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In this study, Nocardia lactamdurans NRRL 3802 was optimized for the first time for production of cephamycin C by using submerged fermentation. The effects of various carbon source, nitrogen source, inoculum size, initial pH of culture medium, minerals and amino acids were investigated for the maximum production of cephamycin C by N. lactamdurans NRRL 3802 in submerged fermentation. Subsequently, selected fermentation parameters were further optimized by Taguchi orthogonal array method and response surface methodology (RSM). Glycerol and yeast extract as carbon and nitrogen sources with initial pH of culture medium of 5.5 and inoculum size of 109 CFU/ml at 28 ± 2 °C after 3 days gave maximum production of 3042.19 ± 62.36 mg/l of cephamycin C as compared to 243.03 ± 9.43 mg/l before optimization. Incorporation of 1,3- diaminopropane at 1.2 % v/v in RSM optimized medium further increased the yield to 3973.20 ± 57.96 mg/l. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The effect of a second carbon source and amino acids on the production of cylcosporin A (CyA) in a medium optimized by one factor at a time and orthogonal array method was studied. The one factor at-a-time method was adopted to investigate the effects of medium components (i.e. carbon, and nitrogen) and environmental factors (i.e. initial pH) on biomass growth and CyA production. Subsequently, L16 orthogonal matrix was used to evaluate the significance of glucose, ammonium sulphate, K2HPO4 and inoculum size. The effects of media components were ranked according to their effects on the production of CyA as glucose > ammonium sulphate > K2HPO4 > inoculum size. The production increased from 58.35 mg/l to 148 mg/l when maltose (1 %) was added as a second carbon source after 8 days of fermentation. Evaluation of various amino showed that the addition of L-valine (6 g/l) and L-leucine (4 g/l) after 24 h fermentation enhanced the CyA production dramatically to 794 mg/l. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: The aim of this work was to study the effect of addition of different amino acids and sugar nucleotides as metabolic precursors on the production of scleroglucan. A maximum yield of 20.00g/l and 22.32g/l was obtained with optimized media supplemented with l-lysine (1.1mM) and uridine mono-phosphate (UMP), respectively as compared to 16.52g/l scleroglucan achieved with the control in the absence of metabolic precursors. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]