Device for respiration activity measurement enables the determination of oxygen transfer rates of microbial cultures in shaken 96‐deepwell microtiter plates

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Abstract

Mini-bioreactors with integrated online monitoring capabilities are well established in the early stages of process development. Mini-bioreactors fulfil the demand for high-throughput-applications and a simultaneous reduction of material costs and total experimental time. One of the most essential online monitored parameters is the oxygen transfer rate (OTR). OTR-monitoring allows fast characterization of bioprocesses and process transfer to larger scales. Currently, OTR-monitoring on a small-scale is limited to shake flasks and 48-well microtiter plates (MTP). Especially, 96-deepwell MTP are used for high-throughput-experiments during early-stage bioprocess development. However, a device for OTR monitoring in 96-deepwell MTP is still not available. To determine OTR values, the measurement of the gas composition in each well of a MTP is necessary. Therefore, a new micro(µ)-scale Transfer rate Online Measurement device (µTOM) was developed. The µTOM includes 96 parallel oxygen-sensitive sensors and a single robust sealing mechanism. Different organisms (Escherichia coli, Hansenula polymorpha, and Ustilago maydis) were cultivated in the µTOM. The measurement precision for 96 parallel cultivations was 0.21 mmol·L-1 ·h-1 (pooled standard deviation). In total, a more than 15-fold increase in throughput and an up to a 50-fold decrease in media consumption, compared with the shake flask RAMOS-technology, was achieved using the µTOM for OTR-monitoring.

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