Flores-Gatica, Miguel;
Castaneda-Aponte, Hector;
Gil-Garzon, Monica Rebeca;
Mora-Galvez, Liliana Monserrath;
Banda-Magana, Martin Paul;
Jauregui-Jauregui, Jesus Antonio;
Torres-Acosta, Mario A;
... Licona-Cassani, Cuauhtemoc; + view all
(2021)
Primary recovery of hyaluronic acid produced in Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus using PEG-citrate aqueous two-phase systems.
AMB Express
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, Article 123. 10.1186/s13568-021-01287-5.
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Abstract
Given its biocompatibility, rheological, and physiological properties, hyaluronic acid (HA) has become a biomaterial of increasing interest with multiple applications in medicine and cosmetics. In recent decades, microbial fermentations have become an important source for the industrial production of HA. However, due to its final applications, microbial HA must undergo critical and long purification processes to ensure clinical and cosmetic grade purity. Aqueous two-phase systems (ATPS) have proven to be an efficient technique for the primary recovery of high-value biomolecules. Nevertheless, their implementation in HA downstream processing has been practically unexplored. In this work, polyethylene glycol (PEG)–citrate ATPS were used for the first time for the primary recovery of HA produced with an engineered strain of Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus. The effects of PEG molecular weight (MW), tie-line length (TLL), volume ratio (VR), and sample load on HA recovery and purity were studied with a clarified fermentation broth as feed material. HA was recovered in the salt-rich bottom phase, and its recovery increased when a PEG MW of 8000 g mol−1 was used. Lower VR values (0.38) favoured HA recovery, whereas purity was enhanced by a high VR (3.50). Meanwhile, sample load had a negative impact on both recovery and purity. The ATPS with the best performance was PEG 8000 g mol−1, TLL 43% (w/w), and VR 3.50, showing 79.4% HA recovery and 74.5% purity. This study demonstrated for the first time the potential of PEG–citrate ATPS as an effective primary recovery strategy for the downstream process of microbial HA.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Primary recovery of hyaluronic acid produced in Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus using PEG-citrate aqueous two-phase systems |
| Location: | Germany |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s13568-021-01287-5 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13568-021-01287-5 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
| Keywords: | Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology, Hyaluronic acid, Primary recovery, Aqueous two-phase systems, Downstream process, Streptococcus equi subsp, zooepidemicus, POLYETHYLENE-GLYCOL, MOLECULAR-WEIGHT, EXTRACTION, POLYSACCHARIDES, PURIFICATION, SEPARATION |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Biochemical Engineering UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10150225 |
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