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Abstract
Chinese-liquor distillers grains (CDG) is an industrial organic waste due to its abundant unfermented polymeric sugars. In this study, CDG was used as the sole carbon and nitrogen source for polymalic acid (PMA) fermentation by Aureobasidium pullulans. The saccharification of CDG was conducted using 5 % (v/v) H2SO4 with a high solid-liquid ratio of 0.3, followed by resin-detoxification and cellulase hydrolysis. Glucose and xylose were obtained in CDG hydrolysate with a sugar recovery of 39.3 % and 51.3 %, respectively. A. pullulans utilized glucose and xylose simultaneously, but carbon catabolite repression was still observed. The co-fermentation of glucose and xylose yielded enhanced cell growth and sugar consumption, whereas sole-glucose fermentation resulted in higher PMA titer. After optimization, 38.6 ± 1.7 g/L of PMA was produced from CDG hydrolysate with a yield of 0.35 g/g sugar. This study provided an important biorefinery strategy for PMA production from CDG feedstock.
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Official Journal of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering:
Part C
FBP aims to be the principal international journal for publication of high quality, original papers in the branches of engineering and science dedicated to the safe processing of biological products. It is the only journal to exploit the synergy between biotechnology, bioprocessing and food engineering.
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