PřF:C7900 Light Biotechnology - Course Information
C7900 Light Biotechnology
Faculty of ScienceAutumn 2020
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. RNDr. Petr Zbořil, CSc. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. RNDr. Petr Zbořil, CSc.
Department of Biochemistry – Chemistry Section – Faculty of Science
Supplier department: Department of Biochemistry – Chemistry Section – Faculty of Science - Timetable
- Tue 8:00–9:50 prace doma
- Prerequisites
- Biochemistry I and II
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 9 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- A survey of special biotechnological productions. Basic principles of productions. Typical examples.
- Learning outcomes
- After completing the course, student will better understand the possibilities of biotechnological production of important substances and making effective fermentative processes.
- Syllabus
- 1. Biotechnology and its relation to the other production processes. Typical features, comparison with chemical processes. Economical aspects.
- 2. General features of fermentations. Optimization of processes.
- 3. Vitamins, modes of production. Production of ascorbic acid.
- 4. Production of carotens, riboflavine, and cobalamine.
- 5. Aminoacids, producers, biochemical principles of production and accumulation. Lysine and glutamic acid.
- 6. Therapeutics and important substances in pharmacology. Antibiotics production. Penicillins, stages of development of production process. Semisyntetic penicillins. Tetracyclines.
- 7. Fermentative production of antimetabolites and other anti-cancer drugs.
- 8. Dextran, production, use. Other microbial polysaccharides, survey, properties, producers.
- 9. Transformation of steroids, typical reactions. General features of production, derivatives, application.
- 10. Organic solvents and other substances used in chemical and pharmaceutical industry. Butanol a acetone, 2,3-butandiol, fenylacetylkarbinol.
- 11. Industrial enzymes. Producers, influence of cultivation environment.Bacterial and fungal amylases and proteases. Glucose oxidase.
- 12. Ketonic fermentations, characteristics, metabolites.
- 13. Production of fats and oils. General features, examples.
- 14. Microbial insecticides, producing organisms. General and special conditions of production, use. Growth regulators, giberrellins.
- Literature
- Moo-Young, M.: Comprehensive Biotechnology, Pergamon Press, Oxford 1989
- Teaching methods
- Lectures
- Assessment methods
- Oral examination or colloquium
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught once in two years.
General note: Nebude vyučován v P2002.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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