E. coli K5 fermentation and the preparation of heparosan, a bioengineered heparin precursor
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Authors
Wang, Zhenyu
Ly, Mellisa
Zhang, Fuming
Zhong, Weihong
Suen, Amy
Hickey, Anne Marie
Dordick, Jonathan S.
Linhardt, Robert J.
Issue Date
2010-12-15
Type
Article
Language
ENG
Keywords
Biology , Chemistry and chemical biology , Chemical and biological engineering , Biomedical engineering
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Abstract
Heparosan is an acidic polysaccharide natural product, which serves as the critical precursor in heparin biosynthesis and in the chemoenzymatic synthesis of bioengineered heparin. Heparosan is also the capsular polysaccharide of Escherichia coli K5 strain. The current study was focused on the examination of the fermentation of E. coli K5 with the goal of producing heparosan in high yield and volumetric productivity. The structure and molecular weight properties of this bacterial heparosan were determined using polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and Fourier transform-mass spectrometry. Fermentation of E. coli K5 in a defined medium using exponential fed batch glucose addition with oxygen enrichment afforded heparosan at 15 g/L having a number average molecular weight of 58,000 Da and a weight average molecular weight of 84,000 Da.
Description
Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 107, 968-977
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Full Citation
E. coli K5 fermentation and the preparation of heparosan, a bioengineered heparin precursor, Z. Wang, M. Ly, F. Zhang, W. Zhong, A. Suen, J. S. Dordick, R. J. Linhardt, Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 107, 968-977, 2010.
Publisher
Wiley
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PubMed ID
DOI
ISSN
10970290
63592
63592