Biosynthesis of Nutraceutical Fatty Acids by the Oleaginous Marine Microalgae Phaeodactylum tricornutum Utilizing Hydrolysates from Organosolv-Pretreated Birch and Spruce BiomassShow others and affiliations
2019 (English)In: Marine Drugs, ISSN 1660-3397, E-ISSN 1660-3397, Vol. 17, no 12, article id 119Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) are essential for human function, however they have to be provided through the diet. As their production from fish oil is environmentally unsustainable, there is demand for new sources of PUFAs. The aim of the present work was to establish the microalgal platform to produce nutraceutical-value PUFAs from forest biomass. To this end, the growth of Phaeodactylum tricornutum on birch and spruce hydrolysates was compared to autotrophic cultivation and glucose synthetic media. Total lipid generated by P. tricornutum grown mixotrophically on glucose, birch, and spruce hydrolysates was 1.21, 1.26, and 1.29 g/L, respectively. The highest eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) production (256 mg/L) and productivity (19.69 mg/L/d) were observed on spruce hydrolysates. These values were considerably higher than those obtained from the cultivation without glucose (79.80 mg/L and 6.14 mg/L/d, respectively) and also from the photoautotrophic cultivation (26.86 mg/L and 2.44 mg/L/d, respectively). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report describing the use of forest biomass as raw material for EPA and docosapentaenoic acid (DHA) production.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
MDPI, 2019. Vol. 17, no 12, article id 119
Keywords [en]
polyunsaturated fatty acids, EPA, DHA, marine algae, Phaeodactylum tricornutum, forest biomass
National Category
Bioprocess Technology
Research subject
Biochemical Process Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-73136DOI: 10.3390/md17020119ISI: 000460795500047PubMedID: 30781416Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85061857091OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-73136DiVA, id: diva2:1294560
Note
Validerad;2019;Nivå 2;2019-03-07 (johcin)
2019-03-072019-03-072023-09-05Bibliographically approved