Ultra scale-down to define and improve the relationship between flocculation and disc-stack centrifugation

Biotechnology Progress

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 426-431

  Berrill, Alex ^a,b   Ho, Sa V ^b   Bracewell, Daniel G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CENTRIFUGATION; FLOCCULATION; OPTIMIZATION; POLYMERS;

CELL DEBRIS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

PROTEINS;

DYES, REAGENTS, INDICATORS, MARKERS AND BUFFERS; POLYMER; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CENTRIFUGATION; CHEMISTRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; INSTRUMENTATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; CENTRIFUGATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PILOT PROJECTS; POLYMERS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 42049107042     PISSN: 87567938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bp070305i     Document Type: Article

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