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Enhanced pilot-scale fed-batch L-phenylalanine production with recombinant Escherichia coli by fully integrated reactive extraction

, , , , , , and . BIOPROCESS AND BIOSYSTEMS ENGINEERING, 25 (1): 43-52 (April 2002)
DOI: {10.1007/s00449-002-0280-2}

Abstract

A fully integrated process for the microbial production and recovery of the aromatic amino acid L-phenylalanine is presented. Using a recombinant L-tyrosine (L-Tyr) auxotrophic Escherichia coli production strain, a fed-batch fermentation process was developed in a 20-1-scale bioreactor. Concentrations of glucose and L-Tyr were closed-loop-controlled in a fed-batch process. After achieving final L-phenylalanine (L-Phe) titres >30 g/l the process strategy was scaled up to 300-1 pilot scale. In technical scale fermentation L-phenylalanine was continuously recovered via a fully integrated reactive extraction system achieving a maximum extraction rate of 110 g/h (final purity >99\%). It was thus possible to increase L-Phe/glucose selectivity from 15 mol\% without to 20.3 mol\% with integrated product separation.

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