Journal
APPLIED BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 132, Issue 1-3, Pages 1023-1033Publisher
HUMANA PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1385/ABAB:132:1:1023
Keywords
bioconversion; limonene; RAPD; screening
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The use of microorganisms for biotransformations of monoterpenes has stimulated the biotechnological market. Aiming at the highest efficiency in the process of strains screening, the application of molecular biology techniques have been proposed. Based on these aspects, the objective of this work was to select different strains able to convert limonene using fermentative process and random amplified polymorphic DNA ( RAPD) markers. The results obtained in the fermentative screening, from 17 strains tested, pointed out that four microorganisms were able to convert limonene into oxygenated derivatives. The RAPD study showed a polymorphism of 96.02% and a similarity from 16.02 to 51.51%. Based on this it was possible to observe a high genetic diversity, even among strains of same species, concluding that the RAPD was not able to correlate the genetic characteristics of the microorganism with the results obtained from the biotransformation process.
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