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Optimising electron transport for redutive biotransformation at laboratory to process scale

Reference	BBS/B/04978
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor M Larkin
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors	Professor Christopher Allen
Institution	Queen's University of Belfast
Department	Sch of Biological and Food Sciences
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	130,742
Status	Completed
Type	Research Grant
Start date	01/10/2004
End date	30/11/2007
Duration	38 months

Abstract

Building on existing collaborations between a consortium of universities and industrial partners, we will develop the biological framework required to underpin a new industrial-scale bioprocess for the treatment of textile effluents. Using microbiological, biochemical and molecular techniques, we will identify the optimal mechanisms of electron transfer to azo dyes and pigments in Shewanella oneidensis at laboratory scale, and then use this information to determine the effects of scale-up and process intensification on biocatalyst performance. As well as helping develop important new technologies for the treatment of coloured waters, we will obtain fundamental information on the physiology of S. oneidensis, an organism with considerable metabolic flexibility that has the potential to catalyse many commercially important reductive biotransformations. (Joint with BBS/B/03718).

Summary

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Committee	Closed Committee - Engineering & Biological Systems (EBS)
Research Topics	X – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	X - not in an Initiative
Funding Scheme	Industrial Partnership Award (IPA)

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BBS/B/03718 Optimising electron transport for reductive biotransformations at laboratory to process scale

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