Affiliation:
1. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Western Ontario, and The London Research Centre, Agriculture Canada, 2 London Ontario, Canada N6A 5B7
Abstract
Protoplasts of
Aureobasidium pullulans
are capable of producing pullulan. Biosynthesis of the polymer pullulan required induction with kinetics similar to those of whole cells. The protoplasts also produced a heteropolysaccharide component containing mannose, glucose, and galactose. The relative proportions of the pullulan and heteropolysaccharide fractions were a function of glucose concentration, with the pullulan content of the total polysaccharide rising from 20% at 2.5 mM glucose to 45% at 20 mM glucose. Elaboration of pullulan by both cells and protoplasts was sensitive to 0.6 M KCl, which was present as the osmotic stabilizer in protoplast experiments. The presence of KCl resulted in a shift in the pH optimum to a more acidic value. The molecular weight of the protoplast-derived pullulan was sharply reduced from the molecular weight of the whole-cell-derived product. Exposure of the protoplasts to proteolytic enzymes had no effect on polysaccharide elaboration.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Ecology,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology,Food Science,Biotechnology
Cited by
14 articles.
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