High-density Escherichia coli cultures for continuous L(-)-carnitine production.
J M Obón, J R Maiquez, M Cánovas, H P Kleber, J L Iborra
Index: Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 51(6) , 760-4, (1999)
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Abstract
The use of a biological procedure for L-carnitine production as an alternative to chemical methods must be accompanied by an efficient and highly productive reaction system. Continuous L-carnitine production from crotonobetaine was studied in a cell-recycle reactor with Escherichia coli O44 K74 as biocatalyst. This bioreactor, running under the optimum medium composition (25 mM fumarate, 5 g/l peptone), was able to reach a high cell density (26 g dry weight/l) and therefore to obtain high productivity values (6.2 g L-carnitine l-1 h-1). This process showed its feasibility for industrial L-carnitine production. In addition, resting cells maintained in continuous operation, with crotonobetaine as the only medium component, kept their biocatalytic capacity for 4 days, but the biotransformation capacity decreased progressively when this particular method of cultivation was used.
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