Stability culture

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There several DO probes available. Some well-known branded fermenters, like New Brunswick, Bioflo series and the B. Braun Biotstat B fermenters are equipped with a DO meter. This unit has a 2 litre fermentation vessel equipped with DO meter and pH probe, antifoam sensor and level controllers for harvesting culture. The concentration of DO in the media is a function of temperature. The higher operating temperature would decrease the level of DO. A micro-sparger is used to provide sufficient small air bubbles. The air bubbles are stabilized in the media and the liquid phase is saturated with air. The availability of oxygen is major parameter to be considered in effective microbial cell growth rate. 

In a gas and liquid system, when gas is introduced into a culture medium, bubbles are formed. The bubbles rise rapidly through the medium and dispersion of the bubbles occurs at surface, forming froth. The froth collapses by coalescence, but in most cases the fermentation broth is viscous so this coalescence may be reduced to form stable froth. Any compounds in the broth, such as proteins, that reduce the surface tension may influence foam formation. The stability of preventing bubbles coalescing depends on the film elasticity, which is increased by the presence of peptides, proteins and soaps. On the other hand, the presence of alcohols and fatty acids will make the foam unstable. 

Suppose we need to make up a buffer with a particular pH. For instance, we might be culturing bacteria and need to maintain a precise pH to sustain their metabolism. To choose the most appropriate buffer system, we need to know the value of the pH at which a given buffer stabilizes a solution. When doing large numbers of this type of calculation, it is convenient first to rearrange the expression for the... 

Another important protein of the Clp family is ClpB which possesses ATPase activity. In a clpB mutation, 45% of the denatured and aggregated protein arising transiently after the transfer of an E. coli culture from 30 to 45 °C is stabilized [14]. ClpB seems to play an important role in the renaturation or proteolysis of the aggregated proteins, but the mechanism of action of ClpB is not yet known. One can suppose that it might participate in the resolubilization of aggregated proteins. 

BCG Cultures of live BCG cells in liquid or on solid media 1 Bacteria centrifuged from medium 2 Resuspension in stabilizer 3 Freeze-drying Viable count induction of sensitivity to tuberculin in guinea-pigs Exclusion of virulent mycobacteria absence of excessive dermal reactivity... 

Poliomyelitis (live or oral) (Sabin type) Cell cultures infected with attenuated poliovirus of each of the three serotypes 1 Clarification 2 Blending of virus of three serotypes in stabilizing medium Infectivity titration of each of three virus serotypes Test for attenuation by Inoculation of spinal cords of monkeys and comparison of lesions with those produced by a reference vaccine... 

Rubella (German measles) Human diploid cell cultures infected with attenuated rubella virus 1 Clarification 2 Blending with stabilizer 3 Freeze-drying Infectivity titration In cell cultures Tests to exclude presence of extraneous viruses... 

Palozza, P. et al.. Solubilization and stabilization of P-carotene in niosomes delivery to cultured cells, Chem. Phys. Lipids, 139, 322, 2006. 

Careful empirical selection of the expression platform for carotenogenesis has included selection of the best strains for stability and degree of accumulation and the selection of compatible drug-resistance combinations and low copy number polycistronic plasmids to enhance product accumulation by decrease of metabolic burden." 5 Matthews and Wurtzel discussed culture and induction conditions - that have been explored in most studies. Most efforts to engineer carotenoid biosynthesis in E. coli focused on the genes and enzymes of the pathway and had a modest effect on improved accumulation. For example, substitution and over-expression of a GGPPS that uses IPP directly (discussed in... 

Two distinct phases can be distinguished in the kinetic of release of reducing groups in order to study the regultion and synthesis of PG by the SCPP strain. Thus, we decided to estimate the effect of glucose on the PG activity at the start of the culture and define the cause of the stabilization phase in the release of the reducing groups... 

Other neuronal Cl -channels are Ca " -controlled. Increases in cytosolic Ca enhances the probability of these channels being open [26,27]. These channels stabilize the membrane voltage by clamping it towards the Cl -equilibrium potential. Such channels have been found, e.g., in cultured mouse spinal neurones and in molluscan neurones. They subserve the repolarization phenomena and hence assist Ca -activated -channels. Their conductance is in the small to intermediate range. They are usually gated by depolarization. 

Keshavarz T, MD Lilly, PC Clarke (1985) Stability of a catabolic plasmid in continuous culture. J Gen Microbiol 131 1193-1203. 

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