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Utilization of acid hydrolysate of recovered bacterial cell as a novel organic nitrogen source for L-tryptophan
Qingyang Xu1,2, Fang Bai2, Ning Chen1
1a College of Biotechnology , Tianjin University of Science and Technology , Tianjin , China.
Abstract:
In this study, waste bacterial cell (WBC) was recovered and used as an alternative to yeast extract in L-tryptophan fermentation. The effects of sulfuric acid concentration and temperature on the hydrolysis of WBC were optimized and the amino acid content in the waste bacterial cell hydrolysate (WBCH) was increased. Plackett-Burman and Box-Behnken design analysis revealed the optimum composition of the WBCH-based fermentation medium to be 22.47 g/L WBCH, 2.26 g/L KH2PO4, and 1.25 mg/L vitamin H. L-tryptophan yield and productivity with WBCH as the nitrogen source were 52.3 g/L and 2.16 g/L/h, respectively, which were 13% and 18% higher than those obtained with the yeast extract as the nitrogen source. In addition, WBCH did not affect the growth of Escherichia coli during L-tryptophan fermentation. Cost accounting showed that WBCH could be used as a novel and cheap organic nitrogen source for industrial L-tryptophan production.
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