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PHA granule formation and degradation by Cupriavidus necator under different nutritional conditions
Author(s) -
Nygaard Daiana,
Yashchuk Oxana,
Hermida Élida B.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of basic microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.58
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1521-4028
pISSN - 0233-111X
DOI - 10.1002/jobm.202100184
Subject(s) - cupriavidus necator , polyhydroxyalkanoates , granule (geology) , food science , microorganism , fermentation , bacteria , carbon source , chemistry , biology , biochemistry , paleontology , genetics
Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) are polymers produced by microorganisms with increasing commercialization potential; Cupriavidus necator has been the model microorganism to research PHA production. Despite many contributions concerning the formation and degradation of PHA granules, as well as the morphological changes in cells, these phenomena have not been univocally explained yet. Thus, this study aims to integrate the microscopic and analytical analysis to characterize changes in bacterial cell/PHA granules morphology, PHA content, and yield coefficients under different cultivation strategies of C. necator ATCC 17697. The cell size and morphology, granule size and amount, residual biomass, and PHA concentration along the fermentation and degradation depend greatly on nutritional conditions and cultivation time of C. necator . It was proposed to calculate a yield coefficient for the residual biomass production in the PHA utilization stage, related to the bacteria's ability to survive without a carbon source in the culture medium by utilizing the accumulated PHA previously. Maximum granule length reached 1.07 µm after 72 h of PHA accumulation stage under optimum nutritional conditions. This value is twice the values previously reported for C. necator . It is important since the larger PHA granules facilitate the recovery of PHA and different application development.

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