Patent Application
20220333149
The present invention relates to a lipase-producing strain and its application in enzymatic synthesis of vitamin A palmitate and pertains to a technology in the industrial microbial field.
Vitamin A palmitate is one of the most commonly and widely used vitamin A series products. Vitamin A palmitate can not only help maintain a normal visual function but also participate in various metabolic activities to maintain the health of the organism. Generally it is used as an additive in food, cosmetics and medicine industries. At present, vitamin A palmitate is synthesized mainly by chemical and enzymatic methods. The chemical synthesis of vitamin A palmitate has problems such as environmental pollution and equipment corrosion, while the enzymatic method has less pollution, a higher space-time yield and a lower cost. Therefore, the research on the technology for enzymatic synthesis of vitamin A palmitate is getting more active.
Bacillus subtilis lipase mainly includes LipA and LipB. Numerous studies have shown that LipA can hydrolyze long-chain fatty acids. LipA does not have a lid subdomain and has a small molecular weight, so it is considered as one of the smallest α/β folding hydrolases. Through structural comparison, it is found that the structure of LipA is very similar to that of lipase B derived from Candida antarctica, while the current enzymatic synthesis of vitamin A palmitate mostly uses Novozymes 435 (Candida antarctica lipase B) immobilized enzyme, but this enzyme is expensive and the cost of its industrial production and application is too high. Opossum shrimp paste is mainly produced by natural fermentation of marine opossum shrimp with salt for about a month. It is rich in protein, chitin and fat. It is a popular seasoning in China and Southeast Asia region. Opossum shrimp paste has very complex microbial diversity and composition and is suitable for screening lipase-producing strains. At present, there is no report of screening a lipase-producing strain from opossum shrimp paste and using this strain to develop an organic phase whole-cell transformation method to produce vitamin A palmitate.
The first object of the present invention is to provide a lipase-producing strain.
In order to achieve the foregoing technical object of the present invention, the present invention adopts the following technical solution:
A lipase-producing strain, classified and named Bacillus subtilis CS1802, preserved in China Center for Type Culture Collection, address: Wuhan University, Wuhan, China; preservation number: CCTCC M2018262; preservation date: May 10, 2018.
The foregoing strain was separated from naturally fermented opossum shrimp paste by the Center of Fermentation Engineering, Changshu Institute of Technology.
Bacillus subtilis CS1802 in the present invention has the following physicochemical properties:
Morphology: After growing on a screening medium for 1 d, distinct colonies can be formed. The colonies are irregular or wrinkled in shape, Gram-positive bacteria, baculiform.
Culture characteristics: The optimum temperature for growth is about 30° C., aerobic; and the optimum pH value for growth is about 7.
Another object of the present invention is to provide an application of the foregoing strain in enzymatic synthesis of vitamin A palmitate.
The present invention provides an application method for producing vitamin A palmitate by the whole-cell transformation method, which specifically comprises steps of:
(1) inoculating the strain CS1802 into a beef extract peptone liquid medium for shake culture;
(2) inoculating the strain cultured at the step (1) into a fermentation medium for shake fermentation; centrifuging the fermentation broth, discarding the precipitate and collecting the supernatant, i.e., the fermented bacterial solution.
(3) centrifuging the fermented bacterial solution and inoculating the bacteria into an organic phase system for fermentation to produce vitamin A palmitate.
Further, the temperature of shake culture and fermentation culture is 30° C.
Further, the composition of the fermentation medium is as follows:
Tryptone 10 g/L, yeast powder 5 g/L, NaCl 10 g/L, MgSO4.7H2O 1 g/L, KH2PO4 0.5 g/L, K2HPO4 0.5 g/L, and olive oil emulsion 12 mL/L. The olive oil emulsion preparation method is as follows: mixing the olive oil emulsifier PVA and olive oil at a volume ratio of 3:1 and emulsifying them by ultrasound.
Further, the organic phase system is vitamin A and palmitic acid dissolved in an organic solvent according to a mass ratio of 1:1; the concentration of vitamin A and palmitic acid is 10˜25 g/L, preferably 15 g/L. The organic solvent is preferably n-hexane.
Further, the bacteria are inoculated into the organic phase system and fermented for 0.5˜2 h; preferably 1 h.
The present invention provides Bacillus subtilis that can be used for enzymatic synthesis of vitamin A palmitate; this strain is derived from traditional natural fermented food and has broad application prospects in the food industry; the strain grows well on the beef extract peptone solid medium and can be easily cultured and preserved. Through the whole-cell transformation method, under the condition of 15 g/L vitamin A and palmitic acid substrate concentration, the yield of vitamin A palmitate is 15.35 mg/mL and the transformation rate is 76.75%.
The biological material that the present invention relates to is classified and named: Bacillus subtilis CS1802 and preserved in China Center for Type Culture Collection (“CCTCC” for short), address: Wuhan University, Wuhan, China; preservation No. CCTCC NO: M2018262; preservation date: May 10, 2018.
This embodiment describes the screening, purification and identification methods of Bacillus subtilis CS1802.
The screening sample is opossum shrimp paste from Lianyungang Haiwa Food Co., Ltd. Weigh 25 g of shrimp paste, make it and 225 mL of normal saline into a bacterial suspension and dilute the bacterial suspension to 10−1, 10−, 10−3 and 10−4 of the original concentration, respectively. Spread the bacterial suspension stock solution and 10−1 diluted, 10−2 diluted, 10−3 diluted and 10−4 diluted bacteria solutions on a primary screening medium, pick a well-grown single colony after growth at 30° C. for 1˜2 d and streak on the primary screen medium for isolation. Pick a single colony produced on the primary screening medium and having a clear transparent zone around it, inoculate it into a secondary screening medium, and culture it on a 30° C., 200 r/min shaker for 1-2 d.
The primary screening medium: peptone 10 g/L, yeast powder 5 g/L, NaCl 10 g/L, tributyrin 2 mL/L, agar powder 20 g/L, and distilled water to a constant volume of 1,000 mL.
The secondary screening medium: tryptone 10 g/L, yeast powder 5 g/L, NaCl 10 g/L, MgSO4.7H2O 1 g/L, KH2PO4 0.5 g/L, K2HPO4 0.5 g/L, olive oil emulsion 12 mL/L and distilled water to a constant volume of 1,000 mL. The olive oil emulsion preparation method is as follows: mixing the olive oil emulsifier PVA and olive oil at a volume ratio of 3:1 and emulsifying them by ultrasound.
Pick a loop of bacteria from the primary screening medium plate and mix it with a water droplet on the slide and overheat it. Perform primary staining with crystal violet, enzymatic staining with an iodine solution, decolorization with ethanol and counterstaining with safranine and examine under a microscope. The bacteria are Gram-positive bacteria (
The physicochemical properties of this strain are as follows:
Morphology: After growing on a screening medium for one day, distinct colonies can be formed. The colonies are irregular or wrinkled in shape, Gram-positive bacteria, baculiform.
Physiological and biochemical characteristics: 7% NaCl growth, citrate utilization, oxidase, contact enzyme, V-P test and starch hydrolysis are all positive; carbon sources such as sucrose, maltose, rhamnose, raffinose, glucose, N-acetylglucosamine and colloidal chitin can be utilized.
Culture characteristics: The optimum temperature for growth is about 30° C., aerobic; and the optimum pH value for growth is about 7.
The 16S rDNA part of the foregoing strain was subject to sequence determination and BLAST comparison. Then an N-J phylogenetic tree was established using MEGA 5.1 for analysis. Its 16SrDNA sequence is as shown in SEQ ID NO: 1 and its phylogenetic tree is as shown in
This embodiment specifically describes the application of the strain CS1802 in the production of lipase by fermentation of olive oil.
(1) inoculating the strain CS1802 into a beef extract peptone liquid medium for shake culture at 30° C. for 18˜24 h;
(2) inoculating the strain cultured at the step (1) in an inoculum size of 2% into a fermentation medium for shake culture at 30° C. for 14˜24 h; and centrifuging the fermentation broth, discarding the precipitate and collecting the supernatant. The determined enzyme activity of lipase was 214.3 U/L.
The composition of the fermentation medium is the same as that of the foregoing secondary screening medium.
The method for determining the enzyme activity of lipase: Centrifuge the fermentation broth at 3,000 r for 10 min, collect the supernatant as a sample to be tested, add the sample to be tested and horse radish peroxidase (HRP)-labeled detection antibody in turn into micropores coated with lipase in advance, incubate at 37° C. for 1 h and wash thoroughly. Develop with a substrate 3,3′,5,5′-tetramethyl benzidine (TMB), transform it into blue under the catalysis of HRP and transform it into ultimate yellow under the action of acid. Determine the OD value by ELIASA at 450 nm wavelength and calculate the sample activity from a standard curve. The standard substances are 0, 1.5, 3, 6, 12, 24 U/L enzyme solutions prepared with pure lipase. Definition of enzyme activity: The amount of enzyme that causes 1 mg of protein to decompose the substrate to produce 1 μmol of fatty acid per hour under the condition of 37° C. is one enzyme activity unit U. The lipase ELISA assay kit was purchased from Wuhan Chundu Biotechnology Co., Ltd.
This embodiment specifically describes the application of the strain CS1802 in the production of vitamin A palmitate through whole-cell transformation.
(1) inoculating the strain CS1802 into a beef extract peptone liquid medium for shake culture at 30° C. for 18˜24 h;
(2) inoculating the strain cultured at the step (1) in an inoculum size of 2% into a fermentation medium for shake culture at 30° C. for 14˜24 h; and centrifuging the fermentation broth, discarding the precipitate and collecting the supernatant.
(3) centrifuging the fermented bacterial solution at 3,000 r/min for 5 min, inoculating the bacteria at 5 g/L, 10 g/L, 15 g/L, 20 g/L, 25 g/L and 30 g/L into an organic phase system (vitamin A: palmitic acid=10 g: 10 g dissolved in 1 L of n-hexane) for fermentation for 2 h, then determining the content of vitamin A palmitate and calculating the transformation rate. From
The composition of the fermentation medium is the same as that of the foregoing secondary screening medium.
The method for determining vitamin A palmitate: HPLC, and external standard method for quantification. The chromatographic conditions are: Column: Alltech C18 (250×4.6 mm, 4.5 μm); mobile phase: 100% methanol; detector: Shimadzu 10A UV detector; detection wavelength: 327 nm; flow rate: 1 mL/min.
The formula for calculating the transformation rate is:
This embodiment specifically describes the application of the strain CS1802 in the production of vitamin A palmitate through whole-cell transformation.
(1) inoculating the strain CS1802 into a beef extract peptone liquid medium for shake culture at 30° C. for 18˜24 h;
(2) inoculating the strain cultured at the step (1) in an inoculum size of 2% into a fermentation medium for shake culture at 30° C. for 14˜24 h; and centrifuging the fermentation broth, discarding the precipitate and collecting the supernatant.
(3) centrifuging the fermented bacterial solution at 3,000 r/min for 5 min, inoculating the bacteria at 25 g/L into an organic phase system (vitamin A: palmitic acid=10 g: 10 g dissolved in 1 L of n-hexane) for fermentation for 0.5 h, 1 h, 1.5 h, 2 h, 2.5 h and 3 h, then determining the content of vitamin A palmitate and calculating the transformation rate. From
This embodiment specifically describes the application of the strain CS1802 in the production of vitamin A palmitate through whole-cell transformation.
(1) inoculating the strain CS1802 into a beef extract peptone liquid medium for shake culture at 30° C. for 18˜24 h;
(2) inoculating the strain cultured at the step (1) in an inoculum size of 2% into a fermentation medium for shake culture at 30° C. for 14˜24 h; and centrifuging the fermentation broth, discarding the precipitate and collecting the supernatant.
(3) centrifuging the fermented bacterial solution at 3,000 r/min for 5 min, inoculating the bacteria at 25 g/L into an organic phase system with different substrate concentrations, i.e., vitamin A: palmitic acid=5 g:5 g, 10 g:10 g, 15 g:15 g, 20 g:20 g and 25 g:25 g, dissolving them in 1 L of n-hexane, respectively, fermenting for 1 h, then determining the content of vitamin A palmitate and calculating the transformation rate. From
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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| 201910926645.0 | Sep 2019 | CN | national |
| Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
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| PCT/CN2019/114830 | 10/31/2019 | WO |
