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High concentrations of both ethanol and sugar in the fermentation broth inhibit the growth of yeast cells and the rate of product formation. Inhibitory effects of ethanol on the yeast strain Saccharomyces cerevisiae NRRL-Y-132 were studied in batch and continuous chemostat cultures. Growth was limited by either glucose or ethanol. Feed medium was supplemented with different ethanol concentrations. Ethanol was found to inhibit growth and the activity of yeast to produce ethanol in a noncompetitive manner. A linear kinetic pattern for growth and product formation was observed according to μ = μm (1 – P/Pm) and v = vm (1 – P/Pm′), where μm is the maximum specific growth rate at P = 0 (hr?1); Pm is the maximum specific product formation rate at P = 0 (hr?1); Pm is the maximum ethanol concentration above which cells do not grow (g/liter); Pm′ is the maximum ethanol concentration above which cells do not produce ethanol (g/liter). Substrate inhibition studies were carried out using short-time experimental techniques under aerobic and anaerobic condition. The degree of substrate inhibition was found to be higher than that has been reported for ethanol fermentation of pure sugar. The kinetic relationships thus obtained were used to compute growth, substrate utilization, and alcohol production patterns and have been discussed with reference to batch and continuous fermentation of enzymatically produced bagasse hydrolysate. 相似文献
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Summary In an effort to establish the reasons for the limitations in the final ethanol concentration of Zymomonas mobilis fermentation, the effects of CO2 and ethanol on the fermentation were investigated using continuous and fed-batch cultivation systems. The nucleation and
stripping out of CO2 from the fermenter using diatomaceous earth or nitrogen gas or both exhibited a profound effect on the glucose uptake rate
during the early stages of fed-batch fermentation, but did not improve final ethanol yields. The addition of ethanol together
with above mentioned experiments confirmed conclusively that ethanol inhibition is responsible for the final ethanol concentration
obtainable during Zymomonas mobilis fermentation. The final concentration lies between 90 and 110 gl−1 or approximately 12–15% (v/v) ethanol. 相似文献
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《Journal of Fermentation and Bioengineering》1993,75(5):364-367
The yield changes in cell mass and metabolites with changes in the oxygen supply rate were investigated in continuous ethanol fermentation. With increases in oxygen concentration in the purging gas from 5.3 to 39.3 %, the specific oxygen uptake rate (qO2) increased from 0.158 to 1.24 mmol/g/h. With this change, cell mass increased from 13.2 to 14.9 g/l and glycerol decreased from 4.8 to 0.99 g/l, although little change in ethanol yield was observed. At a higher oxygen concentration and/or at a lower respiratory quotient (RQ), glycerol disappeared, acetaldehyde, acetoin and 2,3-butanediol increased, and ethanol started to decrease. The yields of iso-butylalcohol and iso-amylalcohol also increased with increases in the oxygen supply rate when RQ was lower than approximately 10. Reduction in the redox balance (NADH/NAD) in the cells by qO2, appeared to reduce initially the rate of glycerol-3-phosphate formation and next the rate of ethanol formation, resulting in the accumulation of acetaldehyde and formation of 2,3-butanediol through acetoin. Fatty acid composition changed with changes in the oxygen supply rate. The value for unsaturation, Δ mol−1, increased from 0.745 to 0.836 with the increase in qO2 from 0.158 to 1.79 mmol/g/h. Increases in oleic acid (C18:1) and decreases in palmitic acid (C16:0) were the major changes with the increases in Δ mol−1. 相似文献
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《Journal of Fermentation and Bioengineering》1990,69(1):39-45
Repeated-batch fermentation by a flocculating fusant, Saccharomyces cerevisiae HA 2, was done in a molasses medium that contained 20% (w/v) total sugar, at 30°C in an automatically controlled fermentor, and the effects of ethanol concentration on the specific growth rate and the specific production rate of ethanol were studied. Both the specific growth rate and the specific production rate of ethanol fell with increase of ethanol concentration, and there was a linear correlation between each rate and the concentration of thanol. The maximum specific growth rate (μmax) and the maximum specific production rate of ethanol (qmax) were 0.12 h−1 and 0.1 g ethanol/109 cells·h, respectively. The specific growth rate and the specific production rate of ethanol fell to zero at ethanol concentration of 89 g/l and 95 g/l, respectively. The number of viable cells, calculated from the linear inhibition equation, was 1.3 × 109 cells/ml for production of 85 g/l ethanol at a dilution rate (D1) of 0.2 h−1. Based on this estimation, a laboratory-scale continuous fermentation, using two fermentors in series, was done. In the second fermentor, 85 g/l ethanol was produced at a dilution rate (D1) of 0.2 h−1 by the active feedig of the fermented mash from the first fermentor into the second fermentor by pumping (hereafter called active feeding). To maintain the number of viable cells above 109 cells/ml in the second fermentor, a active feeding ratio of more than 23% was required. Under these conditions, 81 g/l ethanol was produced in the second fermentor at a dilution rate (Dt) of 0.25 h−1, and the high ethanol productivity of 20.3 g/l·h could be achieved. A bench-scale continuous fermentation, using two fermentors in series, with a active feeding ratio of 25% was done. An ethanol concentration of 84 g/l in the second fermentor at a dilution rate (Dt) of 0.25 h−1 was achieved, just as it was in the laboratory-scale fermentation test. 相似文献
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Ethanol-induced changes of CO2 production were compared in three strains ofSaccharomyces cerevisiœ. CaCl2 and MgCl2 exerted protective effects against the action of ethanol. Optimal concentrations ensuring maximum of CO2 production at 10% (V/V) of ethanol under non-growing conditions were 3 mmol/L Ca2+ and 2 mmol/L Mg2+. Yeast growth with and without ethanol addition was stimulated by Mg2+ more than by Ca2+ during fermentation, whereas ethanol production was more efificient when both Ca2+ and Mg2+ were added. 相似文献
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We have investigated hydrogen (H2) production by the cellulose-degrading anaerobic bacterium, Clostridium thermocellum. In the following experiments, batch-fermentations were carried out with cellobiose at three different substrate concentrations to observe the effects of carbon-limited or carbon-excess conditions on the carbon flow, H2-production, and synthesis of other fermentation end products, such as ethanol and organic acids. Rates of cell growth were unaffected by different substrate concentrations. H2, carbon dioxide (CO2), acetate, and ethanol were the main products of fermentation. Other significant end products detected were formate and lactate. In cultures where cell growth was severely limited due to low initial substrate concentrations, hydrogen yields of 1 mol H2/mol of glucose were obtained. In the cultures where growth ceased due to carbon depletion, lactate and formate represented a small fraction of the total end products produced, which consisted mainly of H2, CO2, acetate, and ethanol throughout growth. In cultures with high initial substrate concentrations, cellobiose consumption was incomplete and cell growth was limited by factors other than carbon availability. H2-production continued even in stationary phase and H2/CO2 ratios were consistently greater than 1 with a maximum of 1.2 at the stationary phase. A maximum specific H2 production rate of 14.6 mmol g dry cell−1 h−1 was observed. As cells entered stationary phase, extracellular pyruvate production was observed in high substrate concentration cultures and lactate became a major end product. 相似文献
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M. Arshad Z.M. Khan Khalil‐ur‐Rehman F.A. Shah M.I. Rajoka 《Letters in applied microbiology》2008,47(5):410-414
Aims: To investigate the effect of molasses concentration, initial pH of molasses medium, and inoculum’s size to maximize ethanol and minimize methanol, fusel alcohols, acetic acid and aldehydes in the fermentation mash in industrial fermentors. Methods and Results: Initial studies to optimize temperature, nitrogen source, phosphorous source, sulfur supplement and minerals were performed. The essential nutrients were urea (2 kg in 60 m3), 0·5 l each of commercial phosphoric acid and sulfuric acid (for pH control) added at the inoculum preparation stage only. Yields of ethanol, methanol, fusel alcohols, total acids and aldehydes per 100‐l fermentation broth were monitored. Molasses at 29°Brix (degree of dissolved sugars in water), initial pH 4·5, inoculum size 30% (v/v) and anaerobic fermentation supported maximum ethanol (7·8%) with YP/S = 238 l ethanol per tonne molasses (96·5% yield) (8·2% increase in yield), and had significantly lower values of byproducts than those in control experiments. Conclusions: Optimization of process variables resulted in higher ethanol yield (8·2%) and reduced yield of methanol, fusel alcohols, acids and aldehydes. Significance and Impact of the Study: More than 5% substrate is converted into byproducts. Eliminating or reducing their formation can increase ethanol yield by Saccharomyces cerevisiae, decrease the overall cost of fermentation process and improve the quality of ethanol. 相似文献
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Z. U. Islam S. P. Klykov Z. Yu D. Chang E. B. Hassan H. Zhang 《Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology》2018,54(1):58-70
Pyrolysate obtained from the pyrolysis of waste cotton is a source of fermentable sugars that could be fermented into bioethanol fuel and other chemicals via microbial fermentation. However, pyrolysate is a complex mixture of fermentable and non-fermentable substrates causing inhibition of the microbial growth. The aim of this study was to detoxify the hydrolysate and then ferment it into bio-ethanol fuel in shake flasks and fermenter applying yeast strain Saccharomyces cerevisiae 2.399. Pyrolysate was hydrolyzed to glucose with 0.2 M sulfuric acid, neutralized with Ba(OH)2 followed by treatment with ethyl acetate and activated carbon to remove fermentation inhibitors. The effect of various fermentation parameters such as inoculum concentration, pH and hydrolysate glucose was evaluated in shake flasks for optimum ethanol fermentation. With respect to inoculum concentration, 20% v/v inoculum i.e. 8.0 × 108–1.2 × 109 cells/mL was the optimum level for producing 8.62 ± 0.33 g/L ethanol at 9 h of fermentation with a maximum yield of 0.46 g ethanol/g glucose. The optimum pH for hydrolysate glucose fermentation was found to be 6.0 that produced 8.57 ± 0.66 g/L ethanol. Maximum ethanol concentration, 14.78 g/L was obtained for 4% hydrolysate glucose concentration after 16 h of fermentation. Scale-up studies in stirred fermenter produced much higher productivity (1.32 g/L/h–1) compared to shake flask fermentation (0.92 g/L/h–1). The yield of ethanol reached a maximum of 91% and 89% of the theoretical yield of ethanol in shake flasks and fermenter, respectively. The complex of integrated models of development was applied, that has been successfully tested previously for the mathematical analysis of the fermentation processes. 相似文献
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Teerasak Damrongrungruang Sujaree Phiphitaporn Nuttakul Salacheep Chonlada Sritragool Aroon Teerakapong Kittipitch Meesawat Anan Kruesubthaworn Chaiyapong Ruangsuwan Wilawan Weera-archakul 《Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports》2022
In photodynamic therapy, intermittent irradiation modes that incorporate an interval between pulses are believed to decrease the effect of hypoxia by permitting an interval of re-oxygenation. The effect of the irradiation intermittency factor (the ratio of the irradiation pulse time to the total irradiation time) on singlet oxygen formation and inflammatory cytokine production was examined using azulene as a photosensitizer. Effects of difference intermittency factor on singlet oxygen formation and inflammatory cytokine were examined. Azulene solutions (1/10 μM) were irradiated with a 638-nm 500 mW diode laser in fractionation (intermittency factor of 5 or 9) or continuous mode using 50 mW/cm2 at 4 or 8 J/cm2. Singlet oxygen measurement was performed using a dimethyl anthracene probe. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) were stimulated by 10 ng/ml rhTNF-α for 6 h, before addition of 1 and 10 μM azulene solutions and irradiation. PGE2 measurement was undertaken using a human PGE2 ELISA kit. Kruskal-Wallis with Dunn Bonferroni test was used for statistical analyses at p < 0.05.Irradiation of 1 μM azulene+4 J/cm2+intermittency factor of 9 increased singlet oxygen 3-fold (p < 0.0001). Irradiation of 10 μM azulene at either 4 J/cm2+intermittency of 9 or 8 J/cm2+intermittency factor of 5 reduced PGE2 expression in PBMCs to non-inflamed levels. Thus, at 50 mW/cm2, 10 μM azulene-mediated photodynamic therapy with a high intermittency factor and a low energy density generated sufficient singlet oxygen to suppress PGE2 in Inflamed PBMCs. 相似文献
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Sarah Refai Kati Wassmann Uwe Deppenmeier 《Applied microbiology and biotechnology》2014,98(16):7271-7280
Biochemical processes in biogas plants are still not fully understood. Especially, the identification of possible bottlenecks in the complex fermentation processes during biogas production might provide potential to increase the performance of biogas plants. To shed light on the question which group of organism constitutes the limiting factor in the anaerobic breakdown of organic material, biogas sludge from different mesophilic biogas plants was examined under various conditions. Therefore, biogas sludge was incubated and analyzed in anaerobic serum flasks under an atmosphere of N2/CO2. The batch reactors mirrored the conditions and the performance of the full-scale biogas plants and were suitable test systems for a period of 24 h. Methane production rates were compared after supplementation with substrates for syntrophic bacteria, such as butyrate, propionate, or ethanol, as well as with acetate and H2+CO2 as substrates for methanogenic archaea. Methane formation rates increased significantly by 35 to 126 % when sludge from different biogas plants was supplemented with acetate or ethanol. The stability of important process parameters such as concentration of volatile fatty acids and pH indicate that ethanol and acetate increase biogas formation without affecting normally occurring fermentation processes. In contrast to ethanol or acetate, other fermentation products such as propionate, butyrate, or H2 did not result in increased methane formation rates. These results provide evidence that aceticlastic methanogenesis and ethanol-oxidizing syntrophic bacteria are not the limiting factor during biogas formation, respectively, and that biogas plant optimization is possible with special focus on methanogenesis from acetate. 相似文献
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Influence of Calcium Ion on Ethanol Tolerance of Saccharomyces bayanus and Alcoholic Fermentation by Yeasts 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
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Regina C. Nabais Isabel S-Correia Cristina A. Viegas Júlio M. Novais 《Applied microbiology》1988,54(10):2439-2446
The addition of Ca2+ (as CaCl2) in optimal concentrations (0.75 to 2.0 mM) to a fermentation medium with a trace contaminating concentration of Ca2+ (0.025 mM) led to the rapid production of higher concentrations of ethanol by Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Saccharomyces bayanus, and Kluyveromyces marxianus. The positive effect of calcium supplementation (0.75 mM) on alcoholic fermentation by S. bayanus was explained by the increase in its ethanol tolerance. The ethanol inhibition of growth and fermentation followed the equation μxi = μoi [1 - (X/Xmi)]ni, where μoi and μxi are, respectively, the specific growth (i = g) and fermentation (i = f) rates in the absence or presence of a concentration (X) of added ethanol, and Xmi is the maximal concentration of ethanol which allows growth or fermentation. The toxic power is given by ni. In Ca2+ - supplemented medium (0.75 mM), ng = 0.42 for growth and nf = 0.43 for fermentation compared with 0.52 and 0.55, respectively, in unsupplemented medium; for both media, Xmg = 10% (vol/vol) and Xmf = 13% (vol/vol). For lethal concentrations of ethanol, the specific death rates were minimal for cells that were grown and incubated with ethanol in medium with an optimal concentration of Ca2+, maximal for cells grown and incubated with ethanol in unsupplemented medium, and intermediate for cells grown in unsupplemented medium and incubated with ethanol in calcium-supplemented medium. The effect of Ca2+ on the acidification curve of energized cells in the presence of ethanol was found to be closely associated with its protective effect on growth, fermentation, and viability. 相似文献
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A. A. Koutinas M. Kanellaki A. Lykourghiotis M. A. Typas C. Drainas 《Applied microbiology and biotechnology》1988,28(3):235-239
Summary
Zymomonas mobilis cells were immobilized on pellets of alumina (Al2O3) by entrapment based on electrostatic forces. Entrapped cells produced 52 g/l-1 ethanol every 24 h for many successive fermentation batches, when inoculated in batch synthetic media containing 12% glucose. It was shown that the rate of growth, ethanol production and glucose utilization increased when Al2O3 was added in the growth medium. This increase was dependent upon the concentration of Al2O3. The optimum conditions for immobilization of Z. mobilis on Al2O3 were established. Reduction in productivity and yield was not observed for up to 15 successive fermentation batches using the same entrapped cells. 相似文献
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J. L. Tholozan J. P. Touzel E. Samain J. P. Grivet G. Prensier G. Albagnac 《Archives of microbiology》1992,157(3):249-257
Strain X4 was isolated several years ago from an anaerobic mesophilic plant treating vegetable cannery waste waters. It was the first example of propionic fermentation from ethanol. Morphologic and physiologic characterizations of the strain are presented here. This strain is described as type strain of a new species, Clostridium neopropionicum sp. nov. Whole cells of strain X4 ferment [1-13C]ethanol and CO2 to [2-13C]propionate, [1-13C]acetate and [2-13C]propanol, suggesting the absence of a randomizing pathway during the propionate formation. Enzymes involved in this fermentation were assayed in cell-free extracts of cells grown with ethanol as sole substrate. Alcohol dehydrogenase, aldehyde dehydrogenase, phosphate acetyl transferase, acetate kinase, pyruvate synthase, lactate dehydrogenases, and the enzymes of the acrylate pathway were detected at activities sufficient to be involved in ethanol fermentation. The same pathway may be used for the degradation of lactate or acrylate to acetate. 相似文献
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Lakkana Laopaiboon Pornthap Thanonkeo Prasit Jaisil Pattana Laopaiboon 《World journal of microbiology & biotechnology》2007,23(10):1497-1501
Sweet sorghum juice supplemented with 0.5% ammonium sulphate was used as a substrate for ethanol production by Saccharomyces cerevisiae TISTR 5048. In batch fermentation, kinetic parameters for ethanol production depended on initial cell and sugar concentrations.
The optimum initial cell and sugar concentrations in the batch fermentation were 1 × 108 cells ml−1 and 24 °Bx respectively. At these conditions, ethanol concentration produced (P), yield (Y
ps) and productivity (Q
p
) were 100 g l−1, 0.42 g g−1 and 1.67 g l−1 h−1 respectively. In fed-batch fermentation, the optimum substrate feeding strategy for ethanol production at the initial sugar
concentration of 24 °Bx was one-time substrate feeding, where P, Y
ps and Q
p
were 120 g l−1, 0.48 g g−1 and 1.11 g l−1 h−1 respectively. These findings suggest that fed-batch fermentation improves the efficiency of ethanol production in terms of
ethanol concentration and product yield. 相似文献
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With the consumption of energy and the spread of COVID-19, the demand for ethanol production is increasing in the world. The industrial ethanol fermentation microbes cannot metabolize the alginate component of macro algae, which affects the ethanol yield. In this research, the ethanol production process from macro algae by an alginate fermentation yeast Meyerozyma guilliermondii, especially the pretreatment process of Colpomenia sinuosa, was studied. At the same time, the experimental design of Box-Behnken was carried out to achieve the optimum fermentation performance. The concentration of KH2PO4 (A: 2–6 g.L−1), pH (B: 4–7), reaction time (C: 60–120 h) and temperature (D: 24–34 °C) were variable input parameters. During the ethanol production process, the algae powder was firstly mixed with water at 90 °C for 0.5 h. Later the fermentation culture medium was prepared and then it was fermented by the yeast Meyerozyma guilliermondii to produce ethanol. And the optimal fermentation parameters were as follows: fermentation temperature of 28 °C, KH2PO4 dosage of 4.7 g.L−1, initial pH of 6, and fermentation time of 99 h. The ethanol yield reached 0.268 g.g−1 (ethanol to algae), close to the predicted value of model. The generation of alginate lyase during the fermentation of algae was also examined. The highest alginate lyase activity reached 46.42 U.mL−1. 相似文献
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S. M. Lastick M. Y. Tucker J. R. Beyette G. B. Noll K. Grohmann 《Applied microbiology and biotechnology》1989,30(6):574-579
Summary Ethanol was produced from xylose by converting the sugar to xylulose, using commercial xylose isomerases, and simultaneously converting the xylulose to ethanol by anaerobic fermentation using different yeast strains. The process was optimized with the yeast strain Schizosaccharomyces pombe (Y-164). The data show that the simultaneous fermentation and isomerization of 6% xylose can produce final ethanol concentrations of 2.1% w/v within 2 days at temperatures as high as 39°C.Nomenclature SFIX
simultaneous fermentation and isomerization of xylose
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V
p
volumetric production (g ethanol·l-1 per hour)
-
Q
p
specific rate (g ethanol·g-1 cells per hour)
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Y
s
yield from substrate consumed (g ethanol, g-1 xylose)
- ET
ethanol concentration (% wt/vol)
- XT
xylitol concentration (% wt/vol)
- Glu
glucose
- Xyl
xylose
- --m
maximum
- --f
final 相似文献
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Robert K. Finn Stephanie Bringer Hermann Sahm 《Applied microbiology and biotechnology》1984,19(3):161-166
Summary In the absence of oxygen, a strain of sarcina ventriculi, isolated from soil, could rapidly and completely ferment up to 20 g/l of arabinose. The principal products were ethanol, acetate, CO2 and H2. The yield of alcohol, up to 30% by weight of the sugar fermented, was not appreciably influenced by the pH of fermentation in the range 4–7. Sugar concentrations up to 100 g/l did not affect initial growth, but fermentation was incomplete at high sugar levels. This was probably due to the accumulation of end products other than ethanol, because the cells could grow in the presence of up to 25 g/l of added ethanol. Glucose, galactose and arabinose were sequentially utilized, in that order, when initially present as a mixed substrate. These sugars are major components of the hemicellulose from some agricultural residues. Practical implications for the general problem of pentose conversion to alcohol are discussed briefly. 相似文献
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Effects of Stirring and Hydrogen on Fermentation Products of Clostridium thermocellum 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
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Clostridium thermocellum produces ethanol, acetate, H2, and CO2 as major fermentation products from cellulose and cellobiose. The performance of three strains of this microorganism was studied to assess the potential use in producing ethanol directly from cellulosic fiber. Depending on the bacterial strain, an ethanol/acetate product ratio from 1 to as high as 3 was observed in unstirred cultures. Vigorous stirring during growth resulted in a threefold decrease in the ethanol/acetate ratio. The H2 content in the unstirred culture broth was three times greater than that in the stirred one. Addition of exogenous H2 to the gas phase during growth increased the ethanol/acetate ratio much more in the stirred than in the unstirred fermentations. The addition of sufficient H2 to the gas phase almost relieved the effect of stirring, and the ethanol/acetate ratio approached that in the unstirred condition. Addition of tritium to the gas phase of the culture resulted in the formation of tritiated water (3H2O), which indicates that C. thermocellum possesses hydrogenase(s) that catalyzes the reverse reaction. The rate of 3H2O formation was about three times higher in the stirred culture than in the unstirred culture. These results demonstrate that the H2 concentration in the broth plays an important role in the product formation. The H2 supersaturation present in the unstirred cultures is responsible for the observed effect of stirring. A hydrogen feedback control mechanism regulating the relative concentrations of reduced and oxidized electron carriers is proposed to account for the effect of hydrogen on the metabolite distribution. 相似文献
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《Plant science》1986,45(1):31-36
More than 80% of the radioactivity from [U-14C]glucose metabolised by anaerobic rice seedlings or by excised roots or coleoptiles was recovered as ethanol plus CO2; less than 5% was recovered as water-soluble acidic components. Rates of 14CO2 formation from [U-14C]glucose were similar in roots and coleoptiles in both N2 and air atmospheres. More 14CO2 was formed from [U-14C]glucose than could be accounted for by ethanolic fermentation, and the specific yields of 14CO2 from [6-14C]glucose and [1-14C]glucose gave unusually high C-6/C-1 ratios (1.7) in the anaerobic coleoptile. The results may indicate that appreciable pentan synthesis occurs in the anaerobic coleoptile. 相似文献
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Minimization of Glycerol Production during the High-Performance Fed-Batch Ethanolic Fermentation Process in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Using a Metabolic Model as a Prediction Tool 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
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Carine Bideaux Sandrine Alfenore Xavier Cameleyre Carole Molina-Jouve Jean-Louis Uribelarrea Stphane E. Guillouet 《Applied microbiology》2006,72(3):2134-2140
On the basis of knowledge of the biological role of glycerol in the redox balance of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a fermentation strategy was defined to reduce the surplus formation of NADH, responsible for glycerol synthesis. A metabolic model was used to predict the operating conditions that would reduce glycerol production during ethanol fermentation. Experimental validation of the simulation results was done by monitoring the inlet substrate feeding during fed-batch S. cerevisiae cultivation in order to maintain the respiratory quotient (RQ) (defined as the CO2 production to O2 consumption ratio) value between 4 and 5. Compared to previous fermentations without glucose monitoring, the final glycerol concentration was successfully decreased. Although RQ-controlled fermentation led to a lower maximum specific ethanol production rate, it was possible to reach a high level of ethanol production: 85 g · liter−1 with 1.7 g · liter−1 glycerol in 30 h. We showed here that by using a metabolic model as a tool in prediction, it was possible to reduce glycerol production in a very high-performance ethanolic fermentation process. 相似文献