Flow-based ammonia gas analyzer with an open channel scrubber for indoor environments.

A robust and fully automated indoor ammonia gas monitoring system with an open channel scrubber (OCS) was developed. The sample gas channel dimensions, hydrophilic surface treatment to produce a thin absorbing solution layer, and solution flow rate of the OCS were optimized to connect the OCS as in-line gas collector and avoid sample humidity effects. The OCS effluent containing absorbed ammonia in sample gas was injected into a derivatization solution flow.

The usefulness of the collagen and elastin sponge derived from salmon as an artificial dermis and scaffold for tissue engineering.

Collagen sponge is one of the medical materials that are frequently used in clinical medicine. However, the problem of prion disease harmfully affected the usage of mammals-derived medical materials. Since there have been no reports about prion disease occurring in marine products, we produced the collagen and elastin sponge (CES) made from salmon, and investigated whether the CES could be a substitute for mammalian collagen sponge.

Miniature open channel scrubbers for gas collection.

An open channel scrubber is proposed as a miniature fieldable gas collector. The device is 100mm in length, 26 mm in width and 22 mm in thickness. The channel bottom is rendered hydrophilic and liquid flows as a thin layer on the bottom.

Protein O-mannosyltransferase A of Aspergillus awamori is involved in O-mannosylation of glucoamylase I.

Industrially important extracellular enzymes from filamentous fungi are often O-mannosylated. The structure and function of the pmtA (AapmtA) gene encoding the protein O-D-mannosyltransferase of Aspergillus awamori were characterized. The AapmtA disruptant, designated AaPMTA, was constructed by homologous recombination.