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An influence of ethanol and temperature on products formation by different preparations of Zymomonas mobilis extracellular levansucrase

  • A. Vigants*
  • , D. Upite
  • , R. Scherbaka
  • , J. Lukjanenko
  • , R. Ionina
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • University of Latvia

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Abstract

The ethanol and temperature effects on the ratio between Zymomonas mobilis 113S extracellular levansucrase activities were studied using fermentation broth supernatant, "levan-levansucrase" sediment precipitated by ethanol and highly purified enzyme. The fructooligosaccharide (FOS) production at different temperatures in the presence of ethanol was investigated. An ethanol increases FOS biosynthesis activity part of levansucrase. Especially, this effect was pronounced at lower temperatures (35-40 °C) and using purified levansucrase. The inverse relationship between temperature and ratio synthetic activity/total activity of levansucrase was found. The FOS composition containing mostly 1-kestose, 6-kestose, and neokestose obtained in the presence of different ethanol concentrations was found relative constant, while the changes in the sucrose concentration and temperature gave slight changes in the ratio between 1-kestose and 6-kestose.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)75-80
Number of pages6
JournalFolia Microbiologica
Volume58
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jan 2013

OECD Field of Science

  • 1.6 Biological Sciences

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