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Adsorption of ochratoxin A from grape juice by yeast cells immobilised in calcium alginate beads

Authors :
Samir Jaoua
Quirico Migheli
Maria Grazia Farbo
Salvatore Marceddu
Stefano Fiori
Pietro Paolo Urgeghe
Source :
International journal of food microbiology 217 (2015): 29–34. doi:10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2015.10.012, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Farbo M.G.; Urgeghe P.P.; Fiori S.; Marceddu S.; Jaoua S.; Migheli Q./titolo:Adsorption of ochratoxin A from grape juice by yeast cells immobilised in calcium alginate beads/doi:10.1016%2Fj.ijfoodmicro.2015.10.012/rivista:International journal of food microbiology/anno:2015/pagina_da:29/pagina_a:34/intervallo_pagine:29–34/volume:217
Publication Year :
2015
Publisher :
Elsevier, Amsterdam , Paesi Bassi, 2015.

Abstract

Grape juice can be easily contaminated with ochratoxin A (OTA), one of the known mycotoxins with the greatest public health significance. Among the different approaches to decontaminate juice from this mycotoxin, microbiological methods proved efficient, inexpensive and safe, particularly the use of yeast or yeast products. To ascertain whether immobilisation of the yeast biomass would lead to successful decontamination, alginate beads encapsulating Candida intermedia yeast cells were used in our experiments to evaluate their OTA-biosorption efficacy. Magnetic calcium alginate beads were also prepared by adding magnetite in the formulation to allow fast removal from the aqueous solution with a magnet. Calcium alginate beads were added to commercial grape juice spiked with 20μg/kg OTA and after 48h of incubation a significant reduction (>80%), of the total OTA content was achieved, while in the subsequent phases (72–120h) OTA was slowly released into the grape juice by alginate beads. Biosorption properties of alginate-yeast beads were tested in a prototype bioreactor consisting in a glass chromatography column packed with beads, where juice amended with OTA was slowly flowed downstream. The adoption of an interconnected scaled-up bioreactor as an efficient and safe tool to remove traces of OTA from liquid matrices is discussed. This publication was made possible by NPRP grants # NPRP 4-259-2-083 and # NPRP 8-392-4- 003 from the Qatar National Research Fund (a member of Qatar Foundation).

Details

Language :
English
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
International journal of food microbiology 217 (2015): 29–34. doi:10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2015.10.012, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Farbo M.G.; Urgeghe P.P.; Fiori S.; Marceddu S.; Jaoua S.; Migheli Q./titolo:Adsorption of ochratoxin A from grape juice by yeast cells immobilised in calcium alginate beads/doi:10.1016%2Fj.ijfoodmicro.2015.10.012/rivista:International journal of food microbiology/anno:2015/pagina_da:29/pagina_a:34/intervallo_pagine:29–34/volume:217
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....509c0a5e764c7152304805d347f32f82
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2015.10.012