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- Title
Saccharide production from methanol by transposon 5 mutants derived from the extracellular polysaccharide-producing bacterium Methylobacillus sp. strain 12S.
- Authors
Yoshida, T.; Horinouchi, M.; Ayabe, Y.; Yamaguchi, T.; Shibuya, N.; Habe, H.; Nojiri, H.; Yamane, H.; Omori, T.
- Abstract
A CH3OH-utilizing bacterium that has the ability to produce extracellular polysaccharide (EPS) was isolated from a soil sample, and was identified as the obligate methylotroph Methylobacillus sp. strain 12S on the basis of its 16S rDNA sequence and growth-substrate specificity. The EPS produced by strain 12S was purified and the sugar composition was analysed by GC-MS and HPLC to reveal that the EPS was a heteropolymer composed of glucosyl, galactosyl, and mannosyl residues in the molar ratio 3:1:1. In order to produce mono- and/or oligosaccharides by single-step fermentation from CH3OH, stain 12S was mutagenized by transposon 5. Among eleven EPS-deficient mutants, three strains were found to accumulate significant amounts of reducing sugars in the media. The amounts of the reducing sugars produced by the mutants (>ca. 700 mg glucose equivalent/l) were >11–22 times higher than those produced by the wild-type strain (<ca. 60 mg glucose equivalent/l). The GC-MS analysis showed that all the mutants accumulated glucose, erythrose, threose and a disaccharide-like compound in the media.
- Subjects
SACCHARIDES; BACTERIA; METHANOL; POLYSACCHARIDES; METHYLOBACTERIUM
- Publication
Applied Microbiology & Biotechnology, 2000, Vol 54, Issue 3, p341
- ISSN
0175-7598
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s002530000407