Journal
WORLD JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 37, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11274-021-03056-9
Keywords
Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Ethanol; Urea; Ammonium
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- Shandong postdoctoral innovation project
- University of Jinan
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This study found that urea is more beneficial than ammonium in promoting ethanol production, reducing glycerol synthesis, and decreasing the production rate of acetic acid in yeast during ethanol fermentation. Using urea can also increase cell number and pH value.
This work was mainly about the understanding of how urea and ammonium affect growth, glucose consumption and ethanol production of S. cerevisiae, in particular regarding the basic physiology of cell. The basic physiology of cell included intracellular pH, ATP, NADH and enzyme activity. Results showed that fermentation time was reduced by 19% when using urea compared with ammonium. The maximal ethanol production rate using urea was 1.14 g/L/h, increasing 30% comparing with the medium prepared with ammonium. Moreover, urea could decrease the synthesis of glycerol from glucose by 26% comparing with ammonium. The by-product of acetic acid yields decreased from 40 mmol/mol of glucose (with urea) to 24 mmol/mol of glucose (with ammonium). At the end of ethanol fermentation, cell number and pH were greater with urea than ammonium. Comparing with urea, ammonium decreased the intracellular pH by 14% (from 7.1 to 6.1). Urease converting urea into ammonia resulted in a more than 50% lower of ATP when comparing with ammonium. The values of NADH/DCW were 0.21 mg/g and 0.14 mg/g respectively with urea and ammonium, suggesting a 33% lower NADH. The enzyme activity of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) was 0.0225 and 0.0275 U/mg protein respectively with urea and ammonium, which was consistent with the yields of glycerol.
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