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Industrial strain improvement plays a central role in the commercial development of microbial fermentation processes. The strain of Serratia marcescens ECU1010, a wild-type lipase-producer capable of stereospecific synthesis of a Diltiazem precursor, was subjected to physical mutation involving treatment by UV-irradiation for 30 s. A mutant strain, no. UV-01, showed enhanced lipase production, but lost the capability of producing red pigment (prodigiosin). The variant strain UV-01 had a 2.3-fold higher activity than the wild type and was stable in its enzyme production for ten serial transfers. For reduction of the fermentation medium cost, dried powder of corn steep liquor was used as an inexpensive substitute for beef extract in the medium. Dextrin as an organic carbon source and Tween-80 as an important element were further optimized, respectively. The high primary biodegradation of the Tween-80 by S. marcescens ECU1010 and its variant demonstrated their potential ability of degrading alkyl polyethoxylates to remove harmful nonionic surfactants from polluted effluents and streams. The optimal cultivation time for lipase biosynthesis was 24 h. These optimized compositions resulted in an economic production of lipase by S. marcescens ECU1010 var. UV-01, with a dramatically reduced cost (1/8–1/7 of the initial one) which is more suitable for industrial application.
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This research was financially supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant no. 20506037), Ministry of Science and Technology, P.R. China (grant no. 2007AA02Z225), and National Special Fund for State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering (grant no. 2060204).
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Zhao, LL., Chen, XX. & Xu, JH. Strain improvement of Serratia marcescens ECU1010 and medium cost reduction for economic production of lipase. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 26, 537–543 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11274-009-0203-3
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