BACKGROUND Efficient production of SA in Escherichia coli has been achieved by modifying key genes of the central carbon metabolism and SA pathway, resulting in overproducing strains grown in batch- or fed-batch-fermentor cultures using a complex broth including glucose and YE. In this study, we performed a GTA to identify those genes significantly upregulated in an engineered E. coli strain, P...

Background: Recombinant proteins, including antibodies and antibody fragments, often contain disulfide bond bridges that are necessary for their folding, stability and function. Production of disulfidebond-containing proteins in the periplasm of Escherichia coli has been very useful, due to unique characteristics of the periplasm, for obtaining fully active and correctly folded products and for...

The mature core protein of the Hepatitis C virus (HCVC173) carrying pelB as a signal peptide (PelB::core) was overexpressed in Escherichia coli as 18% and 23.3% of the host’s total protein, in flask and fermentor cultivation, respectively. A final specific yield of 25 ± 1 mg HCVC173/g dry cell weight and an overallproductivity of 51±1 mg HCVC173/l/h were obtained in the stirred-tank ferme...

Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles with appropriate surface modification can be widely used in various applications including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) diagnostic contrast agents, anticancer therapy using hyperthermia, magnetic drug targeting, protein and enzyme immobilization, cell labeling and separation or RNA and DNA purification. All these biochemical and biomedical applicat...

[Purpose] This study was conducted to compare and analyze influence of craniocervical flexion and suboccipitalis relaxation in cervicogenic headache patients of their cervical muscular fatigue, tone, and headache intensity. [Subjects and Methods] 30 patients with cervicogenic headache were selected and 10 subjects per group were randomly assigned to control group, craniocervical flexion exercis...

Flow Microcalorimetry, E. coli K12, Aerobic Chemostat Culture The combination of a 3-liter fermentor with a flow-through calorimeter is described. Minimum time-lags are less than 10 s corresponding to maximum thermal peak disturbances of ~ 4 jiW. The set up shows an excellent long time stability. Aerobic growth of Escherichia coli K12 in batch cultures was used to test the equipment. Precision ...

BACKGROUND Small-scale microbial fermentations are often assumed to be homogeneous, and oxygen limitation due to inadequate micromixing is often overlooked as a potential problem. To assess the relative degree of micromixing, and hence propensity for oxygen limitation, a new cellular oxygen sensor has been developed. The oxygen responsive E. coli nitrate reductase (nar) promoter was used to con...