Use of dyes in solid medium for screening ligninolytic activity of selective actinomycetes
- Universite du Quebec (Canada); and others
Lignin, a three-dimensional biopolymer, not only encrusts the cellulose microfibrils in a sheath-like manner, but is also bonded physically and chemically to the plant polysaccharides. Unless the lignin is depolymerized, solubilized, or removed, the cellulose and hemicelluloses cannot be easily hydrolyzed by respective enzymes for their bioconversion into biofuels and chemicals. By now it has been established that lignin peroxidase (LiP) of white-rot fungus Phanerochaete chrysosporium is responsible for degradation of lignin. It has been reported that LiP is produced during secondary metabolism under carbon or nitrogen limitation by this organism. In literature, usually low yields (per unit volume) of LiP with P. chrysosporium have been reported. The reasons for low yields may be attributed to insufficient nitrogen in production media, which ultimately affects the synthesis of LiP protein. Therefore, it necessitated a search for an organism that can produce a ligninolytic enzyme system during its primary metabolism, without any effect of nitrogen limitation in the fermentation medium and without supply of extra oxygen to the cultures. Glenn and Gold were the first to report that decolorization of polymeric dyes in liquid cultures is related to the lignin degradation system. They demonstrated that like lignin degradation, the decolorization of polymeric dyes by the white-rot basidiomycete P. chrysosporium occurred during secondary metabolism, was suppressed in cultures grown in the presence of high levels of nitrogen, and was strongly dependent on the oxygen concentration in the cultures. The present study was undertaken to establish if certain dyes in solid media could be used to screen ligninolytic activity of selective actinomycetes during their primary metabolism without the limitation of nitrogen in the medium.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 150402
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-940526-; TRN: 95:007973-0014
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 16. symposium on biotechnology for fuels and chemicals, Gatlinburg, TN (United States), 9-13 May 1994; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Sixteenth symposium on biotechnology for fuels and chemicals; Davison, B.H. [ed.] [Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)]; Wyman, C.E. [ed.] [National Renewable Energy Lab., Golden, CO (United States)]; PB: 823 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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