Valorization of Detoxified Spent Coffee Ground Oil for Enhanced Polyhydroxyalkanoate Biosynthesis by Pseudomonas putida KT2440
摘要
This study investigated the valorization of spent coffee grounds (SCG) oil for polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) production using Pseudomonas putida KT2440 with an optimized detoxification pre-treatment. The detoxification process using ethanol and oil extraction using n-hexane significantly improved both P. putida growth and PHA accumulation, yielding up to 45.6% PHA from dried cell weight (DCW) as compared to 31.9% in the control without SCG pre-treatment. Optimized extraction process produced SCG oil rich in saturated fatty acids. The resulting polymer was a mixed short-chain-length (scl) and medium-chain-length (mcl)-PHA copolymer with 3-hydroxybutyrate and 3-hydroxyoctanoate as dominant monomers. A multiple regression model identified residual oil content as the primary factor affecting PHA content (% DCW), suggesting that pre-treated SCG oil is an ideal substrate for P. putida to accumulate mcl-PHA. To our knowledge, these results demonstrate, for the first time, the feasibility and efficacy of using detoxified SCG oil as a substrate for scl-mcl PHA copolymer production by P. putida KT2440, and highlight the critical role of detoxification as a process control variable for yield improvement.
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