Extracellular Polysaccharide from the Black Yeast NRRL Y-6272: Improved Methods for Preparing a High-Viscosity, Pigment-Free Product
AUTOR(ES)
Sanford, Paul A.
RESUMO
When the extracellular polysaccharide from the black yeast NRRL Y-6272, composed of two parts N-acetyl-D-glucosamine and one part N-acetyl-D-glucosaminuronic acid, is isolated at maximum culture viscosity, adhering black pigment gives the polysaccharide preparations a gray-to-black appearance. Precipitation of the polysaccharide from cell-free culture supernatants with either ethanol or hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide failed to remove the pigment. Various other methods were therefore tried for obtaining a high-viscosity polysaccharide product free of pigment. By systematically varying ingredients of defined and semidefined media, an improved medium was found that not only gave polysaccharide preparations of increased viscosity, but also increased yield. A key ingredient in this medium is L-asparagine. Also, adding autoclaved bovine serum albumin or egg albumin to this medium at the time of inoculation allowed a pigment-free polysaccharide to be isolated by standard procedures. None of several other proteins or synthetic polyamides tested were as effective as bovine serum albumin or egg albumin. In an alternate approach, pink mutants, obtained by irradiation of the parent black strain with ultraviolet light, apparently produce the same extracellular polysaccharide free of any pigment but in lower yields or inferior in quality.
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