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A production process, using upshock fermentation and osmotic downshock, for the effective production/excretion of mannosylglycerate (MG) by the trehalose-deficient mutant of the strain Thermus thermophilus RQ-1 has been developed. In the first phase of fed-batch fermentation, the knockout mutant was grown at 70°C on a NaCl-free medium. After the culture reached the end of the exponential growth phase, upshift in temperature and NaCl concentration was applied. The temperature was increased to 77°C, and NaCl was added up to 3.0% and kept constant during the second phase of fermentation. Although this shift in cultivation parameters caused a dramatic drop of cell density, a significant improvement in accumulation of MG up to 0.64 μmol/mg protein compared to batch fermentations (0.31 μmol/mg protein) was achieved. A total yield of 4.6 g MG/l of fermentation broth was obtained in the dialysis bioreactor with a productivity of 0.29 g MG l−1 h−1. The solute was released from the harvested biomass by osmotic downshock using demineralized water at 70°C. More than 90% of the intracellularly accumulated solute was recovered from the water fraction. The process was very efficient, as hyperosmotic shock, release of the solute, and reiterative fed-batch fermentation could be repeated at least four times.
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The authors are thankful to Dana Biemann and Melanie Overbeck for skilful technical assistance. This work was funded by the European commission, fifth Frame Programme, project “Extremophiles as cell factories for the production of hypersolutes.”
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Egorova, K., Grudieva, T., Morinez, C. et al. High yield of mannosylglycerate production by upshock fermentation and bacterial milking of trehalose-deficient mutant Thermus thermophilus RQ-1. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 75, 1039–1045 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-007-0915-y
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