Scale-up from microtiter plate to laboratory fermenter: Evaluation by online monitoring techniques of growth and protein expression in Escherichia coli and Hansenula polymorpha fermentations

Microbial Cell Factories

Volumn 8, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Kensy, Frank ^a,b   Engelbrecht, Christoph ^a   Büchs, Jochen ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b m2p labs GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; OXYGEN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOMASS; BIOPROCESS; BIOREACTOR; BIOREACTOR EQUIPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MICROTITER PLATE ASSAY; NONHUMAN; ONLINE MONITORING; PICHIA ANGUSTA; PROCESS DESIGN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REACTOR DESIGN; SCALE UP; STIRRED REACTOR; VOLUMETRY; YEAST; EVALUATION; FERMENTATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; KINETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PICHIA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PICHIA ANGUSTA;

BIOMASS; BIOREACTORS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY; KINETICS; OXYGEN; PICHIA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 74549211232     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-68     Document Type: Article

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