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Candida tropicalis, a strain isolated from the sludge of a factory manufacturing xylose, produced a high xylitol concentration of 131 g/l from 150 g/l xylose at 45 h in a flask. Above 150 g/l xylose, however, volumetric xylitol production rates decreased because of a lag period in cell growth. In fed-batch culture, the volumetric production rate and xylitol yield from xylose varied substantially with the controlled xylose concentration and were maximum at a controlled xylose concentration of 60 g/l. To increase the xylitol yield from xylose, feeding experiments using different ratios of xylose and glucose were carried out in a fermentor. The maximum xylitol yield from 300 g/l xylose was 91% at a glucose/xylose feeding ratio of 15%, while the maximum volumetric production rate of xylitol was 3.98 g l−1 h−1 at a glucose/xylose feeding ratio of 20%. Xylitol production was found to decrease markedly as its concentration rose above 250 g/l. In order to accumulate xylitol to 250 g/l, 270 g/l xylose was added in total, at a glucose/xylose feeding ratio of 15%. Under these conditions, a final xylitol production of 251 g/l, which corresponded to a yield of 93%, was obtained from 270 g/l xylose in 55 h.
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Received: 20 April 1998 / Received revision: 29 May 1998 / Accepted: 19 June 1998
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Oh, DK., Kim, SY. Increase of xylitol yield by feeding xylose and glucose in Candida tropicalis . Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 50, 419–425 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002530051314
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002530051314