{"title":"Valorization of prosecco wine lees for sustainable polyhydroxyalkanoates production by Cupriavidus necator DSM 545 and Hydrogenophaga pseudoflava DSM 1034","authors":"Viola Caminiti , Ameya Pankaj Gupte , Lorenzo Favaro , Sergio Casella , Marina Basaglia","doi":"10.1016/j.nbt.2025.04.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nbt.2025.04.009","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Nowadays, in the agricultural and agro-industrial sectors, there is increasing attention on the wine industry. The environmental impact of wine production, particularly in terms of residues generation, is a growing concern. Among generated residues, wine lees, rich in organic matter, phenols compounds, and with low pH, pose environmental challenges due to their disposal requirements. Despite their usage for biogas production and extraction of compounds, such as antioxidants, tartaric acid and ethanol, their potential in bioplastic production, specifically polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs), remains largely untapped. This study aims to evaluate the potential use of wine lees as a medium sustaining bacterial growth and PHAs accumulation. Specifically, <em>Cupriavidus necator</em> DSM 545 and <em>Hydrogenophaga pseudoflava</em> DSM 1034, were cultivated in the liquid phase of wine lees obtained from the Prosecco winemaking. On pure distilled wine lees, after mild feedstock pre-treatments, <em>C. necator</em> DSM 545 reached a CDW (cell dry weight) of 2.97 g/L and accumulated PHAs was 1.27 g/L, pair to 42.90 % of CDW. On the same substrate, CDW for <em>H. pseudoflava</em> DSM 1034 was 3.96 g/L and PHAs reached values of 1.60 g/L and 40.42 % CDW. These results obtained on wine lees are similar or even better than those achieved in the control growths of the two strains on pure glucose.</div><div>This is the first approach for the utilization of wine lees for PHAs production, highlighting their potential use in the PHAs industry, and offering a sustainable alternative for both residues management and bioplastic production.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19190,"journal":{"name":"New biotechnology","volume":"88 ","pages":"Pages 73-82"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143888060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New biotechnologyPub Date : 2025-04-24DOI: 10.1016/j.nbt.2025.04.010
Marie Ancelin , Vitor A.P. Martins dos Santos , John P. Morrissey , Michael J. O’Donohue , Merja Penttilä , James C. Philp
{"title":"Addressing semantic ambiguity in biotechnology: Proposals from the European research infrastructure IBISBA","authors":"Marie Ancelin , Vitor A.P. Martins dos Santos , John P. Morrissey , Michael J. O’Donohue , Merja Penttilä , James C. Philp","doi":"10.1016/j.nbt.2025.04.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nbt.2025.04.010","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Driven by numerous scientific discoveries in biology in the second half of the last century, biotechnology is now set to play an important role as a driver for advanced manufacturing, leveraging the power of living organisms to produce a range of goods and services. Considering this prospect, it is vital that terminology surrounding biotechnology is sufficiently clear to provide a basis for efficient regulation and public buy-in. Despite the apparent clarity of the term biotechnology, its definition is the subject of a longstanding debate and liberal interpretations. Likewise, other more recent terms such as biomanufacturing, synthetic biology and engineering biology also lack consensual definitions despite their use in both scientific and secular circles. Additionally, new terms such as precision fermentation and cellular agriculture, recently introduced in the framework of business-to-business exchanges, appear to call upon imaginaries rather than scientific facts. Herein, we examine the lexical complexity of the biotechnology field and argue that, for the sake of efficient policymaking, it is vital to harmonise the definitions of some core terms, including biotechnology, biomanufacturing, engineering biology and synthetic biology. With this aim in mind, this discussion paper is intended to be useful to policymakers and science communicators, whether in the media or in professional settings.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19190,"journal":{"name":"New biotechnology","volume":"88 ","pages":"Pages 83-88"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143890890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New biotechnologyPub Date : 2025-04-24DOI: 10.1016/j.nbt.2025.04.011
Víctor Jiménez Lancho , Peter Eisenhut , Gerald Klanert , Daniel Ivansson , Andreas Jonsson , Ann Lövgren , Nicole Borth
{"title":"Stepwise activation of gene copies results in higher final titers of subclones compared to immediate integration of the full set of active copies","authors":"Víctor Jiménez Lancho , Peter Eisenhut , Gerald Klanert , Daniel Ivansson , Andreas Jonsson , Ann Lövgren , Nicole Borth","doi":"10.1016/j.nbt.2025.04.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nbt.2025.04.011","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The increasing demand for production of therapeutic proteins has encouraged both industrial and academic institutions to pursue the development of mammalian expression platforms with high productivities. While protocols for rapid and efficient integration of multiple transgene copies into the genome are available, they require substantial time and resources for screening numerous clones. A contributing factor is the tendency of high producers to disappear from the selected mini-pools due to the stress caused by high productivity without adequate time for adaptation of cellular capacities. Here, we have developed a strategy to stably activate individual copies within an initially repressed multicopy coding cassette harboring 2 GFP-Fc and 2 BFP-Fc genes, each fused to an Fc region for secretion. This toolbox enables gene activation via CRISPR/Cas9-mediated deletion of the repressor elements. Subsequently, producers can be sorted based on increased GFP or BFP fluorescence and assessed by measuring the secreted total Fc protein. We demonstrate that the stepwise activation of initially repressed genes outperforms a control cell line with the same number of genes active from the outset, as evidenced by higher fluorescence signals from GFP and BFP, increased mRNA levels for BFP, GFP, and Fc genes, and enhanced titer of secreted Fc fusion protein. This study demonstrates the ability of cells to adapt to new challenges by modulating both gene expression patterns and channeling of resources to accommodate high production loads.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19190,"journal":{"name":"New biotechnology","volume":"88 ","pages":"Pages 89-99"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143890889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New biotechnologyPub Date : 2025-04-17DOI: 10.1016/j.nbt.2025.04.004
Meghan Rego , Douglas W. Houston , Melina Fan , Karl D. Murray , James S. Trimmer
{"title":"Open-source antibodies as a path to enhanced research reproducibility and transparency","authors":"Meghan Rego , Douglas W. Houston , Melina Fan , Karl D. Murray , James S. Trimmer","doi":"10.1016/j.nbt.2025.04.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nbt.2025.04.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Antibodies are important tools with diverse uses in biomedical research. However, open access to reliable sources of well-characterized antibodies with unambiguous molecular identities remains an obstacle to research transparency and reproducibility. We propose here a community shift towards open-source antibodies, analogous to open-source computer software. The tenets of such antibodies are that 1) they are available to researchers in a ready to use form, 2) the renewable source of the antibody (<em>e.g.</em>, hybridoma cells or plasmid) is also widely available ensuring reproducible and cost-effective access to the same antibody, and 3) the antibody sequence is publicly available. With these criteria met, the antibody can be widely used with the transparent assurance associated with a molecularly defined reagent, and the code can be edited to generate antibody variants to meet researchers’ specific needs. We (the UC Davis/NIH NeuroMab Facility, the Development Studies Hybridoma Bank, and Addgene) have established a consortium to provide open-source access to a large collection of well characterized antibodies. As open-source software has benefitted both users and developers, we suggest open-source antibodies will have a similar positive impact on antibody based biomedical research. We encourage funding agencies to support initiatives to expand access to open-source antibody resources, and researchers to both utilize and to contribute to them, with a goal of enabling more reliable and cost-effective pursuit of research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19190,"journal":{"name":"New biotechnology","volume":"87 ","pages":"Pages 121-129"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143870713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New biotechnologyPub Date : 2025-04-17DOI: 10.1016/j.nbt.2025.04.003
Xiaofeng Li , Qiana Mendez , Cassandra Chapados , Felicity Acca , Holly Driscoll , Jason Oliveira , Jun Liu , Kezzia Jones , Mary Ferguson , Ryan L. Wallace , Sergei Bibikov , Troy Lionberger , Kevin J. Harvey , Michael P. Weiner , Greg Mirando
{"title":"Site-directed antibodies targeting driver mutations of the KRAS protein","authors":"Xiaofeng Li , Qiana Mendez , Cassandra Chapados , Felicity Acca , Holly Driscoll , Jason Oliveira , Jun Liu , Kezzia Jones , Mary Ferguson , Ryan L. Wallace , Sergei Bibikov , Troy Lionberger , Kevin J. Harvey , Michael P. Weiner , Greg Mirando","doi":"10.1016/j.nbt.2025.04.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nbt.2025.04.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Kirsten rat sarcoma viral oncogene homolog (KRAS) is the most mutated oncogene in human cancers, found in approximately 30 % of tumors. These mutations primarily consist of single-base missense alterations in codon G12. While extensive efforts have focused on developing allele-specific inhibitors for KRAS mutations, mutation-specific antibodies (Abs) remain largely unexplored, with only a few research-use-only catalog Abs available. In this study, we employed the proprietary Epivolve technology to develop site-directed monoclonal Abs (mAbs) that target KRAS oncogenic driver mutation KRAS G12D. These site-directed mAbs demonstrate high binding affinity, with equilibrium dissociation constants (K<sub>D</sub>) in the nanomolar range, showing over 1,000-fold greater affinity for KRAS G12D compared to wild-type KRAS. Western blot analyses using both purified KRAS protein variants and tumor cell lines harboring G12D mutations confirmed the high specificity of these mAbs. Furthermore, immunocytochemistry analysis revealed co-localization of the site-directed mAbs with endogenously expressed KRAS in cancer cells bearing G12D mutations. The validated high affinity and specificity of these site-directed mAbs highlight their potential for diagnostic applications and therapeutic development targeting KRAS driver mutations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19190,"journal":{"name":"New biotechnology","volume":"87 ","pages":"Pages 112-120"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143870714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New biotechnologyPub Date : 2025-04-12DOI: 10.1016/j.nbt.2025.04.006
Minouk Lee , Sung-Hyuk Han , Dongseok Kim , Seongtae Yun , Jinho Yeom , Minji Kyeong , Seo-Young Park , Dong-Yup Lee
{"title":"Systematic identification of genomic hotspots for high-yield protein production in CHO cells","authors":"Minouk Lee , Sung-Hyuk Han , Dongseok Kim , Seongtae Yun , Jinho Yeom , Minji Kyeong , Seo-Young Park , Dong-Yup Lee","doi":"10.1016/j.nbt.2025.04.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nbt.2025.04.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The efficient and stable production of therapeutic proteins in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells hinges on robust cell line development (CLD). Traditional methods relying on random transgene integration often result in clonal variability, requiring extensive and resource-intensive screening. To address this limitation, we established a systematic, multiomics-driven framework that integrates 202 RNA-sequencing datasets and whole-genome sequencing data to identify genomic “hotspot” loci for precise and high-yield transgene integration. From an initial pool of 20 candidate loci, 5 top-performing hotspots were validated using site-specific integration in CHO-DG44 cells via the CRISPR/Cas9 system with Recombinase-mediated cassette exchange (RMCE). These genomic hotspots achieved 2.2- to 15.0-fold higher relative specific productivity compared to previously known controls (<em>Fer1L4</em> and <em>Locus1</em> sites), across multiple therapeutic proteins, including a lysosomal storage disorder-related enzyme and an Immunoglobulin G (IgG)-related monoclonal antibody (mAb) expression. This study offers a transformative approach to CLD, achieving significant improvements in productivity, genomic stability, and efficiency, as well as paving the way for enhanced biopharmaceutical manufacturing.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19190,"journal":{"name":"New biotechnology","volume":"88 ","pages":"Pages 61-72"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143829313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New biotechnologyPub Date : 2025-04-07DOI: 10.1016/j.nbt.2025.04.002
Javier Martín-González , Javier-Fernando Montero-Bullón , Gloria Muñoz-Fernández , Rubén M. Buey , Alberto Jiménez
{"title":"Valorization of waste cooking oil for bioproduction of industrially-relevant metabolites in Ashbya gossypii","authors":"Javier Martín-González , Javier-Fernando Montero-Bullón , Gloria Muñoz-Fernández , Rubén M. Buey , Alberto Jiménez","doi":"10.1016/j.nbt.2025.04.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nbt.2025.04.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Waste cooking oil (WCO) is a byproduct of culinary processes, which undergoes degradation due to high temperatures during frying and cooking. Beyond its detrimental effects on health, including potential carcinogenic effects, WCO poses a significant environmental threat, emphasizing the need for urgent recycling efforts. Valorization of WCO as a carbon source for microbial fermentations emerges as a feasible alternative in a bioeconomy context. The aim of the present work is to explore the ability of <em>Ashbya gossypii</em>, a natural overproducer of riboflavin that is currently used in the industrial production of the vitamin, to exploit WCO for the production of industrially relevant metabolites such as riboflavin, folates, biolipids and monoterpenes. Our results demonstrate that WCO is an effective carbon source for <em>A. gossypii</em> bioproduction of riboflavin, folates and biolipids, reaching among the highest titers described so far in flask fermentation: riboflavin titer (312.5 mg/L) increased 4.8-fold compared to glucose-based medium; folate production reached 7.6 mg/L; and the intracellular lipids were above 80 % of the cell dry weight. In contrast, the production of the monoterpenes limonene and sabinene was not improved with the utilization of WCO. Taken together, our results present a proof-of-principle for the implementation of a novel bioprocess for the valorization of WCO using the industrial fungus <em>A. gossypii</em>.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19190,"journal":{"name":"New biotechnology","volume":"88 ","pages":"Pages 32-38"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143791937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New biotechnologyPub Date : 2025-04-05DOI: 10.1016/j.nbt.2025.03.007
Bettina Semler , Karin Binder , Doris Ribitsch , Alessandro Pellis , Georg M. Guebitz
{"title":"Screening assay for polyester hydrolyzing microorganisms using fluorescence-labeled poly(butylene adipate)","authors":"Bettina Semler , Karin Binder , Doris Ribitsch , Alessandro Pellis , Georg M. Guebitz","doi":"10.1016/j.nbt.2025.03.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nbt.2025.03.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite recent advances, there is still a demand for more efficient enzymes hydrolyzing synthetic polymers. Automated high throughput screening strategies of microorganisms from different environments could yield novel enzymes but require specific methods for detection of polymer hydrolysis in complex matrices. Here, 5-carboxy-fluorescein (5-FAM) was covalently coupled to poly(butylene adipate) (PBA) and blended at 1 %, 5 % and 10 % w/w concentrations with non-labeled PBA. Hydrolysis of PBA by the Thc_Cut1 cutinase from <em>Thermobifida cellulosilytica</em> was confirmed via quantification of the released monomers 1,4-butanediol and adipic acid, weight loss and FTIR analysis. Upon incubation with Thc_Cut1, hydrolysis of all three fluorescent labeled PBA blends lead to a clear fluorescence increase of up to 4000 RFU while no signal change was detected for the blank and for heat-inactivated enzyme (signal below 500 RFU). In a next step, as a model organism <em>Pichia pastoris</em> expressing the identical cutinase was cultivated in the presences of labeled PBA. Despite the complex matrix, a fluorescence increase of up to 500 RFU was observed for <em>P. pastoris</em> expressing the enzyme while no significant signal change was seen for the control strain (lacking Thc_Cut1 expression). Likewise, extracellular enzymes from the fungi <em>Fusarium solani</em> and <em>Alternaria alternata</em> hydrolyzed labeled PBA leading to fluorescence increases of 1328 and 1187 RFU. This indicates that 5-FAM covalently coupled to polymers could be used for development of simple and high throughput screening platforms to identify polymer decomposing microorganisms and enzymes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19190,"journal":{"name":"New biotechnology","volume":"88 ","pages":"Pages 39-45"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143803799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A distinct autofluorescence distribution pattern marks enzymatic deconstruction of plant cell wall","authors":"Solmaz Hossein Khani , Khadidja Ould Amer , Noah Remy , Berangère Lebas , Anouck Habrant , Ali Faraj , Grégoire Malandain , Gabriel Paës , Yassin Refahi","doi":"10.1016/j.nbt.2025.04.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nbt.2025.04.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Achieving an economically viable transformation of plant cell walls into bioproducts requires a comprehensive understanding of enzymatic deconstruction. Microscale quantitative analysis offers a relevant approach to enhance our understanding of cell wall hydrolysis, but becomes challenging under high deconstruction conditions. This study comprehensively addresses the challenges of quantifying the impact of extensive enzymatic deconstruction on plant cell wall at microscale. Investigation of highly deconstructed spruce wood provided spatial profiles of cell walls during hydrolysis with remarkable precision. A distinct cell wall autofluorescence distribution pattern marking enzymatic hydrolysis along with an asynchronous impact of hydrolysis on cell wall structure, with cell wall volume reduction preceding cell wall accessible surface area decrease, were revealed. This study provides novel insights into enzymatic deconstruction of cell wall at under-investigated cell scale, and a robust computational pipeline applicable to diverse biomass species and pretreatment types for assessing hydrolysis impact and efficiency.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19190,"journal":{"name":"New biotechnology","volume":"88 ","pages":"Pages 46-60"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143803784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New biotechnologyPub Date : 2025-03-24DOI: 10.1016/j.nbt.2025.03.006
Juan C. López-Linares , Erlinda Rama , María Teresa García-Cubero , Mónica Coca , Caroline L. Perez , Celina K. Yamakawa , Giuliano Dragone , Solange I. Mussatto
{"title":"Enhancing 2,3-butanediol and acetoin production from brewer's spent grain hemicellulosic hydrolysate through bacterial co-cultivation","authors":"Juan C. López-Linares , Erlinda Rama , María Teresa García-Cubero , Mónica Coca , Caroline L. Perez , Celina K. Yamakawa , Giuliano Dragone , Solange I. Mussatto","doi":"10.1016/j.nbt.2025.03.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.nbt.2025.03.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study evaluated bacterial co-cultivation as a strategy to mitigate brewer’s spent grain (BSG) hemicellulosic hydrolysate toxicity, aiming to enhance 2,3-butanediol (2,3-BDO) and acetoin production through fermentation. Co-culture of <em>Paenibacillus polymyxa</em> with <em>Pseudomonas alloputida</em> or <em>Rhodococcus</em> sp. was assessed using synthetic medium and BSG hydrolysate. Attention was given to removing inhibitory compounds, including lignin-derived phenolics, hydroxymethylfurfural, furfural, and acetic acid, through microbial detoxification during co-cultivation. Various fermentation temperatures (30, 34, and 37 °C) and initial cell concentrations (OD<sub>600</sub> of 0.05 and 0.1) were tested. Both <em>P. polymyxa</em> and <em>Rhodococcus</em> sp. effectively removed inhibitory compounds present in the medium. Co-cultures with <em>Rhodococcus</em> sp. exhibited higher sugar consumption rates (1.01 vs 0.88 g/L·h) than <em>P. polymyxa</em> monoculture, efficiently utilizing glucose, xylose, and arabinose, producing 2,3-BDO and acetoin. In co-culture with <em>Rhodococcus</em> sp., concentration (3.7 g/L), yield (0.14 g/g) and productivity (0.10 g/L·h) of 2,3-BDO at 34 °C considerably surpassed that of the <em>P. polymyxa</em> monoculture, with an increase of up to 48 %. These findings highlight the potential of co-cultures, especially with <em>Rhodococcus</em> sp., to alleviate inhibitory compound impacts when using complex media for fermentation. This study represents the first exploration of 2,3-BDO and acetoin production from BSG hemicellulosic hydrolysates using co-cultures.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19190,"journal":{"name":"New biotechnology","volume":"88 ","pages":"Pages 22-31"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143705413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}