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Utilization of Textile Wastewater as A Substrate for Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) and Enhanced Production by Mutant Enterobacter

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In our previous study, we found that Enterobacter strain TS3 is able to decolorize of textile wastewater (TW) through a fermentative polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) production process. This current study aimed to enhance the ability of strain TS3 to produce PHA using TW by a UV-light radiation-based mutagenesis system, and to enhanced PHA by multiple-round UV-light radiation. The highest PHA-production mutant was obtained in the second rounds of UV-light radiation. The radiation time was optimized to 40 s in the first round followed by 20 s at a distance of 60 cm of plates. The mutant strain TS3-UV2 yielded PHA production at 84.96 ± 1.32% cell dry mass (CDM). The highest PHA concentration (88.66 ± 1.00% CDM) is achieved at pH 7, 150 rpm and 35 °C for 60 h of incubation. Under optimal condition, the mutant yielded 0.53 times more production of PHA than the parent strain. Moreover, the decolorization efficiency of TW was observed to be 72.32% under optimal PHA conditions. Interestingly, the mutant strain could synthesize the medium-co-long-chain-length PHA (mcl-co-lcl PHA), while short-co-medium-chain-length PHA (scl-co-mcl PHA) was observed in the wild type using TW as substrate. Therefore, the mutation and optimization strategy appear to be suitable for producing high-density PHA.

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The authors would like to acknowledge the support of Thailand Science Research and Innovation (TSRI) through the Royal Golden Jubilee Ph.D. (RGJ-PHD) Program through grant number PHD/00073/2559 for RGJ-PHD. Acknowledgment is also made to the Research Grant for Talented Mid-Career Researchers (SS65000399) from National Research Council of Thailand, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Thaksin University, Phatthalung Campus, Thailand and Professor Dr. Ken’ichiro MATSUMOTO.

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This work was supported by Thailand Science Research and Innovation (TSRI) through the Royal Golden Jubilee Ph.D. (RGJ-PHD) Program through grant number PHD/00073/2559 for RGJ-PHD; The Research Grant for Talented Mid-Career Researchers (N42A650241) from National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT); Thaksin University.

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Rakkan, T., Chana, N. & Sangkharak, K. Utilization of Textile Wastewater as A Substrate for Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) and Enhanced Production by Mutant Enterobacter. J Polym Environ 31, 677–687 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10924-022-02563-6

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