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João Paulo Bender Marcio Antônio Mazutti Débora de Oliveira Marco Di Luccio Helen Treichel 《Applied biochemistry and biotechnology》2006,132(1-3):951-958
Inulinase is an enzyme relevant to fructose production by enzymatic hydrolysis of inulin. This enzyme is also applied in the
production of fructo-oligosaccharides that may be used as a new food functional ingredient. Commercial inulinase is currently
obtained using inulin as substrate, which is a relatively expensive raw material. In Brazil, the production of this enzyme
using residues of sugarcane and corn industry (sugarcane bagasse, molasses, and corn steep liquor) is economically attractive,
owing to the high amount and low cost of such residues. In this context, the aim of this work was the assessment of inulinase
production by solid state fermentation using by Kluyveromyces marxianus NRRL Y-7571. The solid medium consisted of sugar cane bagasse supplemented with molasses and corn steep liquor. The production
of inulinase was carried out using experimental design technique. The effect of temperature, moisture, and supplements content
were investigated. The enzymatic activity reached a maximum of 445 units of inulinase per gram of dry substrate. 相似文献
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Hugh G. Lawford Joyce D. Rousseau Ali Mohagheghi James D. McMillan 《Applied biochemistry and biotechnology》1999,77(1-3):191-204
Long-term (149 d) continuous fermentation was used to adapt a xylose-fermenting recombinant Zymomonas mobilis, strain 39676:pZB 4L, to conditioned (overlimed) dilute-acid yellow poplar hemicellulose hydrolyzate (“prehydrolyzate”).
An “adapted” variant was isolated from a chemostat operating at a dilution rate of 0.03/h with a 50% (v/v) prehydrolyzate,
corn steep liquor, and sugar-supplemented medium, at pH 5.75. The level of xylose and glucose in the medium was kept constant
at 4% (w/v) and 0.8% (w/v), respectively. These sugar concentrations reflect the composition of the undiluted hardwood prehydrolyzate.
The level of conditioned hardwood prehydrolyzate added to the medium was increased in 5% increments startingata level of 10%.
At the upper level of 50% prehydrolyzate, the acetic-acid concentration was about 0.75% (w/v). The adapted variant exhibited
improved xylose-fermentation performance in a pure-sugar, synthetic hardwood prehydrolyzate medium containing 4% xylose (w/v),
0.8% (w/v) glucose, and acetic acid in the range 0.4–1.0% (w/v). The ethanol yield was 0.48–0.50 g/g; equivalent to a sugar-to-ethanol
conversion efficiency of 94–96% of theoretical maximum. The maximum growth yield and maintenance energy coefficients were
0.033 g dry cell mass (DCM)/g sugars and 0.41 g sugars/g DCM/h, respectively. The results confirm that long-term continuous
adaptation is a useful technique for effecting strain improvement with respect to the fermentation of recalcitrant feedstocks. 相似文献
3.
Chen Chee-Shan Chan E. Wang S. L. Gong C. S. Chen L. F. 《Applied biochemistry and biotechnology》1994,(1):531-544
A self-aggregating strain ofSaccharomyces uvarum (U4) was used as a biocatalyst to carry out continuous ethanol fermentation in a tower fermentor equipped with a cell separator.
Cell aggregates (2–3 mm) formed a stable packed bed in the fermentor, and the cell separator retained yeast cells effectively.
Corn steep liquor was used as a nitrogen source for the fermentation of corn syrup and black strap molasses. An ethanol productivity
of 54 g/L/h was reached using corn syrup at a dilution rate of 0.7/h, and sugar concentration in the feed was 15% (w/v). For
molasses fermentation, an ethanol productivity of 22 g/L/h was obtained at a dilution rate of 0.7/h, and sugar concentration
in the feed was 12.5% (w/v). Ethanol yields obtained from tower fermentation are higher than those obtained from flask fermentation
(96% for corn syrup fermentation and 92% for molasses fermentation). No significant loss in fermentation activity was observed
after 3 mo of operation. 相似文献
4.
In order to reduce of the manufacturing cost of bacterial cellulose (BC), BC production by Acetobacter sp. V6 was investigated in shaking culture using molasses and corn steep liquor (CSL) as the sole carbon and nitrogen sources,
respectively. The highest BC production was obtained with Ca3(PO4)2-treated molasses. Maximum BC yield (2.21 ± 0.04 g/l) was obtained at 5% (w/v) total sugar in molasses. In improved medium containing molasses and CSL, BC production was observed in the medium after
1 day of incubation and increased rapidly thereafter with maximum yield (3.12 ± 0.03 g/l) at 8 days. This value was approximately
twofold higher than the yield in the complex medium. Physical properties of BC from the complex and molasses media were studied
using Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy and X-ray diffractometer. By FT-IR, all the BC were found to be of cellulose
type І, the same as typical native cellulose. The relative crystallinity of BC produced in the complex and molasses media
were 83.02 and 67.27%, respectively. These results suggest that molasses and CSL can be useful low-cost substrates for BC
production by Acetobacter sp. V6 without supplementation with expensive nitrogen complexes such as yeast extract and polypeptone, leading to the reduction
in the production costs. 相似文献
5.
Jin-Nam Kim Jong-Sok Choo Young-Jung Wee Jong-Sun Yun Hwa-Won Ryu 《Applied biochemistry and biotechnology》2005,123(1-3):861-869
A new acetic acid-producing microorganism, Acetobacter sp. RKY4, was isolated from Korean traditional persimmon vinegar, and we optimized the culture medium for acetic acid production
from ethanol using the newly isolated Acetobacter sp. RKY4. The optimized culture medium for acetic acid production using this microorganism was found to be 40 g/L ethanol,
10 g/L glycerol, 10 g/L corn steep liquor, 0.5 g/L MgSO4·7H2O, and 1.0 g/L (NH4H2PO4. Acetobacter sp. RKY4 produced 47.1 g/L of acetic acid after 48 h of fermentation in a 250 mL Erlenmeyer flask containing 50 mL of the
optimized medium. 相似文献
6.
Hyang-Ok Kim Young-Jung Wee Jin-Nam Kim Jong-Sun Yun Hwa-Won Ryu 《Applied biochemistry and biotechnology》1996,131(1-3):694-704
The fermentative production of lactic acid from cheese whey and corn steep liquor (CSL) as cheap raw materials was investigated
by using Lactobacillus sp. RKY2 in order to develop a cost-effective fermentation medium. Lactic acid yields based on consumed lactose were obtained
at more than 0.98 g/g from the medium containing whey lactose. Lactic acid productivities and yields obtained from whey lactose
medium were slightly higher than those obtained from pure lactose medium. The lactic acid productivity gradually decreased
with increase in substrate concentration owing to substrate and product inhibitions. The fermentation efficiencies were improved
by the addition of more CSL to the medium. Moreover, through the cell-recycle repeated batch fermentation, lactic acid productivity
was maximized to 6.34 g/L/h, which was 6.2 times higher than that of the batch fermentation. 相似文献
7.
Clostridium acetobutylicum strains used in most Chinese ABE (acetone–butanol–ethanol) plants favorably ferment starchy materials like corn, cassava,
etc., rather than sugar materials. This is one major problem of ABE industry in China and significantly limits the exploitation
of cheap waste sugar materials. In this work, cane molasses were utilized as substrate in ABE production by Clostridium saccharobutylicum DSM 13864. Under optimum conditions, total solvent of 19.80 g/L (13.40 g/L butanol) was reached after 72 h of fermentation
in an Erlenmeyer flask. In a 5-L bioreactor, total solvent of 17.88 g/L was attained after 36 h of fermentation, and the productivity
and yield were 0.50 g/L/h and 0.33 g ABE/g sugar consumption, respectively. To further enhance the productivity, a two-stage
semicontinuous fermentation process was steadily operated for over 8 days (205 h, 26 cycles) with average productivity (stage
II) of 1.05 g/L/h and cell concentration (stage I) of 7.43 OD660, respectively. The average batch fermentation time (stage I and II) was reduced to 21−25 h with average solvent of 15.27 g/L.
This study provides valuable process data for the development of industrial ABE fermentation process using cane molasses as
substrate. 相似文献
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Biosurfactants from potato process effluents 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Thompson David N. Fox Sandra L. Bala Gregory A. 《Applied biochemistry and biotechnology》2000,84(1-9):917-930
High-solids (HS) and low-solids (LS) potato process effluents were tested as substrates for surfactin production. Tests used
effluents diluted 1∶10, unamended and amended with trace minerals or corn steep liquor. Heat pretreatment was necessary for
surfactin production from effluents due to indigenous bacteria, whose spores remained after autoclaving. Surfactin production
from LS surpassed HS in all cases. Surfactin yields from LS were 66% lower than from a pure culture in an optimized potatostarch
medium. LS could potentially be used without sterilization for surfactin production for low-value applications such as environmental
remediation or oil recovery. 相似文献
9.
Lawford Hugh G. Rousseau Joyce D. Tolan Jeffrey S. 《Applied biochemistry and biotechnology》2001,91(1-9):133-146
Iogen Corporation of Ottawa, Canada, has recently built a 50 t/d biomass-to-ethanol demonstration plant adjacent to its enzyme
production facility. Iogen has partnered with the University of Toronto to test the C6/C5 cofermentation performance characteristics
of National Renewable Energy Laboratory's metabolically engineered Zymomonas mobilis using its biomass hydrolysates. In this study, the biomass feedstock was an agricultural waste, namely oat hulls, which was
hydrolyzed in a proprietary two-stage process involving pretreatment with dilute sulfuric acid at 200–250°C, followed by cellulase
hydrolysis. The oat hull hydrolysate (OHH) contained glucose, xylose, and arabinose in a mass ratio of about 8:3:0.5. Fermentation
media, prepared from diluted hydrolysate, were nutritionally amended with 2.5 mL/L of corn steep liquor (50% solids) and 1.2
g/L of diammonium phosphate. The estimated cost for large-scale ethanol production using this minimal level of nutrient supplementation
was 4.4c/gal of ethanol. This work examined the growth and fermentation performance of xyloseutilizing, tetracycline-resistant,
plasmid-bearing, patented, recombinant Z. mobilis cultures: CP4:pZB5, ZM4:pZB5, 39676:pZB4L, and a hardwood prehydrolysate-adapted variant of 39676:pZB4L (designated asthe
“adapted” strain). In pH-stat batch fermentations with unconditioned OHH containing 6% (w/v) glucose, 3% xylose, and 0.75%
acetic acid, rec Zm ZM4:pZB5 gave the best performance with a fermentation time of 30h, followed by CP4:pZB5 at 48h, with
corresponding volumetric productivities of 1.4 and 0.89 g/(L·h), respectively. Based on the available glucose and xylose,
the process ethanol yield for both strains was 0.47 g/g (92% conversion efficiency). At 48 h, the process yield for rec Zm
39676:pZB4L and the adapted strain was 0.32 and 0.34 g/g, respectively. None of the test strains was able to fermentarabinose.
Acetic acid tolerance appeared to be a major determining factor in cofermentation performance. 相似文献
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A. L. Grigorevski-Lima F. N. M. Da Vinha D. T. Souza A. S. R. Bispo E. P. S. Bon R. R. R. Coelho R. P. Nascimento 《Applied biochemistry and biotechnology》2009,155(1-3):18-26
This study evaluated the production of cellulolytic enzymes by an Aspergillus fumigatus strain, isolated from sugar cane bagasse, according to its ability to grow on microcrystalline cellulose as the sole carbon source. The effect of the carbon source (brewer’s spent grain, sugarcane bagasse, and wheat bran) and of the nitrogen source (corn steep liquor and sodium nitrate) on cellulase production was studied using submerged and solid state cultivations at 30 °C. The highest levels of endoglucanase (CMCase) corresponded to 365 U L-1 and was obtained using sugarcane bagasse (1%) and corn steep liquor (1.2%) in submerged fermentation within 6 days of cultivation. This supernatant was used to run a sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis that showed six bands with endoglucanase activity. CMCase activity was higher at 65 °C and pH 2.0, indicating that this microorganism produces a thermophilic and acid endoglucanase. Solid state cultivation favored FPase production, that reached 47 U g-1 of dry substrate (wheat bran and sugarcane bagasse) within 3 days. 相似文献
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Melissa L. E. Gutarra Elisa D. C. Cavalcanti Leda R. Castilho Denise M. G. Freire Geraldo L. Sant’Anna Jr. 《Applied biochemistry and biotechnology》2005,121(1-3):105-116
The production of lipase by Penicillium simplicissimum in solid-state fermentation was studied using babassu cake as the basal medium. Tray-type and packed-bed bioreactors were employed. In the former, the influence of temperature; content of the medium, and medium supplementation with olive oil, sugarcane molasses, corn steep liquor, and yeast hydrolysate was studied. For all combinations of supplements, a temperature of 30°C, a moisture content of 70%, and a concentration of carbon source of 6.25% (m/m, dry basis) provided optimum conditions for lipase production. When used as single supplements olive oil and molasses also were able to provide high lipase activities (20 U/g). Using packed-bed bioreactors and molasses-supplemented medium, optimum conditions for enzyme production were air superficial velocities above 55 cm/min and temperatures below 28°C. The lower temperature optimum found for these reactors is probably related to radial heat gradient formation inside the packed bed. Maximum lipase activities obtained in these bioreactors (26.4 U/g) were 30% higher than in tray-type reactors. 相似文献
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Lawford Hugh G. Rousseau Joyce D. Mohagheghi Ali McMillan James D. 《Applied biochemistry and biotechnology》2000,84(1-9):295-310
This study examined the continuous cofermentation performance characteristics of a dilute-acid “prehydrolysate-adapted” recombinant
Zymomonas 39676:pZB4L and builds on the pH-stat batch fermentations with this recombinant that we reported on last year. Substitution
of yeast extract by 1% (w/v) corn steep liquor (CSL) (50% solids) and Mg (2 mM) did not alter the coferm entation performance.
Using declared assumptions, the cost of using CSL and Mg was estimated to be 12.5c/gal of ethanol with a possibility of 50%
cost reduction using fourfold less CSL with 0.1% diammonium phosphate. Because of competition for a common sugar transporter
that exhibits a higher affinity for glucose, utilization of glucose was complete whereas xylose was always present in the
chemostat effluent. The ethanol yield, based on sugar used, was 94% of theoretical maximum. Altering the sugar ratio of the
synthetic dilute acid hardwood prehydrolysate did not appear to significantly change the pattern of xylose utilization. Using
a criterion of 80% sugar utilization for determining the maximum dilution rate (D
max), changing the composition of the feed from 4% xylose to 3%, and simultaneously increasing the glucose from 0.8 to 1.8% shifted
D
max from 0.07 to 0.08/h. With equal amounts of both sugars (2.5%), D
max was 0.07/h. By comparison to a similar investigation with rec Zm CP4:pZB5 with a 4% equal mixture of xylose and glucose,
we observed that at pH 5.0, the D
max was 0.064/h and shifted to 0.084/h at pH 5.75. At a level of 0.4% (w/v) acetic acid in the CSL-based medium with 3% xylose
and 1.8% glucose at pH 5.75, the D
max for the adapted recombinant shifted from 0.08 to 0.048/h, and the corresponding maximum volumetric ethanol productivity decreased
45%, from 1.52 to 0.84 g/(L·h). Under these conditions of continuous culture, linear regression of a Pirt plot of the specific
rate of sugar utilization vs D showed that 4 g/L of acetic acid did not affect the maximum growth yield (0.030 g dry cell mass/g sugar), but did increase
the maintenance coefficient twofold, from 0.46 to 1.0 g of sugar/(g of cell·h). 相似文献
13.
Coral J Karp SG Porto de Souza Vandenberghe L Parada JL Pandey A Soccol CR 《Applied biochemistry and biotechnology》2008,151(2-3):333-341
Propionic acid (PA) is widely used as additive in animal feed and also in the manufacturing of cellulose-based plastics, herbicides, and perfumes. Salts of propionic acid are used as preservative in food. PA is mainly produced by chemical synthesis. Nowadays, PA production by fermentation of low-cost industrial wastes or renewable sources has been an interesting alternative. In the present investigation, PA production by Propionibacterium acidipropionici ATCC 4965 was studied using a basal medium with sugarcane molasses (BMSM), glycerol or lactate (BML) in small batch fermentation at 30 and 36 degrees C. Bacterial growth was carried out under low dissolved oxygen concentration and without pH control. Results indicated that P. acidipropionici produced more biomass in BMSM than in other media at 30 degrees C (7.55 g l(-1)) as well as at 36 degrees C (3.71 g l(-1)). PA and biomass production were higher at 30 degrees C than at 36 degrees C in all cases studied. The best productivity was obtained by using BML (0.113 g l(-1) h(-1)), although the yielding of this metabolite was higher when using glycerol as carbon source (0.724 g g(-1)) because there was no detection of acetic acid. By the way, when using the other two carbon sources, acetic acid emerged as an undesirable by-product for further PA purification. 相似文献
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O. García-Kirchner M. Segura-Granados P. Rodríguez-Pascual 《Applied biochemistry and biotechnology》2005,121(1-3):347-359
The hydrolytic activity of fungal originated β-glucosidase is exploited in several biotechnological processes to increase
the rate and extent of saccharification of several cellulosic materials by hydrolyzing the cellobiose which inhibits cellulases.
In a previous presentation, we reported the screening and liquid fermentation with Aspergillus niger, strain C-6 for β-glucosidase production at shake flask cultures in a basal culture medium with mineral salts, corn syrup liquor, and
different waste lignocellulosic materials as the sole carbon source obtaining the maximum enzymatic activity after 5–6 d of
8.5 IU/mL using native sugar cane bagasse. In this work we describe the evaluation of fermentation conditions: growth temperature,
medium composition, and pH, also the agitation and aeration effects for β-glucosidase production under submerged culture using
a culture media with corn syrup liquor (CSL) and native sugar cane bagasse pith as the sole carbon source in a laboratory
fermenter. The maximum enzyme titer of 7.2 IU/mL was obtained within 3 d of fermentation. This indicates that β-glucosidase
productivity by Aspergillus niger
C-6 is function of culture conditions, principally temperature, pH, culture medium conditions, and the oxygen supply given in
the bioreactor. Results obtained suggest that this strain is a potential microorganism that can reach a major level of enzyme
production and also for enzyme characterization. 相似文献
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Nasib Qureshi Patrick Karcher Michael Cotta Hans P. Blaschek 《Applied biochemistry and biotechnology》2004,114(1-3):713-721
Corn steep liquor (CSL), a byproduct of the corn wet-milling process, was used in an immobilized cell continuous biofilm reactor
to replace the expensive P2 medium ingredients. The use of CSL resulted in the production of 6.29 g/L of total acetone-butanol-ethanol
(ABE) as compared with 6.86 g/L in a control experiment. These studies were performed at a dilution rate of 0.32 h−1. The productivities in the control and CSL experiment were 2.19 and 2.01 g/(L·h), respectively. Although the use of CSL resulted
in a 10% decrease in productivity, it is viewed that its application would be economical compared to P2 medium. Hence, CSL
may be used to replace the P2 medium. It was also demonstrated that inclusion of butyrate into the feed was beneficial to
the butanol fermentation. A control experiment produced 4.77 g/L of total ABE, and the experiment with supplemented sodium
butyrate produced 5.70 g/L of total ABE. The butanol concentration increased from 3.14 to 4.04 g/L. Inclusion of acetate in
the feed medium of the immobilized cell biofilm reactor was not found to be beneficial for the ABE fermentation, as reported
for the batch ABE fermentation.
Names are necessary to report factually on available data. However, the USDA neither guarantees nor warrants the standard
of the product, and the use of the names by USDA implies no approval of the product to the exclusion of others that may also
be suitable. 相似文献
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As a potential anticarcinogenic agent, polysaccharides from Cordyceps sinensis have been demonstrated to possess strong antioxidation activity. The aim of the present research was to study the optimal
medium to produce polysaccharides of C. sinensis by using response surface methodology (RSM). The composition of optimized medium for polysaccharide production calculated
from the regression model of RSM was 6.17% sucrose, 0.53% corn steep powder, 0.5% (NH4)2HPO4, and 0.15% KH2PO4 at pH 4.44, with a predicted maximum polysaccharide production of 3.17 g/L. When applying this optimal medium, the maximum
polysaccharide production was 3.05 and 3.21 g/L in a shake flask and a 5-L jar fermentor, respectively. When the pH was controlled
at a higher level such as pH 5.0, both cell growth and polysaccharide production were inhibited. A low pH of 2.85 was required
for maximum production of polysaccharides. 相似文献
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The fermentative production of lactic acid from cheese whey and corn steep liquor (CSL) as cheap raw materials was investigated by using Lactobacillus sp. RKY2 in order to develop a cost-effective fermentation medium. Lactic acid yields based on consumed lactose were obtained at more than 0.98 g/g from the medium containing whey lactose. Lactic acid productivities and yields obtained from whey lactose medium were slightly higher than those obtained from pure lactose medium. The lactic acid productivity gradually decreased with increase in substrate concentration owing to substrate and product inhibitions. The fermentation efficiencies were improved by the addition of more CSL to the medium. Moreover, through the cell-recycle repeated batch fermentation, lactic acid productivity was maximized to 6.34 g/L/h, which was 6.2 times higher than that of the batch fermentation. 相似文献
18.
Da Vinha FN Gravina-Oliveira MP Franco MN Macrae A da Silva Bon EP Nascimento RP Coelho RR 《Applied biochemistry and biotechnology》2011,164(3):256-267
An actinomycete strain, isolated from a soil sample under a sugar cane plantation in Brazil and identified as Streptomyces viridobrunneus SCPE-09, was selected as a promising cellulolytic strain, and tested for its ability to produce cellulases from agro-industrial
residues. Sugar cane bagasse or wheat bran was tested as carbon source, and corn steep liquor tested as nitrogen source. Different
concentrations of carbon and nitrogen were tested using factorial design to identify optimal cellulose production. The results
showed that media containing wheat bran 2.0% (w/v) and corn steep liquid 0.19% (w/v) lead to the highest production, 2.0 U mL−1 of CMCase, obtained on the fifth day of fermentation. The pH and temperature profile showed optimal activity at pH 4.9 and
50°C. As for thermostability, endoglucanases were most tolerant at 50°C, retaining more than 80% of maximal activity even
after 2 h of incubation. Zymogram analyses using supernatant from growth under optimized conditions revealed the presence
of two CMCase bands with apparent molecular masses of 37 and 119 kDa. The combination of pH tolerance and CMCase production
from agro-industrial residues by S. viridobrunneus SCPE-09 offers promise for future bioethanol biotechnologies. 相似文献
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Alireza Pourhossein Masoud Madani Mohsen Shahlaei Kambiz Fakhri Parisa Alimohamadi Maryam Amiri 《Central European Journal of Chemistry》2009,7(3):382-387
A sensitive, simple and rapid method for ultra-trace determination of iron and manganese based on ultrasound assisted pseudodigestion
in citric acid fermentation medium samples (beet and cane molasses and raw sugar based mediums) is described. Parameters influencing
pseudo-digestion, such as sonication time, sample mass and solvent system were fully optimized. Final solutions obtained upon
sonication were analyzed by electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry (ETAAS). The best conditions for metal pseudo-digestion
were as follows: a 25, 30 and 20 min sonication time for beet molasses, cane molasses and raw sugar based medium samples,
respectively, 0.7 g sample mass of raw sugar based samples, 0.5 g sample mass of molasses based samples and an extraction
mixture of concentrated HNO3-H2O2, in 25 mL of solvent. Analytical results obtained for the two metals by ultrasound assisted pseudo-digestion and conventional
wet digestion methods showed a good agreement. This method reduces the time required for all treatments (heating to dryness,
cooling and separation) in comparison with conventional wet digestion method. The accuracy of the method was tested by comparing
the obtained results with that of conventional wet digestion method.
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Lawford Hugh G. Rousseau Joyce D. McMillan James D. 《Applied biochemistry and biotechnology》1997,(1):269-286
The five-carbon sugard-xylose is a major component of hemicellulose and accounts for roughly one-third of the carbohydrate content of many lignocellulosic
materials. The efficient fermentation of xylose-rich hemicellulose hydrolyzates (prehydrolyzates) represents an opportunity
to improve significantly the economics of large-scale fuel ethanol production from lignocellulosic feedstocks. The National
Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is currently investigating a simultaneous saccharification and cofermentation (SSCF) process
for ethanol production from biomass that uses a dilute-acid pretreatment and a metabolically engineered strain ofZymomonas mobilis that can coferment glucose and xylose. The objective of this study was to establish optimal conditions for cost-effective
seed production that are compatible with the SSCF process design.
Two-level and three-level full factorial experimental designs were employed to characterize efficiently the growth performance
of recombinantZ. mobilis CP4:pZB5 as a function of nutrient level, pH, and acetic acid concentration using a synthetic hardwood hemicellulose hydrolyzate
containing 4% (w/v) xylose and 0.8% (w/v) glucose. Fermentations were run batchwise and were pH-controlled at low levels of
clarified corn steep liquor (cCSL, 1-2% v/v), which were used as the sole source of nutrients. For the purpose of assessing
comparative fermentation performance, seed production was also carried out using a “benchmark” yeast extract-based laboratory
medium. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) of experimental results was performed to determine the main effects and possible interactive
effects of nutrient (cCSL) level, pH, and acetic acid concentration on the rate of xylose utilization and the extent of cell
mass production. Results indicate that the concentration of acetic acid is the most significant limiting factor for the xylose
utilization rate and the extent of cell mass production; nutrient level and pH exerted weaker, but statistically significant
effects. At pH 6.0, in the absence of acetic acid, the final cell mass concentration was 1.4 g dry cell mass/L (g DCM/L),
but decreased to 0.92 and 0.64 g DCM/L in the presence of 0.5 and 1.0% (w/v) acetic acid, respectively. At concentrations
of acetic acid of 0.75 (w/v) or lower, fermentation was complete within 1.5 d. In contrast, in the presence of 1.0% (w/v)
acetic acid, 25% of the xylose remained after 2 d. At a volumetric supplementation level of 1.5–2.0% (v/v), cCSL proved to
be a cost-effective single-source nutritional adjunct that can support growth and fermentation performance at levels comparable
to those achieved using the expensive yeast extract-based laboratory reference medium. 相似文献