Journal
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 146, Issue -, Pages 794-798Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2013.08.003
Keywords
Chitin; Lecanicillium lecanii; Chitinases; Steam explosion
Funding
- CONACYT Mexico [105628, 165757]
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In this study, chitin oligosaccharides have been successfully produced using chitinases from submerged fermentation of Lecanicillium lecanii. The highest Hex, Chit and Prot production was 0.14, 0.26 and 2.05 U/mg of protein, respectively, which were attained varying pH from 5 to 8 after 96 h. Culture conditions conducted at constant pH of 6 resulted in significantly lower enzyme production. The crude enzyme was partially purified by salting out with (NH4)(2)SO4 followed by size exclusion chromatography to isolate the chitinase mixture for further chitin hydrolysis assays. In this regard, chitin substrates were pretreated with sonication and steam explosion prior to enzymatic reaction. Structural changes were observed with steam explosion with 11.28% reduction of the crystallinity index attained with the lowest chitin/water ratio (0.1 g/mL). Pretreated chitins reached the highest production of reducing sugars (0.37 mg/mL) and GIcNAc (0.59 mg/mL) in 23.6% yield. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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