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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-7-3
pubmed:abstractText
Cultured Thalictrum rugosum cells were immobilized using a glass fiber substratum previously shown to provide optimum immobilization efficiency based on spontaneous adhesion mechanisms. When cultivated in shake flasks, immobilized cells exhibited decreased growth and protoberberine alkaloid production rates in comparison to freely suspended cells. Since alkaloid production is growth associated in T. rugosum, the decreased specific production rate was a function of the slower growth rate. Cells immobilized on glass fiber mats appear to be amenable for extended culture periods. Maximum biomass and protoberberine alkaloid levels were maintained for at least 14 days in immobilized cultures. In contrast, fresh weight, dry weight, and total alkaloid content decreased in suspension cultures following the linear growth phase. Glass fiber mats were incorporated in to a 4.5-L plant cell bioreactor as horizontal disks supported on a central rod. Mixing in the reactor was provided by the combined actions of a magnetic impeller and a cylindrical sparging column. The magnetic impeller and a cylindrical sparging column. The entire inoculum biomass of T. rougosum, introduced as suspension, was spontaneously immobilized with in 8 h. During liner phase, the growth rate of bioreactor cultivated immobilized cells (mu = 0.06 day(-1)) was 50% that immobilized cell viability in both mmobilized cells cultivated in shake flasks (mu = 0.12 day(-1)). Percentage of cell viability in both systems was determined to be similar. The growing biomass in the bioreactor was completely retained by the glass fiber substratum during a 28-day culture period. The increase in specific production of protoberberine alkaloids was initially similar in bioreactor- and shake-flask-cultivated immobilized cells. However, the maximum specific production of bioreactor-grown cultures was lower. The scaleup potential of an immobilization strategy based on the spontaneous adhesion of cultured plant cells to glass fibers is demonstrated.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:status
PubMed-not-MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0006-3592
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
5
pubmed:volume
37
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
397-403
pubmed:year
1991
pubmed:articleTitle
Plant cell bioreactor for the production of protoberberine alkaloids from immobilized Thalictrum rugosum cultures.
pubmed:affiliation
Centre for Plant Biotechnology, Department of Botany, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3B2, Canada.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article