Cultivation of Bacteria Producing Polyamino Acids with Liquid Manure as Carbon and Nitrogen Source

AUTOR(ES)

Pötter, Markus

FONTE

American Society for Microbiology

RESUMO

Poly(γ-d-glutamic acid) (PGA)-producing strains of Bacillus species were investigated to determine their ability to contribute to reducing the amount of ammonium nitrogen in liquid manures and their ability to convert some of the ammonium into this polyamino acid as a transient depot for nitrogen. Organisms that do these things should help solve the serious environmental problems which are caused by the use of large amounts of liquid manure resulting from intensified agriculture; these problems are mainly due to the high content of ammonium nitrogen. Bacillus licheniformis ATCC 9945 and Bacillus subtilis were able to grow in liquid manure and to produce PGA in the presence of sodium gluconate. On artificial liquid manure these two strains were able to produce 0.85 and 0.79 g of PGA per liter, respectively. Under conditions that are found in intensified farming situations the ammonia content was reduced within 48 h from 1.3 to 0.75 g/liter. One mutant of B. subtilis 1551 impaired in the catabolism of PGA was obtained after nitrosoguanidine mutagenesis. This mutant produced PGA at a final concentration of 4.8 g/liter, whereas the wild type produced only 3.7 g/liter.

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