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Published on: February 25, 2010
Microbial production of medium chain fructooligosaccharides by recombinant yeast secreting bacterial inulosucrase
Hyunjun Ko1, Jung-Hoon Bae2, Bong Hyun Sung1
1Synthetic Biology and Bioengineering Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), 125 Gwahak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea; Department of Biosystems and Bioengineering, KRIBB School of Biotechnology, Korea University of Science and Technology (UST), 217 Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34113, Republic of Korea.
Abstract:
A high yielding and straightforward production system of fructooligosaccharide (FOS) was developed for industrial production of prebiotics. To increase conversion yield of FOS from sucrose, recombinant yeast secreting inulosucrase from Lactobacillus reuteri (LrInu) were constructed. Efficient secretion of LrInu was achieved by truncation of both amino- and carboxy-termini (LrInuΔNC) and by introducing an optimal secretion signal. The recombinant yeast produced 220 U/mL of recombinant LrInuΔNC into culture medium during fed-batch fermentation. By direct fermentation of recombinant yeast in medium containing sucrose, 128.4 g/L of FOS was produced with 85.6% conversion yield from 300 g/L sucrose, and the highest titer was 152.6 g/L from 400 g/L sucrose. The degree of polymerization of generated FOS was 2-20 indicating medium chain (mcFOS) range. This is the first report of industrially applicable production of mcFOS by recombinant yeast secreting bacterial inulosucrase.
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