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生物技术股负责生物材料的生产和提纯。该股承担广泛的生物生产任务，例如大规模培养原核生物和真核生物，以及生产和提纯生物化合物，特别是蛋白质。这些产品无法从商业渠道获得，但需要用于临床和结构研究。生物技术股有能力通过实施生理和技术方法来处理这些不同的生产任务。由于该股拥有两个综合要素：全面运作的多用途试生产设施和进行研究和工艺开发的能力，因此有可能进行有效的工艺开发和生产。在过去的一年里，该单位进行了近200种不同的大规模准备，包括：1)培养各种微生物，如重组大肠杆菌、重组毕赤氏酵母、白喉棒状杆菌突变株、多种沙门氏菌和志贺氏菌以及炭疽杆菌突变株；2)大量培养各种真核细胞，如HeLa、CHO、果蝇、SF-9和hi Five；3)纯化克量的白喉毒素CRM(交叉反应材料)、重组铜绿假单胞菌外毒素A和炭疽杆菌保护性抗原。在研究和开发领域，该单位继续在以下方面开展工作：1)开发更有效的大规模蛋白质回收方法，在这里，我们利用密度为3.2 mg/ml的新型树脂，在离子交换器和疏水树脂上进行了用于捕获蛋白质的扩展床吸附技术的实验；2)进行旨在了解各种重组大肠杆菌菌株的葡萄糖代谢的研究，以努力找出为什么某些菌株更适合于利用微阵列技术和蛋白质分析来生产外来蛋白质；3)通过抑制蛋白水解酶活性，开发从大肠杆菌中表达敏感的重组梭状芽孢杆菌蛋白质的发酵程序；4)对毕赤酵母重组蛋白，尤其是内皮抑素的生产工艺进行了改进实验。此外，该单位继续研究从HeLa/Vacinia系统生产重组蛋白的过程。该股与LDMI、NICHD合作，开展了针对伤寒沙门氏菌和福氏志贺氏菌的新疫苗的开发工作。这些产品目前正在进行实地试验。

The Biotechnology Unit is responsible for the production and purification of biological material. The Unit undertakes a wide array of biological production tasks such as large-scale growth of prokaryotes and eucaryotes, and production and purification of biological compounds especially proteins. These products, not available from commercial sources, are needed for clinical and structural studies. The Biotechnology Unit is capable of handling these various production tasks by implementing both physiological and technical approaches. Efficient process development and production is possible since the Unit possesses two integrated elements: a fully operational multi-purpose pilot production facility and the capability of conducting research and process development. During the last year the unit performed approximately 200 different, large scale preparations including: 1) growing various microorganisms such as recombinant Escherichia coli, recombinant Pichia pastoris, mutant strains of Corynebacteria diphtheria, several types of Salmonella and Shigella and mutant strain of Bacillus anthracis; 2) propagating large volumes of various eucaryotic cells such as HeLa, CHO, drosophila, Sf-9 and hi five; 3) purifying gram quantities of diphtheria toxin CRM (Cross Reacting Material), recombinant Pseudomonas aeruginosa exotoxin A and protective antigen from Bacillus anthracis. In the research and development arena, the unit continues its work in the following topics: 1) development of more efficient methods for large scale protein recovery, here we performed experiments implementing expanded bed adsorption techniques for capturing proteins on ion exchangers, and hydrophobic resins, utilizing new types of resins with density of 3.2 mg/ml; 2) conducting research aimed at understanding the glucose metabolism of various recombinant E. coli strains in an effort to find out why certain strains are more suitable for foreign protein production using microarrays technology and protein analysis; 3) developing fermentation procedures for expressing sensitive, recombinant clostridium protein from E.coli by suppressing proteolytic activity; and 4) conducting experiments for improving the production protocol of recombinant proteins from Pichia pastoris, especially endostatin. In addition, the unit continues its research work on the production process of recombinant proteins from the HeLa/vaccinia system. In collaboration with LDMI, NICHD, the unit conducted work on the development of new vaccine against Salmonella typhi, and Shigella flexneri. The products are currently in field trials.