Cell kinetics INDEX

The activation properties of CaMKII have been well documented in vitro and are understood in considerable molecular detail. In contrast, much less is known about CaMKII activation kinetics in intact cells that display complex and localized Ca2+ transients as well as phosphatase activities that reverse autophosphorylation events. Using autonomous activity as a quantitative index of CaMKII activation, we have... 

Where S, G, X, E and Enz are respectively the starch, glucose, cells, ethanol and enzyme concentrations inside the reactor, Si is the starch concentration on the feed, F is the feed flow rate, V is the volume of hquid in the fermentor and (pi, (p2, (ps represent the reaction rates for starch degradation, cells growth and ethanol production, respectively. The unstructured model presented in (Ochoa et al., 2007) is used here as the real plant. The ki (for i=l to 4) kinetic parameters of the model for control were identified by an optimization procedure given in Mazouni et al. (2004), using as error index the mean square error between the state variables of the unstructured model and the model for control. 

Under linear conditions, when = 0, that is, when the resistance in the bypass channel is much greater than the combined resistance of the electrolyte in the cell manifold and the kinetic resistance associated with the anode and the cathode reactions, the bypass percentage index, J% is given as [51,52,56-58] ... 

Anicich, V. G. (2003) An index of the literature for bimolecular gas phase cation-molecule reaction kinetics. JPL Publication, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, pp. 03-19. Yamada, N., Takahashi, J., and Sakata, K. (2002) The effect of cell-gas impurities and kinetic energy discrimination in an octopole collision cell ICP-MS under non-thermalised conditions. J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 17,1213-22. 

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