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Because enzymes can be intraceUularly associated with cell membranes, whole microbial cells, viable or nonviable, can be used to exploit the activity of one or more types of enzyme and cofactor regeneration, eg, alcohol production from sugar with yeast cells. Viable cells may be further stabilized by entrapment in aqueous gel beads or attached to the surface of spherical particles. Otherwise cells are usually homogenized and cross-linked with glutaraldehyde [111-30-8] to form an insoluble yet penetrable matrix. This is the method upon which the principal industrial appHcations of immobilized enzymes is based. 

Viable cells mean cells which can grow non-viable cells mean cells which cannot. Microbiologists use the same terms but can divide non-viable cells into cells, which remain metabolically active in some respects and cells which are effectively dead. They can also distinguish within their category of "viable cells between cells, which are actively dividing, and cells such as spore cells whose growth activities are potential rather than actual. 

The equations for the state variables (viable cells, non-viable cells, substrate, and product) are ... 

For food and pharmaceutical applications, the microbial count must be reduced to less than 10,000 viable cells per g exopolysaccharide. Treatment with propylene oxide gas has been used for reducing the number of viable cells in xanthan powders. The patented process involves propylene oxide treatment for 3 h in a tumbling reactor. There is an initial evacuation step before propylene oxide exposure. After treatment, evacuation and tumbling are alternated and if necessary the reactor is flushed with sterile nitrogen gas to reduce the residual propylene oxide level below the Food and Drug Administration permitted maximum (300 mg kg 1). The treated polysaccharide is then packaged aseptically. 

The recorded data can be used to improve the process. Controlling operating conditions is important for maintaining viable cells, and it makes the interpretation of fermentation data easier. 

Figure 15.4 shows the linear model for (15.6.3), the loss of cell viability at various temperatures. As the temperature increases from 105 to 121 °C, the value for the slope of the line increases. This means that the number of viable cells at a fixed time of sterilisation will drastically decrease as the temperature increases by 16 °C. 

There has been an increase in the use of cadaveric heart valves for patients with valvular defects. The valves are best stored by freezing but some success has been achieved by simple cold storage in an antibiotic medium made up of ingredients common to most tissue culture solutions. At a storage temperature of 4 °C there is a continual loss of viability of fibroblasts so that by three weeks there are practically no viable cells and the valves cannot be used. 

Biomass Production. Biomass is usually measured by dry weight of viable cells per unit volume X. We bypass the sometimes tricky problems associated with this measurement except to say that it is the province of the microbiologist and usually involves plate cultures and filtration followed by drying. Suppose there is one limiting nutrient S, and that all other nutrients are available in excess. Then the Monod model for growth is... 

E.coli K12 TGI were grown to log phase (up to OD6oo=0.20-0.30) in Luria-Bertani (LB) broth, washed and ultimately concentrated 25 times in ice-cold 100 mM of CaCb. DNA was extracted from agarose gel after electrophoresis, added to 200 ml of competent cell and incubated at 0°C for 15 min. The cell-DNA complex was transferred to 42°C for exactly 90 s and was rapidly chilled in ice. Then 1000 ml LB-broth was added and the cells were incubated at 37°C for 60 min. 100 ml cells was spread on LB-agar with and without selective marker ampicillin (50 mg/ml), to obtain the number of transformants and viable cells respectively. Plates were incubated at 37°C for 18-24 h. 

E.coli recA y.luxCDABE strain were grown for 16-18 hours at 37°C in LB-broth in the presence of 20 pg/ ml of ampicillin. Immediately before the experiment the culture was diluted 1 20 by fresh culture medium and incubated until early log-phase. The grown biomass was mixed with AR solutions in final concentrations of ICfs, ICH n ICfs M, with used for their dilution with distilled water (control) and incubated for 60 minutes. The luminescence intensity of UV-irradiated E.coli recA lux and intact specimens were registered by plate bioluminometer LM OIT (Immimotech, Czech Rep.) in a real time. The number of viable cells was determined from the colony-forming units (CFU) on a surface of a LB-agar after the subsequent incubation within 24 hours at 37 °C. A quantitative estimation of an induction of the SOS-system calculated on formula... 

Fig. 25. Total and viable cell concentrations of TB/C3 hybridomas versus duration of shear in a cone and plate viscometer (shear stress 208 Nm ). The error bars indicate the 95% confidence intervals [62]...

Fig. 3. Viable cell count of adherent BHK cells as a function of temperature and shear stress...

The effect of a particular cultivation environment on a system can be evaluated in terms of biomass (fresh/dry weight, cell number), secondary metabolite production [51,75,89,102,103,106,107] or substrate consumption (e.g. carbon source [57] or oxygen [53,108]). Using the Evan s Blue method to identify non-viable cells. Ho et al. [108] used viable cell density measurements to determine variations in specific growth rate attributable to hydrodynamic stress. 

Inspection of the death curves obtained from viable count data had early ehcited the idea that because there was usually an approximate, and under some circumstances a quite excellent, linear relationship between the logarithm of the number of survivors and time, then the disinfection process was comparable to a unimolecular reaction. This imphed that the rate of killing was a function of the amount of one of the participants in the reaction only, i.e. in the case of the disinfection process the number of viable cells. From this observation there followed the notion that the principles of first-order... 

The resistance of an organism to a sterilizing agent can be described by means of the D-value. For heat and radiation treatments, respectively, this is defined as the time taken at a fixed temperature or the radiation dose required to achieve a 90% reduction in viable cells (i.e. a 1 log cycle reduction in survivors Fig. 20.2k). The calculation of the D-value assumes a linear type A survivor curve (Fig. 20.1), and must be corrected to allow for any deviation from linearity with type B or C curves. Some typical D-values for resistant bacterial spores are given in Table 23.2 (Chapter 23). 

Others Molecular probes— stain all, vital stain Vital stains particularly useful for total viable cell counts 122... 

Viable cells Direct viable count Detection of viable cells by elongation 123... 

In this section we shall use the standard notation employed by biochemical engineers and industrial microbiologists in presenting the material. Thus if we denote by Xv the viable cell (cells/L) or biomass (mg/L) concentration, S the limiting substrate concentration (mmol/L) and P the product concentration (immol/L) in the bioreactor, the dynamic component mass balances yield the following ODEs for each mode of operation ... 

The specific death rate can be obtained by considering the corresponding mass balance for nonviable (dead) cells. Normally nonviable cell concentration is measured at the same time the measurement for viable cell concentration is made. If viability (Q data are available, the nonviable cell concentration can be obtained from the viable one as Xd=Xv(l-y/. ... 

In the dialyzed batch start-up phase and the subsequent continuous operation a substantial increase in viable cell density and monoclonal antibody (MAb) titer was observed compared to a conventional suspension culture. The raw data, profiles of the viable cell density, viability and monoclonal antibody titer during the batch start-up and the continuous operation with a dialysis flow rate of 5 L/d are shown in Figures 17.6 and 17.7. The raw data are also available in tabular form in the corresponding input file for the FORTRAN program on data smoothing for short cut methods provided with the enclosed CD. 

The operation of the bioreactor was in the batch mode up to time t=2 2 h. The dialysis flow rate was kept at 2 Ud up to time t=91.5 h when a sharp drop in the viability was observed. In order to increase further the viable cell density, the dialysis flow rate was increased to 4 L/d and at 180 h it was further increased to 5 L/d and kept at this value for the rest of the experiment. 

Figure 17.7 Dialyzed Chemostat Viable cell density (raw and smoothed measurements) during initial batch start-up and subsequent dialyzed continuous operation with a dialysis flow rate of 5 L d [reprinted front the Journal of Biotechnology A Bioengineering with permission from J. Wiley],...

At time t=212 h the continuous feeding was initiated at 5 L/d corresponding to a dilution rate of 0.45 d . Soon after continuous feeding started, a sharp increase in the viability was observed as a result of physically removing dead cells that had accumulated in the bioreactor. The viable cell density also increased as a result of the initiation of direct feeding. At time t 550 h a steady state appeared to have been reached as judged by the stability of the viable cell density and viability for a period of at least 4 days. Linardos et al. (1992) used the steady state measurements to analyze the dialyzed chemostat. Our objective here is to use the techniques developed in Chapter 7 to determine the specific monoclonal antibody production rate in the period 212 to 570 h where an oscillatory behavior of the MAb titer is observed and examine whether it differs from the value computed during the start-up phase. 

In the absence of viable cells in the bioreactor, an effective mass transfer coefficient can be obtained from... 

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