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Improved process for exopolysaccharide production by Klebsiella pneumoniae sp. pneumoniae by a fed-batch strategy

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Exopolysaccharide (EPS) was produced by Klebsiella pneumoniae K63 grown in fed-batch cultures using different procedures of the supply of carbon or nitrogen (N) source, or both. Cultures grown with excess of glucose and limitation or exhaustion of N produced 54.8 and 47.4 gEPS l−1, respectively. These cultures also led to an accumulation of `overflow' metabolites representing more than 16% of carbon conversion. The consistency indexes (K) obtained to the end of the cultures, characteristic of the rheological property of the biopolymer, were 16.4 Pa sn for N deficiency and 5.2 Pa sn for N limitation conditions. The simultaneous limitation of glucose and N decreased the excretion of co-metabolites (6.4% of carbon conversion) and the EPS production (18.1 gEPS l−1), while improving the quality of the polysaccharide, characterized by the highest K of 126.2 Pa sn and the highest pseudoplasticity degree (flow behaviour index, n=0.2).

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Ramírez-Castillo, M., Uribelarrea, J. Improved process for exopolysaccharide production by Klebsiella pneumoniae sp. pneumoniae by a fed-batch strategy. Biotechnology Letters 26, 1301–1306 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:BILE.0000044923.02460.de

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