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During aerobic growth, Rhizopus oryzae produces L-lactic acid from lactate dehydrogenase mediated reduction of pyruvate, while O2 limiting conditions yield primarily ethanol. A mutant was isolated that expressed only 5% of the wild type alcohol dehydrogenase activity under O2 limiting conditions and produced nearly 40 g lactic acid/l in 70 h. This is almost a ten-fold increase in lactic acid production when compared to the parent strain.
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Skory, C.D., Freer, S.N. & Bothast, R.J. Production of L-lactic acid by Rhizopus oryzae under oxygen limiting conditions. Biotechnology Letters 20, 191–194 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005397028700
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