Publications by authors named "J T Pronk"
Emerging low-emission production technologies make ethanol an interesting substrate for yeast biotechnology, but information on growth rates and biomass yields of yeasts on ethanol is scarce. Strains of 52 Saccharomycotina yeasts were screened for growth on ethanol. The 21 fastest strains, among which representatives of the Phaffomycetales order were overrepresented, showed specific growth rates in ethanol-grown shake-flask cultures between 0.
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- The study investigates how the yeast C. jadinii grows on ethanol as a carbon source, looking specifically at growth rates, energy requirements, and biomass composition across different culture methods.
- In ethanol-limited conditions, C. jadinii CBS 621 achieves effective biomass yields and demonstrates a stable protein content, even at low growth rates, indicating its potential for producing single-cell protein.
- The research also finds that various C. jadinii strains grow rapidly on ethanol, and the results from chemostat cultures can help model production outcomes in larger fed-batch systems, highlighting differences in protein content due to cultivation conditions.
Unlabelled: To investigate daily functioning, health-related quality of life (HRQoL), and overall quality of life (QoL) in young adult survivors of childhood bacterial meningitis (BM) thereby shedding light on very long-term outcomes and contributing to global meningitis burden estimates. In this cross-sectional study, the Weiss Functional Impairment Rating Scale-Self Report (WFIRS-S), the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System Scale vGlobal Health v1.2 (PROMIS-GH), PROMIS-29 profile v2.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: This study investigated executive functions (EFs) in young adult survivors of childhood bacterial meningitis (BM). These skills are important for normal development, and their potential vulnerability in early years suggests that childhood BM could affect executive functions in the longer term.
Method: The adult self-report Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function was administered to 474 young adult survivors of childhood BM who participated in the 20|30 Dutch Postmeningitis study.
Chemically defined media for cultivation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains are commonly supplemented with a mixture of multiple Class-B vitamins, whose omission leads to strongly reduced growth rates. Fast growth without vitamin supplementation is interesting for industrial applications, as it reduces costs and complexity of medium preparation and may decrease susceptibility to contamination by auxotrophic microbes. In this study, suboptimal growth rates of S.
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