Digestion algae

Waste treatment algae digesting proteins enzymes (plastic digesting enzymes obtained from mutant) Amoeba spp., Rhizopoda, Protozoa Polne-Fuller 1988... 

There are samples or crude extracts containing the analyte of interest but whose concentration has not been accurately established. For marine biotoxins, such materials may be frozen homogenates of naturally contaminated seafood, crude or partially purified extracts of such seafood, or of harmful algae. Digestive glands of contaminated shellfish are a source of concentrated toxins and their metabolites. Such materials cannot be used to calibrate methods of analysis but can serve very useful functions in method validation and quality control, especially when they contain rare toxins not readily available elsewhere (i) Retention times and spectral properties can be established on a routine basis for LC-UV, LC-FL, or LC-MS methods (ii) Partially purified extracts can be used for fortification experiments during method validation and thus establish recovery and precision data (iii) If concentrations of toxins can be established by reference to CRMs, then the materials can be used as in-house or interlaboratory reference materials for quality control. Issues such as toxin stability and homogeneity then become more important. ... 

The performance model reflects and is limited by the current state-of-the-art in algae growth. Several important, basic relationships have yet to be quantitied. As a result, several parameters must be introduced as input data. For example, the level of wastewater treatment is only partially predictable by the process options selected. Nutrient removal efficiencies must be input for each different level of treatment. Similarly, the solar conversion efficiency cannot be predicted by the model and must be input. Finally, algae digestion is essentially a "black box" operation at this point. This fact prevents a quantitative assessment of nitrogen and phosphorus mass balances in the system. Within these limitations, equations were developed to predict (1) the flows and (2) the required equipment sizes for the various process operations. 

In general, many species of algae have cell walls resistant to digestive enzymes, dark colors, and bitter flavor. AH of these characteristics must be altered to make an acceptable food or feed product. 

Item (1) is not always true. Some micro-organisms are easier to digest than plants, whereas others (such as algae) are more difficult to digest than many plant foods. 

Recall that the original development of eukaryotic creatures may have started with a symbiotic relationship between two prokaryotes and that symbiosis between algae and nonphotosynthetic organisms may have led to development of higher plants. Associations between species are still important today. For example, the bacteria in the protozoa of the digestive tract of ruminant animals are essential to production of meat. Our own bodies play host to bacteria, fungi,... 

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