Pellet-dispersion strategy to simplify the seed cultivation of Aspergillus niger and optimize citric acid production

详细信息    查看全文

• 作者：Baoshi Wang ; Jian Chen ; Hua Li ; Fuxin Sun…
• 关键词：Citric acid ; Aspergillus niger ; Pellet dispersion ; Recycling cultivation ; Seed morphology
• 刊名：Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：40
• 期：1
• 页码：45-53
• 全文大小：
• 刊物类别：Chemistry and Materials Science
• 刊物主题：Biotechnology; Industrial and Production Engineering; Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology; Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering; Food Science;
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：1615-7605
• 卷排序：40

文摘

Citric acid (CA) as an extremely important platform compound has attracted intense attention due to wide applications and huge markets. Here, we proposed a novel method, using pellet inoculation to replace spores, and constructed the seed recycling cultivation process, effectively avoided the longtime (spore preparation 30 days) of seed culture (including spores germination 12 h) in the traditional batch-fermentation. On this basis, using pellet-dispersion strategy, the bottleneck caused by the mycelium structure was overcome, with the seed restoring high cell-viability with CA titer (11.0 g/L) even in the eighth batch compared to that in the control (4.6 g/L). The optimum morphology of these recycling cultured seeds for CA production was dispersed pattern rather than pellets. And the CA production was 130.5 g/L on average in 5 L five-conjoined-fermenters recycling eight batches, especially increasing 3.1 g/L compared with the control. To our knowledge, this is the first that reported the application of these strategies in effective production of CA. Our fermentation strategies not only significantly enhanced CA productivity, but also severed as a promising stepping-stone for other fermentations dominated with the filamentous fungi.