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The growth of the microorganism and the production of the pectinolytic enzyme complex in a stirred 30-l biofermentor using the Aspergillus niger Rehbrücke strain were studied. The time courses of fermentation parameters (formation of biomass, consumption of carbon and inorganic nitrogen source, formation of pectinolytic enzymes) were measured. The formation of biomass showed a distinct lag phase, followed by a log phase with exponential growth and finally a stationary period when cell lysis was beginning. The uptake of the carbon source and inorganic nitrogen source by the A. niger cells corresponded to the time course of growth. The formation of pectinolytic enzymes took place in two steps. The first one was growth-bounded and finished with the end of the log phase of biomass growth. The second step of pectinolytic enzyme formation took place after the end of the catabolite repression of the carbon source and was not growth-bounded. On the basis of the experimental data a mathematical model of the fermentation process was developed. Comparison of the kinetics of the measured fermentation curves and the solution curves of the model showed qualitatively good agreement.
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Schmidt, O., Angermann, H., Frommhold-Treu, I. et al. Experimental and theoretical investigations of submerged fermentation and synthesis of pectinolytic enzymes by Aspergillus niger . Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 43, 424–430 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00218444
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