Ju Chu
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Bioprocess scale-up is a critical step in process development. However, loss of production performance upon scaling-up, including reduced titer, yield, or productivity, has often been observed, hindering the commercialization of biotech innovations. Recent developments in scal ...
In Penicillium chrysogenum, it has been observed that turnover of storage carbohydrates (trehalose, mannitol, arabitol, erythritol and glycogen) resulting in an extra ATP expenditure might partly account for the reduced penicillin productivity under dynamic cultivation conditi ...
Targeted, quantitative metabolomics can, in principle, provide precise information on intracellular metabolite levels, which can be applied to accurate modeling of intracellular processes required in systems biology and ...
Metabolomics aims to address what and how regulatory mechanisms are coordinated to achieve flux optimality, different metabolic objectives as well as appropriate adaptations to dynamic nutrient availability. Recent decades have witnessed that the integration of metabolomics an ...
During glucose-limited growth, a substantial input of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is required for the production of β-lactams by the filamentous fungus Penicillium chrysogenum. Formate dehydrogenase has been confirmed in P. chrysogenum for formate oxidation allowing an extra ...
Computational fluid dynamics simulation of an industrial P. chrysogenum fermentation with a coupled 9-pool metabolic model
Towards rational scale-down and design optimization
We assess the effect of substrate heterogeneity on the metabolic response of P. chrysogenum in industrial bioreactors via the coupling of a 9-pool metabolic model with Euler-Lagrange CFD simulations. In this work, we outline how this coupled hydrodynamic-metabolic modeling can ...
Power input effects on degeneration in prolonged penicillin chemostat cultures
A systems analysis at flux, residual glucose, metabolite, and transcript levels
In the present work, by performing chemostat experiments at 400 and 600 RPM, two typical power inputs representative of industrial penicillin fermentation (P/V, 1.00 kW/m3 in more remote zones and 3.83 kW/m3 in the vicinity of the impellers, respectively) ...
Comparative performance of different scale-down simulators of substrate gradients in Penicillium chrysogenum cultures
The need of a biological systems response analysis
In a 54 m3 large-scale penicillin fermentor, the cells experience substrate gradient cycles at the timescales of global mixing time about 20–40 s. Here, we used an intermittent feeding regime (IFR) and a two-compartment reactor (TCR) to mimic these substrate gradien ...
Oxygen limitation is regarded as a useful strategy to improve enzyme production by mycelial fungus like Aspergillus niger. However, the intracellular metabolic response of A. niger to oxygen limitation is still obscure. To address this, the metabolism of A. niger was studied u ...
A powerful approach for the optimization of industrial bioprocesses is to perform detailed simulations integrating large-scale computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and cellular reaction dynamics (CRD). However, complex metabolic kinetic models containing a large number of equati ...