Microtiter plates as mini-bioreactors: miniaturization of fermentation methods

Micheletti, 2006, Microscale bioprocess optimisation, Curr. Opin. Biotechnol., 17, 611, 10.1016/j.copbio.2006.10.006 Kumar, 2004, Minibioreactors, Biotechnol. Lett., 26, 1, 10.1023/B:BILE.0000009469.69116.03 Betts, 2006, Miniature bioreactors: current practices and future opportunities, Microbial. Cell. Fact., 5, 10.1186/1475-2859-5-21 Fernandes, 2006, Microlitre/millilitre shaken bioreactors in fermentative and biotransformation processes - a review, Biocatal. Biotrans., 24, 237, 10.1080/10242420600667684 Hermann, 2003, Characterization of gas-liquid mass transfer phenomena in microtiter plates, Biotechnol. Bioeng., 81, 178, 10.1002/bit.10456 Doig, 2005, Modelling surface aeration rates in shaken microtitre plates using dimensionless groups, Chem. Eng. Sc., 60, 2741, 10.1016/j.ces.2004.12.025 Marshall, 1924, Surface tension of culture mediums, J. Infect. Dis., 35, 526, 10.1093/infdis/35.6.526 Bailey, 1986 Duetz, 2000, Methods for intense aeration, growth, storage, and replication of bacterial strains in microtiter plates, Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 66, 2641, 10.1128/AEM.66.6.2641-2646.2000 Zimmermann, 2003, Rapid evaluation of oxygen and water permeation through microplate sealing tapes, Biotechnol. Prog., 19, 1061, 10.1021/bp025774t Hermann, 2001, Optical method for the determination of the oxygen-transfer capacity of small bioreactors based on sulfite oxidation, Biotechnol. Bioeng., 74, 355, 10.1002/bit.1126 Doig, 2005, Characterisation of a novel miniaturised bubble column bioreactor for high throughput cell cultivation, Biochem. Eng. J., 23, 97, 10.1016/j.bej.2004.10.014 Duetz, 2004, Oxygen transfer by orbital shaking of square vessels and deepwell microtiter plates of various dimensions, Biochem. Eng. J., 17, 181, 10.1016/S1369-703X(03)00177-3 Ortiz-Ochoa, 2005, A novel method for the measurement of oxygen mass transfer rates in small-scale vessels, Biochem. Eng. J., 25, 63, 10.1016/j.bej.2005.04.003 Duetz, 2001, Effectiveness of orbital shaking for the aeration of suspended bacterial cultures in square deepwell microtiter plates, Biochem. Eng. J., 7, 113, 10.1016/S1369-703X(00)00109-1 Becker, 1996, Additives, 177 Kensy, 2005, Oxygen transfer phenomena in 48-well microtiter plates: Determination by optical monitoring of sulfite oxidation and verification by real-time measurement during microbial growth, Biotechnol. Bioeng., 89, 698, 10.1002/bit.20373 Fischer, 2005, Large-scale in vivo flux analysis shows rigidity and suboptimal performance of Bacillus subtilis metabolism, Nat. Gen., 37, 636, 10.1038/ng1555 Sauer, 2004, High-throughput phenomics: experimental methods for mapping fluxomes, Curr. Opin. Biotechnol., 15, 58, 10.1016/j.copbio.2003.11.001 Fischer, 2004, High-throughput metabolic flux analysis based on gas chromatography-mass spectrometry derived C-13 constraints, Anal. Biochem., 325, 308, 10.1016/j.ab.2003.10.036 Blank, 2005, Large-scale C-13-flux analysis reveals mechanistic principles of metabolic network robustness to null mutations in yeast, Genome Biol., 6, 10.1186/gb-2005-6-6-r49 Blank, 2005, Metabolic-flux and network analysis in fourteen hemiascomycetous yeasts, FEMS Yeast Res., 5, 545, 10.1016/j.femsyr.2004.09.008 Weis, 2004, Reliable high-throughput screening with Pichia pastoris by limiting yeast cell death phenomena, FEMS Yeast Res., 5, 179, 10.1016/j.femsyr.2004.06.016 Minas, 2000, Streptomycetes in micro-cultures: growth, production of secondary metabolites, and storage and retrieval in the 96-well format, Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek, 78, 297, 10.1023/A:1010254013352 Samorski, 2005, Quasi-continuous combined scattered light and fluorescence measurements: a novel measurement technique for shaken microtiter plates, Biotechnol. Bioeng., 92, 61, 10.1002/bit.20573 Pelaez, 2006, The historical delivery of antibiotics from microbial natural products – can history repeat?, Biochem. Pharmacol., 71, 981, 10.1016/j.bcp.2005.10.010 Singh, 2006, Empirical antibacterial drug discovery – foundation in natural products, Biochem. Pharmacol., 71, 1006, 10.1016/j.bcp.2005.12.016 Casey, 2004, Development of a robust microtiter plate-based assay method for assessment of bioactivity, J. Microbiol. Methods, 58, 327, 10.1016/j.mimet.2004.04.017 Diaz, 2002, Adaptation of a methionine auxotroph Escherichia coli growth assay to microtiter plates for quantitating methionine, J. Rapid Meth. Autom. Microbiol., 10, 217, 10.1111/j.1745-4581.2002.tb00257.x Doig, 2002, The use of microscale processing technologies for quantification of biocatalytic Baeyer-Villiger oxidation kinetics, Biotechnol. Bioeng., 80, 42, 10.1002/bit.10344 Ferreira-Torres, 2005, Microscale process evaluation of recombinant biocatalyst libraries: application to Baeyer-Villiger monooxygenase catalysed lactone synthesis, Bioprocess Biosys. Eng., 28, 83, 10.1007/s00449-005-0422-4 Duetz, 2001, Biotransformation of D-limonene to (+) trans-carveol by toluene-grown Rhodococcus opacus PWD4 cells, Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 67, 2829, 10.1128/AEM.67.6.2829-2832.2001 Spain, 2003, Production of 6-phenylacetylene picolinic acid from diphenylacetylene by a toluene-degrading Acinetobacter strain, Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 69, 4037, 10.1128/AEM.69.7.4037-4042.2003 O’Connor, 2005, Isolation and characterization of a diverse group of phenylacetic acid degrading microorganisms from pristine soil, Chemosphere, 61, 965, 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2005.03.017 Van Beilen, 2005, Biocatalytic production of perillyl alcohol from limonene by using a novel Mycobacterium sp cytochrome P450 alkane hydroxylase expressed in Pseudomonas putida, Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 71, 1737, 10.1128/AEM.71.4.1737-1744.2005