the BF F subtype polymorphism. All of the investigated BF allotype bands, including those characteristic of the subtypes, show functional hemolytic activity. The banding pattern after removal of neuraminic acid residues ranges from pH 6.8 to 7.3 for factor B, from pH 5.3 to 5.9 for the Ba fragment, and from pH 8.2 to 8.7 for the Bb fragment. The protein structure of factor B is also discussed. Eliminating the superimposition of bands in different BF allotypes, as demonstrated by these methods, proved to be necessary for the detection of hypomorphic BF gene products (BF QL), which are expressed by assumed BF*Q0 alleles in heterozygous genotypes. This allows investigation of BF*Q0 alleles on a protein level, which complements molecular genetic approaches.
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    ISSN: 0173-0835
    Keywords: Plasma protein adsorption ; PK-120 ; Apolipoproteins ; Gelsolin ; Two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis ; Chemistry ; Biochemistry and Biotechnology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: Plasma protein adsorption on intravenously injectable drug carriers is regarded as an important factor for the fate of the particles in the body after their administration. Therefore, the plasma protein adsorption patterns on a number of different carrier systems were analyzed in vitro employing two-dimensional electrophoresis (2-DE). The particulate systems presented in this study were polystyrene (PS) model particles, PS nanoparticles surface-modified by adsorption of a surfactant, a commercial fat emulsion, and magnetic iron oxide particles used as contrast agents in magnetic resonance imaging. Most of the spots in the plasma protein adsorption patterns could be identified by matching the resulting 2-DE gels with a reference map of human plasma proteins. Several other proteins that indicated preferentially adsorbed proteins on the surface of the particles investigated have either not been identified on the reference map, or their identity was found to be ambiguous. The relevant proteins are all present in plasma in low abundance. Since these proteins were strongly enriched on the surface of the particles, the resulting spots on the 2-DE gels were successfully identified by N-terminal microsequencing. With this approach, two chains of spots, designated PLS:6 and PLS:8, were determined on a plasma reference map: inter-α-trypsin inhibitor family heavy chain-related protein (also named PK-120) and a dimer of fibrinogen γ, respectively. Plasma gelsolin is presented in a 2-DE adsorption pattern of PS model particles. One of the main proteins adsorbed by droplets of a commercial fat emulsion was identified as apoliprotein H. Moreover, the positions of apolipoproteins apoC-II and apoC-III were also verified on the 2-DE protein map of human plasma. Thus, protein adsorption experiments of the kind presented in this study are increasing our insight into human plasma proteins.
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