Abstract
This study aimed at providing a route towards the production of a novel exopolysaccharide (EPS) from fermented bamboo shoot-isolated Lactobacillus fermentum. A lactic acid bacteria strain, with high EPS production ability, was isolated from fermented bamboo shoots. This strain, R-49757, was identified in theBCCM/LMGBacteria Collection, Ghent University, Belgiumby the phenylalanyl-tRNA synthetase gene sequencing method, and it was named Lb. fermentum MC3. The molecular mass of the EPS measured via gel permeation chromatography was found to be 9.85 × 104 Da. Moreover, the monosaccharide composition in the EPS was analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Consequently, the EPS was discovered to be a heteropolysaccharide with the appearance of two main sugars-D-glucose and D-mannose-in the backbone. The results of one-dimensional (1D) and two-dimensional (2D) nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy analyses prove the repeating unit of this polysaccharide to be [→6)-β-D-Glcp-(1→3)-β-D-Manp-(1→6)-β-D-Glcp-(1→]n, which appears to be a new EPS. The obtained results open up an avenue for the production of novel EPSs for biomedical applications.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 1531 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1-16 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Polymers |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue number | 7 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jul 2020 |
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© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).Keywords
- gas chromatography
- lactic acid bacteria
- mass spectrometry
- microbial exopolysaccharides
- nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy