Immobilized Clostridium acetobutylicum P262 Mutants for Solvent Production
AUTOR(ES)
Largier, Susan T.
RESUMO
The production of acetone, butanol, and ethanol by two immobilized, sporulation-deficient (spo) Clostridium acetobutylicum P262 mutants which were held in the solventogenic phase was investigated. The spoA2 mutant, which was an early-sporulation mutant and did not form a forespore septum, produced higher solvent yields than did the spoB mutant which was a late-sporulation mutant and was blocked at a stage after forespore septum formation. The spoA2 mutant was also granulose and capsule negative. In a conventional batch fermentation, the wild-type strain produced 15.44 g of solvents per liter after 50 h at a productivity of 7.41 g of solvents per liter per day. The spoA2 mutant produced 15.42 g of solvents per liter at a productivity of 72.4 g of solvents per liter per day, with a retention time of 2.4 h in a continuous immobilized cell system employing a fluidized bed reactor. This represents a major advance, since the immobilization of wild-type cells showed similar increases in productivity but a ca. fivefold reduction in final product concentrations.
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