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Füchtenbusch B Wullbrandt D Steinbüchel A 《Applied microbiology and biotechnology》2000,53(2):167-172
Screening experiments identified several bacteria which were able to use residual oil from biotechnological rhamnose production
as a carbon source for growth. Ralstonia eutropha H16 and Pseudomonas oleovorans were able to use this waste material as the sole carbon source for growth and for the accumulation of polyhydroxyalkanoic
acids (PHA). R. eutropha and P. oleovorans accumulated PHA amounting to 41.3% and 38.9%, respectively, of the cell dry mass, when these strains were cultivated in mineral
salt medium with the oil from the rhamnose production as the sole carbon source. The accumulated PHA isolated from R. eutropha consisted of only 3-hydroxybutyric acid, whereas the PHA isolated from P. oleovorans consisted of 3-hydroxyhexanoic acid, 3-hydroxyoctanoic acid, 3-hydroxy decanoic acid, and 3-hydroxydodecanoic acid. The composition
was confirmed by gas chromatography of the isolated polyesters. Batch and fed-batch cultivations in stirred-tank reactors
were done.
Received: 15 June 1999 / Received revision: 10 August 1999 / Accepted: 13 August 1999 相似文献
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Yung-Hun Yang Christopher J. Brigham Charles F. Budde Paolo Boccazzi Laura B. Willis Mohd Ali Hassan Zainal Abidin Mohd Yusof ChoKyun Rha Anthony J. Sinskey 《Applied microbiology and biotechnology》2010,87(6):2037-2045
We employed systematic mixture analysis to determine optimal levels of acetate, propionate, and butyrate for cell growth and
polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) production by Ralstonia eutropha H16. Butyrate was the preferred acid for robust cell growth and high PHA production. The 3-hydroxyvalerate content in the
resulting PHA depended on the proportion of propionate initially present in the growth medium. The proportion of acetate dramatically
affected the final pH of the growth medium. A model was constructed using our data that predicts the effects of these acids,
individually and in combination, on cell dry weight (CDW), PHA content (%CDW), PHA production, 3HV in the polymer, and final
culture pH. Cell growth and PHA production improved approximately 1.5-fold over initial conditions when the proportion of
butyrate was increased. Optimization of the phosphate buffer content in medium containing higher amounts of butyrate improved
cell growth and PHA production more than 4-fold. The validated organic acid mixture analysis model can be used to optimize
R. eutropha culture conditions, in order to meet targets for PHA production and/or polymer HV content. By modifying the growth medium
made from treated industrial waste, such as palm oil mill effluent, more PHA can be produced. 相似文献
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Clemente T Shah D Tran M Stark D Padgette S Dennis D Brückener K Steinbüchel A Mitsky T 《Applied microbiology and biotechnology》2000,53(4):420-429
A 3.0-kb genomic fragment has been isolated from Rhodospirillum rubrum (ATCC 25903) that contains an open reading frame (ORF) with strong homology to other known polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) synthase
genes. This ORF has lower homology to the R. rubrum strain Ha PHA synthase than would be expected within the same species. We have conducted a series of heterologous expression
studies evaluating the in vivo substrate specificity of PHA synthase genes from Rhodobacter sphaeroides, Ralstonia eutropha (formerly Alcaligenes eutrophus), Thiocystis violacea, and Nocardia corrallina, within the PHA-synthase-negative hosts, Ralstonia eutropha DSM541 and Pseudomonas putida GpP104. The N. corrallina PHA synthase incorporated the highest percentage of C5 monomers in the polymer when fermented in medium supplemented with
0.1% heptanoate as the sole carbon source. When the T. violacea and R. sphaeroides were expressed in the PHA-negative host DSM541, a greater percentage of C5 monomer was observed in the polymer as compared
to the expression of the PHA synthase of R. eutropha, when the transconjugants were fermented in medium supplemented with 0.4% propionate. Evaluation for preference of medium-chain-length
monomers demonstrated the flexibility of the N. corrallina, T. violacea, and R. eutropha synthase genes to polymerize a copolyester composed of short- and medium-chain-length monomers when the respective transconjugants
were fermented in medium supplemented with 0.5% octanoate. These studies demonstrate that the PHA synthase from N. corrallina, T. violacea, and R. eutropha are able to polymerize a copolyester composed of short- and medium-chain-length monomers, while the PHA synthase from R. sphaeroides lacks this ability and only produces a short-chain-length polymer. These observations suggest that the composition of the
PHA from the PHA-producing organisms does not necessarily reflect the inherent specificity of the PHA synthase.
Received: 16 March 1999 / Received revision: 24 August 1999 / Accepted: 24 September 1999 相似文献
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The ability of Alcaligenes eutrophus to grow and produce polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) on plant oils was evaluated. When olive oil, corn oil, or palm oil was fed
as a sole carbon source, the wild-type strain of A. eutrophus grew well and accumulated poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) homopolymer up to approximately 80% (w/w) of the cell dry weight during
its stationary growth phase. In addition, a recombinant strain of A. eutrophus PHB−4 (a PHA-negative mutant), harboring a PHA synthase gene from Aeromonas caviae, was revealed to produce a random copolyester of 3-hydroxybutyrate and 3-hydroxyhexanoate from these plant oils with a high
cellular content (approximately 80% w/w). The mole fraction of 3-hydroxyhexanoate units was 4–5 mol% whatever the structure
of the triglycerides fed. The polyesters produced by the A. eutrophus strains from olive oil were 200–400 kDa (the number-average molecular mass). The results demonstrate that renewable and inexpensive
plant oils are excellent carbon sources for efficient production of PHA using A. eutrophus strains.
Received: 3 September 1997 / Received revision: 10 November 1997 / Accepted: 16 November 1997 相似文献
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T. G. Volova I. V. Kozhevnikov Yu. B. Dolgopolova M. Yu. Trusova G. S. Kalacheva Yu. V. Aref'eva 《Microbiology》2005,74(6):684-689
The physiological, biochemical, genetic, and cultural characteristics of the glucose-utilizing mutant strain Ralstonia eutropha B8562 were investigated in comparison with the parent strain R. eutropha B5786. The morphological, cultural, and biochemical characteristics of strain R. eutropha B8562 were similar to those of strain R. eutropha B5786. Genetic analysis revealed differences between the 16S rRNA gene sequences of these strains. The growth characteristics of the mutant using glucose as the sole carbon and energy source were comparable with those of the parent strain grown on fructose. Strain B8562 was characterized by high yields of polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) from different carbon sources (CO2, fructose, and glucose). In batch culture with glucose under nitrogen limitation, PHA accumulation reached 90% of dry weight. In PHA, β-hydroxybutyrate was predominant (over 99 mol %); β-hydroxyvalerate (0.25–0.72 mol %) and β-hydroxyhexanoate (0.008–1.5 mol %) were present as minor components. The strain has prospects as a PHA producer on glucose-containing media. 相似文献
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I. V. Kozhevnikov T. G. Volova Tran Hai A. Steinbüchel 《Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology》2010,46(2):140-147
Class I polyhydroxyalkanoic acid (PHA) synthase gene (phaC) of Ralstonia eutropha strain B5786 was cloned and characterized. R. eutropha B5786 features the ability to synthesize multicomponent PHAs with short- and medium-chain-length monomers from simple carbohydrate substrate. A correlation was made between the molecular structure of PHA synthase and substrate specificity and the ability of strain-producers to accumulate PHAs of this or that structure. A strong similarity of PHA synthase of R. eutropha strain B5786 with PHA synthase of R. eutropha strain H16, which, as opposed to strain B5786, enables to incorporate medium chain length PHAs if hexanoate is used as carbon source, exhibited 99%. A correlation between the structure of PHA synthase of B5786 strain with synthases of microorganisms which synthesize short and medium chain length PHAs similarly to B5786 strain, showed an identity level from 26 to 41% (homology with synthase of Rhodospirillum rubrum makes 41%, Ectothiorhodospira shaposhnikovii makes 26%, Aeromonas punctata makes 40%, Thiococcus pfennigii makes 28%, Rhodococcus ruber makes 38%, and with PhaCl and PhaC2 synthases of Pseudomonas sp. 61–3 makes 34 and 37%, respectively). This allows for speaking about the absence of a direct connection between the molecular organization of PHA synthases and their functional abilities, namely, the ability to synthesize PHAs of a particular composition. 相似文献
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Toshiaki Fukui Kenta Chou Kazuo Harada Izumi Orita Yasumune Nakayama Takeshi Bamba Satoshi Nakamura Eiichiro Fukusaki 《Metabolomics : Official journal of the Metabolomic Society》2014,10(2):190-202
This study describes metabolite profiles of Ralstonia eutropha H16 focusing on biosynthesis of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs), bacterial polyesters attracted as biodegradable bio-based plastics. As CoA-thioesters are important intermediates in PHA biosynthesis, four kinds of acyl-CoAs with medium chain length were prepared and used to establish analytical conditions for capillary electrophoresis-electron spray ionization-tandem mass spectrometry (CE–ESI-MS/MS). Metabolites were extracted from R. eutropha cells in growth, PHA production, and stationary phases on fructose and PHA production phase on octanoate, and subjected to stable isotope dilution-based comparative quantification by multiple reaction monitoring using CE–ESI-MS/MS and 13C-labeled metabolites prepared by extraction from R. eutropha mutant grown on U-13C6-glucose. This procedure allowed to quantify relative changes of 94 ionic metabolites including CoA-thioesters. Hexose-phosphates except for glucose 1-phosphate were decreased in the PHA production phase than in the growth phase, suggesting reduced flux of sugar degradation after the cell growth. Several intermediates in TCA cycle and gluconeogenesis were increased in the PHA production phase on octanoate. Interestingly, ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate were detected in all the samples examined, raising possibilities of CO2 fixation by Calvin–Benson–Bassham cycle in this bacterium even under heterotrophic growth conditions. Turnover of acyl moieties through β-oxidation was suggested to be active on fructose, as CoA-thioesters of C6 and C8 were detected in the fructose-grown cells. In addition, major metabolic pools in R. eutropha cells were estimated from the signal intensities. The results of the present study provided new insights into global metabolisms in PHA-producing R. eutropha. 相似文献
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A polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) synthase gene phaC2
Ps from Pseudomonas stutzeri strain 1317 was introduced into a PHA synthase gene phbC
Re negative mutant, Ralstonia eutropha PHB−4. It conferred on the host strain the ability to synthesize PHA, the monomer compositions of which varied widely when grown
on different carbon sources. During cultivation on gluconate, the presence of phaC2
Ps in R. eutropha PHB−4 led to the accumulation of polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) homopolymer in an amount of 40.9 wt% in dry cells. With fatty acids,
the recombinant successfully produced PHA copolyesters containing both short-chain-length and medium-chain-length 3-hydroxyalkanoate
(3HA) of 4–12 carbon atoms in length. When cultivated on a mixture of gluconate and fatty acid, the monomer composition of
accumulated PHA was greatly affected and the monomer content was easily regulated by the addition of fatty acids in the cultivation
medium. After the (R)-3-hydroxydecanol-ACP:CoA transacylase gene phaG
Pp from Pseudomonas putida was introduced into phaC2
Ps-containing R. eutropha PHB−4, poly(3HB-co-3HA) copolyester with a very high 3-hydroxybutyrate (3HB) fraction (97.3 mol%) was produced from gluconate and the monomer
compositions of PHA synthesized from fatty acids were also altered. This study clearly demonstrated that PhaC2Ps cloned from P. stutzeri 1317 has extraordinarily low substrate specificity in vivo, though it has only 54% identity in comparison to a previously described low-substrate-specificity PHA synthase PhaC1Ps from Pseudomonas sp. 61–3. This study also indicated that the monomer composition and content of the synthesized PHA can be effectively modulated
by controlling the addition of carbon sources or by modifying metabolic pathways in the hosts. 相似文献
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Volova TG Trusova MY Kalacheva GS Kozhevnicov IV 《Applied microbiology and biotechnology》2006,73(2):429-433
Physiological–biochemical, genetic, and cultural properties of the glucose-utilizing mutant strain Ralstonia eutropha B8562 have been compared with those of its parent strain R. eutropha B5786. It has been shown that growth characteristics of the strain cultured on glucose as the sole carbon and energy source are comparable with those of the parent strain. Strain B8562 is characterized by high polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) yields on different carbon sources (CO2, fructose, and glucose). PHA accumulation in the strain batch cultured on glucose under nitrogen deficiency reaches 90 %. The major monomer in the PHA is β-hydroxybutyric acid (more than 99 mol %); the identified minor components are β-hydroxyvaleric acid (0.25–0.72 mol %) and β-hydroxyhexanoic acid (0.08–1.5 mol %). The strain is a promising PHA producer on available sugar-containing media with glucose. 相似文献
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Mohamed Aly Radwan Shehata Mohamed Ibrahim Kassem Mahmoud Mohamed Abu-Elamayem Entsar Khalil El-Maadawy 《Archives Of Phytopathology And Plant Protection》2013,46(5):345-352
Abstract The aim of the present study was to formulate six different plant seed oils namely canola, cotton, flax, olive, sesame and soybean as emulsifiable concentrates. The composition of the formulation comprises at least one organic solvent, one surfactant and one plant oil. Physico-chemical properties of the formulated oils (emulsion stability test, cold stability and heat stability tests) were measured. The successfully emulsified oils were evaluated for nematicidal activity against Meloidogyne incognita infecting tomato plants under greenhouse conditions. Emulsified canola oil proved to be the most effective oil as a protectant against M. incognita infection to tomatoes followed by soybean, cotton, flax and sesame oil. In addition, employing a high rate of the tested emulsified oils gave higher activity in suppressing nematodes both in the soil and in tomato roots than using a low rate. Moreover, all tested formulated oils at both rates of application had no adverse effect on the growth of tomato plants except sesame oil which significantly decreased the shoot length when compared to the control. The prepared plant oils might be used as potential sources for sustainable eco-friendly botanical nematicides to protect plants from nematode attack. 相似文献
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Jingnan Lu Christopher J. Brigham ChoKyun Rha Anthony J. Sinskey 《Applied microbiology and biotechnology》2013,97(6):2443-2454
Lipase enzymes catalyze the reversible hydrolysis of triacylglycerol to fatty acids and glycerol at the lipid–water interface. The metabolically versatile Ralstonia eutropha strain H16 is capable of utilizing various molecules containing long carbon chains such as plant oil, organic acids, or Tween as its sole carbon source for growth. Global gene expression analysis revealed an upregulation of two putative lipase genes during growth on trioleate. Through analysis of growth and activity using strains with gene deletions and complementations, the extracellular lipase (encoded by the lipA gene, locus tag H16_A1322) and lipase-specific chaperone (encoded by the lipB gene, locus tag H16_A1323) produced by R. eutropha H16 was identified. Increase in gene dosage of lipA not only resulted in an increase of the extracellular lipase activity, but also reduced the lag phase during growth on palm oil. LipA is a non-specific lipase that can completely hydrolyze triacylglycerol into its corresponding free fatty acids and glycerol. Although LipA is active over a temperature range from 10 °C to 70 °C, it exhibited optimal activity at 50 °C. While R. eutropha H16 prefers a growth pH of 6.8, its extracellular lipase LipA is most active between pH 7 and 8. Cofactors are not required for lipase activity; however, EDTA and EGTA inhibited LipA activity by 83 %. Metal ions Mg2+, Ca2+, and Mn2+ were found to stimulate LipA activity and relieve chelator inhibition. Certain detergents are found to improve solubility of the lipid substrate or increase lipase-lipid aggregation, as a result SDS and Triton X-100 were able to increase lipase activity by 20 % to 500 %. R. eutropha extracellular LipA activity can be hyper-increased, making the overexpression strain a potential candidate for commercial lipase production or in fermentations using plant oils as the sole carbon source. 相似文献
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Charles F. Budde Alison E. Mahan Jingnan Lu ChoKyun Rha Anthony J. Sinskey 《Journal of bacteriology》2010,192(20):5319-5328
The bacterium Ralstonia eutropha H16 synthesizes polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) from acetyl coenzyme A (acetyl-CoA) through reactions catalyzed by a β-ketothiolase (PhaA), an acetoacetyl-CoA reductase (PhaB), and a polyhydroxyalkanoate synthase (PhaC). An operon of three genes encoding these enzymatic steps was discovered in R. eutropha and has been well studied. Sequencing and analysis of the R. eutropha genome revealed putative isologs for each of the PHB biosynthetic genes, many of which had never been characterized. In addition to the previously identified phaB1 gene, the genome contains the isologs phaB2 and phaB3 as well as 15 other potential acetoacetyl-CoA reductases. We have investigated the roles of the three phaB isologs by deleting them from the genome individually and in combination. It was discovered that the gene products of both phaB1 and phaB3 contribute to PHB biosynthesis in fructose minimal medium but that in plant oil minimal medium and rich medium, phaB3 seems to be unexpressed. This raises interesting questions concerning the regulation of phaB3 expression. Deletion of the gene phaB2 did not result in an observable phenotype under the conditions tested, although this gene does encode an active reductase. Addition of the individual reductase genes to the genome of the ΔphaB1 ΔphaB2 ΔphaB3 strain restored PHB production, and in the course of our complementation experiments, we serendipitously created a PHB-hyperproducing mutant. Measurement of the PhaB and PhaA activities of the mutant strains indicated that the thiolase reaction is the limiting step in PHB biosynthesis in R. eutropha H16 during nitrogen-limited growth on fructose.Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are natural polyesters synthesized by a wide range of bacteria as carbon and energy reserves. PHAs are typically stored when organisms are in an environment in which carbon is plentiful but the lack of another nutrient limits normal cell growth. It has been found that in environments with fluctuating carbon levels, PHA producers have crucial advantages over rival species (14). In addition to their importance in the microbial world, these polymers have been studied for their potential uses in biodegradable consumer goods (12) and medical products (22) and as chemical precursors (4). Although many PHA monomers have been discovered, the most common are 3-hydroxyalkanoates (32). Common PHAs are typically characterized by their constituent monomers as short-chain-length polymers (SCL-PHA; C4 and C5 monomers) or medium-chain-length polymers (MCL-PHA; C6 and longer monomers).The model organism used to study PHA biosynthesis is the Gram-negative bacterium Ralstonia eutropha. This organism accumulates a high percentage of its cell dry weight (CDW) as SCL-PHA under nutrient limitation. When grown on sugars or plant oils, R. eutropha makes poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) almost exclusively, although the addition of precursors such as propionate to the growth medium can lead to incorporation of 3-hydroxyvalerate into the polymer chain as well (2). An operon of biosynthetic genes from R. eutropha encoding enzymes sufficient for synthesis of PHB from acetyl coenzyme A (acetyl-CoA), which consisted of phaC-phaA-phaB, was discovered in the late 1980s (25, 26, 36). In this pathway, two molecules of acetyl-CoA are condensed by a β-ketothiolase (PhaA) and the resulting acetoacetyl-CoA is reduced by a reductase (PhaB) to form (R)-3-hydroxybutyryl-CoA (HB-CoA), which is the substrate for the PHA synthase (PhaC). Sequencing and analysis of the R. eutropha genome revealed the existence of putative isologs for each of the PHA synthetic genes (29). While the existence of alternate β-ketothiolases was already known (39), most of the potential isologs identified had never been characterized.Our group wanted to better understand how acetoacetyl-CoA reduction occurs in R. eutropha. In addition to the earlier-identified phaB gene, now referred to as phaB1 (GeneID, 4249784), the genes phaB2 (GeneID, 4249785) and phaB3 (GeneID, 4250155) were discovered on R. eutropha chromosome 1. Fifteen other potential isologs were also found to encode amino acid sequences that could potentially indicate acetoacetyl-CoA reductase activity (29). The roles of the newly discovered genes in PHB biosynthesis were unclear, especially given the results of an earlier biochemical study that suggested there was a single NADPH-dependent acetoacetyl-CoA reductase in R. eutropha (10). In order to determine the roles of the reductase genes in R. eutropha, we deleted phaB1, phaB2, and phaB3 from the genome both individually and in combination. In addition to characterizing these newly discovered genes, we also hoped to eliminate or diminish formation of HB-CoA by stopping the reduction reaction. Efforts to purify the PHA synthase from R. eutropha have been complicated by the high levels of PHB made by this organism (7). Studying formation and growth of PHB granules is difficult because PHB accumulates at a high rate, causing individual granules to coalesce and become indistinct (44). We therefore believed that an R. eutropha strain with decreased HB-CoA synthesis would be a useful experimental tool and could also serve as a platform for engineering new PHA synthesis pathways into R. eutropha. 相似文献
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Rodrigues MF Valentin HE Berger PA Tran M Asrar J Gruys KJ Steinbüchel A 《Applied microbiology and biotechnology》2000,53(4):453-460
Burkholderia sp. accumulates polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) containing 3-hydroxybutyrate and 3-hydroxy-4-pentenoic acid when grown on mineral
media under limited phosphate or nitrogen, and using sucrose or gluconate as a carbon and energy source. Solvent fractionation
and NMR spectroscopic characterization of these polyesters revealed the simultaneous accumulation of two homopolyesters rather
than a co-polyester with random sequence distribution of the monomers [Valentin HE, Berger PA, Gruys KJ, Rodrigues MFA, Steinbüchel
A, Tran M, Asrar J (1999) Macromolecules 32: 7389–7395]. To understand the genetic requirements for such unusual polyester
accumulation, we probed total genomic DNA from Burkholderia sp. by Southern hybridization experiments using phaC-specific probes. These experiments indicated the presence of more than one PHA synthase gene within the genome of Burkholderia sp. However, when total genomic DNA from Burkholderia sp. was used to complement a PHA-negative mutant of Ralstonia eutropha for PHA accumulation, only one PHA synthase gene was obtained resembling the R. eutropha type of PHA synthases, based on amino acid sequence similarity. In addition to the PHA synthase gene, based on high sequence
homology, genes encoding a β-ketothiolase and acetoacetyl-CoA reductase were identified in a gene cluster with the PHA synthase
gene. The arrangement of the three genes is quite similar to the R. eutropha poly-β-hydroxybutyrate biosynthesis operon.
Received: 3 September 1999 / Received revision: 29 October 1999 / Accepted: 5 November 1999 相似文献
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Samane Mohammadi Hossein Aroiee Ali Tehranifar Vahid Jahanbakhsh 《Archives Of Phytopathology And Plant Protection》2013,46(13):1603-1610
The development of natural crop protection products as alternatives to the use of synthetic fungicides is currently popular. The aim of this study is to evaluate the antifungal effects of several essential oils against the fungal pathogens, Botrytis cinerea and Rhizopus stolonifer, under in vitro condition. Four essential oils (fennel, black caraway, peppermint and thyme) were each tested at five concentrations (0, 200, 400, 600 or 800 μl l?1). In vitro results showed that the essential oil of black caraway and fennel had the highest fungicidal effect against B. cinerea and R. stolonifer, respectively. The growth of B. cinerea was completely inhibited by the essential oil of black caraway at 400 μl l?1. Fennel oil perfectly inhibited growth of R. stolonifer fungus colonies at concentration higher than 600 μl L?1 in potato dextrose agar medium. Percentage of spores germination was the lowest in medium of Fennel and black caraway essential oils, and was the highest in Thyme ones. These results show that plant essential oils can have a strong effect on reducing post-harvest decay. These plant essential oils could provide an alternative to synthetic chemicals to control post-harvest phytopathogenic fungi on fruit. 相似文献
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Palm kernel oil, palm olein, crude palm oil and palm acid oil were used for the synthesis of poly (3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyhexanoate) [P(3HB-co-3HHx)] by a mutant strain of Wautersia eutropha (formerly Ralstonia eutropha) harboring the Aeromonas caviae polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) synthase gene. Palm kernel oil was an excellent carbon source for the production of cell biomass
and P(3HB-co-3HHx). About 87% (w/w) of the cell dry weight as P(3HB-co-3HHx) was obtained using 5 g palm kernel oil/l. Gravimetric and microscopic analyses further confirmed the high PHA content
in the recombinant cells. The molar fraction of 3HHx remained constant at 5 mol % regardless of the type and concentration
of palm oil products used. The small amount of 3HHx units was confirmed by 13C NMR analysis. The number average molecular weight (Mn) of the PHA copolymer produced from the various palm oil products ranged from 27 0000 to 46 0000 Da. The polydispersity was
in the range of 2.6–3.9. 相似文献
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Patricia Spiekermann Bernd H. A. Rehm Rainer Kalscheuer Dirk Baumeister A. Steinbüchel 《Archives of microbiology》1999,171(2):73-80
The oxazine dye Nile blue A and its fluorescent oxazone form, Nile red, were used to develop a simple and highly sensitive
staining method to detect poly(3-hydroxybutyric acid) and other polyhydroxyalkanoic acids (PHAs) directly in growing bacterial
colonies. In contrast to previously described methods, these dyes were directly included in the medium at concentrations of
only 0.5 μg/ml, and growth of the cells occurred in the presence of the dyes. This allowed an estimation of the presence of
PHAs in viable colonies at any time during the growth experiment and a powerful discrimination between PHA-negative and PHA-positive
strains. The presence of Nile red or Nile blue A did not affect growth of the bacteria. This viable-colony staining method
was in particular applicable to gram-negative bacteria such as Azotobacter vinelandii, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas putida, and Ralstonia eutropha. It was less suitable for discriminating between PHA-negative and PHA-positive strains of gram-positive bacteria such as
Bacillus megaterium or Rhodococcus ruber, but it could also be used to discriminate between wax-ester- and triacylglycerol-negative and -positive strains of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus or Rhodococcus opacus. The potential of this new method and its application to further investigations of PHA synthases and PHA biosynthesis pathways
are discussed.
Received: 12 August 1998 / Accepted: 11 November 1998 相似文献
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《Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry》2013,77(8):1716-1718
Recombinant strains of Ralstonia eutropha and Pseudomonas putida harboring a chimeric polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) synthase, which consisted of PHA synthases of Aeromonas caviae and R. eutropha, produced 3-hydroxybutyrate (3HB)-based PHA copolymers comprised of 3-hydroxyhexanoate and 3-hydroxyoctanoate units from dodecanoate (87–97 mol % 3HB), indicating that the chimeric PHA synthase possesses desirable substrate specificity leading to the production of 3HB-rich copolymers. 相似文献
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Study of a Ralstonia eutropha Culture Producing Polyhydroxyalkanoates on Products of Coal Processing
Kinetic indices of growth, polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) accumulation, and gas exchange were studied in a culture of the carbon monoxide-resistant hydrogen strain Ralstonia eutropha B-5786 grown on a gaseous substrate (GS) obtained by lignite gasification. The GS was shown to be suitable for PHA production. To increase the degree of GS consumption, various modes of gas supply to the culture were tested. Based on the results, an algorithm was developed for calculating and controlling gas-exchange parameters in the PHA-accumulating culture of Ralstonia eutropha, grown on a new GS allowing high polymer yields (up to 75%) and degrees of substrate utilization (up to 90%). 相似文献
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During tissue culture of black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia L.), serious problems with plant-associated bacteria led to a reduction of propagation potential in several clones. Four
dominant strains of plant-associated bacteria could be isolated and were assigned to the genera Acidovorax, Dyella, Microbacterium and Sphingomonas. Out of five essential oils tested, thyme and lemongrass oil at a concentration of 0.03% each and 0.015% of both oils in
combination clearly inhibited the growth of these bacteria strains on bacteriologic medium. There were no significant differences
in total bacterial population density when penicillin, thyme and lemongrass oil or thyme plus lemongrass oil were added to
the plant propagation media. The use of lemongrass oil changed the proportion of dominant bacterial strains. 相似文献