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Co-cultivation of microalga and xylanolytic bacterium by a continuous two-step strategy to enhance algal lipid
Zhangzhang Xie1, Weitie Lin2, Jianfei Luo2
1Guangdong Key Laboratory of Fermentation and Enzyme Engineering, School of Biology and Biological Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, PR China; National-Regional Joint Engineering Research Center for Soil Pollution Control and Remediation in South China, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Integrated Agro-environmental Pollution Control and Management, Institute of Eco-environmental and Soil Science, Guangdong Academy of Science, Guangzhou 510650, PR China.
Abstract:
To enhance microalgal lipid production, canonical two-step cultivation strategy that by transferring the microalgal cells grown in nutrient-replete medium to nutrient-depleted medium is widely used. However, the harvesting step during the transfer raises the production cost. To avoid the harvesting step, this study developed a continuous two-step (CTS) cultivation strategy. In the strategy, Chlorella sacchrarophila was grown in bioreactor while a xylanolytic bacterium Cellvibrio pealriver grown in an inner bag that embedded in the bioreactor; after the first-step co-cultivation, the inner bag is removed which then start the second-step cultivation of C. sacchrarophila. Based on the strategy, the lipid production was determined as 825.34-929.79 mg·L-1, which were 1.7-1.9 times higher than that of cultivation in canonical two-step strategy using glucose as feedstock. During the CTS strategy, the co-cultivation using xylan as feedstock promotes the microalgal growth and the removal of inner bag produces nutrient-depleted condition for enhancing microalgal lipid production.
