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Published on: October 31, 2014
Saccharide production from methanol by transposon 5 mutants derived from the extracellular polysaccharide-producing
T Yoshida1, M Horinouchi, Y Ayabe
1Biotechnology Research Center, University of Tokyo, Japan. aseigyo@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Abstract:
A CH3OH-utilizing bacterium that has the ability to produce extracellular polysaccharide (EPS) was isolated from a soil sample, and was identified as the obligate methylotroph Methylobacillus sp. strain 12S on the basis of its 16S rDNA sequence and growth-substrate specificity. The EPS produced by strain 12S was purified and the sugar composition was analysed by GC-MS and HPLC to reveal that the EPS was a heteropolymer composed of glucosyl, galactosyl, and mannosyl residues in the molar ratio 3:1:1. In order to produce mono- and/or oligosaccharides by single-step fermentation from CH3OH, stain 12S was mutagenized by transposon 5. Among eleven EPS-deficient mutants, three strains were found to accumulate significant amounts of reducing sugars in the media. The amounts of the reducing sugars produced by the mutants ( > ca. 700 mg glucose equivalent/l) were > 11-22 times higher than those produced by the wild-type strain (
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