{"title":"Production of gamma polyglutamic acid from Glycine max fermentation; its extraction, separation, and application: a review","authors":"Rakhi Rajput, Soumya Pandit, Bibhu Prasad Panda, Sunita Sheoran, Subhasree Ray, Kuldeep Sharma, Debasmita Bhattacharya, Moupriya Nagg, Dibyajit Lahirih","doi":"10.1007/s00289-025-05872-7","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Polyglutamic acid, often known as γ-PGA, is a kind of polymer material with great biological compatibility and biodegradability that is frequently used in the food, pharmaceutical, environmental, skincare, and agricultural industries. Since microbial fermentation produces γ-PGA, its isolation, purification, and detection by quantitative methods are crucial. Methods of separation used in this investigation include organic solvent precipitation. Eastern India consumes kinema, a regional meal made of fermented, unsalted, sticky soybeans. Customers cite stickiness as one of the nicest aspects, resulting from the creation of poly-glutamic acid (PGA) from <i>Bacillus species</i>. The fermented soya product \"natto\" contains a significant amount of poly-gamma-glutamic acid. This review highlights various procedures, which include lyophilization and grinding of natto seeds, optimization of protein together with peptide elimination, precipitation with the alcohol, and HCl degradation, which result in the production of highest amount of γ-PGA in natto. </p></div>","PeriodicalId":737,"journal":{"name":"Polymer Bulletin","volume":"82 14","pages":"8791 - 8826"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Polymer Bulletin","FirstCategoryId":"92","ListUrlMain":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00289-025-05872-7","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"POLYMER SCIENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Polyglutamic acid, often known as γ-PGA, is a kind of polymer material with great biological compatibility and biodegradability that is frequently used in the food, pharmaceutical, environmental, skincare, and agricultural industries. Since microbial fermentation produces γ-PGA, its isolation, purification, and detection by quantitative methods are crucial. Methods of separation used in this investigation include organic solvent precipitation. Eastern India consumes kinema, a regional meal made of fermented, unsalted, sticky soybeans. Customers cite stickiness as one of the nicest aspects, resulting from the creation of poly-glutamic acid (PGA) from Bacillus species. The fermented soya product "natto" contains a significant amount of poly-gamma-glutamic acid. This review highlights various procedures, which include lyophilization and grinding of natto seeds, optimization of protein together with peptide elimination, precipitation with the alcohol, and HCl degradation, which result in the production of highest amount of γ-PGA in natto.
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"Polymer Bulletin" is a comprehensive academic journal on polymer science founded in 1988. It was founded under the initiative of the late Mr. Wang Baoren, a famous Chinese chemist and educator. This journal is co-sponsored by the Chinese Chemical Society, the Institute of Chemistry, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences and is supervised by the China Association for Science and Technology. It is a core journal and is publicly distributed at home and abroad.
"Polymer Bulletin" is a monthly magazine with multiple columns, including a project application guide, outlook, review, research papers, highlight reviews, polymer education and teaching, information sharing, interviews, polymer science popularization, etc. The journal is included in the CSCD Chinese Science Citation Database. It serves as the source journal for Chinese scientific and technological paper statistics and the source journal of Peking University's "Overview of Chinese Core Journals."