Kinetics of ethanolic fermentation of D-xylose by Klebsiella pneumoniae and its mutants.
AUTOR(ES)
Banerjee, M
RESUMO
The microbial production of ethanol from D-xylose by a new soil isolate of Klebsiella pneumoniae and the mutants K. pneumoniae MB-16 and MB-16-1048 was studied. Kinetic and physiological properties of the mutants were compared with those of the original isolate. The volumetric rates of ethanol formation by mutants MB-16-1048 and MB-16 and the original isolate were 1.58, 0.50, and 0.06 g liter-1 h-1, respectively. The cultivation times of mutants MB-16-1048 and MB-16 were 20 and 18 h, respectively, and that of the original isolate was 118 h. Both the mutants exhibited metabolic similarities with the original isolate. Ethanol was the major end product of fermentation in all three strains. Acetic acid and carbon dioxide were the other two important by-products of fermentation. Pyruvic acid was accumulated in significant proportions as an intermediate. The proportion of pyruvate in the original isolate was 54% of the total D-xylose utilized, whereas for MB-16 and MB-16-1048 the values were about 42 and 22%, respectively. The lower fractions of pyruvate in mutants MB-16 and MB-16-1048 showed up as a 41 and 82% improvement, respectively, over the original isolate in terms of the ethanol yield.
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