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- Title
Microbiological Transformation of L-Tyrosine to L-Dopa from Methanol Pretreated Biomass of a Novel Coriolus versicolor under Submerged Culture.
- Authors
Ali, Sikander; Rizvi, Nazia
- Abstract
The present study is concerned with the microbiological transformation of L-tyrosine to L-dopa by a newly isolated turkey tail mushroom Coriolus versicolor DOB-4. As tyrosinase (catechol oxidase, EC 1.10.3.1) is an extracellular enzyme, therefore biomass was used as an enzyme source in the reaction mixture. Biomass particles were pretreated with methanol and oven dried at 105 °C for 2 h. The optimal L-dopa production was achieved when 1.5 mg/ml L-tyrosine was used as the basal substrate. Thin layer chromatography and high-performance liquid chromatography analysis depicted that citric acid supports higher substrate conversion and product formation rates. A noticeable enhancement was observed when process parameters viz. L-tyrosine concentration (1.5 mg/ml), citric acid (1.5 mg/ml), time of incubation (50 min), and reaction temperature (60 °C) were optimized using Plackett-Burman design. The maximum production of L-dopa was found to be 0.872 mg/ml with L-tyrosine consumption of 1.002 mg/ml. The model terms were found highly significant (HS, p ≤ 0.05), suggesting the potential commercial utility of the culture (df = 3, LSD = 0.342).
- Subjects
TYROSINE; PHENOL oxidase; METHANOL; BIOMASS; TRAMETES versicolor
- Publication
Applied Biochemistry & Biotechnology, 2014, Vol 172, Issue 4, p2041
- ISSN
0273-2289
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1007/s12010-013-0658-4