中药内的生物制药——固体发酵工程系列及其真菌药物

概述了我国古今中药内的生物制药工程中唯一的固体发酵生产真菌药物的情况,以神曲、猴头菌及槐耳菌质等为代表说明由"制曲工艺"、"固体培养"到固体发酵的理念与工艺的变化与发展,从"普通型固体发酵"发展到"双向型固体发酵"的范例可推断分析古代制曲工艺在基质中应用中药材的作用,说明其貌似粗糙而可能有潜在深刻的内涵亟待整理发掘。现已存在建立固体发酵系列工程的可能性,更显示了中药宝库的丰富内容和菌物药的价值,对指导研发新真菌药物有一定理论与实际意义。     

雷公藤解毒持效双向发酵工艺的建立

采用双向发酵的原理,运用"发酵过程动态比较法"研究了灵芝接种于雷公藤药性基质上发酵不同时间所得菌质的化学成分、急性毒性和免疫功能的变化,以其确定雷公藤解毒持效双向发酵的最佳发酵终点。研究结果表明:发酵第30天所得的菌质(G30)总二萜的含量最低,为0.57%;与雷公藤生药比较,G30的LD50最高,且发酵第30天所得菌质的体液免疫和细胞免疫抑制作用最强。综合对成分含量、毒性及药效的动态数据联系比较、分析,确定了雷公藤解毒持效双向发酵的发酵终点与适宜的发酵周期是菌丝长满瓶后的第30天。     

Intact cell mass spectrometry as a progress tracking tool for batch and fed-batch fermentation processes

Penicillin production during a fermentation process using industrial strains of Penicillium chrysogenum is a research topic permanently discussed since the accidental discovery of the antibiotic. Intact cell mass spectrometry (ICMS) can be a fast and novel monitoring tool for the fermentation progress during penicillin V production in a nearly real-time fashion. This method is already used for the characterization of microorganisms and the differentiation of fungal strains; therefore, the application of ICMS to samples directly harvested from a fermenter is a promising possibility to get fast information about the progress of fungal growth. After the optimization of the ICMS method to penicillin V fermentation broth samples, the obtained ICMS data were evaluated by hierarchical cluster analysis or an in-house software solution written especially for ICMS data comparison. Growth stages of a batch and fed-batch fermentation of Penicillium chrysogenum are differentiated by one of those statistical approaches. The application of two matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight (MALDI–TOF) instruments in the linear positive ion mode from different vendors demonstrated the universal applicability of the developed ICMS method. The base for a fast and easy-to-use method for monitoring the fermentation progress of P. chrysogenum is created with this ICMS method developed especially for fermentation broth samples.     

荧光定量PCR方法检测白酒发酵过程中Aspergillus tubingensis生物量

【目的】为了更好地分析霉菌在白酒发酵过程中的作用,需要快速准确地测定发酵过程中霉菌生物量的变化,本实验以白酒酿造中常用的塔宾曲霉(Aspergillus tubingensis)为例,建立一套快速准确定量塔宾曲霉生物量的方法。【方法】优化从酒醅中提取基因组的方法,设计和验证专一性引物,建立实时荧光定量PCR(Real-time quantitative PCR)方法,验证方法的有效性并应用于白酒发酵过程中塔宾曲霉生物量的检测。【结果】用原位机械破碎法提取酒醅中总基因组,其DNA的浓度能够达到1.060×105 ng/g酒醅;同时建立了一套快速准确测定固态基质中霉菌生物量的方法,并应用于白酒生产(制曲、堆积发酵和窖池发酵过程)中塔宾曲霉生物量的定量。【结论】实时荧光定量PCR方法能够快速准确地测定固态基质中霉菌的生物量,且检测限较低,对今后的相关研究具有借鉴意义。     

Succinic acid production from wheat using a biorefining strategy

The biosynthesis of succinic acid from wheat flour was investigated in a two-stage bio-process. In the first stage, wheat flour was converted into a generic microbial feedstock either by fungal fermentation alone or by combining fungal fermentation for enzyme and fungal bio-mass production with subsequent flour hydrolysis and fungal autolysis. In the second stage, the generic feedstock was converted into succinic acid by bacterial fermentation by Actinobacillus succinogenes. Direct fermentation of the generic feedstock produced by fungal fermentation alone resulted in a lower succinic acid production, probably due to the low glucose and nitrogen concentrations in the fungal broth filtrate. In the second feedstock production strategy, flour hydrolysis conducted by mixing fungal broth filtrate with wheat flour generated a glucose-rich stream, while the fungal bio-mass was subjected to autolysis for the production of a nutrient-rich stream. The possibility of replacing a commercial semi-defined medium by these two streams was investigated sequentially. A. succinogenes fermentation using only the wheat-derived feedstock resulted in a succinic acid concentration of almost 16 g l^–1 with an overall yield of 0.19 g succinic acid per g wheat flour. These results show that a wheat-based bio-refinery employing coupled fungal fermentation and subsequent flour hydrolysis and fungal autolysis can lead to a bacterial feedstock for the efficient production of succinic acid.     

基于遗传算法的羊肚菌液体发酵动力学模型的建立

发酵动力学研究是实现发酵过程最优化控制及发酵过程放大的前提条件。本研究对羊肚菌液体深层发酵动力学进行了研究, 在Matlab软件平台上, 应用遗传算法对比了真菌生长较常用的Monod与Logistic方程在描述羊肚菌生长动力学时的优劣, 并对羊肚菌的生长、胞外多糖产生和基质消耗模型进行了参数估计。结果表明, Logistic方程与试验数据拟和情况更好, 并给出了羊肚菌液体深层发酵的动力学模型具体形式, 经验证, 模型的平均误差为5.8%。利用遗传算法选择羊肚菌动力学模型, 并进行参数估计与其他方法相比具有快速、搜索面广、接近全局最优解的特点, 在处理分批发酵动力学问题上具有不可比拟的优势, 发酵动力学模型的建立为发酵过程优化及放大奠定了基础。     

黑曲霉发酵过程中菌体形态的分析方法建立及应用

丝状真菌(Filamentous fungi)的发酵生产通常具有较高的工业应用价值,但其菌体形态是一个区别于其他非丝状菌的一个重要发酵指标。针对目前形态分析的瓶颈,本研究使用琼脂糖凝胶对黑曲霉菌形进行固定,利用平板实现菌球样本的大量制备,并结合图形处理软件自建自动化处理程序,实现了大量准确可靠的菌体形态参数的获得,大大增加了形态数据处理通量及准确度。应用该方法于黑曲霉发酵生产糖化酶过程中不同供氧水平及剪切水平下菌体形态的研究,通过大量形态数据定量阐明了黑曲霉在不同剪切水平下的分区域形态分布特性,为进一步工业过程的形态优化提供了重要的研究方法。     

An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for the estimation of fungal biomass during solid-state fermentation

An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for sensitive, specific and quantitative estimation of fungal biomass during solid-state fermentation is described. Using this method, differential growth rates and colonization of the substrate can be studied. The assay has potential application for the efficient monitoring of solid-state fermentation involving specific fungus, for which available methods are not adequate. Received: 18 November 1997 / Received last revision: 8 June 1998 / Accepted: 14 June 1998     

Pulsed feeding during fed-batch fungal fermentation leads to reduced viscosity without detrimentally affecting protein expression

The goal in this study was to determine if pulsed addition of substrate could be used to alter filamentous fungal morphology during fermentation, to result in reduced broth viscosity. In all experiments, an industrially relevant strain of Aspergillus oryzae was grown in 20-liter fermentors. As a control, cultures were fed limiting substrate (glucose) continuously. Tests were performed by altering the feeding strategy so that the same total amount of glucose was fed in repeated 300-s cycles, with the feed pump on for either 30 or 150 s during each cycle. Variables indicative of cellular metabolic activity (biomass concentration, oxygen uptake rate, base consumed for pH control) showed no significant difference between continuous and pulse-fed fermentations. In addition, there was no significant difference between total extracellular protein expression or the apparent distribution of these proteins. In contrast, fungal mycelia during the second half of pulse-fed fermentations were approximately half the size (average projected area) of fungi during fermentations with continuous addition of glucose. As a result, broth viscosity during the second half of pulse-fed fermentations was approximately half that during the second half of continuous fermentations. If these results prove to be applicable for other fungal strains and processes, then this method will represent a simple and inexpensive means to reduce viscosity during filamentous fungal fermentation.     

豚草种带内生真菌及其对种子发芽和幼苗生长的影响

内生真菌是一类共生于植物体内,能够不同程度影响宿主植物生态适应性和竞争能力的微生物。分析内生真菌在豚草种子中的分布、种群结构,以及内生真菌发酵液对种子发芽和幼苗生长的作用。结果显示:发生于6个地区的豚草种子均能分离获得内生真菌,分离率在19%—92.63%之间,不同地区之间差异极显著(P0.01)。内生真菌主要存在于种子的总苞部位,分离率达到65.52%。发生于福建省长乐市松下镇的豚草种带内生真菌种群包含5个属,以链格孢属(Alternaria)真菌为优势菌群,占82.26%;其次为镰孢属(Fusarium)真菌,占9.68%;其它3个属的真菌发生较少,均低于5%。内生真菌主要以水平传播方式在豚草不同世代之间传播。供试的7个内生真菌菌株的发酵液均不同程度地抑制豚草种子发芽,降低幼苗地上部高度、根长度、根数量和总生物量,但不同菌株发酵液之间抑制程度差异明显,显示不同菌株对豚草种子发芽和幼苗生长产生不同的影响。内生真菌发酵液处理后的种子仍然保持较高程度的活力;不同内生真菌发酵液处理后,有活力的种子维持在50%—87.5%之间,均高于(或等于)清水处理的种子,说明内生真菌代谢产物只是抑制种子的发芽,但并不导致种子的腐烂和死亡。这些研究结果初步显示种子携带的内生真菌可能在豚草入侵生物学中发挥重要的作用。     

链霉菌A01-chit33CT产纳他霉素和几丁质酶协同表达发酵条件优化

生物农药由于具有良好的生态效应和安全性,因此比化学农药更受到人们的青睐,生物农药的发展契合低碳、循环、清洁绿色经济发展理念。因此,寻求利于食品安全和环境保护,同时高效控制植物病害的新型生物农药成为时下及未来研究的热点。链霉菌以产生纳他霉素等抗生素起到生防作用。链霉菌株A01-chit33CT既可以产生纳他霉素又可以高表达几丁质酶活,生防效果大大增加。为确定链霉菌A01-chit33CT产纳他霉素和几丁质酶协同表达的发酵条件,初步探索了碳氮源和发酵条件对菌株产生纳他霉素和几丁质酶的影响。结果表明,葡萄糖促进纳他霉素的产生而抑制几丁质酶的表达,因此分两阶段添加葡萄糖和几丁质粉来达到二者协同表达。研究确定最佳发酵培养基为:葡萄糖40 g/L,几丁质粉10 g/L(发酵4 d添加),黄豆粉30 g/L,大豆蛋白胨10 g/L,CaCO35 g/L,MgSO4.7H2O 0.5 g/L,K2HPO40.5 g/L。最优发酵条件为:初始pH 6.0,温度28℃,转速180 r/min。在此条件下,链霉菌A01-chit33CT产纳他霉素达1.52 g/L,同时几丁质酶活达990 U/ml,二者比优化前的水平分别提高了1.95倍和2.27倍。     

具抑菌活性连翘内生真菌的分离与鉴定

【目的】从药用植物连翘内生真菌中筛选抑菌活性菌株, 并对其主要活性成分进行检测分析。【方法】采用常规组织分离法分离内生真菌, 滤纸片法测定其发酵产物对3种指示细菌的抑菌活性。TLC、HPLC和HPLC-MS检测活性菌株代谢产物中连翘苷成分。根据形态学特征和ITS序列分析鉴定目的菌株。【结果】分离得到的24株内生真菌中抑菌圈直径超过10 mm的菌株, 发酵液组有11株(45.8%), 菌丝体组有19株(79.2%), 活性菌株主要集中在果实内生真菌中, 其中G5、G7和G10表现出较强的抑菌活性。从菌株G10的胞内产物中发现活性成分连翘苷, 将其鉴定为胶孢炭疽菌Colletotrichum gloeosporioides。【结论】连翘内生真菌是天然抗菌活性物质的重要筛选来源。     

基于DNA高通量测序分析生料酿醋过程中的真菌多样性

【目的】了解生料酿醋不同阶段的真菌群落结构及其变化规律,为生料酿醋工艺优化提供理论指导。【方法】从山西一家生料酿醋企业采集原料、麸曲、发酵缸醋醅、熏醋样、淋醋样等涉及生料酿醋各阶段的样品共51份,扩增真菌ITS1区序列并利用高通量测序技术分析真菌多样性。【结果】除5份样品未扩增成功外,在剩余46份样品中共检测到489个真菌OTU,以子囊菌为主(占88.3%)。原料、麸曲、发酵缸醋醅、熏醋样、淋醋样等不同组别间在真菌群落结构方面存在显著差异。原料和麸曲中的真菌物种丰富度最低,发酵缸醋醅的真菌物种丰富度最高,熏醋样和淋醋样中的真菌物种丰富度又有所降低。原料和麸曲中的优势真菌分别为酿酒酵母和黑曲霉,是发酵阶段真菌的重要来源,但发酵缸醋醅中也检测到大量可能来源于发酵室环境的真菌。发酵缸醋醅在不同发酵时期间也存在明显的真菌群落结构差异,并可据此划分成发酵前期(包括发酵第2–13天的样品)和发酵后期(包括发酵第17–46天的样品)。酿酒酵母和亮白曲霉的丰度在发酵前期显著高于发酵后期,而黑曲霉、一种小戴卫霉科真菌等的丰度在发酵后期显著高于发酵前期。【结论】生料酿醋的不同阶段和发酵缸醋醅发酵的不同时期,其真菌群落结构都存在明显差异。酿酒酵母和黑曲霉是发酵阶段的优势真菌。本研究为生料酿醋工艺优化提供了理论依据。     

Butanediol production from cellulose and hemicellulose by Klebsiella pneumoniae grown in sequential coculture with Trichoderma harzianum.

The bioconversion of cellulose and hemicellulose substrates to 2,3-butanediol by a sequential coculture approach was investigated with the cellulolytic fungus Trichoderma harzianum E58 and the fermentative bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae. Vogel medium optimal for the production of the cellulolytic and xylanolytic enzymes of the fungus was found to be inhibitory to butanediol fermentation. This inhibition appeared to be due to a synergistic effect of various ingredients, particularly the salts, present in the fungal medium. The removal or replacement of such ingredients from Vogel medium led to the relief of fermentation inhibition, but the treatments also resulted in a significant decrease in fungal enzyme production. Resting cells of K. pneumoniae could be used for butanediol production in the fungal medium, indicating that the inhibitory effect on solvent production under such conditions was due to the indirect result of growth inhibition of the bacterial cells. The resting-cell approach could be combined with a fed-batch system for the direct conversion of 8 to 10% (wt/vol) of Solka-Floc or aspenwood xylan to butanediol at over 30% of the theoretical conversion efficiencies.     

Concurrent production of chitin from shrimp shells and fungi

Crustacean shells constitute the traditional and current commercial source of chitin. Conversely, the control of fungal fermentation processes to produce quality chitin makes fungal mycelia an attractive alternative source. Therefore, the exploitation of both of these sources to produce chitin in a concurrent process should be advantageous and is reported here. Three proteolytic Aspergillus niger (strains 0576, 0307 and 0474) were selected from a screening for protease activity from among 34 zygomycete and deuteromycete strains. When fungi and shrimp shell powder were combined in a single reactor, the release of protease by the fungi facilitated the deproteinization of shrimp-shell powder and the release of hydrolyzed proteins. The hydrolyzed proteins in turn were utilized as a nitrogen source for fungal growth, leading to a lowering of the pH of the fermentation medium, thereby further enhancing the demineralization of the shrimp-shell powder. The shrimp-shell powders and fungal mycelia were separated after fermentation and extracted for chitin with 5% LiCl/DMAc solvent. Chitin isolates from the shells were found to have a protein content of less than 5%, while chitin isolates from the three fungal mycelia strains had protein content in the range of 10-15%. The relative molecular weights as estimated by GPC for all chitin samples were in the 10(5) dalton range. All samples displayed characteristic profiles for chitin in their FTIR and solid-state NMR spectra. All chitin samples evaluated with MTT and Neutral Red assays with three commercial cell lines did not display cytotoxic effects.     

Direct fermentation of potato starch wastewater to lactic acid by Rhizopus oryzae and Rhizopus arrhizus

The biochemical kinetic of direct fermentation for lactic acid production by fungal species of Rhizopus arrhizus 3,6017 and Rhizopus oryzae 2,062 was studied with respect to growth pH, temperature and substrate. The direct fermentation was characterized by starch hydrolysis, accumulation of reducing sugar, and production of lactic acid and fungal biomass. Starch hydrolysis, reducing sugar accumulation, biomass formation and lactic acid production were affected with the variations in pH, temperature, and starch source and concentration. A growth condition with starch concentration approximately 20 g/l at pH 6.0 and 30°C was favourable for both starch saccharification and lactic acid fermentation, resulting in lactic acid yield of 0.87–0.97 g/g starch associated with 1.5–2.0 g/l fungal biomass produced in 36 h fermentation. R. arrhizus 3,6017 had a higher capacity to produce lactic acid, while R. oryzae 2,062 produced more fungal biomass under similar conditions.     

Butanediol production from cellulose and hemicellulose by Klebsiella pneumoniae grown in sequential coculture with Trichoderma harzianum

The bioconversion of cellulose and hemicellulose substrates to 2,3-butanediol by a sequential coculture approach was investigated with the cellulolytic fungus Trichoderma harzianum E58 and the fermentative bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae. Vogel medium optimal for the production of the cellulolytic and xylanolytic enzymes of the fungus was found to be inhibitory to butanediol fermentation. This inhibition appeared to be due to a synergistic effect of various ingredients, particularly the salts, present in the fungal medium. The removal or replacement of such ingredients from Vogel medium led to the relief of fermentation inhibition, but the treatments also resulted in a significant decrease in fungal enzyme production. Resting cells of K. pneumoniae could be used for butanediol production in the fungal medium, indicating that the inhibitory effect on solvent production under such conditions was due to the indirect result of growth inhibition of the bacterial cells. The resting-cell approach could be combined with a fed-batch system for the direct conversion of 8 to 10% (wt/vol) of Solka-Floc or aspenwood xylan to butanediol at over 30% of the theoretical conversion efficiencies.     

河南浓香型酒醅的真菌微生物菌群多样性及共变性

通过高通量测序研究河南三个不同酒厂的浓香型酒醅的真菌微生物菌群,逐次在门、纲、目、科和属5个水平上分析入窖酒醅和出窖酒醅的菌群多样性,探究酒醅发酵后菌群的共性变化规律.结果表明:出窖酒醅的真菌微生物多样性高于入窖酒醅的真菌微生物多样性,出窖酒醅的真菌主要有镰刀菌属Fusarium(相对丰度17％ ～32％),Plect...     

Machine learning‐based automated fungal cell counting under a complicated background with ilastik and ImageJ

Measuring the concentration and viability of fungal cells is an important and fundamental procedure in scientific research and industrial fermentation. In consideration of the drawbacks of manual cell counting, large quantities of fungal cells require methods that provide easy, objective and reproducible high‐throughput calculations, especially for samples in complicated backgrounds. To answer this challenge, we explored and developed an easy‐to‐use fungal cell counting pipeline that combined the machine learning‐based ilastik tool with the freeware ImageJ, as well as a conventional photomicroscope. Briefly, learning from labels provided by the user, ilastik performs segmentation and classification automatically in batch processing mode and thus discriminates fungal cells from complex backgrounds. The files processed through ilastik can be recognized by ImageJ, which can compute the numeric results with the macro ‘Fungal Cell Counter’. Taking the yeast Cryptococccus deneoformans and the filamentous fungus Pestalotiopsis microspora as examples, we observed that the customizable software algorithm reduced inter‐operator errors significantly and achieved accurate and objective results, while manual counting with a haemocytometer exhibited some errors between repeats and required more time. In summary, a convenient, rapid, reproducible and extremely low‐cost method to count yeast cells and fungal spores is described here, which can be applied to multiple kinds of eucaryotic microorganisms in genetics, cell biology and industrial fermentation.     

Enhancement of acid amylase production by an isolated Aspergillus awamori

AIMS: Evaluation of the influence of fermentation components on extracellular acid amylase production by an isolated fungal strain Aspergillus awamori. METHODS AND RESULTS: Eight fungal metabolic influential factors, viz. soluble starch, corn steep liquor (CSL), casein, potassium dihydrogen phosphate (KH(2)PO(4)) and magnesium sulfate (MgSO(4) x 7H(2)O), pH, temperature and inoculum level were selected to optimize amylase production by A. awamori using fractional factorial design of Taguchi methodology. Significant improvement in acid amylase enzyme production (48%) was achieved. The optimized medium composition consisted of soluble starch--3%; CSL--0.5%; KH(2)PO(4)--0.125%; MgSO(4) x 7H(2)O--0.125%; casein--1.5% at pH 4.0 and temperature at 31 degrees C. CONCLUSION: Optimization of the components of the fermentation medium was carried out using fractional factorial design of Taguchi's L-18 orthogonal array. Based on the influence of interaction components of fermentation, these could be classified as the least significant and the most significant at individual and interaction levels. Least significant factors of individual level have higher interaction severity index and vice versa at enzyme production in this fungal strain. The pH of the medium and substrate (soluble starch) showed maximum production impact (60%) at optimized environment. Temperature and CSL were the least influential factors for acid amylase production. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY: Acid amylase production by isolated A. awamori is influenced by the interaction of fermentation factors with fungal metabolism at individual and interaction levels. The pH of the fermentation medium and substrate concentration regulates maximum enzyme production process in this fungal strain.