Preparation of Cellulose-Based Flocculant and Its Application in the Enrichment of Vitamin K2 in Fermentation Supernatant

Nutritional food supplements and pharmaceutical products produced with vitamin K2 as raw materials a very promising market in the global scope. The main production method of vitamin K2 is microbial fermentation, but approximately 50% of vitamin K2 synthesized by the main production strain Bacillus s...

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Published in:Polymers 2022-06, Vol.14 (12), p.2410
Main Authors: Ma, Guoliang, Zheng, Zhiming, Wang, Han, Wang, Li, Zhao, Genhai, Tang, Hengfang, Ding, Xiumin, Wang, Peng
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adsorption
Ammonium peroxodisulfate
Binding sites
Biological products
Cellulose
Crystalline cellulose
Fermentation
Flocculants
Flocculation
Fourier transforms
Grafting
Industrial production
Infrared analysis
Microorganisms
Nitrogen
Production methods
Raw materials
Sedimentation & deposition
Spectrum analysis
Sweep effect
Terpenes
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Summary:Nutritional food supplements and pharmaceutical products produced with vitamin K2 as raw materials a very promising market in the global scope. The main production method of vitamin K2 is microbial fermentation, but approximately 50% of vitamin K2 synthesized by the main production strain Bacillus subtilis natto exists in extracellular form, which is not easy to separate and extract. In order to solve this problem, in this study, we synthesized a novel cellulose flocculant, MCC-g-LMA, by grafting reaction using microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) and lauryl methacrylate (LMA) as monomers, and ammonium persulfate as an initiator to flocculate VK2 from the fermentation supernatant. The flocculant was characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), elemental analysis, and scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and the grafting reaction was successful. When the flocculant dosage was 48.0 mg/L and pH was 5.0, the flocculation rate of the MCC-g-LMA on the fermentation supernatant reached 85.3%, and the enrichment rate of VK2 reached 90.0%. Furthermore, we explored the flocculation mechanism of VK2 by the MCC-g-LMA and speculated that the flocculation mechanism mainly included adsorption bridging, hydrophobic association and net trapping and sweep effect. In this study, the extraction method for trace high-value biological products in the fermentation supernatant was improved, which provided a method and theoretical basis for the efficient separation and purification of VK2 and other terpenoids.
ISSN:2073-4360
2073-4360
DOI:10.3390/polym14122410