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A lively and optimistic survey of a new breed of businessmen who are breaking away from huge companies to form dynamic enterprises in microelectronics, biotechnology and other developing areas. 

The use of mass spectrometry for the analysis of peptides, proteins, and enzymes has been summarized. This chapter should be read in conjunction with others, including Chapter 45, An Introduction to Biotechnology, and Chapters 1 through 5, which describe specific ionization techniques in detail. 

L. G. Coppiug and P. Rodgers, eds., "Biotechnology and its AppHcation to Agriculture." British Crop Protection Conference, Croydon, U.K., Monograph 32,1985. 

Data-Star. This is Europe s leading on-line database service (39) and covers worldwide business news, financial information, market research, trade statistics, business analysis, healthcare / pharmaceuticals, chemicals / petrochemicals, chemical industry, biomedicine /life science, biotechnology, and technology, with an emphasis on Europe. It was originally formed as a joint venture among BRS, Predicasts, and Radio Suisse (the Swiss telecommunications company) (37). Data-Star offers access to about 300 bibliographic, abstract, directory, and fuU-text on-line databases, of which approximately 150 are also available on Dialog (40). 

C. G. Gebelein and C. E. Carraher, eds.. Biotechnology and Bioactive Polymers, Plenum Press, New York, 1994. 

M. Yamada, H. Tsutsui, and K. Shimoto, Proc. Ann. Mtg. Japan Society of Bioscience Biotechnology and Agrochemistry 1990, p. 680 Jpn. Kokai 1148,194 (June 9, 1989), M. Shirai and co-workers (to Toray Industrial Company). 

Although the techniques described have resulted in the determination of many protein stmctures, the number is only a small fraction of the available protein sequences. Theoretical methods aimed at predicting the 3-D stmcture of a protein from its sequence therefore form a very active area of research. This is important both to understanding proteins and to the practical appHcations in biotechnology and the pharmaceutical industries. 

Dispersion forces are ubiquitous and are present in all molecular interactions. They can occur in isolation, but are always present even when other types of interaction dominate. Typically, the interactions between hydrocarbons are exclusively dispersive and, because of them, hexane, at S.T.P., is a liquid boiling at 68.7°C and is not a gas. Dispersive interactions are sometimes referred to as hydrophobic or lyophobic particularly in the fields of biotechnology and biochemistry. These terms appear to have arisen because dispersive substances, e.g., the aliphatic hydrocarbons, do not dissolve readily in water. Biochemical terms for molecular interactions in relation to the physical chemical terms will be discussed later. 

The first two categories, clarifying and crossflow filters, have been very well developed and optimized for use in biotechnology and standard wastewater treatment applications. Equipment is easily available for these applications, whether as small 0.2 micron sterilizing filter used to terminally sterilize 100 ml of product solution, or a small 500 ml crossflow filter used to concentrate a small amount of antibody solution. Many vendors of this equipment to wastewater treatment applications have their origins in the CPI (Chemical Process Industries), and have incorporated many of the scale-up and optimization properties developed in much larger units used in large scale chemical production. As a result, these two filtration unit operations are one of the most optimized and efficient used in wastewater treatment. 

Mavrovouniotis, M. L., and Stephanopoulos, G. (1990). Computer-aided synthesis of biochemical pathways. Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 36, 1119-1132. 

Petanate, A.M. and Glatz, C.E., 1983. Isoelectric precipitation of soy protein. I. Factors affecting particle size distributions. II. Kinetics of protein aggregate growth and breakage. Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 25, 3049. 

German Society for Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology and Environmental Protection (DECHEMA)... 

Biotechnology and synthetic chemistry as routes to clinically important compounds, in particular terpenolactones 99PAC1025. 

Combined biotechnological and synthetic methods for preparation of polycyclic y-lactones, clinically important compounds 98PAC2093. 

Although it is possible to obtain cells from whole animals or plants and to cultivate them in suitable nutrient solutions, in general they are not as easy to handle as microbes. Nevertheless, plant and animal cells are a valuable genetic resource for biotechnology and many newly developed bioprocesses rely on transfer of their genes to micro-organisms. 

Ebringerova A, HromddkovdZ (1999) In Harding SE (ed) Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Reviews. Intercept, England, vol. 16, p. 325... 

Pimentel, D. In Biotechnology and Sustainable Agriculture Policy Alternatives Fessenden MacDonald, J., Ed. National Agricultural Biotechnology Council Boyce Thompson Institute, Ithaca, NY, 1989 pp. 69-74. 

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