Bacterial coupling technology

Scheme 8 Kyowa Hakko s technology through multiple bacterial coupling...

The applications of bacterial cellulose dry and wet membranes have increased considerably in last couple of decades, mainly in the biomedical field, as recently thoroughly reviewed [23], and high technology areas, and also in other sectors, as summarized below. 

Immimodiagnostics and enzyme biosensors are two of the leading technologies that have a greatest impact on the food industry. The use of these two systems has reduced the time for detection of pathogens such as Salmonella to 24 hr and has provided detection of biological compounds such as cholesterol or chymotrypsin [15]. Biosensors analyses Beta lactams in milk and presence of urea in milk that lead to production of synthetic milk, the biocomponent part of the urea biosensor is an immobilized urease yielding bacterial cell biomass isolated from soil and is coupled to the ammonium ions selective electrodes of a potentiometric transducer. The membrane potential of all types of potentiometric cell based probes is related to the activity of electrochemically-detected product [16]. 

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