Efeito protetor do magnésio no choque térmico e estresse pelo etanol em leveduras Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Protective effect of Magnesium in yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae under heat shock and ethanolic stress

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

The aim of this study was to investigate the protective effect of the ion magnesium in cells of Saccharomyces cerevisiae under thermal and ethanolic stresses. In the industrial process of fermentation the yeasts might be submitted either to thermal stress, originated from the heat produced by fermentation, or to ethanol stress, originated from the damages effect of ethylic alcohol produced by the catabolism of the sugars by the yeasts. Magnesium has the capability to attenuate harmful effects of stresses in yeast, mainly through the stabilization of the cellular membrane. The strain Y-904 of Saccharomyces cerevisiae was cultivated at 30°C during 24h under 80 rpm agitation in medium YEPD or in a broth from sugar cane, both added or not with 20 mmol of magnesium from magnesium sulphate hepta-hydrated (MgSO4 7H2O). The cultures were exposed either to heat shock, by rising of the temperature of incubation from 30 to 42°C, either/or to ethanol shock, in broth with 10% (v/v) of ethanol. The cellular viability of the yeasts was determined by optical microscopy at 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 24 and 48 hours of the period of incubation under the stress conditions. The magnesium concentration in the cells and in the mediums was determined for atomic absorption spectroscopy. The results were statistically analyzed by variance analysis and Tukey test. The yeast population and cell viability were higher in the medium YEPD enriched with magnesium (intra or extracellular) compared the same medium without magnesium supplementation. However it was not observed difference in population or viability of the yeasts in the broths from sugar cane enriched or not with magnesium. This happened probably because the broth from sugar cane already presented a concentration of magnesium enough to protect the yeast cells against the thermal and ethanolic stresses.

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fermentação industrial microbiologia industrial industrial microbiology magnesium industrial fermentation yeasts leveduras magnésio

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