Increased awareness on environmental drawbacks of petroleum-based industries are promoting transition from fossil-based succinic acid to its bio-based alternative. However, due to low price of oil the economic feasibility of the bio-succinic acid production is still challenged. The current study focuses on valorization of organic fraction of household kitchen waste pretreated by enzymatic hydrolysis to produce succinic acid with process CO2 supply from biogas. The total sugar content of 119.3 ± 1.7 g/L with 15% xylose and 85% glucose was obtained by enzymatic hydrolysis. Moreover, based on substrate inhibition tests with glucose, lower glucose concentration is to be more efficient in terms of succinic acid yield and production rate.Through fermentation of hydrolysate (17 g/L sugar) with Basfia succiniciproducens succinic acid was produced in 0.46 ± 0.0 and 0.25 ± 0.0 gSA/gglucose, using magnesium carbonate and raw biogas, respectively.
Rosmarinic
acid is a hydroxycinnamic acid ester commonly found
in the Boraginaceae and Lamiaceae plant families. It exhibits various
biological activities, including antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial,
antiallergic, and antiviral properties. Rosmarinic acid is used as
a food and cosmetic ingredient, and several pharmaceutical applications
have been suggested as well. Rosmarinic acid is currently produced
by extraction from plants or chemical synthesis; however, due to limited
availability of the plant sources and the complexity of the chemical
synthesis method, there is an increasing interest in producing this
compound by microbial fermentation. In this study, we aimed to produce
rosmarinic acid by engineered baker’s yeast
Saccharomyces
cerevisiae
. Multiple biosynthetic pathway variants, carrying
only plant genes or a combination of plant and
Escherichia
coli
genes, were implemented using a full factorial design
of experiment. Through analysis of variances, the effect of each enzyme
variant (factors), together with possible interactions between these
factors, was assessed. The best pathway variant produced 2.95 ±
0.08 mg/L rosmarinic acid in mineral medium with glucose as the sole
carbon source. Increasing the copy number of rosmarinic acid biosynthetic
genes increased the titer to 5.93 ± 0.06 mg/L. The study shows
the feasibility of producing rosmarinic acid by yeast fermentation.
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