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Enhanced vanillin production from ferulic acid using adsorbent resin

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Abstract

High vanillin productivity was achieved in the batch biotransformation of ferulic acid by Streptomyces sp. strain V-1. Due to the toxicity of vanillin and the product inhibition, fed-batch biotransformation with high concentration of ferulic acid was unsuccessful. To solve this problem and improve the vanillin yield, a biotransformation strategy using adsorbent resin was investigated. Several macroporous adsorbent resins were chosen to adsorb vanillin in situ during the bioconversion. Resin DM11 was found to be the best, which adsorbed the most vanillin and the least ferulic acid. When 8% resin DM11 (wet w/v) was added to the biotransformation system, 45 g l−1 ferulic acid could be added continually and 19.2 g l−1 vanillin was obtained within 55 h, which was the highest vanillin yield by bioconversion until now. This yield was remarkable for exceeding the crystallization concentration of vanillin and therefore had far-reaching consequence in its downstream processing.

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The authors gratefully acknowledged the financial support of this work by Shanghai Apple Flavor & Fragrance (China). The work was supported in part by the financial support of the State Major Basic Research Development Program (China) (grant 2007CB707800).

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    Dongliang Hua, Cuiqing Ma, Lifu Song, Shan Lin, Zhaobin Zhang & Ping Xu

  2. Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Ministry of Education, College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, People’s Republic of China

    Zixin Deng & Ping Xu

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Hua, D., Ma, C., Song, L. et al. Enhanced vanillin production from ferulic acid using adsorbent resin. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 74, 783–790 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-006-0735-5

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Keywords

  • Vanillin
  • Ferulic acid
  • Streptomyces sp
  • Biotransformation
  • Adsorbent resin