The purpose of this study was to develop noninvasive techniques to monitor the composition of cell culture media in insect cell bioreactors. Such a monitor could be used in conjunction with a fed-batch feeding scheme to ensure that cells are maintained in an optimal environment for growth and protei
Glutamine determination in insect cell culture media
โ Scribed by Min Ying Wang; Kelly Wester; William E. Bentley
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 356 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0951-208X
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โฆ Synopsis
Glutamine is an essential nutrient in insect cell culture and plays a role in maximizing protein expression in baculovirus-infected cells. This paper presents a technique which combines two enzymatic reactions, specifically the deamination of glutamine via glutaminase and the subsequent amination of 2-oxoglutarate to glutamate, to measure the concentration of glutamine in insect cell media. A specific ghttamine uptake rate of 4.2x lo-* umol/lO%ells/hr was determined for infected cells by this method.
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