TY  - JOUR
A1  - Tippkötter, Nils
A1  - Roikaew, Wipa
A1  - Ulber, Roland
A1  - Hoffmann, Alexander
A1  - Denzler, Hans-Jörg
A1  - Buchholz, Heinrich
T1  - Paracoccus denitrificans for the effluent recycling during continuous denitrification of liquid food
JF  - Biotechnology Progress
N2  - Nitrate is an undesirable component of several foods. A typical case of contamination with high nitrate contents is whey concentrate, containing nitrate in concentrations up to 25 l. The microbiological removal of nitrate by Paracoccus denitrificans under formation of harmless nitrogen in combination with a cell retention reactor is described here. Focus lies on the resource-conserving design of a microbal denitrification process. Two methods are compared. The application of polyvinyl alcohol-immobilized cells, which can be applied several times in whey feed, is compared with the implementation of a two step denitrification system. First, the whey concentrate's nitrate is removed by ion exchange and subsequently the eluent regenerated by microorganisms under their retention by crossflow filtration. Nitrite and nitrate concentrations were determined by reflectometric color measurement with a commercially available Reflectoquant® device. Correction factors for these media had to be determined. During the pilot development, bioreactors from 4 to 250 mg·L-1 and crossflow units with membrane areas from 0.02 to 0.80 m2 were examined. Based on the results of the pilot plants, a scaling for the exemplary process of denitrifying 1,000 tons per day is discussed.
Y1  - 2010
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/btpr.384
SN  - 8756-7938
VL  - 26
IS  - 3
SP  - 756
EP  - 762
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Hoboken, NJ
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Degering, Christian
A1  - Eggert, Thorsten
A1  - Puls, Michael
A1  - Bongaerts, Johannes
A1  - Evers, Stefan
A1  - Maurer, Karl-Heinz
A1  - Jaeger, Karl-Erich
T1  - Optimization of protease secretion in Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus licheniformis by screening of homologous and herologous signal peptides
JF  - Applied and environmental microbiology
N2  - Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus licheniformis are widely used for the large-scale industrial production of proteins. These strains can efficiently secrete proteins into the culture medium using the general secretion (Sec) pathway. A characteristic feature of all secreted proteins is their N-terminal signal peptides, which are recognized by the secretion machinery. Here, we have studied the production of an industrially important secreted protease, namely, subtilisin BPN′ from Bacillus amyloliquefaciens. One hundred seventy-three signal peptides originating from B. subtilis and 220 signal peptides from the B. licheniformis type strain were fused to this secretion target and expressed in B. subtilis, and the resulting library was analyzed by high-throughput screening for extracellular proteolytic activity. We have identified a number of signal peptides originating from both organisms which produced significantly increased yield of the secreted protease. Interestingly, we observed that levels of extracellular protease were improved not only in B. subtilis, which was used as the screening host, but also in two different B. licheniformis strains. To date, it is impossible to predict which signal peptide will result in better secretion and thus an improved yield of a given extracellular target protein. Our data show that screening a library consisting of homologous and heterologous signal peptides fused to a target protein can identify more-effective signal peptides, resulting in improved protein export not only in the original screening host but also in different production strains.
Y1  - 2010
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.01146-10
SN  - 1098-5336 (E-Journal); 0003-6919 (Print); 0099-2240 (Print)
VL  - 76
IS  - 19
SP  - 6370
EP  - 6378
PB  - American Society for Microbiology
CY  - Washington, DC
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Werner, Frederik
A1  - Krumbe, Christoph
A1  - Schumacher, Katharina
A1  - Groebel, Simone
A1  - Spelthahn, Heiko
A1  - Stellberg, Michael
A1  - Wagner, Torsten
A1  - Yoshinobu, Tatsuo
A1  - Selmer, Thorsten
A1  - Keusgen, Michael
A1  - Baumann, Marcus
A1  - Schöning, Michael Josef
T1  - Determination of the extracellular acidification of Escherichia coli by a light-addressable potentiometric sensor
JF  - Physica status solidi (a) : applications and material science. 208 (2011), H. 6
Y1  - 2011
SN  - 1862-6319
SP  - 1340
EP  - 1344
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Weinheim
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Martins, Berta M.
A1  - Blaser, Martin
A1  - Feliks, Mikolaj
A1  - Ullmann, Matthias G.
A1  - Buckel, Wolfgang
A1  - Selmer, Thorsten
T1  - Structural basis for a Kolbe-type decarboxylation catalyzed by a glycyl radical enzyme
JF  - Journal of the American Chemical Society
Y1  - 2011
N1  - Just accepted manuscript
SP  - 1
EP  - 33
PB  - ACS Publications
CY  - Washington, DC
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schiffels, Johannes
A1  - Baumann, Marcus
A1  - Selmer, Thorsten
T1  - Facile analysis of short-chain fatty acids as 4-nitrophenyl esters in complex anaerobic fermentation samples by high performance liquid chromatography
JF  - Journal of Chromatography A. 1218 (2011), H. 34
Y1  - 2011
SN  - 0021-9673
SP  - 5848
EP  - 5851
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bäcker, Matthias
A1  - Delle, L.
A1  - Poghossian, Arshak
A1  - Biselli, Manfred
A1  - Zang, Werner
A1  - Wagner, P.
A1  - Schöning, Michael Josef
T1  - Electrochemical sensor array for bioprocess monitoring
JF  - Electrochimica Acta (2011)
Y1  - 2011
VL  - 56
IS  - 26
SP  - 9673
EP  - 9678
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Aggarwal, Prerna
A1  - Singh, Virendra
A1  - Singh, Arjun
A1  - Scherer, Ulrich W.
A1  - Singh, Tejvir
A1  - Singla, Madan L.
A1  - Srivastava, Alok
T1  - Physico-chemical transformations in swift heavy ion modified poly(ethyleneterephthalate)
JF  - Radiation Physics and Chemistry
Y1  - 2011
SN  - 0969-806X
N1  - In Press, Accepted Manuscript
SP  - 1
EP  - 28
PB  - Pergamon Press
CY  - Oxford
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Oosterhuis, Koen
A1  - Öhlschläger, Peter
A1  - Berg, Joost H. van den
A1  - Toebes, Mireille
A1  - Gomez, Raquel
A1  - Schumacher, Ton N.
A1  - Haanen, John B.
T1  - Preclinical development of highly effective and safe DNA vaccines directed against HPV 16 E6 and E7
JF  - International Journal of Cancer
Y1  - 2011
SN  - 1097-0215
VL  - 129
IS  - 2
SP  - 397
EP  - 406
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Weinheim
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Öhlschläger, Peter
A1  - Spies, Elmar
A1  - Alvarez, Gerardo
A1  - Quetting, Michael
A1  - Groettrup, Marcus
T1  - The combination of TLR-9 adjuvantation and electroporation-mediated delivery enhances in vivo antitumor responses after vaccination with HPV-16 E7 encoding DNA
JF  - International Journal of Cancer. 128 (2011), H. 2
Y1  - 2011
SN  - 1097-0215
SP  - 473
EP  - 481
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Weinheim
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Manea, Marilena
A1  - Leurs, Ulrike
A1  - Orban, Erika
A1  - Baranyai, Zsuzsa
A1  - Öhlschläger, Peter
A1  - Marquardt, Andreas
A1  - Schulcz, Akos
A1  - Tejeda, Miguel
T1  - Enhanced Enzymatic Stability and Antitumor Activity of Daunorubicin-GnRH-III Bioconjugates Modified in Position 4
JF  - Bioconjugate Chemistry
Y1  - 2011
SN  - 1520-4812
VL  - 22
IS  - 7
SP  - 1320
EP  - 1329
PB  - ACS
CY  - Washington, DC
ER  -