<Emphasis Type="SmallCaps">l</Emphasis>(+)-Lactic acid production from non-food carbohydrates by thermotolerant <Emphasis Type="Italic">Bacillus coagulans</Emphasis> |
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Authors: | Mark S Ou Lonnie O Ingram K T Shanmugam |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Box 110700, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA; |
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Abstract: | Lactic acid is used as an additive in foods, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics, and is also an industrial chemical. Optically
pure lactic acid is increasingly used as a renewable bio-based product to replace petroleum-based plastics. However, current
production of lactic acid depends on carbohydrate feedstocks that have alternate uses as foods. The use of non-food feedstocks
by current commercial biocatalysts is limited by inefficient pathways for pentose utilization. B. coagulans strain 36D1 is a thermotolerant bacterium that can grow and efficiently ferment pentoses using the pentose-phosphate pathway
and all other sugar constituents of lignocellulosic biomass at 50°C and pH 5.0, conditions that also favor simultaneous enzymatic
saccharification and fermentation (SSF) of cellulose. Using this bacterial biocatalyst, high levels (150–180 g l−1) of lactic acid were produced from xylose and glucose with minimal by-products in mineral salts medium. In a fed-batch SSF
of crystalline cellulose with fungal enzymes and B. coagulans, lactic acid titer was 80 g l−1 and the yield was close to 80%. These results demonstrate that B. coagulans can effectively ferment non-food carbohydrates from lignocellulose to l(+)-lactic acid at sufficient concentrations for commercial application. The high temperature fermentation of pentoses and
hexoses to lactic acid by B. coagulans has these additional advantages: reduction in cellulase loading in SSF of cellulose with a decrease in enzyme cost in the
process and a reduction in contamination of large-scale fermentations. |
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