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Establishment of Miniaturized Cultivation Method for Large and Rapid Screening of High-yielding Monascus Mutants, and Enhanced Production of Monacolin-K through Statistical Optimization of Production Medium  

Lee, Mi-Jin (School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Kangwon National University)
Jeong, Yong-Seob (Division of Biotechnology, Chonbuk National University)
Kim, Pyeung-Hyeun (School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Kangwon National University)
Chun, Gie-Taek (Research Center for industrial Development of Biofood Materials)
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KSBB Journal / v.22, no.5, 2007 , pp. 305-312 More about this Journal
Abstract
It is crucial to develop a miniaturized cultivation method for large and rapid screening of high-yielding mutants of monacolin-K, a powerful anti-hypercholesterolemic secondary metabolite biosynthesized by the fungal cells of Monascus ruber. In order to investigate as many strains as possible in a short time, a miniaturized fermentation method especially suitable for the cultivation of the filamentous Monascus mutants was developed using $50m{\ell}$ culture-tube ($7m{\ell}$ of working volume) instead of the traditional $250m{\ell}$ flask ($50m{\ell}$ of working volume). Generally, in filamentous fungal cell fermentations, morphologies in growth and production cultures should be maintained as thick filamentous and compact-pelleted (usually less than 1 mm in diameter) forms, respectively, for enhanced production of secondary metabolites in final production cultures. In this study, we intended to induce the respective optimal morphologies in the miniaturized culture system for the purpose of rapid screening of overproducers. Miniaturized growth culture system was successfully developed due to the mass production of spores in the statistically optimized solid medium. When large amounts of spores were inoculated into the growth cultures, and brown rice flour (20 g/L) was also supplemented to the growth medium, dense filamentous morphologies were successfully induced in the growth cultures performed with the 50 ml culture tubes. It was implied that the amounts of spores inoculated into the growth tube-cultures and the growth medium components should be the key factors for the induction of the filamentous forms in the growth fermentations. Furthermore, in order to statistically optimize production medium, multiple experiments based on Plackett-Burman design and response surface method (RSM) were carried out, resulting in more than 2 fold enhanced production of monacolin-K in the final production cultures with the optimized production medium. Notably, under the production culture conditions with the statistically optimized medium, optimal pellet sizes below 1 mm in diameter were reproducibly induced, in contrast to the thick and viscous filamentous morphologies observed in the previous production cultures.
Keywords
Monascus ruber; monacolin-K; miniaturized cultures; medium optimization; Plackett-Burman design; response surface method;
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