254590

Simultaneous production of an exopolysaccharide and chitosan by Aspergillus quadrilineatus using response surface methodology

Article

Last updated: 05 Jan 2025

Subjects

-

Tags

Botany and Microbiology

Abstract

This study was aimed to reduce the production cost of fungal exopolysaccharides by increasing the yield and extracting chitosan from the fungal wastes produced simultaneously. Aspergillus quadrilineatus was isolated as well as identified morphologically and by molecular analyses (GenBank Accession No. MT742630.1). One-variable-at-a-time method was combined with response surface methodology to explore the effects of medium components and fermentation conditions on both exopolysaccharide and biomass yields. Sucrose and the inorganic nitrogen (NH4)2SO4 had the greatest stimulating effect on biomass and exopolysaccharide production. The highest biomass and exopolysaccharide production were found after 14 and 4 days of fermentation, respectively. Statistical analyses of Plackett–Burman experimental design indicated that the models were significant, in particular, (NH4)2SO4, K2HPO4, tween 80, CaCl2.2H2O, sucrose, and the incubation interval were the most significant for exopolysaccharide production and biomass. Responses of the central composite design for biomass and exopolysaccharide production cleared the strong similarity between the experimental and predicted values. The optimized medium boosted the exopolysaccharide by 329.73% and the biomass by 31.44% of the primary yield. The waste fungal biomass, obtained after production of the enhanced exopolysaccharide, was used to extract chitosan, yielding 3.52 mg/g with about 88.84% deacetylation degree (DD).

DOI

10.21608/aunj.2022.138922.1012

Keywords

Polysaccharide, Waste biomass, Enhancement, Statistical design

Authors

First Name

Magdy

Last Name

Bagy

MiddleName

Mohamed Khalil

Affiliation

Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.

Email

marwa2hashem@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Nivien

Last Name

Nafady

MiddleName

Allam

Affiliation

Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.

Email

niviennafady@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Elhagag

Last Name

Hassan

MiddleName

Ahmed

Affiliation

Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.

Email

elhagaghassan@aun.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Marwa

Last Name

Hashem

MiddleName

Mahmoud

Affiliation

Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.

Email

marwa011721@science.au.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

0000-0001-8798-3238

Volume

1

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

36161

Issue Date

2022-08-01

Receive Date

2022-05-19

Publish Date

2022-08-01

Page Start

214

Page End

241

Print ISSN

2812-5029

Online ISSN

2812-5037

Link

https://aunj.journals.ekb.eg/article_254590.html

Detail API

https://aunj.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=254590

Order

254,590

Type

Novel Research Articles

Type Code

2,242

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Assiut University Journal of Multidisciplinary Scientific Research

Publication Link

https://aunj.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Simultaneous production of an exopolysaccharide and chitosan by Aspergillus quadrilineatus using response surface methodology

Details

Type

Article

Created At

23 Jan 2023