Abstract
Objective
To achieve continuous production of fructooligosaccharides (FOS) by recycling of the mycelial cells containing the thermal-stable β-fructofuranosidase in Aspergillus niger without immobilization.
Results
The thermal-stable β-fructofuranosidase FopA-V1 was successfully expressed in A. niger ATCC 20611 under the control of the constitutive promoter PgpdA. The engineered A. niger strain FV1-11 produced the β-fructofuranosidase with improved thermostability, which remained 91.2% of initial activity at 50 °C for 30 h. Then its mycelial β-fructofuranosidase was recycled for the synthesis of FOS. It was found that the enzyme still had 79.3% of initial activity after being reused for six consecutive cycles, whereas only 62.3% β-fructofuranosidase activity was detected in the parental strain ATCC 20611. Meanwhile, the FOS yield of FV1-11 after six consecutive cycles reached 57.1% (w/w), but only 51.0% FOS yield was detected in ATCC 20611.
Conclusions
The thermal-stable β-fructofuranosidase produced by A. niger can be recycled to achieve continuous synthesis of FOS with high efficiency, providing a powerful and economical strategy for the industrial production of FOS.
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This work was supported by the grants from the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2018YFA0900503), the Shandong Key Research and Development Program (No. ZR2019ZD19), and the Youth Interdisciplinary Science and Innovative Research Groups of Shandong University (2020QNQT006).
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Supplementary Table 1—Primers used in this study.
Supplementary Figure 1—Chromatography profiles of FOS production.
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Wang, J., Zhang, J., Wang, L. et al. Continuous production of fructooligosaccharides by recycling of the thermal-stable β-fructofuranosidase produced by Aspergillus niger. Biotechnol Lett 43, 1175–1182 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10529-021-03099-w
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