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BIOSCIENCE BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 66, Issue 8, Pages 1677-1681Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.66.1677
Keywords
Acetobacter xylinum; bacterial cellulose; acetan; viscosity
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Acetan is a water-soluble polysaccharide produced by a bacterial cellulose (BC) producer, Acetobacter xylinum. An acetan-nonproducing mutant, EP1, was generated from wild-type A. xylinum BPR2001 by the disruption of aceA, which may act to catalyze the first step of the acetan biosynthetic pathway in this bacterium. EP1 produced less BC than the wild-type strain. However, when EP1 was cultured in a medium containing acetan, BC production was stimulated and the final yield of BC was equivalent to that of BPR2001. The culture broth containing acetan was more viscous and the free cell number was higher than that of the broth without the polysaccharide, so acetan may hinder the coagulation of BC in the broth. The addition of 1.5 g/l agar also increased BC production; we concluded that acetan and BC syntheses were not directly related on the genetic level.
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