Multiple microfermentor battery: A versatile tool for use with automated parallel cultures of microorganisms producing recombinant proteins and for optimization of cultivation protocols

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 5225-5231

  Frachon, Emmanuel ^a   Bondet, Vincent ^a   Munier Lehmann, Hélène ^a   Bellalou, Jacques ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; DENSITY (OPTICAL); DISSOLVED OXYGEN SENSORS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; OPTICAL SENSORS; PELTIER EFFECT; PROTEINS; TURBIDITY;

FERNBACH FLASK; LABVTEW PROGRAM; MICROFERMENTOR BATTERY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

MICROORGANISMS;

RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AERATION; BIOREACTOR; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; OPTIMIZATION; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOREACTOR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION TECHNIQUE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

AUTOMATION; BIOREACTORS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CULTURE MEDIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; ONLINE SYSTEMS; OXYGEN; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TEMPERATURE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33747371684     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00239-06     Document Type: Article

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