Abstract
Kojic acid production byAspergillus flavus strain S44-1 using sucrose as a carbon source was carried out in a 250-mL shake flask and a 2-L stirred tank fermenter. For comparison, production of kojic acid using glucose, fructose and its mixture was also carried out. Kojic acid production in shake flask fermentation was 25.8 g/L using glucose as the sole carbon source, 23.6 g/L with sucrose, and 6.4 g/L from fructose. Reduced kojic acid production (13.5 g/L) was observed when a combination of glucose and fructose was used as a carbon source. The highest production of kojic acid (40.2 g/L) was obtained from 150 g/L sucrose in a 2 L fermenter, while the lowest kojic acid production (10.3 g/L) was seen in fermentation using fructose as the sole carbon source. The experimental data from batch fermentation and resuspended cell system was analysed in order to form the basis for a kinetic model of the process. An unstructured model based on logistic and Luedeking-Piret equations was found suitable to describe the growth, substrate consumption, and efficiency of kojic acid production byA. flavus in batch fermentation using sucrose. From this model, it was found that kojic acid production byA. flavus was not a growth-associated process. Fermentation without pH control (from an initial culture pH of 3.0) showed higher kojic acid production than single-phase pH-controlled fermentation (pH 2.5, 2.75, and 3.0).
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Abbreviations
- α:
-
Growth-associated rate constant for glucose consumption (g glucose/g cell)
- β:
-
Non-growth-associated rate constant for glucose consumption (g glucose/g cell.h)
- m :
-
Growth-associated rate constant for kojic acid production (g kojic acid/g cell)
- n :
-
Non-growth associated rate constant for kojic acid production (g kojic acid/g cell.h)
- x :
-
Cell concentration (g/L)
- x max :
-
Maximum cell concentration (g/L)
- t :
-
Time (h)
- s :
-
Substrate concentration (g/L)
- p :
-
Kojic acid concentration (g/L)
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Rosfarizan, M., Ariff, A.B. Kinetics of kojic acid fermentation byAspergillus flavus link S44-1 using sucrose as a carbon source under different pH conditions. Biotechnol. Bioprocess Eng. 11, 72–79 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02931872
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