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A fully integrated process for the microbial production and recovery of the aromatic amino acid L-phenylalanine is presented. Using a recombinant L-tyrosine (L-Tyr) auxotrophic Escherichia coli production strain, a fed-batch fermentation process was developed in a 20-l-scale bioreactor. Concentrations of glucose and L-Tyr were closed-loop-controlled in a fed-batch process. After achieving final L-phenylalanine (L-Phe) titres >30 g/l the process strategy was scaled up to 300-l pilot scale. In technical scale fermentation L-phenylalanine was continuously recovered via a fully integrated reactive extraction system achieving a maximum extraction rate of 110 g/h (final purity >99%). It was thus possible to increase L-Phe/glucose selectivity from 15 mol% without to 20.3 mol% with integrated product separation.
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Gerigk, .M., Maass, .D., Kreutzer, .A. et al. Enhanced pilot-scale fed-batch L-phenylalanine production with recombinant Escherichia coli by fully integrated reactive extraction. Bioprocess Biosyst Eng 25, 43–52 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00449-002-0280-2
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00449-002-0280-2