Journal
FOOD AND BIOPRODUCTS PROCESSING
Volume 88, Issue C1, Pages 12-20Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.fbp.2010.01.009
Keywords
Mycobacterium; Bioconversion; Silicone oil; Green processes; Scale-up; Steroids; Solvents
Funding
- Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (Portugal) [SFRH/BD/24433/2005]
- Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia (FCT) [2007]
- FCT [POCI/SAU-MMO/59370/2004]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BD/24433/2005, POCI/SAU-MMO/59370/2004] Funding Source: FCT
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There is an increasing trend towards reducing the use of organic solvents in industry due to environmental constraints and the adoption of green chemistry guidelines. To overcome the low volumetric productivity of aqueous bioconversion systems involving sparingly water soluble hydrophobic compounds, processes are being developed and designed to incorporate green solvent such as supercritical fluids, ionic liquids and natural oils, and liquid polymers, among others as an alternative to organic solvents. Moreover, processes are developed and redesigned to use/reuse chemicals and reagents derived from waste or renewable feed stocks in order to diminish E-factors. In this work, the use of green solvents as key components in the bioconversion media for a multi-step microbial bioconversion was assessed in a suspended whole cell system, combined with the use of by-products as raw materials, ultimately used as carbon source for cell growth and as sterol substrate for bioconversion. The model system is the selective cleavage of the side-chain of p-sitosterol performed by free resting cells of Mycobacterium sp. NRRL B-3805, a well-established industrial multi-enzymatic process involving the use of nine catabolic enzymes in a 14-step metabolic pathway. Bioconversion yields in silicone media were higher than the ones obtained in polyethylene glycol (PEG), polypropylene glycol (PPG) and ionic liquids, as well as in dioctyl phthalate (DOP), an organic solvent that has previously been shown to allow high conversion yields. Total conversion of 12 mM substrate in silicone media was consistently obtained at the end of 120-h bioconversion runs. Similar bioconversion profiles were attained during a 50-fold scale-up, maintaining constant the power consumption per unit of volume. (C) 2010 The Institution of Chemical Engineers. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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