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Orbitally shaken flasks in polysaccharide-producing bacterial cultures usually present oxygen limitations because of non-Newtonian rheological characteristics of the resulting culture broth and bacterial respiration.

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by resonant acoustic mixing can maintain elevated oxygen transfer rates, even in non-Newtonian high-viscosity cultures, as in the case of alginate production by A. vinelandii.

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RAM showed its oxygen transfer potential for cultures that become increasingly viscous during cultivation, allowing A. vinelandii to have a high accumulation of alginate, without any observable oxygen limitation.

Mauricio A. Trujillo-Roldan
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

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This page is a summary of: Shaken flasks by resonant acoustic mixing in the biosynthesis of alginate by Azotobacter vinelandii with non-Newtonian rheological characteristics, Journal of Chemical Technology & Biotechnology, November 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/jctb.5475.
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