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Food Technology and Biotechnology, Vol. 51 No. 1, 2013.

Preliminary communication

Novel Poly[(R)-3-Hydroxybutyrate]-Producing Bacterium Isolated from a Bolivian Hypersaline Lake

Alejandra Rodriguez-Contreras ; Department of Optics and Optometry, Technical University of Catalonia, Sant Nebridi 22, ES-08222 Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain
Martin Koller orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-9251-1822 ; Institut of Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering, Graz University of Technology, Petersgasse 12, AT-1-8010 Graz, Austria
Miguel Miranda de Sousa Dias ; Institut of Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering, Graz University of Technology, Petersgasse 12, AT-1-8010 Graz, Austria
Margarita Calafell ; Department of Chemical Engineering, Technical University of Catalonia, Colom 1, ES-08222 Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain
Gerhart Braunegg ; Institut of Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering, Graz University of Technology, Petersgasse 12, AT-1-8010 Graz, Austria
María Soledad Marqués-Calvo orcid id orcid.org/0000-0003-1735-1838 ; Department of Optics and Optometry, Technical University of Catalonia, Sant Nebridi 22, ES-08222 Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain

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Abstract

Poly[(R)-3-hydroxybutyrate] (PHB) constitutes a biopolymer synthesized from renewable resources by various microorganisms. This work focuses on finding a new PHB-producing bacterium capable of growing in conventional media used for industrial biopolymer production, its taxonomical identification, and characterization of its biopolymer. Thus, a bacterial isolation process was carried out from environmental samples of water and mud. Among the isolates, strain S29 was selected and used in a fed-batch fermentation to generate a biopolymer. This biopolymer was recovered and identified as PHB homopolymer. Surprisingly, it featured several fractions of different molecular masses, and thermal properties unusual for PHB. Hence, the microorganism S29, genetically identified as a new strain of Bacillus megaterium, proved to be interesting not only due to its growth and PHB accumulation kinetics under the investigated cultivation conditions, but also due to the thermal properties of the produced PHB.

Keywords

poly[(R)-3-hydroxybutyrate]; biopolymer; bioproduction; new strain; hypersaline environment; thermal properties

Hrčak ID:

99759

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/99759

Publication date:

29.3.2013.

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