Journal
AMB EXPRESS
Volume 7, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1186/s13568-017-0364-7
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Chondroitin; Hyaluronic acid; Co-production; Streptococcus equi subsp zooepidemicus
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- Ministero dell'Universita e della Ricerca Scientifica project [PON03PE_00060_7]
- Ministero dell'Universita e della Ricerca Scientifica project [PON03PE_00060_7]
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Glycosaminoglycans, such as hyaluronic acid and chondroitin sulphate, are not only more and more required as main ingredients in cosmeceutical and nutraceutical preparations, but also as active principles in medical devices and pharmaceutical products. However, while biotechnological production of hyaluronic acid is industrially established through fermentation of Streptococcus spp. and recently Bacillus subtilis, biotechnological chondroitin is not yet on the market. A non-hemolytic and hyaluronidase negative S. equi subsp. zooepidemicus mutant strain was engineered in this work by the addition of two E. coli K4 genes, namely kfoA and kfoC, involved in the biosynthesis of chondroitinlike polysaccharide. Chondroitin is the precursor of chondroitin sulphate, a nutraceutical present on the market as anti-arthritic drug, that is lately being studied for its intrinsic bioactivity. In small scale bioreactor batch experiments the production of about 1.46 +/- 0.38 g/L hyaluronic acid and 300 +/- 28 mg/L of chondroitin with an average molecular weight of 1750 and 25 kDa, respectively, was demonstrated, providing an approach to the concurrent production of both biopolymers in a single fermentation.
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