The kinetics of end-product inhibition of l-lactate production from xylose and glucose by Lactococcus lactis IO-1

1993 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 489-494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayaaki Ishizaki ◽  
Tomoko Ueda ◽  
Kenji Tanaka ◽  
Peter F. Stanbury
1999 ◽  
Vol 65 (7) ◽  
pp. 3134-3141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroshi Shimizu ◽  
Taiji Mizuguchi ◽  
Eiji Tanaka ◽  
Suteaki Shioya

ABSTRACT To control the pH during antimicrobial peptide (nisin) production by a lactic acid bacterium, Lactococcus lactis subsp.lactis (ATCC11454), a novel method involving neither addition of alkali nor a separation system such as a ceramic membrane filter and electrodialyzer was developed. A mixed culture of L. lactis and Kluyveromyces marxianus, which was isolated from kefir grains, was utilized in the developed system. The interaction between lactate production by L. lactis and its assimilation by K. marxianus was used to control the pH. To utilize the interaction of these microorganisms to maintain high-level production of nisin, the kinetics of growth of, and production of lactate, acetate, and nisin by, L. lactis were investigated. The kinetics of growth of and lactic acid consumption byK. marxianus were also investigated. Because the pH of the medium could be controlled by the lactate consumption of K. marxianus and the specific lactate consumption rate of K. marxianus could be controlled by changing the dissolved oxygen (DO) concentration, a cascade pH controller coupled with DO control was developed. As a result, the pH was kept constant because the lactate level was kept low and nisin accumulated in the medium to a high level compared with that attained using other pH control strategies, such as with processes lacking pH control and those in which pH is controlled by addition of alkali.


2008 ◽  
Vol 158 (2) ◽  
pp. 387-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ömer Şimşek ◽  
Sencer Buzrul ◽  
Nefise Akkoç ◽  
Hami Alpas ◽  
Mustafa Akçelik

1982 ◽  
Vol 205 (2) ◽  
pp. 381-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann K. Daly ◽  
Timothy J. Mantle

The steady-state kinetics of the major form of ox kidney aldehyde reductase with d-glucuronic acid have been determined at pH7. Initial rate and product inhibition studies performed in both directions are consistent with a Di-Iso Ordered Bi Bi mechanism. The mechanism of inhibition by sodium valproate and benzoic acid is shown to involve flux through an alternative pathway.


2004 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 1843-1846 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ed W. J. van Niel ◽  
Johan Palmfeldt ◽  
Rani Martin ◽  
Marco Paese ◽  
B�rbel Hahn-H�gerdal

ABSTRACT Lactococcal lactate dehydrogenases (LDHs) are coregulated at the substrate level by at least two mechanisms: the fructose-1,6-biphosphate/phosphate ratio and the NADH/NAD ratio. Among the Lactococcus lactis species, there are strains that are predominantly regulated by the first mechanism (e.g., strain 65.1) or by the second mechanism (e.g., strain NCDO 2118). A more complete model of the kinetics of the regulation of lactococcal LDH is discussed.


1994 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 800-812 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon J. Fraser ◽  
Marc R. Roussel

The transient and steady-state behaviour of the reversible Michaelis–Menten mechanism [R] and Competitive Inhibition (CI) mechanism is studied by analysis in the phase plane. Usually, the kinetics of both mechanisms is simplified to give a modified Michaelis–Menten velocity expression; this applies to the CI mechanism with excess inhibitor and to mechanism [R] in the product inhibition limit. In this paper, [R] is treated exactly as a plane autonomous system of differential equations and its true (dynamical) steady state is described by a line-like slow manifold M. Initial velocity experiments for [R] no longer strictly correspond to the hyperbolic law (as in the irreversible Michaelis–Menten mechanism) and this leads to corrections to the standard integrated rate law. Using a new analysis, the slow dynamics of the CI mechanism is reduced from a three-dimensional system to a planar system. In this mechanism transient decay collapses the trajectory flow onto a two-dimensional "slow" surface Σ; motion on Σ can be treated exactly as projected dynamics in the plane. This projected flow may differ in important ways from that of two-step mechanisms, e.g., it may lack a proper steady state. The relevance of these more accurate dynamical descriptions is discussed in relation to experimental design and metabolic function.


Author(s):  
Maximilienne Toetie Allaart ◽  
Gerben Roelandt Stouten ◽  
Diana Z. Sousa ◽  
Robbert Kleerebezem

Anaerobic microbial communities can produce carboxylic acids of medium chain length (e.g., caproate, caprylate) by elongating short chain fatty acids through reversed β-oxidation. Ethanol is a common electron donor for this process. The influence of environmental conditions on the stoichiometry and kinetics of ethanol-based chain elongation remains elusive. Here, a sequencing batch bioreactor setup with high-resolution off-gas measurements was used to identify the physiological characteristics of chain elongating microbial communities enriched on acetate and ethanol at pH 7.0 ± 0.2 and 5.5 ± 0.2. Operation at both pH-values led to the development of communities that were highly enriched (>50%, based on 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing) in Clostridium kluyveri related species. At both pH-values, stably performing cultures were characterized by incomplete substrate conversion and decreasing biomass-specific hydrogen production rates during an operational cycle. The process stoichiometries obtained at both pH-values were different: at pH 7.0, 71 ± 6% of the consumed electrons were converted to caproate, compared to only 30 ± 5% at pH 5.5. Operating at pH 5.5 led to a decrease in the biomass yield, but a significant increase in the biomass-specific substrate uptake rate, suggesting that the organisms employ catabolic overcapacity to deal with energy losses associated to product inhibition. These results highlight that chain elongating conversions rely on a delicate balance between substrate uptake- and product inhibition kinetics.


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