Effect of oligosaccharides on glucose consumption by Rhodobacter sphaeroides in polyhydroxyalkanoate production from enzymatically treated crude sago starch

• Main Authors: Hassan, Mohd Ali, Shirai, Yoshihito, Kubota, Asaka, Abdul Karim, Mohamed Ismail, Nakanishi, Kazuhiro, Hashimoto, Kenji
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Society for Fermentation and Bioengineering 1998
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/51660/1/51660.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/51660/7/1-s2.0-S0922338X98800342-main.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/51660/; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0922338X98800342

A method of producing a bacterial polyester, polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA), from enzymatically treated crude sago starch using the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides (IFO 12203) is described. When α-amylase and glucoamylase were used in sequence to saccharify sago starch, the isomaltose t...