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Growth-promoting Effect of Alginate Oligosaccharides on Rhodobacter sphaeroides

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Rhodobacter sphaeroides has been well-known for its strong contribution to environment, medicine, food, and cosmetic industry. Here, we first reported the growth-promoting effects of an alginate oligosaccharide mixture (AOS) on R. sphaeroides. AOS exhibited a stimulatory effect on the growth of R. sphaeroides in a dose-dependent manner. The highest growth rate of R. sphaeroides was obtained in LB medium supplemented with 0.5% AOS. AOS exerted a selective growth-promoting effect on R. sphaeroides but not on Escherichia coli, Lysinibacillus xylanilyticus, and Pantoea rwandensis. The growth-promoting effect of AOS is influenced by light and may be involved in the up-regulation of fbp2, RSP-0557, and RegB genes. Our results collectively suggested that AOS should be employed as a growth-promoting factor to enhance the transition of R. sphaeroides to industrial applications.

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This work is carried out with the support of the Cooperative Research Program for Agriculture Science and Technology Development [Project No. PJ014972], Rural Development Administration, Republic of Korea. This paper was also supported by research funds from Jeonbuk National University in 2020. We would like to thank the Research Institute of Bioindustry at Jeonbuk National University for kindly providing the facilities for this research study.

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    Ve Van Le

  3. Department of Agricultural Convergence Technology, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, 54896, Korea

    Donghyun Shin

  4. Department of BioEnvironmental Chemistry, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, 54896, Korea

    Seung-Moon Park

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Le, N.T.M., Le, V.V., Shin, D. et al. Growth-promoting Effect of Alginate Oligosaccharides on Rhodobacter sphaeroides. Biotechnol Bioproc E 27, 99–104 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12257-021-0246-3

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