1. Valorisation of local agro-industrial processing waters as growth media for polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) production
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Patrick Loulergue, Stéphane Bruzaud, Nicolas Hachet, Jean-Luc Audic, Yves-Marie Corre, Adélaïde Le Grand, Véronique Le Tilly, Anne Elain, Magali Le Fellic, Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Matériaux de Bretagne (LIMATB), Université de Bretagne Sud (UBS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Institut Brestois du Numérique et des Mathématiques (IBNM), Université de Brest (UBO)-Université de Brest (UBO), Plateforme technologique ProDiaBio (PFT ProDiaBio), Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes (ISCR), Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Rennes (INSA Rennes), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes (ENSCR)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), The authors acknowledge the regions of Bretagne and Pays de Loire for funding. We are grateful to Breizpack and Valorial pole for their help and to the industrial partners of PHApack consortium: Europlastiques, Séché Environnement, Triballat Noyal and Cap Ouest, for their contribution to this research program. We are also thankful to Mélanie Blanche Barbat and Laureen Van Steenberge for their contribution to this work. We thank Maja Bumke Scheer for taking time to help us improve the paper., Université de Rennes (UR)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Rennes (INSA Rennes), and Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes (ENSCR)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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0106 biological sciences ,02 engineering and technology ,Bacterial growth ,Batch fermentation ,01 natural sciences ,Polyhydroxyalkanoates ,Stachyose ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Marine bacterium ,010608 biotechnology ,[CHIM]Chemical Sciences ,Food science ,Growth medium ,Halomonas ,biology ,business.industry ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,biology.organism_classification ,6. Clean water ,Biotechnology ,Agro-industrial processing waters ,chemistry ,Fermentation ,Biodegradable plastic ,Valorisation ,0210 nano-technology ,business ,Agronomy and Crop Science - Abstract
International audience; Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) are bacterial polyesters usually produced from costly sugars or volatile fatty acids (VFAs). In this work, two processing waters rich in vegetable proteins and reducing sugars, i.e., a mixture of saccharose and stachyose in Leguminous Processing Water (LPW) and a mixture of glucose and fructose in Fruit Processing Water (FPW), were tested as growth medium for PHA production in a two-stage fermentation with a unique marine bacterial species: Halomonas i4786. In preliminary shake flask experiments, it was shown that the two media can effectively support the bacterial growth and the accumulation of PHA (evaluated using Nile Red staining). In batch cultivation mode in a 5-L fermentor, PHA productivities of 1.6 g L−1 and 1.8 g L−1 were further achieved within 72 h, in LPW and FPW respectively. Polymer characterization by Differential Scanning Calorimetry and Steric Exclusion Chromatography indicated that the two substrates led to the biosynthesis of polymers with different chain length, distribution and crystallinity. To summarize, these results show that by-products derived from local agri-food industry can be used as a user-adapted and cost-effective source to produce bio-sourced and biodegradable plastic materials
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- 2016