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PREPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY & BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 46, Issue 2, Pages 157-160Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/10826068.2014.995813
Keywords
Continuous fermentation; fed-batch fermentation; phenylpyruvic acid; Proteus vulgaris
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- Turkish Ministry of Education
- Pennsylvania Agricultural Experiment Station
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Phenylpyruvic acid is a deaminated form of phenylalanine and is used in various areas such as development of cheese and wine flavors, diagnosis of phenylketonuria, and to decrease excessive nitrogen accumulation in the manure of farm animals. However, reported phenylpyruvic acid fermentation studies in the literature have been usually performed at shake-flask scale with low production. In this study, phenylpyruvic acid production was evaluated in bench-top bioreactors by conducting fed-batch and continuous fermentation for the first time. As a result, maximum phenylpyruvic acid concentrations increased from 1350mg/L (batch fermentation) to 2958mg/L utilizing fed-batch fermentation. Furthermore, phenylpyruvic acid productivity was increased from 48mg/L/hr (batch fermentation) to 104 and 259mg/L/hr by conducting fed-batch and continuous fermentation, respectively. Overall, this study demonstrated that fed-batch and continuous fermentation significantly improved phenylpyruvic acid production in bench-scale bioreactor production.
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