ISSN:
1573-6784
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
Notes:
Abstract The very shear sensitive transfectoma cell line, FAB 10, producing a chimeric Fab-antibody fragment specific for the human carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), was cultivated in fixed bed reactors where the cells were immobilized in macroporous carriers. As the cell line had a very low productivity, cultures with “process integrated product enrichment” were performed in a membrane dialysis bioreactor with integrated fixed bed, where low molecular weight metabolites are removed over the membrane and high molecular weight products are enriched. In a new “nutrient-split” feeding strategy for dialysis cultures concentrated medium was supplied directly to the fixed bed unit, whereas a buffer solution was used as dialysis fluid. With the dialysis technique up to 5800 μg Fab l−1 could be obtained, more than 10 times higher compared to fixed bed cultures without dialysis or batch cultures with suspended cells. The “nutrient-split”-feeding strategy reduced the amount of medium required per mg of antibody significantly. © Rapid Science Ltd. 1998
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1008839127835
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