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JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 37, Issue 6, Pages 587-594Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s10295-010-0705-x
Keywords
Pullulan; Aureobasidium pullulans; PCS Biofilm Reactor; Response surface methodology; Medium optimization
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- Pennsylvania Agricultural Experiment Station
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Pullulan is a linear homopolysaccharide that is composed of glucose units and often described as alpha-1, 6-linked maltotriose. In this study, response surface methodology using Box-Behnken design was employed to study the effects of sucrose and nitrogen concentrations on pullulan production. A total of 15 experimental runs were carried out in a plastic composite support biofilm reactor. Three-dimensional response surface was generated to evaluate the effects of the factors and to obtain the optimum condition of each factor for maximum pullulan production. After 7-day fermentation with optimum condition, the pullulan production reached 60.7 g/l, which was 1.8 times higher than the result from initial medium, and was the highest yield reported to date. The quality analysis demonstrated that the purity of produced pullulan was 95.2%, and its viscosity was 2.5 centipoise (cP), which is higher than the commercial pullulan and related to its molecular weight. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) also suggested that the produced exopolysaccharide was pullulan.
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