Volume 8, Issue 4 (2012) | American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology

Potential Applications of Chitosan Nanoparticles as Novel Support in Enzyme Immobilization

Hoda Jafarizadeh Malmiri — 2012-12-25

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Published online: 25 December 2012; doi:10.3844/ajbbsp.2012.203.219

Chitosan is an attractive natural biopolymer from renewable resources with the presence of reactive amino and hydroxyl functional groups in its structure. Due to the good biocompatibility of chitosan,...

Volatile Organic Compounds Removal Methods: A Review

Aydin Berenjian — 2012-12-25

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Published online: 25 December 2012; doi:10.3844/ajbbsp.2012.220.229

Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) are among the most toxic chemicals which are detrimental to humans and environment. There is a significant need of fully satisfactory method for removal of VOCs. Ther...

Emerging Trends in Designing Short and Efficient Protein Purification Protocols

Saurabh Gautam — 2012-12-25

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Published online: 25 December 2012; doi:10.3844/ajbbsp.2012.230.254

Protein purification is carried out in both academic and industrial sectors. Both non-chromatographic approaches (precipitation, crystallization, partitioning) and chromatographic methods are used. Wh...

Comparison of Radial and Axial Flow Chromatography for Monoclonal Antibody Downstream Processing at Bench and Pilot Scales

Ali Demirci — 2012-12-25

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Published online: 25 December 2012; doi:10.3844/ajbbsp.2012.255.262

Axial Flow Chromatography (AFC) is widely used for the purification of therapeutic Monoclonal Antibodies (MAbs). However, AFC columns can generate high pressure drops across the resin bed, preventing ...

Integrated Supercritical Fluid Extraction and Bioprocessing

Owen Catchpole — 2012-12-25

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Published online: 25 December 2012; doi:10.3844/ajbbsp.2012.263.287

Supercritical fluids are increasingly being used and promoted at a laboratory and pilot scale to produce high value, natural bioactives from biologically based raw materials. Supercritical CO2 is over...

Biotransformation Using Recombinant Cmp Sialic Acid Synthetase and α-2, 6-Sialyltran Sferase: Enzymatic Synthesis of Sialosides

Ulrike Hubl — 2012-12-25

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Published online: 25 December 2012; doi:10.3844/ajbbsp.2012.288.303

In this research, we successfully expressed recombinant CMP-sialic Acid Synthetase (CSS) from Neisseria meningitides and 2,6-Sialyltransferase (SAT) from Photobacterium damsela in E. coli BL21(DE3) fe...

Acetone Removal and Bioelectricity Generation in Dual Chamber Microbial Fuel Cell

Mostafa Ghasemi — 2012-12-25

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Published online: 25 December 2012; doi:10.3844/ajbbsp.2012.304.310

Synthetic waste water contain organic compound can be oxidized in an anaerobic conditions in microbial fuel cell while biodegradation of Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) takes place under anaerobic condi...

Polysulfone Composed of Polyaniline Nanoparticles as Nanocomposite Proton Exchange Membrane in Microbial Fuel Cell

Mansour Saleh Alhoshan — 2012-12-25

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Published online: 25 December 2012; doi:10.3844/ajbbsp.2012.311.319

Proton exchange membranes play a critical role in the performance of Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) but their high price was always a big deal for commercialization of MFCs. In the present study, doped a...

Mass Transfer Limitation in Different Anode Electrode Surface Areas on the Performance of Dual Chamber Microbial Fuel Cell

Babak Salamatinia — 2012-12-25

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Published online: 25 December 2012; doi:10.3844/ajbbsp.2012.320.325

In this study, the effect of different electrode surface areas on the performance of dual chamber Microbial Fuel Cells (MFC) was investigated. Four different electrodes with 12, 16, 20 and 24 cm2 surf...