Biological conversion of wood hydrolysate to succinic acid by Anaerobiospirillum succiniciproducens

Biotechnol Lett. 2003 Jan;25(2):111-4. doi: 10.1023/a:1021907116361.

Abstract

Anaerobiospirillum succiniciproducens grew on a minimal salts medium containing wood hydrolysate (equivalent to 27 g glucose l(-1)) and, when supplemented with 10 g corn steep liquor l(-1) as a complex nitrogen source, succinic acid at 24 g l(-1) was obtained (yield = 88% w/w glucose). This may therefore be an economical method to produce succinic acid.

Publication types

  • Evaluation Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Acetic Acid / metabolism
  • Bioreactors
  • Biotransformation
  • Gammaproteobacteria / classification
  • Gammaproteobacteria / growth & development*
  • Gammaproteobacteria / metabolism*
  • Glucose / metabolism*
  • Hydrolysis
  • Species Specificity
  • Succinic Acid / metabolism*
  • Wood*
  • Zea mays / metabolism
  • Zea mays / microbiology

Substances

  • Succinic Acid
  • Glucose
  • Acetic Acid