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An introduction to metabolic and cellular engineering /

Metabolic and cellular engineering, as presented in this book, is a powerful alliance of two technologies: genetics â€" molecular biology and fermentation technology. Both are driven by continuous refinement of the basic understanding of metabolism, physiology and cellular biology (growth, div...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cortassa, S. (Sonia)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, ©2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Preface; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Introductory Outlines; Metabolic and Cellular Engineering in the Context of Bioprocess Engineering; Tools for Metabolic and Cellular Engineering; Engineering Cells for Specific Biotransformations; Metabolic Areas that Have Been Subjected to MCE; From DNA Sequence to Biological Function; Temporal and Spatial Scaling in Cellular Processes; Scaling in Microbial and Biochemical Systems; Views of the Cell; Black and Grey Boxes: Levels of Description of Metabolic Behavior in Microorganisms; Transduction and Intracellular Signalling.
  • Self-organized Emergent PhenomenaHomeodynamics and Coherence; Matter and Energy Balances; Mass Balance; General Formulation of Mass Balance; Integral and Differential Mass Balances; Growth Stoichiometry and Product Formation; Biomass and Product Yields; Electron Balance; Theoretical Oxygen Demand; Opening the ""Black Box"". Mass Balance as the Basis of Metabolic Flux Analysis; Energy Balance; Forms of Energy and Enthalpy; Calorimetric Studies of Energy Metabolism; Heat of Combustion; An Energetic View of Microbial Metabolism; Cell Growth and Metabolite Production. Basic Concepts.
  • Microbial Growth under Steady and Balanced ConditionsMicrobial Energetics under Steady State Conditions; Growth Kinetics under Steady State Conditions; The Dilution Rate; The Dilution Rate and Biomass Concentration; The Dilution Rate and the Growth-limiting Substrate Concentration; Biomass and Growth-limiting Substrate Concentration at the Steady State; Growth as a Balance of Fluxes; The Flux Coordination Hypothesis; Toward a Rational Design of Cells; Redirecting Central Metabolic Pathways under Kinetic or Thermodynamic Control.
  • Thermodynamic or Kinetic Control of Flux under Steady State ConditionsKinetic and Thermodynamic Limitations in Microbial Systems. Case Studies; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Escherichia coli; Increasing Carbon Flow to Aromatic Biosynthesis in Escherichia coli; Methods of Quantitation of Cellular Processes Performance
  • Stoichiometry of Growth: The Equivalence between Biochemical Stoichiometries and Physiological Parameters; A General Formalism for Metabolic Flux Analysis; A Comparison between Different Methods of MFA; MFA Applied to Prokaryotic and Lower Eukaryotic Organisms.
  • MFA as Applied to Studying the Performance of Mammalian Cells in CultureMetabolic Fluxes during Balanced and Steady State Growth; Bioenergetic and Physiological Studies in Batch and Continuous Cultures. Genetic or Epigenetic Redirection of Metabolic Flux; Introduction of Heterologous Metabolic Pathways; Metabolic Engineering of Lactic Acid Bacteria for Optimising Essential Flavor Compounds Production; Metabolic Control Analysis; Summation and connectivity theorems; Control and Regulation; The Control of Metabolites Concentration.