Statistical Optimization of Solid Growth-medium for Rapid and Large Screening of Polysaccharides High-yielding Mycelial Cells of Inonotus obliquus

단백다당체 고생산성의 Inonotus obliquus 균주의 신속 개량을 위한 고체 성장배지의 통계적 최적화

  • Hong, Hyung-Pyo (College of Biomedical Science, Kangwon National University) ;
  • Jeong, Yong-Seob (Dept. of Food Science and Technology, Chonbuk National University) ;
  • Chun, Gie-Taek (College of Biomedical Science, Kangwon National University)
  • 홍형표 (강원대학교 의생명과학대학 분자생명과학부) ;
  • 정용섭 (전북대학교 식품공학과) ;
  • 전계택 (강원대학교 의생명과학대학 분자생명과학부)
  • Received : 2010.03.02
  • Accepted : 2010.04.25
  • Published : 2010.04.28

Abstract

The protein-bound innerpolysaccharides (IPS) produced by suspended mycelial cultures of Inonotus obliquus have promising potentials as an effective antidiabetic as well as an immunostimulating agents. To enhance IPS production, intensive strain improvement process should be carried out using large amount of UV-mutated protoplasts. During the whole strain-screening process, the stage of solid growth-culture was found to be the most time-requiring step, thus preventing rapid screening of high-yielding producers. In order to reduce the cell growth period in the solid growth-stage, therefore, solid growth-medium was optimized using the statistical methods such as (i) Plackett-Burman and fractional factorial designs (FFD) for selecting positive medium components, and (ii) steepest ascent (SAM) and response surface (RSM) methods for determining optimum concentrations of the selected components. By adopting the medium composition recommended by the SAM experiment, significantly higher growth rate was obtained in the solid growth-cultures, as represented by about 41% larger diameter of the cell growth circle and higher mycelial density. Sequential optimization process performed using the RSM experiments finally recommended the medium composition as follows: glucose 25.61g/L, brown rice 12.53 g/L, soytone peptone 12.53 g/L, $MgSO_4$ 5.53 g/L, and agar 20 g/L. It should be noted that this composition was almost similar to the medium combinations determined by the SAM experiment, demonstrating that the SAM was very helpful in finding out the final optimum concentrations. Through the use of this optimized medium, the period for the solid growth-culture could be successfully reduced to about 8 days from the previous 15~20 days, thus enabling large and mass screening of high producers in a relatively short period.

Inonotus obliquus 균사체의 액상배양을 통한 항당뇨효능의 단백다당체 대량생산 배양공정을 개발하기 위한 첫 단계로 고생산성 균주의 개발을 신속하게 수행하기 위한 방법을 개발하였다. I. obliquus는 균사체로 성장할 때 포자를 형성하지 못하므로 단일 세포를 획득하기 위해서는 원형질체들을 회수하여 이로부터 성장 능력과 단백다당체의 생산성이 높은 우량균주를 선별하여야 한다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 균주개량 공정 중 특별히 장기간의 배양 시간이 요구되어 신속한 균주개발 시 가장 큰 장애 요인으로 작용하는 고체성장배양 단계의 문제점을 극복하고자, 고체배양 환경의 최적화에 대한 연구를 중점적으로 수행하였다. 고체성장배양 시 균사체 성장에 효능이 탁월한 배지성분을 선별하기 위해 우선 Plackett-Burman design 실험을 통해서 유의성 높은 배지성분을 찾아내었고, 이에 근거한 부분요인설계법 fractional factorial design, FFD) 실험을 통해 배지성분 상호간의 관계를 분석 할 수 있었다. 또한 이 FFD 실험결과에 근거해서 설계한 최급상승법 (steepest ascent method, SAM) 실험방법을 적용한 결과, 고체성장배양 시 균사체 성장환의 직경이 기존의 MA 배지와 비교해서 약 41% 증가했을 뿐만 아니라 균사체의 밀도도 크게 향상된 배지조성을 확립 할 수 있었다. 또한 SAM 연구결과를 바탕으로 최적의 배지조성을 확립하고자 각 배지성분의 최적농도를 통계적으로 더욱 정밀하게 조사하는 반응표면분석법 (response surface method, RSM) 실험을 수행하였다. 그 결과 최적고체성장배지의 성분과 농도는 glucose 25.61 g/L, brown rice 12.53 g/L, soytone peptone 12.53 g/L, $MgSO_4$ 5.53 g/L, agar 20 g/L인 것으로 최종 결정되었으며, 이 조건에서 13일 동안 배양시 균사체의 직경이 약 82 mm 정도에 이르는 것으로 나타났다. 이 결과는 상기의 SAM 실험에서 최적농도로 제시한 배지조성과 매우 유사한 것으로 확인되었는데, 이로부터 최종적인 RSM 실험을 수행하기 전에 최적 농도의 근사치를 추정하기 위해서 수행한 SAM 실험이 매우 효율적이었음을 확인할 수 있었다. 또한 배지 최적화 결과 고체성장배양에서의 성장속도의 증가로 인해 배양기간을 기존의 15~20일에서 8일로 획기적으로 줄일 수 있게 되어, 짧은 시간 내에 대규모 균주 선별과 각 균주의 단백다당체의 생산성 확인이 가능하게 되었다.

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