Zymobacter palmae pyruvate decarboxylase production process development

Pyruvate decarboxylase (PDC) is responsible for the decarboxylation of pyruvate, producing acetaldehyde and carbon dioxide and is of high interest for industrial applications. PDC is a very powerful tool in the enzymatic synthesis of chiral amines by combining it with transaminases when alanine is u...

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Autores: Alcover Fortuny, Natàlia, Carceller, Albert|||0000-0002-6457-747X, Álvaro, Gregorio|||0000-0002-2924-8902, Guillén, Marina|||0000-0002-9740-9966
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:217010
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/217010
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1002/elsc.201900010
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Fed-batch culture
High cell density cultures
PDC purification
Pyruvate decarboxylase (PDC)
Zymobacter palmae
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Sumario:Pyruvate decarboxylase (PDC) is responsible for the decarboxylation of pyruvate, producing acetaldehyde and carbon dioxide and is of high interest for industrial applications. PDC is a very powerful tool in the enzymatic synthesis of chiral amines by combining it with transaminases when alanine is used as amine donor. However, one of the main drawback that hampers its use in biocatalysis is its production and the downstream processing on scale. In this paper, a production process of PDC from Zymobacter palmae has been developed. The enzyme has been cloned and overexpressed in Escherichia coli. It is presented, for the first time, the evaluation of the production of recombinant PDC in a bench-scale bioreactor, applying a substrate-limiting fed-batch strategy which led to a volumetric productivity and a final PDC specific activity of 6942 U L-1h-1 and 3677 U gDCW-1 (dry cell weight). Finally, PDC was purified in fast protein liquid chromatography equipment by ion exchange chromatography. The developed purification process resulted in 100% purification yield and a purification factor of 3.8.