新型气液双升式动物细胞反应器

为克服目前动物细胞反应器存在的不足 ,设计了一种新型气液双升式动物细胞反应器( ALLR)。该反应器结合了气升式反应器和流化床反应器的优点 ,同时在结构上使气泡与流体自然流动与分离 ,消除了气泡凝聚破裂给细胞造成的机械损伤。测定了 2 L反应器的液体循环流速及氧传质系数 KLa值 ,表明 ALLR具有较好的传质性能和极小的流体剪切力 ,适合动物细胞的大规模培养     

重组杆状病毒细小VP2蛋白40L生物反应器放大工艺研究

研究了Sf9细胞生产重组杆状病毒细小VP2蛋白在机械搅拌式生物反应器(STR)中从3L至40L的放大工艺。首先在3L反应器中,通过DO和搅拌转速的优化,使反应器中的VP2蛋白HA效价不低于摇瓶结果。在40L反应器放大时,温度、p H、DO保持不变,根据输入搅拌功率、体积溶氧系数和叶尖线速度等工程参数的计算,得到了该反应器的合理搅拌转速,最终HA效价测定结果与小罐一致。豚鼠免疫试验证实,反应器中表达的VP2蛋白制成疫苗,与HN2011灭活苗及商品化灭活疫苗相比,抗体水平上升较快且高于传统灭活苗。     

氧载体发酵体系的氧传递特性及提高衣康酸产酸能力的研究

测定了不同氧载体的理化参数,研究了机械搅拌罐氧载体发酵体系中的氧载体的体积分数,搅拌转速和通风量对体积氧传递系数的影响,并推导出传质系数的关联式。实验表明,加入氧载体后,可提高发酵体系的ＫＬａ值３０－２００％,衣原酸发酵中加入氧载体正十二烷,可提高产酸１４％以上。     

新型生物反应器结构研究进展

生物反应器是生物工程的核心设备,其结构的合理性直接决定反应器生物加工的效率。生物反应器的研究一直是生物工程的核心问题之一。随着青霉素的工业化生产,机械搅拌式生物反应器应运而生,此后,随着动植物细胞培养,高等真菌培养,藻类培养等生物过程的发展,人们相应开发了大量的生物反应器,其中以机械搅拌式生物反应器和气升式样生物反应器尤为突出,本文总结了近年来文献报道的新型生物反应器,主要阐述了机械搅拌式和气升式两类生物反应器结构的研究进展,对目前国内外报道的11种新型反应器典型结构进行了总结与分析。     

折流元件对环流反应器性能影响及用于苏云金茅杆菌发酵的效果

本文讨论了折流元件对环流反应器的流体力学性能的影响及用作生物反应器的研究结果。实验是在外筒规格Φ0 .2 19( 0 .2 10 )× 1.6m ,内筒规格Φ0 .153( 0 .150 )× 1m反应器内进行的 ,材质为不锈钢 ,括号内表示的是导流筒的内径。内筒装有具有强化传递过程作用的折流元件。BT发酵实验表明折流元件可改善环流反应器的发酵性能。将研究结果放大到 2 0m3的气升式环流反应器中 ,与工厂同等规模的搅拌式发酵罐相比 ,在完全省去搅拌功耗又不增加无菌空气用量的条件下 ,发酵液毒力效价高于在机械搅拌式发酵罐内的发酵结果约 10 %并且节电 30 %以上。     

机械搅拌式动物细胞反应器不同桨型组合的CFD数值模拟与优化

生物反应器已成为哺乳动物细胞生产治疗性抗体药物和疫苗的核心。文中采用CFD数值模拟方法对目前常用的机械搅拌式生物反应器在不同的搅拌形式下的流场进行了分析,获得了5种搅拌桨型组合条件下的速率矢量、持气率、含气率和剪切力分布的特征。通过构建的重组CHO细胞在不同搅拌形式条件下的流加分批培养发现,细胞密度和抗体表达水平与反应器内的最大剪切率直接相关,在FBMI3搅拌形式下细胞密度和抗体表达水平均最高。结果表明该CHO细胞在悬浮培养时对剪切环境比较敏感,且最大剪切力是工业规模放大的关键因素。     

用于红霉素生产的500m3生物反应器的理性设计

红霉素(erythromycin)是由绛红色糖多胞菌(Saccharopolyspora erythraea)发酵生产的次级代谢产物,其生产水平不仅受发酵工艺的影响,也受反应器结构影响。为解决红霉素发酵过程放大问题,本研究采用时间常数法和计算流体力学(computational fluid dynamics,CFD)数值模拟验证相结合的方法设计了500m³超大规模红霉素耗氧发酵生物反应器。首先,通过对50L反应器红霉素发酵过程研究,发现溶氧是关键性限制因素,通过氧消耗速率(oxygen uptake rate,OUR)等参数分析计算得到设备的氧供应时间常数t_mt需小于6.25s。然后,基于时间常数法和经验关联式理性设计500m³反应器搅拌桨叶组合方式,即底层BDT8桨叶+两层MSX4桨叶的搅拌桨组合,并通过经验公式及CFD方法对设计结果进行了模拟验证。两种验证方法结果均表明500m³反应器采取底层BDT8桨叶+两层MSX4桨叶的组合方式时设备的氧供应时间常数小于6.25s,且反应器内流场特性(如持气率、剪切率和速度矢量等)均能满足红霉素大规模发酵的需要。经实际发酵验证,设计的生物反应器能够满足红霉素的工业规模发酵应用。     

VerO细胞在气升式反应器中的微载体培养

哺乳动物细胞的大规模培养是生产许多医学上重要生物制品的一种主要方法之－⑴。很多有工业价值的动物细胞都是贴壁细胞,必须附着在一定的表面上才能生长,微载体培养是一种有效的体系⑵。用于微载体培养的反应器多为搅拌式反应器,近年来,流化床式反应器越来越引起生化工程学家的重视。有希望用于大规模动物细胞培养的主要是液升和气升式。液升式反应器的优点是培养液可以间接氧饱和,气泡和细胞不直接接触。在气升式流态反应器中,气泡与细胞直接接触,其优点是操作方便,设备筒单。本文报道通过气升流态化反应器实现高密度贴壁细胞培养工艺条件的研究。     

血清浓度及溶氧对培养rCHO细胞生产尿激酶原的影响

在30L搅拌式反应器中用多孔微载体培养分泌尿激酶原的DNA重组中国仓鼠卵巢细胞(rCHO),研究了血清浓度及溶氧对细胞生长和表达的影响.结果表明,在2×105/ml低密度接种条件下,使用低(无)血清培养基会延长细胞生长延滞期并降低比生长速率,而细胞密度大于106/ml时,血清浓度对细胞生长和产物表达的影响没有显著差别.溶氧(DO)维持在20%～45%时,对细胞表达产物和葡萄糖代谢无明显影响,但溶氧降至7%～9%时,细胞表达水平明显降低,葡萄糖代谢转化为乳酸的比例上升.     

出芽短梗霉发酵过程溶氧控制的研究

在搅拌罐式生物反应器中,通过控制DO（溶氧浓度）的变化,对出芽短梗霉（Aureobasidium pullulans）发酵过程的控制进行了研究。以100g/L玉米粉水解液做碳源,比较了不同溶氧控制条件下发酵参数的变化及其对出芽短梗霉发酵结果的影响。结果表明,过低的DO对菌体生长和多糖生产都不利,过高的DO使培养液中糖大部分消耗在菌体的生长上,也不利于多糖的生产,通过控制搅拌速度和通气量能将DO维持在较合适的水平。     

Evaluation of oxygen transfer rates in stirred-tank bioreactors for clinical manufacturing

Several methods are available for determining the volumetric oxygen transfer coefficient in bioreactors, though their application in industrial bioprocess has been limited. To be practically useful, mass transfer measurements made in nonfermenting systems must be consistent with observed microbial respiration rates. This report details a procedure for quantifying the relationship between agitation frequency and oxygen transfer rate that was applied in stirred-tank bioreactors used for clinical biologics manufacturing. The intrinsic delay in dissolved oxygen (DO) measurement was evaluated by shifting the bioreactor pressure and fitting a first-order mathematical model to the DO response. The dynamic method was coupled with the DO lag results to determine the oxygen transfer rate in Water for Injection (WFI) and a complete culture medium. A range of agitation frequencies was investigated at a fixed air sparge flow rate, replicating operating conditions used in Pichia pastoris fermentation. Oxygen transfer rates determined by this method were in excellent agreement with off-gas calculations from cultivation of the organism (P = 0.1). Fermentation of Escherichia coli at different operating parameters also produced respiration rates that agreed with the corresponding dynamic method results in WFI (P = 0.02). The consistency of the dynamic method results with the off-gas data suggests that compensation for the delay in DO measurement can be combined with dynamic gassing to provide a practical, viable model of bioreactor oxygen transfer under conditions of microbial fermentation.     

A pilot plant study using a vertically moving biofilm process to treat municipal wastewater

The pilot plant study comprised the construction and monitoring of a new vertically moving biofilm system (VMBS) for treating municipal wastewater. The system operated on site for 11 months. The biofilm module in this system, consisting of high surface area plastic media, was vertically and repeatedly moved in cycles up into the air and down into the wastewater. The vertical movement of the biofilm module supplied sufficient oxygen for the removal of the organic carbon in the wastewater. The overall physical oxygen transfer coefficient (Kla) measured at the cycle speed of six cycles per minute was 2.53 per hour. During the pilot study, dissolved oxygen (DO) concentrations in the bulk fluid were in the range of 1.5-5 mg/l. It was found that the areal removal rate of filtered chemical oxygen demand (COD) was up to 35 g COD/(m(2)day) and the bulk fluid volumetric filtered COD removal rate was 2.62 kg COD/(m(3)day). The field experiment showed that clogging commonly found in other biofilm systems did not occur in this system. The power consumption was in the range of 0.09-0.25 k Wh/m(3) wastewater flow, 0.40-2.19 k Wh/kg COD removal and 1.24-1.74 k Wh/kg BOD removal. The new biofilm system offers potential for reduced reactor volumes, energy saving, simple construction and easy operation.     

Broth recycling to reduce process noise resulting from concentrated substrate addition in fed-batch cultivation of Escherichia coli

In this work feed hardware for fed-batch cultivation is presented (broth recycle feed injection system or BRFIS). BRFIS proved superior to conventional submerged or dripped feed systems in reducing dissolved oxygen (DO) oscillations during Escherichia coli fed-batch cultivation (5 min coefficient of variation of 0.7% for BRFIS as compared to 26% or greater for conventional feeding hardware in a 2 L test reactor). Hence, BRFIS is useful for fed-batch cultivation systems where the DO signal is used in measurement or control.     

In-depth discovery of protein lactylation in hepatocellular carcinoma

As a prevalent cancer type, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) accounts for a number of tumor-related deaths worldwide. Substantial efforts from various aspects, including RNA and proteins, have been devoted to understanding the mechanisms of HCC and proposing therapeutic schemes correspondingly. Within one of the important fields in cancer research – protein post-translational modifications (PTMs), recent discoveries revealed much broader landscapes of lysine lactylation (Kla) distributed in whole human proteome. Upon realizing the relation between Kla and cancers, Hong et al. (Proteomics 2023, 23, 2200432) comprehensively profiled lactylproteome in HCC tissues for the first time. All collected and processed samples were categorized into normal liver tissues, HCC without metastasis or HCC with lung metastasis tissues. As a result, 2045 Kla modification sites from 960 proteins were identified and 1438 sites from 772 proteins were quantifiably measured. Many differentially expressed Kla-proteins emerged and meant to contribute HCC formation and metastatsis. Among them, specific Kla sites from ubiquitin specific peptidase 14 (USP14) and ATP-binding cassette family 1 (ABCF1) were respectively verified as diagnostic indicators to characterize HCC and its metastasis. This work was of great significance, and made impacts in terms of further discovery of HCC rationale, as well as diagnosis of HCC status and targeted therapies.     

Control of carbon source supply and dissolved oxygen by use of carbon dioxide concentration of exhaust gas in fed-batch culture

Accurate and automatic control strategies for a feedback-control system of volatile carbon source feeding and dissolved oxygen (DO) level were investigated. To maintain the optimal ethanol concentration for microbial growth, carbon dioxide concentration in exhaust gas was used as a stepwise control parameter of ethanol feeding. A proportional-differential (PD) control program was used to correct the errors. The coefficient of stepwise control was calculated stoichiometrically, and parameters of PD were experimentally preset and were not changed during cultivation. DO was also controlled by the PD control and the stepwise program based on carbon dioxide concentration of the exhaust gas. Agitation speed and partial pressure of oxygen of the inlet gas were changed stepwise in accordance with the oxygen consumption rate. The stepwise coefficients were estimated from stoichiometry and material balance of molecular oxygen. The PD control program was only used for the agitation speed control to correct the fluctuations of DO level. The parameters did not need to be changed during cultivation. By use of these sophisticated control programs for fed-batch culture of Candida brassicae, ethanol concentration and DO level were accurately controlled at 3.4–3.7 g/l and 2.2–2.8 ppm, respectively, while cell mass concentration reached about 80 g/l. No manual operation was needed.     

Microfluidic reactor for continuous cultivation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

A diffusion-based microreactor system operated with a reaction volume of 8 μL is presented and characterized to intensify the process understanding in microscale cultivations. Its potential as screening tool for biological processes is evaluated. The advantage of the designed microbioreactor is the use for the continuous cultivation mode by integrating online measurement technique for dissolved oxygen (DO) and optical density (OD). A further advantage is the broaden application for biological systems. The bioreactor geometry was chosen to achieve homogeneous flow during continuous process operation. The device consisted of a microstructured top layer made of poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS), which was designed and fabricated using UV-depth and soft lithography assembled with a glass bottom. CFD simulation data used for geometry design were verified via microparticle-image-velocimetry (μPIV). In the used microreactor geometry no concentration gradients occurred along the entire reaction volume because of rapid diffusive mixing, the homogeneous medium flow inside the growth chamber of the microreactor could be realized. Undesirable bubble formation before and during operation was reduced by using degassed medium as well as moistened and moderate incident air flow above the gas permeable PDMS membrane. Because of this a passive oxygen supply of the culture medium in the device is ensured by diffusion through the PDMS membrane. The oxygen supply itself was monitored online via integrated DO sensors based on a fluorescent dye complex. An adequate overall volumetric oxygen transfer coefficient K(L)a as well as mechanical stability of the device were accomplished for a membrane thickness of 300 μm. Experimental investigations considering measurements of OD (online) and several metabolite concentrations (offline) in a modified Verduyn medium. The used model organism Saccharomyces cerevisiae DSM 2155 tended to strong reactor wall growth resembling a biofilm.     

The half-saturation coefficient for dissolved oxygen: A dynamic method for its determination and its effect on dual species competition

A simple approach was developed to determine the half-saturation coefficient for dissolved oxygen (K(DO)) for three bacteria by maintaining a constant oxygen concentration in continuous culture, and employing a dynamic method to obtain the specific growth rate (mu) for each species. Measurement of mu at selected dissolved oxygen concentrations (DO) resulted in a typical Monod curve for a plot of mu vs. DO. Values for K(DO) and mu(max) were obtained from the Lineweaver-Burk reciprocal plot. The bacteria studied included representative strains of three microorganisms isolated in pure culture from poorly settling activated sludge: two filamentous microorganisms, Sphaerotilus natans and a second Sphaerotilus sp., and an unidentified floc-forming microorganism. The K(DO) values obtained for Sphaerotilus sp., S. natans, and the floc former were 0.014, 0.033, and 0.073 mg/L, respectively. Dual species competition experiments were conducted in continuous culture under low and high DO conditions. Successful growth competition by these microorganisms under DO-limiting conditions was consistent with experimentally determined K(DO) values. The finding of lower K(DO) values for the two Sphaerotilus species, compared to the floc former, confirmed the hypothesis that these filamentous microorganisms can outgrow floc-forming microorganisms in activated sludge when DO in the aeration basin is low.     

Control of dissolved oxygen concentration in mammalian cell culture using a computer-coupled mass flow controller

Summary A simple proportional control system for dissolved oxygen (DO) concentration in cell culture medium was developed by using a computer-coupled mass flow controller. The DO levels were very stable during the cultivation of Vero-6, while flow rates of air and/or oxygen enriched air were gradually changed depending on the DO concentration and the preset DO level. Vero-6 cells could grow normally to the confluence in the range of 30% and 50% of DO. Growth of Vero-6 at 10% of DO was markedly retarded.     

Expression of dual TCR on DO11.10 T cells allows for ovalbumin-induced oral tolerance to prevent T cell-mediated colitis directed against unrelated enteric bacterial antigens

The triggering Ag for inflammatory bowel disease and animal models of colitis is not known, but may include gut flora. Feeding OVA to DO11.10 mice with OVA-specific transgenic (Tg) TCR generates Ag-specific immunoregulatory CD4(+) T cells (Treg) cells. We examined the ability of oral Ag-induced Treg cells to suppress T cell-mediated colitis in mice. SCID-bg mice given DO11.10 CD4(+)CD45RB(high) T cells developed colitis, and cotransferring DO11.10 CD45RB(low)CD4(+) T cells prevented CD4(+)CD45RB(high) T cell-induced colitis in the absence of OVA. The induction and prevention of disease by DO11.10 CD4(+) T cell subsets were associated with an increase in endogenous TCRalpha chain expression on Tg T cells. Feeding OVA to SCID-bg mice reconstituted with DO11.10 CD4(+)CD45RB(high) attenuated the colitis in association with increased TGF-beta and IL-10 secretion, and decreased proliferative responses to both OVA and cecal bacteria Ag. OVA feeding also attenuated colitis in SCID-bg mice reconstituted with a mix of BALB/c and DO11.10 CD45RB(high) T cells, suggesting that OVA-induced Treg cells suppressed BALB/c effector cells. The expression of endogenous non-Tg TCR allowed for DO11.10-derived T cells to respond to enteric flora Ag. Furthermore, feeding OVA-induced Treg cells prevented colitis by inducing tolerance in both OVA-reactive and non-OVA-reactive T cells and by inducing Ag-nonspecific Treg cells. Such a mechanism might allow for Ag-nonspecific modulation of intestinal inflammation in inflammatory bowel disease.     

Overcoming challenges in WAVE Bioreactors without feedback controls for pH and dissolved oxygen

The biopharmaceutical industry is increasing its use of the WAVE Bioreactor for culturing cells. Although this disposable bioreactor can be equipped to provide real-time pH and dissolved oxygen (DO) monitoring and control, our goal was to develop a process for culturing CHO cells in this system without relying on pH and DO feedback controls. After identifying challenges in culturing cells without controlling for pH and DO in the WAVE Bioreactor, we characterized O(2) and CO(2) transfer in the system. From these cell-free studies, we identified rock rate and rock angle as key parameters affecting O(2) transfer. We also identified the concentration of CO(2) in the incoming gas and the rate of gas flow into the headspace as key parameters affecting CO(2) transfer--and therefore pH--in the disposable culture chamber. Using a full-factorial design to evaluate the rock rate, rock angle, and gas flow rate defined for this WAVE Bioreactor process, we found comparable cell growth and pH profiles in the ranges tested for these three parameters in two CHO cell lines. This process supported cell growth, and maintained pH and DO within our desired range--pH 6.8-7.2 and DO exceeding 20% of air saturation--for six CHO cell lines, and it also demonstrated comparable cell growth and viability with the stirred-tank bioreactor process with online pH and DO control. By eliminating the use of pH and DO probes, this process provides a simple and more cost-effective method for culturing cells in the WAVE Bioreactor.