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Paenibacillus jamilae, a strain isolated from compost prepared with olive-mill wastewaters, produced an extracellular polysaccharide (EPS) when it was grown in a culture containing olive-mill waste waters (OMWW) as sole carbon and energy sources. Maximal EPS production in 100 mL batch-culture experiments (5.1 g L−1) was reached with a concentration of 80% of OMWW as fermentation substrate (v/v). Although an inhibitory effect was observed on growth and EPS production when OMWW concentration was increased, an appreciable amount of EPS (2.7 g L−1) was produced with undiluted OMWW. Sepharose CL-2B chromatography showed that the EPS presented two fractions, EPS I (>2000 kDa) and EPS II (500 kDa). Both fractions were characterized by GC-MS as two different acidic heteropolysaccharides containing glucose, galactose and mannose as the major components. The performed study made evident the possibility of using OMWW as substrate for the production of EPS by P. jamilae with a satisfactory yield.
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The research was supported by grants from the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, Spain (projects no OLI96–2189 and no REN2000–1502). We also thank our colleague Lia Wrightsmith for revising the English text.
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Morillo , J.A., Guerra del Águila, V., Aguilera, M. et al. Production and characterization of the exopolysaccharide produced by Paenibacillus jamilae grown on olive mill-waste waters. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 23, 1705–1710 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11274-007-9418-3
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