Produção de Quitina e Quitosana em cultura submersa de Rhizopus arrhizus nos meios milhocina e sintético para Mucolares

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Antonio Cardoso da
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UNICAP
• Texto Completo: http://tede2.unicap.br:8080/handle/tede/586
• topic: micologia; quitosana; polímeros; fungos - culturas e meios de cultura; dissertações; mycology; chitosan; polymers; fungi - cultures and culture media; dissertation; CNPQ::CIENCIAS BIOLOGICAS::BIOLOGIA GERAL

Inquiries had been carried out with submerged fermentation of Rhizopus arrhizus for production of biomass and copolymers chitin and chitosan, using the culture in synthetic medium for Mucoralean and corn steep liquor, as alternative substratum. In this direction, fermentations in Erlenmyers flasks of 250mL had been carried out, contend 50 mL of the media had been inoculated in duplicates with 1% of a suspension of 107/spores/mL, incubated under orbital shaker of 150rpm. To each 24 h had been carried out the content in biomass, glucose consumption, production and characterization of chitin and chitosan, and pH was monitored in elapsing of the studies (96h). The dates had been validated using an analysis for not linear regression, aiming at to explore the potential and versatility of Mucoralean in the production of copolymers. The results obtained with the synthetic medium for Mucoralean had demonstrated a maximum increase of biomass at 72 h of submerged culture. The total of glucose total was consumed by the metabolism of fungus at 96h, with pH 3,2 and consequence period of behavior of cellular decline. The maximum production of chitin and chitosan was 73.5mg and 158 mg, respectively, for gram of biomass with 48 h of cultivation, and maximum speed of growth of µMax 0.036 (h-1) and generation time of 4.6h. On the other hand, the submerged culture of R. arrhizus in corn steep liquor, concentrations of 4, 8 and 16%, as alternative medium and of low cost showed maximum growth of 16.8 g/L, in the concentration of 8% of corn steep liquor, observing a µMax 0.064h-1. High yields of chitin (575 mg/g biomass) and chitosan (416mg/g biomass) could be achieved using the medium containing corn steep liquor at 8%, with 72 h of cultivation, respectively, and pH varying of 6.5 to 8.2. All the isolated copolym rs in both culture media were characterized by index of crystallinity and absorption to the infra-red ray peaks, and were confirmed using the chitin and chitosan standards. The experimental data obtained with chitin and chitosan were validated by the estimation of not linear regression, demonstrating to a good adjustment of the equations and reproducibility. The results with the submerged fermentation of R. arrhizus were compared corn steep liquor at 8% with synthetic medium for Mucoralean fungi, and was observed an increase of 782% and 263% respectively, for chitin and chitosan production. The results obtained suggest R. arrhizus as source of production of the copolymers and as well as the corn steep liquor, considering the nutritional potential and the low cost