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TABLE OF CONTENTS<br />

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AB STRACT .. . . iv<br />

Acknowledgments .................................................................................................... vii<br />

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List <strong>of</strong> Tables .............................................................................................................. m<br />

List <strong>of</strong> Figures ............................ . ............................................................................ xv<br />

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NOMENCLATURE ...................................... . xxui<br />

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CHAPTER 1 . UV'T'RODUCTION ................................................................................. 1<br />

1.1. Importance <strong>of</strong> Recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisioe ................................ 2<br />

1.2. Instability <strong>of</strong> Recombinant Yeast ................................................................... 4<br />

1.3. Investigations <strong>of</strong> Imrnobiiized Recombinant Yeast Systems .......................... 7<br />

1.4. Im mo bilized-Ce11 Bioreactors ...................................................................... 10<br />

1 .5 . Objectives ........................................................................................... II<br />

CHAPTER 2 . LITERATURE REVTEW ..................................................................... 13<br />

2.1. Yeast Plasmid Vectors ............................*.................. ....,, 13<br />

2.2. Factors Affecting Plasmid Stabüity in Recombinant S . cerevisiae ................. 15<br />

2.2.1. Genetic Factors ................................................................................ 16<br />

2.2.2. Environmental Factors ............ ,.l ........................................... 2 4<br />

2.3. Plasmid Stability in Immobiüzed CeUs ...................................................... 3 5<br />

2.3. I . Effects <strong>of</strong> Immobilization ......................... ., ............................... 35<br />

1.3.2. Possible Stabilizing Mechanisms ....................................................... 40<br />

2.4. hrno bilization Methods and immobilized Ce11 Bioreactors .......................... 41<br />

2.5. Modehg <strong>of</strong> Recombinant Yeast .............. . ................................ 4 6

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