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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, August 2000, p. 3624-3627, Vol. 66, No. 8
0099-2240/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Production of Poly(3-Hydroxybutyrate) by Fed-Batch Culture of Recombinant Escherichia coli with a Highly Concentrated Whey Solution

Woo Suk Ahn, Si Jae Park, and Sang Yup Lee*

Department of Chemical Engineering and BioProcess Engineering Research Center, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Yusong-gu, Taejon 305-701, Korea

Received 27 March 2000/Accepted 31 May 2000

Fermentation strategies for the production of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) from whey by recombinant Escherichia coli strain CGSC 4401 harboring the Alcaligenes latus polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) biosynthesis genes were developed. The pH-stat fed-batch cultures of E. coli CGSC 4401 harboring pJC4, a stable plasmid containing the A. latus PHA biosynthesis genes, were carried out with a concentrated whey solution containing 280 g of lactose equivalent per liter. Final cell and PHB concentrations of 119.5 and 96.2 g/liter, respectively, were obtained in 37.5 h, which resulted in PHB productivity of 2.57 g/liter/h.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Chemical Engineering and BioProcess Engineering Research Center, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 373-1 Kusong-dong, Yusong-gu, Taejon 305-701, Korea. Phone: 82-42-869-3930. Fax: 82-42-869-3910. E-mail: leesy{at}mail.kaist.ac.kr.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, August 2000, p. 3624-3627, Vol. 66, No. 8
0099-2240/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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