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Subhasree Ray1, Vipin Chandra Kalia1
1Microbial Biotechnology and Genomics, CSIR - Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), Delhi University Campus, Mall Road, Delhi 110007, India; Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research (AcSIR), 2, Rafi Marg, Anusandhan Bhawan, New Delhi 110001, India.
Abstract:
Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) production by Bacillus thuringiensis EGU45 was studied by co-metabolism of crude glycerol (CG) (1%, v/v), glucose (0.05-0.5%, w/v) and propionic acid (0.05-0.5%, v/v) under batch (shake flask) culture conditions. Glycerol+PA combination resulted in 15-100mg/L PHA co-polymers with a HV content of 33-81mol%. The addition of NH4Cl (0.5%, w/v) to CG+PA enhanced PHA production by 1.55-fold, with a HV content of 58-70mol%. The time period of incubation of PA to the feed: CG+glucose was optimized to be 3h after initiation of fermentation. The PHA contents were found to be stable at 1900-2050mg/L up scaling from 0.4 to 2.0L feed material. Biochemical characterization through GC-MS of PHA co-polymer revealed the presence of 3-hydroxydecanoate (3-HDD), 3-hydroxyoctadecanoate (3HOD), 3-hydroxyhexadecanoate (3HHD).
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