Production and characterization of medium-chain-length polyhydroxyalkanoate copolymer from Arctic psychrotrophic bacterium Pseudomonas sp. PAMC 28620

Ganesan Sathiyanarayanan, Shashi Kant Bhatia, Hun-Suk Song, Jong-Min Jeon, Junyoung Kim, Yoo Kyung Lee, Yun-Gon Kim, Yung-Hun Yang*

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Abstract

Arctic psychrotrophic bacterium Pseudomonas sp. PAMC 28620 was found to produce a distinctive medium-chain-length polyhydroxyalkanoate (MCL-PHA) copolymer when grown on structurally unrelated carbon sources including glycerol. The maximum MCL-PHA copolymer yield was obtained about 52.18 ± 4.12% from 7.95 ± 0.66 g/L of biomass at 144 h of fermentation when 3% glycerol was used as sole carbon and energy source during the laboratory-scale bioreactor process. Characterization of the copolymer was carried out using fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS), proton (1H) and carbon (13C) nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR), gel permeation chromatography (GPC), differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) and thermo-gravimetric analysis (TGA). The copolymer produced by Pseudomonas sp. PAMC 28620 consisting of four PHA monomers and identified as 3-hydroxyoctanoate (3HO), 3-hydroxydecanoate (3HD), 3-hydroxydodecanoate (3HDD) and 3-hydroxytetradecanoate (3HTD). An average molecular weight of the copolymer was found approximately 30.244 kDa with polydispersity index (PDI) value of 2.05. Thermal analysis showed the produced MCL-PHA copolymer to be low-crystalline (43.73%) polymer with great thermal stability, having the thermal decomposition temperature of 230 °C–280 °C, endothermic melting temperature (Tm) of 172.84 °C, glass transition (Tg) temperature of 3.99 °C, and apparent melting enthalpy fusion (ΔHm) about 63.85 J g−1.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)710-720
Number of pages11
JournalInternational Journal of Biological Macromolecules
Volume97
Early online date17 Jan 2017
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Apr 2017
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Arctic Pseudomonas
  • Copolymer
  • Fermentation
  • Glycerol
  • Polyhydroxyalkanoates

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