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T Yamane1, W Hibino, K Ishihara
1Laboratory of Bioreaction Engineering, Department of Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-01, Japan.
Abstract:
An automated control method of fed-batch culture in which the nutrient feed rate was determined from continuously measured cell concentration and culture broth volume was developed. Theoretical background was elucidated, from which it was found that the method is unique in that it controls specific substrate consumption rate of the microorganism. The method was experimentally applied to the fed-batch cultures of recombinant Escherichia coli HB101. It was observed that the specific substrate feed rate affects not only the specific growth rate but also the growth yield. If some conditions are satisfied, this type of automated fed-batch culture can be applied widely to any microbial systems and seems especially useful when the culture medium is composed of natural complex nutrient(s) because their concentrations are very difficult to detect and control.
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