Avaliação do glicerol proveniente da fabricação do biodiesel como substrato para produção de endotoxinas por Bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis / Evaluation of glycerol derived from biodiesel production as substrate for endotoxins production by Bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis.

AUTOR(ES)

Claudia Rodrigues Barbosa

FONTE

IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

19/06/2009

RESUMO

The use of glycerol derived from biodiesel production as a substrate for the acquisition of biotechnology products is a promising alternative as an adequate disposal mean of this by-product. The bioinsecticide formulated with toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis has been used to control vectors insects of diseases, such as dengue, which affect millions of people around the world. For this bioinsecticide be competitive with chemical insecticides is necessary a lower cost of its production, which can be achieved by the use of alternative carbon sources in order to reduce the fermentation medium cost. In this work, it was used glycerol from beef tallow biodiesel production as a component of the fermentation medium for the production of bioinsecticide by Bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis. Different treatments of the residue containing glycerol, based on acidification, sedimentation and heating, to remove impurities, were evaluated. The adjustment of pH to 7 by addition of phosphoric acid, followed by decantation, then heating for removal of methanol, and a new decantation, was the treatment selected, since it provided the highest toxic activity of the fermented broth against Aedes aegypti larvae. The fermentation medium was formulated by determining the concentration of glycerol, yeast extract, ammonium sulfate and calcium chloride that provided the greatest larvicidal activity of the fermented broth according to 24 factorial design. The toxicity was measured by the LC50 (concentration of the spore-crystal complex required to kill 50% of the larvae). The best value of LC50 was obtained using glycerol at 10 g/L, yeast extract at 12 g/L, calcium chloride at 0.24 g/L and without addition of ammonium sulfate. Statistical analysis confirmed the significance of the variables glycerol, yeast extract and calcium chloride on the larvicidal activity of fermented broth. Calcium chloride did not influence significantly the production of spores by the bacteria and the sporulation ratio was not affected by calcium chloride and ammonium sulfate at the studied concentrations. For the endotoxins production optimization, a 22 factorial design was carried out, varying only the concentrations of yeast extract and calcium chloride, maintaining the concentration of glycerol at 10 g/L and excluding ammonium sulfate of the fermentation medium. The best value of LC50 (0,295 mg/mL) was obtained in the assay with 15 g/L of yeast extract and 0.4 g/L of calcium chloride.

ASSUNTO(S)

aedes aegypti aedes aegypti bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis bioinsecticide bioinseticida culture medium - formulation glicerol de biodiesel glycerol from biodiesel meio de cultivo - formulação

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