Taxonomic group: fungi / Ascomycota
(Phylum: Ascomycota)
Organ / tissue: batch culture,
fed-batch culture
The structure was elucidated in this paperPublication DOI: 10.1016/S0032-9592(98)00106-XJournal NLM ID: 9211419Publisher: Barking, Essex: Elsevier Applied Science
Correspondence: roukas
agro.auth.gr
Institutions: Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, Alsyllion Agrokepion, PO Box 85, Chania, Crete GR-73 100, Greece, Department of Food Science and Technology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Box 250, 540 06 Thessaloniki, Greece
The production of pigment-free pullulan by Aureobasidium pullulans in batch and fed-batch culture was investigated. Batch culture proved to be a better fermentation system for the production of pullulan than the fed-batch culture system. A maximum polysaccharide concentration (31.3 g l−1), polysaccharide productivity (4.5 g l−1 per day), and sugar utilization (100%) were obtained in batch culture. In fed-batch culture, feed medium composition influenced the kinetics of fermentation. For fed-batch culture, the highest values of pullulan concentration (24.5 g l−1) and pullulan productivity (3.5 g l−1 per day) were obtained in culture grown with feeding substrate containing 50 g l−1 sucrose and all nutrients. The molecular size of pullulan showed a decline as fermentation progressed for both fermentation systems. At the end of fermentation, the polysaccharide isolated from the fed-batch culture had a slightly higher molecular weight than that of batch culture. Structural characterization of pullulan samples (methylation and enzymic hydrolysis with pullulanase) revealed the presence of mainly α-(1→4) (~66%) and α-(1→6) (~31%) glucosidic linkages; however, a small amount (<3%) of triply linked (1,3,4-, 1,3,6-, 1,2,4- and 1,4,6-Glc p) residues were detected. The molecular homogeneity of the alcohol-precipitated polysaccharides from the fermentation broths as well as the structural features of pullulan were confirmed by 13C-NMR and pullulanase treatments followed by gel filtration chromatography of the debranched digests.
pullulan, Aureobasidium pullulans, batch culture, fed-batch culture
Structure type: homopolymer
Location inside paper: abstract, table 1
Trivial name: methyl glucose lipopolysaccharide, glucan, maltosaccharide, α-1,4-D-glucan, amylose, α-glucan, glycogen backbone, α-(1,4)-glucan, starch, α-(1-4)-glucan, starch, glycogen
Compound class: CPS, EPS, O-polysaccharide, cell wall polysaccharide, glucan, polysaccharide, methyl glucose lipopolysaccharide
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_140629,IEDB_142488,IEDB_144998,IEDB_146664,IEDB_420417,IEDB_420418,IEDB_420421,IEDB_857742,IEDB_983931,SB_192
Methods: 13C NMR, gel filtration, GC-MS, GC, enzymatic digestion, methylation analysis
Comments, role: part of the structure
Related record ID(s): 40543, 40802, 40804, 40805, 40806, 40807
NCBI Taxonomy refs (TaxIDs): 5580Reference(s) to other database(s): GTC:G05740LL, GlycomeDB:
12100, CCSD:
4943, CBank-STR:819
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There is only one chemically distinct structure:
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(previously named: Dematium pullulans P 56)