Friday, November 17, 2006: 8:30 AM-11:00 AM
Yosemite A (Hilton San Francisco)
#620 - Advances in Extreme Biocatalysis (15C18)
Biological production of complex molecules has many advantages over chemical synthesis methods including much higher reaction specificity, few or no side reactions, production of a single chiral form, etc. However, under many desirable industrial process conditions (high or low temperatures or pH, high salt concentration, high pressure, etc.), traditional biological methods quickly and irreversibly lose activity. This session would focus on progress being made in development of industrially relevant biological processing under extreme conditions. Papers would be sought that cover the entire range of development from discovery of novel enzymes and pathways in extreme organisms to industrial production using these organisms and enzymes. Examples would include characterization of relevant pathways and enzymes from extreme organisms, advances in methods to express active extreme enzymes in mesophilic hosts, overcoming issues related to scale up of bench scale processes, and industrial scale production. The potential audience would be individuals from academia, government labs, and industry involved in this type of work.
Chair:Vicki S. Thompson
CoChair:Jennifer Baeseman
8:30 AM620aBioconversion of Biomass Using a Coculture of Thermotoga Maritima and Methanococcus Jannaschii
T. Akim Nilausen, Tonya L. Peeples
8:50 AM620bThermoacidophilic Cellulases and Hemicellulases from Alicyclobacillus Acidocaldarius
Vicki S. Thompson, David N. Thompson, Kastli D. Schaller, William A. Apel
9:10 AM620cComplex Hyperthermophilic Proteases: the Effect of Beta Protein Content on Biochemical and Biophysical Properties of Proteasomes
Joshua K. Michel, Lara S. Madding, Keith R. Shockley, Shannon B. Conners, Kevin L. Epting, Matthew R. Johnson, Sabrina Tachdjian, Robert M. Kelly
9:30 AM620dEffects of Mass-Transfer and Kinetic Parameters on Biocatalytic Activity of Immobilized Burkholderia Cepacia Lipase in a Packed-Bed Reactor
Hemachand Jaladi, Amit Katiyar, Vadim V. Guliants, Neville G. Pinto
9:50 AM Break
10:00 AM620eRegulation of Carbon Monoxide Dehydrogenase Gene Complexes by Cooa in Carboxydothermus Hydrogenoformans
Deborah T. Newby, Stephen Techtmann, Joni M. Barnes, Heather G. Silverman, Jeffrey A. Lacey, Kevin Epting, Albert S. Colman, Dennis L. Maeder, Frank T. Robb
10:20 AM620fProteomic Analysis of a Hydrogen Producing Thermophile Carboxydothermus Hydrogenoformans
Vicki S. Thompson, Kevin Epting, Kastli D. Schaller, David W. Reed

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