To eliminate the influence of electrochemically active compounds on ethanol determination in fruit juices via biosensor, an ethanol-assisted enzyme electrode was prepared and a novel alcohol biological detection system was constructed using the synergy of working and auxiliary enzyme electrodes. The anti-interference property of the system was tested and the anti-interference coefficient was fitted. Thereafter, the calculation formula of ethanol concentration was deduced to achieve the rapid and accurate detection of ethanol concentration. The results showed that the anti-interference performance of the detection was stable with good stability, accurate results, and strong ability. When the method was applied to determine the ethanol concentration in fruit juices, the relativity standard division was 0.80% and the recoveries were 99.10% to 101.10%. Glucose, sucrose, citric acid, Ca2+, catalase, and vatamine C in the fruit juices had no effect on ethanol detection. T-test analysis showed that there was no significant difference between this method and the national standard and gas chromatography (P>0.05).The method is simple in operation,low in cost and high in accuracy,which can meet the production requirements of low cost.
In order to accurately and quickly grasp the changes of the main parameters in the fermentation process of lactic acid bacteria, the changes in the number of viable cells, tail gas components, glucose and lactic acid in the lactic acid fermentation process were measured by KRH-BI0300 type fermentation tank control system, cell density monitoring system, SHP8400PM process gas mass spectrometry analyzer, biological sensor analyzer and other fermentation process analysis methods. The results show that the parameters of lactic acid bacteria fermentation process can be quickly and accurately grasped by a variety of modern analytical methods. This study laid the foundation for optimal control and lactic acid bacteria industrialization fermentation process.
Different specific growth rates lead to different metabolic fluxes in Pichia pastoris, further resulting in different levels of enzyme production. In order to obtain optimum specific growth rate for the production of phytase by Pichia pastoris, the optimal fermentation conditions of recombinant Pichia pastoris producing phytase in 50 L fermentation tank were studied in this paper. The results showed that specific growth rate was adjusted to 0.02 h-1 by controlling the flow of methanol, by the end of fermentation, the phytase activity got to be 17 445 U/mL, with 69.7 % higher than the control. It suggests that the specific growth rate is the most favorable for the production of phytase by fermentation.
To study the factors affecting phytase production by engineered Pichia pastoris, we explored the optimal fermentation conditions, such as methanolfedbatch concentration or induction time, with shake flask fermentation. The results demonstrated that a series of factors including residual glycerol, methanol concentration and induction time had significant effects on phytase production. Residual glycerol could delay the phytase secretion, 1.5% methanol had the best effect of induction with enzyme activity reaching about 1 100 U/mL in the second day, while low concentration of methanol could only slowly induce enzyme accumulation, and high concentration of methanol was harmful to engineered strain. This study lays a foundation for further optimization of high density fermentation conditions.
In order to increase the expression of phytase in Pichia pastoris, the fermentation conditions of phytaseproducing recombinant Pichia pastoris in 50 L fermentation tank were optimized. The results show that the strain wet weight at 300 g/L by feeding glucose, before addition of methanol, got the phytase activity 21 666 U/mL, 12.9% higher than the control by the end of fermentation, which is most favorable for the production of phytase by fermentation.
In order to control the biochemical parameters of the corn enzymatic steeping process, biosensor was used to timely detect the lactic acid, glucose and reducing sugar during corn soaking process, and this method was also compared with titration, iodimetry and fehling's reagent. The results showed that there was little difference between the test results of biosensor and those of the traditional methods, but biosensor had many advantages, such as quick response, accurate result and low cost, and samples could be directly determined without complex pretreatment.
The redox reaction will occur when aflatoxin contacts with its oxidase, which can produce hydrogen peroxide and other products. In this research, the method of enzyme electrode biosensors was used to immobilize aflatoxin oxidase on cellulose acetate carrier membrane and prepare electrochemical enzyme electrode. Aflatoxin oxidase electrode was installed on the SBA flow injection analysis instrument to detect the content of aflatoxin. The results showed that the toxin enzyme electrode had good response characteristics to aflatoxin, the precision (RSD) was up to 1.20% (n=10), the linear range was 0 ~100 μg/L (R2 =0.999 6), and the recovery rate was 96%~102.4%. Therefore, the enzyme electrode analysis method established in this study can be used for the detection of aflatoxin B1 in maize.
We developed a biosensors based online automatic sampling and analysis system in fermentation process for the requirements of automatic optimization control in fermentation process. We presented its analytical principle and structure components and detailed its automatic sampling, sample dilution and biosensor signal processing. It can automatically analyze such important biochemical parameters as glucose, lactic acid and glutamic acid, and send analytical results to fermentation controller through a 485 interface or a 4~20 mA analog interface. It can therefore provide biochemical analytical data for fermentation control. We further tested experiment prototype with glucose standard sample as fermentation broth. Results show that it has higher analytical accuracy and can satisfy the requirements of fermentation process analysis.
We screened out high temperature (50℃)resistant Thermophilic lactobacillus strain from corn steep liquor, and drew its growth curve and acid yield curve. We then employed Thermophilic lactobacillus fermentation broth with 10% inoculation size to study the impact of Thermophilic lactobacillus on corn steeping. Results show that Thermophilic lactobacillus fermentation broth can effectively increase water absorption and starch yield of corn. Duration time of corn moisture saturation is reduced from 20 h to 10 h, and starch yield is increased from 59.22% to 63.23%.
Glycerol is an important industrial raw material and has been broadly applied in national defense, chemical industry, paint, food, daily chemicals, pharmacy, pesticide, biological products, etc. It has an important effect on output control of fermented products, diesel quality control, cosmetics freshness and the availability of frozen blood. We survey the application advances of recent glycerol content detection methods such as malaprade oxidation, Cu2+ colorimetry, enzymatic catalysisspectrophotometric methods. We suppose future development trend of its detection method is combination of conventional detection technologies with new nanometer materials and new detection technology, further improvement of specificity and sensitivity of its detection, instrumentation, automation, miniaturization and rapidness of its content detection, and continuous, remote, realtime and online monitoring for its content with the aid of Internet and cloud technologies.
We changed the properties of buckwheat flour with lactic acid bacteria fermentation method. Results indicate that glutenin swelling index of fermented buckwheat flour increases by up to 83.8 %, and that its moistureholding capacity and solubility respectively increase by 1.7 and 1.4folds. Moreover, the contents of soluble glucose and reducing sugar in fermented buckwheat flour respectively increase by 46.0 % and 35.9 %, but the contents of starch and total sugar decrease to some extent. These varieties improve the ductility, transparency and absorbent of buckwheat flour. These significantly enhance its edible qualities of chewiness and elasticity.