Real‐time dissolved carbon dioxide monitoring II: Surface aeration intensification for efficient CO2 removal in shake flasks and mini‐bioreactors leads to superior growth and recombinant protein yields
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2019-12-13
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Chopda, Viki R.; Holzberg, Timothy; Ge, Xudong; Folio, Brandon; Wong, Lynn; Tolosa, Michael; Kostov, Yordan; Tolosa, Leah; Rao, Govind; Real‐time dissolved carbon dioxide monitoring II: Surface aeration intensification for efficient CO2 removal in shake flasks and mini‐bioreactors leads to superior growth and recombinant protein yields; Biotechnology and Bioengineering, (2020); https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/bit.27252
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Mass transfer is known to play a critical role in bioprocess performance and henceforth monitoring dissolved O₂ (DO) and dissolved CO₂ (dCO₂) is of paramount importance. At bioreactor level these parameters can be monitored online and can be controlled by sparging air/oxygen or stirrer speed. However, traditional small‐scale systems such as shake flasks lack real time monitoring and also employ only surface aeration with additional diffusion limitations imposed by the culture plug. Here we present implementation of intensifying surface aeration by sparging air in the headspace of the reaction vessel and real‐time monitoring of DO and dCO₂ in the bioprocesses to evaluate the impact of intensified surface aeration. We observed that sparging air in the headspace allowed us to keep dCO₂ at low level, which significantly improved not only biomass growth but also protein yield. We expect that implementing such controlled smart shake flasks can minimize the process development gap which currently exists in shake flask level and bioreactor level results.