Abstract
Objectives
To establish reliable methods for the extraction and quantification of the total carbohydrate and intracellular saccharides from Mortierella alpina and study the changes between carbohydrate and lipid in fermentation process.
Results
The extraction of mycelia with HCl following a photometric phenol–sulphuric acid reaction was identified as an optimal method for total carbohydrate analysis in Mortierella alpina, which the extraction efficiency performed 1.1–3.6 fold than other five methods. The total carbohydrate content increased from initial 19.26 to 25.86% during early fermentation process and declined gradually thereafter, while the fatty acid was increasing from 8.47 to 31.03%. For separation and qualitative estimation of intracellular saccharides, the acetonitrile/water freeze–thaw method for extraction and Sugar-Pak I column for separation proved to be possible. With the glucose rapidly decreasing at the beginning of growth, the trehalose accumulated rapidly from 1.63 to 5.04% and then decreased slightly but maintain above 4% of dry biomass.
Conclusions
This work established comprehensive carbohydrate extraction and analysis methods of Mortierella alpina and identified the main saccharide in fermentation process which indicated that the accumulation of fatty acids was related to the change of intracellular carbohydrate content.
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This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31722041, 31901659), the National First-class Discipline Program of Food Science and Technology (JUFSTR20180102), the Jiangsu Province “Collaborative Innovation Center for Food Safety and Quality Control”.
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Supplementary Table 1—Components of intracellular fatty acids produced in Mortierella alpina.
Supplementary Fig. 1—HPLC–ELSD chromatograms of five carbohydrate standards peaks on Sugar-Pak I column (300 mm × 6.50 mm, 5 μm): (a) frucose; (b) glucose; (c) galactose; (d) lactose; (e) trehalose. Solvent: water, the flow rate was 0.4 mL·min-1 and the column held at 85 °C. A drift tube temperature of 60°C and a gas flow rate of 2.5 L·min-1 were used.
Supplementary Fig. 2—HPLC–ELSD chromatograms of five carbohydrate standards peaks on a XBridge® BEH amide column
Supplementary Fig. 3—Chromatograms of intracellular carbohydrates extracted from 50mg dried powder by six methods separating on Sugar-Pak I column.
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Chen, H., Chen, H., Lu, H. et al. Carbohydrate analysis of Mortierella alpina by colorimetry and HPLC–ELSD to reveal accumulation differences of sugar and lipid. Biotechnol Lett 43, 1289–1301 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10529-021-03120-2
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