African Journal of
Biotechnology

  • Abbreviation: Afr. J. Biotechnol.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1684-5315
  • DOI: 10.5897/AJB
  • Start Year: 2002
  • Published Articles: 12479

Full Length Research Paper

Evaluation of different fungi and bacteria strains for production of cellulases by submerged fermentation using sugarcane bagasse as carbon source: Effect of substrate concentration and cultivation temperature

Laura M. Pinotti
  • Laura M. Pinotti
  • Department of Engineering and Technology, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Rodovia BR 101 Norte Km 60, São Mateus, ES, Brazil.
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Larissa B. Paulino
  • Larissa B. Paulino
  • Department of Engineering and Technology, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Rodovia BR 101 Norte Km 60, São Mateus, ES, Brazil.
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Jacyele C. Agnezi
  • Jacyele C. Agnezi
  • Department of Engineering and Technology, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Rodovia BR 101 Norte Km 60, São Mateus, ES, Brazil.
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Patrícia A. dos Santos
  • Patrícia A. dos Santos
  • Department of Engineering and Technology, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Rodovia BR 101 Norte Km 60, São Mateus, ES, Brazil.
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Henrique N. L. da Silva
  • Henrique N. L. da Silva
  • Department of Engineering and Technology, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Rodovia BR 101 Norte Km 60, São Mateus, ES, Brazil.
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Julio P. Zavarise
  • Julio P. Zavarise
  • Department of Engineering and Technology, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Rodovia BR 101 Norte Km 60, São Mateus, ES, Brazil.
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Gabriella S. B. Salomão
  • Gabriella S. B. Salomão
  • Department of Engineering and Technology, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Rodovia BR 101 Norte Km 60, São Mateus, ES, Brazil.
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Paulo W. Tardioli
  • Paulo W. Tardioli
  • Postgraduate Program in Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Federal University of São Carlos, Rod. Washington Luís, Km 235, 13565-905 São Carlos, SP, Brazil.
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  •  Received: 20 July 2020
  •  Accepted: 24 August 2020
  •  Published: 30 September 2020

 ABSTRACT

Cellulases (enzymes of great potential in biotechnology) are currently of interest due to their applicability in the hydrolysis of cellulose from lignocellulosic materials, producing fermentable sugars for alcohol production. The great demand for efficient enzymes is the driving force to prospect new cellulases-producing microorganisms, as well as to optimize the enzyme production step. Many variables can be optimized in microorganism cultivation, such as pH, type of microorganism, induction, temperature, type and concentration of substrate, among others. This work aimed to evaluate the production of cellulases by submerged fermentation from three strains of filamentous fungi (Trichoderma koningii, Penicillium species, Rhizomucor species) and two strains of bacteria (Bacillus megaterium and Bacillus subtilis), using sugarcane bagasse as substrate. Variations in substrate concentrations (0.5, 1.6 and 2.7%, w/v) and temperature (28, 33 and 38°C) were evaluated on volumetric activity. The best fungus was T. koningii (3130.4 IU/L) using 2.7% natural sugarcane bagasse at 28°C.  Among the bacteria, B. megaterium stood out with an enzyme production in range of 130 to 156.7 IU/L (at 28-33°C using natural and acid-alkaline pretreated bagasses), although up to around 20 times lower than the production by the T. Koningii.

 

Key words: Microorganisms, lignocellulosic biomass, cellulolytic enzymes, pretreated biomass.


 INTRODUCTION

Cellulases are among the most important hydrolytic enzymes, being the third largest industrial enzyme  in  the world market. This is due to the wide application of these enzymes,  such   as   starch  processing,    animal   food production, extraction of fruit and vegetable juices, pulp and paper industry, and textile industry (Singhania et al., 2010; Akinyele et al., 2014; Jasani et al., 2016). Currently, there is a great interest in cellulases for use in ethanol production from lignocellulosic biomass, and some enzyme companies have launched cellulases specific to the lignocellulosic biomass processing industries (Singhania et al., 2010). Cellulases hydrolyze the β-1,4 glucosidic linkages of cellulose resulting in glucose, which can be fermented to produce second-generation ethanol (2G ethanol).
 
Cellulase is industrially produced mainly by submerged fermentation (SmF) (Lin et al., 2017), although in the last two decades solid-state fermentation (SSF) has awakening interest due to the high enzyme productivity, reduced energy requirements, etc. (Acharya et al., 2010; Singhania et al., 2010). The scientific literature has reported studies concerning both solid-state and submerged fermentation (Hernández-Domínguez et al., 2014; Zanirun et al., 2014; Jasani et al., 2016; Bentil et al., 2018; Wang et al., 2018). Bentil et al. (2018) reported that submerged fermentation is more efficient than solid state fermentation to obtain higher cellulase production rates when using white-rot basidiomycetous fungi. Submerged fermentation provides a homogeneous environment, continuous oxygen supply and better control over several parameters, such as pH, temperature, dissolved oxygen (DO), and froth formation. Moreover, there is no problem of mass transfer and heat removal (Singhania et al., 2015; Wang et al., 2018).
 
Regarding microorganisms, there is a wide range of cellulase-producing species, which may be fungi, yeast, aerobic bacteria and actinomycetes (Mmango-kaseke et al., 2016; Behera et al., 2017). Among them, the filamentous fungi are the best producers of cellulases, mainly of the genus Trichoderma and Aspergillus (Baraldo-Junior et al., 2014; Borges et al., 2014; Juturu and Wu, 2014). The screening and isolation of microbes from nature is one of the important ways to get cellulases with diverse properties and high activity (Juturu and Wu, 2014); thus, researchers are continually searching for new microorganisms. Cellulase is produced as a primary metabolite associated with microorganism growth (Zanirun et al., 2014).
 
The production of cellulase also depends on the growth parameters, which include pH, temperature, carbon source, nitrogen source, agitation rate, and others (Nagar and Kumar, 2010; Jasani et al., 2016). Agro-industrial residues are generally used as carbon sources, as they are a low-cost raw material and also act as inducers of cellulase production (Zanirun et al., 2014; Catelan and Pinotti, 2019). Different types of lignocellulosic substrate may contribute to different cellulase production (Pandey et al., 2016). Some of the substrates significantly stimulate enzyme production without supplementation of the culture medium with specific inducers (Singhania et al., 2010). Moreover, the use of  pretreated  biomass  can promote the growth of microorganisms since the pretreatment reduces the recalcitrance of the material and facilitates the access to the cellulose (Rodríguez-Zúñiga et al., 2011). Therefore, the selection of suitable substrate capable to induce high yield of cellulase is a very important subject.
 
In this work, we investigated the production of cellulases by submerged fermentation using different filamentous fungi (Trichoderma koningii, Penicillium species, Rhizomucor species) and two bacterial species (Bacillus megaterium and Bacillus subtilis). For each microorganism, three types of sugarcane bagasses were evaluated (natural and pretreated with acid-alkaline and with hydrogen peroxide solutions) and two cultivation variables, temperature (28, 33 and 38°C) and concentration of sugarcane bagasse (0. 5, 1.6 and 2.7% w/v). The experiments were performed according to a 32 factorial design, in which the temperature and concentration of bagasse were varied for each microorganism and for each type of sugarcane bagasse.


 MATERIALS AND METHODS

Microorganisms and substrate
 
T. koningii INCQS 4031 (CFAM 422) and B. subtilis (ATCC 6633) were obtained from Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil). Penicillium and Rhizomucor spp. were isolated and supplied by the Department of Environmental Engineering of the Federal University of Espírito Santo (Vitória, ES, Brazil). B. megaterium ATCC 14945 was donated by the Department of Chemical Engineering of the Federal University of São Carlos (São Carlos, SP, Brazil). The fungi and bacteria were maintained on potato dextrose agar (42 g/L) and nutrient agar slant (23 g/L), respectively, and kept at 4°C prior to use.
 
Sugarcane bagasse was supplied by Destilaria Itaúnas S/A (DISA, Espírito Santo, Brazil) and the procedure performed to obtain the natural bagasse and pretreated with acid-alkaline and hydrogen peroxide solution was as described in previous work (Salomão et al., 2019).
 
Inoculum preparations
 
Bacteria
 
The inoculum medium was composed of 1% (w/v) peptone, 0.5% (w/v) yeast extract and 1% (w/v) sodium chloride and incubated for 12 h at 30°C and 200 rpm (adapted from Fernandes, 2007).
 
Fungi
 
To obtain the precultures, the fungi strains were grown on an agar plate containing 3.9% (w/v) potato dextrose agar at 28°C for 5 days. After this period, spores were harvested by adding 10 mL of 0.1% (v/v) Tween-80 and counted in a Neubauer chamber (Menoncin et al., 2009).
 
 
Enzyme production by SmF
 
For  enzyme production, sugarcane bagasse was used with particle  diameter sizes between 0.85 and 2.36 mm (Fernandes, 2007). The bagasse was added to 250 mL Erlenmeyer flasks containing 100 mL mineral salt solution of Mandels and Weber (1969) at pH 5.3. The flasks were autoclaved at 121°C for 20 min and inoculated with concentration of 106 spores/mL. The flasks were incubated (28, 33 and 38°C) on a shaker (100 rpm) during 48 h for bacteria and 72 h for fungi. At the end of fermentation, the medium was filtered and the filtrate was used for determination of enzyme activity.
 
For this study the following conditions were evaluated: cultivation temperature (28, 33 and 38°C) and sugarcane bagasse concentration (0.5, 1.6 and 2.7% w/v) for each microorganism (B. megaterium, B. subtilis, T. koningii, Penicillium spp. and Rhizomucor spp.) and for each type of sugarcane bagasse (natural and pre-treated with acid-alkaline and hydrogen peroxide solutions, as described in Salomão et al. (2019)). The values of concentration and temperatures selected here were based on works found in the literature, which used agro-industrial residues to produce cellulases (Akinyele et al., 2014; Mesa et al., 2016; Jasani et al., 2016;  Irfan et al., 2017; Fernandes et al., 2018). For these experiments, a 32 factorial design with two central points was used.  Statistical analysis of the data was performed using Statistic v. 13.0, and the values were considered significant for p-values < 0.05. The model obtained had the assumption of normal distribution of errors (difference between the values estimated by the model and the “correct value”) admitted as valid and the model equations that correlate the activity of cellulases with the temperature and the concentration of sugarcane bagasse of sugar were obtained using the uncoded variables.
 
Enzyme activity
 
The endoglucanase (EG) activity was determined according to Ghose (1987) using 2% (w/v) carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) in 0.05 M citrate buffer, pH 4.8 as substrate. The mixture containing 0.5 mL of CMC and 0.5 mL of enzyme sample was incubated at 50°C for 30 min. The reaction was stopped by adding 2.0 mL of dinitrosalicylic acid (DNS) reagent and boiled for 5 min. The released reducing sugar was measured according to the DNS curve with glucose as standard (Miller, 1959). One International Unit (IU) of endoglucanase activity was  defined  as  the  amount  of  enzyme that produced 1 μmol of glucose equivalent per milliliter per minute under the assay conditions.


 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

Production of cellulases by fungi
 
The SmF results with the different fungi (T. koningii, Penicillium spp. and Rhizomucor spp.) and with the different substrates (natural sugarcane bagasse and pretreated with acid-alkaline and with hydrogen peroxide solutions) are shown in Table 1. The best enzyme producers followed the order: T. Koningii (3130.4 IU/L at 28°C using 2.7% w/v natural bagasse), Penicillium spp. (111.8 IU/L at 33°C using 1.6% w/v acid-alkaline pretreated bagasse) and Rhizomucor spp. (63.5 IU/L at 28°C using 1.6% w/v natural bagasse). Salomão et al. (2019) reported similar findings for solid-state fermentations of the same fungi. Under the conditions evaluated in our study reported here, T. Koningii was capable of producing 28 and 49 times more cellulose activity than Penicillium and Rhizomucor spp., respectively. The fact that we observe the best production with the genus Trichoderma is important for perspectives from an industrial point of view, since the genus Trichoderma is the most culturable and industrially exploited for the production of several multipurpose enzymes. This excellent characteristic of synthesizing a multitude of enzymes, for numerous applications, makes this genus a magnificent industrial cell factory of enzymes (Gautam and Naraian, 2020).
 
There are few studies in the scientific literature on the production of cellulases with the species T. koningii by SmF. Besides,  enzymatic  activities  are  measured  with different substrates, making a deeper comparison difficult to achieve. In terms of CMCase (endoglucanase activity), Wang et al. (2012) reported a production of 40,300 IU/L by T. koningii D-64 isolated from soil samples from Singapore. This production was obtained after the optimization of the production medium, with the addition of 1% cellulose and 2% wheat bran; however, initially the volumetric activities were between 200 and 7000 IU/L using different carbon sources.
 
Liu et al. (2012) compared the endoglucanase activity of 4 species of fungi (T. koningii, Trichoderma reesei, Trichoderma viride and Aspergillus niger) and found that T. koningii was the best cellulose producer (31,300 IU/L), followed by T. viride (22,000 IU/L), in a medium containing 20 g/L of microcrystalline cellulose. This work corroborates our results, that is, T. koningii is the best producer of cellulases by SmF, at least among the evaluated fungi. Also, Wang et al. (2013) found enzyme activities of 28,300 IU/L by a mutant T. koningii hyperproducer of cellulase in cultures induced by bran and corncob powder.
 
With regard to Penicillium, it is possible to find very different values of cellulase production in the scientific literature, which depends on the species, culture medium and physical conditions used. Mesa et al. (2016), in a study of culture medium optimization, obtained a production of 13 IU/L (CMCase) by a wild strain of Penicillium spp., with the addition of 1.5 g/L of sugarcane bagasse pretreated with acid-alkaline solution. Santa-Rosa et al. (2018) found an activity of 600 IU/L by a strain of Penicillium spp. isolated from the Amazon region in a medium containing 7.5 g/L of carboxymethylcellulose as a carbon source. Fernandes et al. (2018) used natural Soybean hulls as well as fractions obtained from pretreatment as carbon sources on the production of cellulases by Penicillium spp. Results showed production of 130 IU/L (CMCase) using 1% of the in natura residue and 200 UI/L (Avicelase) with pretreated residue. Vázquez-Montoya et al. (2020) found an activity of 1683 UI/L using Moringa straw as carbon source in a submerged fermentation of Penicillium funiculosum.
 
In a search of the scientific literature, no reports were found for studies of production of cellulases by Rhizomucor spp. As we found in our work, this genus is not a good cellulase producer.
 
Regarding the solid substrate used for fermentation, we found that the microorganisms can produce enzymes using different sugarcane bagasses (natural and pretreated with acid-alkaline and hydrogen peroxide solutions), but the enzyme production by T. koningii is more expressive using natural sugarcane bagasse. For both pretreated sugarcane bagasses, the higher the substrate  concentration  (1.6  and  2.7%,  w/v)   and   the temperature (33 and 38°C), the lower the enzyme production by this fungus. Probably, the generation of toxic substances in the pretreatment (Vasconcellos et al., 2015) negatively affected the production of  cellulases  by T. koningii when a high pretreated bagasse concentration was used. On the contrary, Penicillium spp. seems to be more tolerant to temperature and toxic compounds, because the highest CMCase activities were obtained at 33°C and using 1.6% (w/v) acid-alkaline pretreated bagasse.
 
The effects of temperature and concentration of sugarcane bagasse on the enzyme production by SmF of T. koningii (the best enzyme producer in our work) were statistically analyzed and the results (ANOVA) are shown in Table 2. The variables that were not statistically significantly (p <0.05) were removed, and thus the new values of the effects of the variables on the enzymatic production were obtained (Table 3), as well as the three equations (Equations 1 to 3) that describe the behavior of the variables in the enzyme activity and the response surfaces (Figure 1a, b and c) for natural sugarcane bagasse, pretreated with base-acid and hydrogen peroxide solution, respectively. Both concentration of sugarcane bagasse ([B]) and temperature (T) influenced the production of cellulases (A.E.). When natural sugarcane bagasse was used, higher bagasse concentrations and lower temperatures led to better results in the enzyme production, with the temperature having an effect 1.5 times higher. However, for pretreated bagasse, both the increase in bagasse concentration and temperature interferes negatively in the enzyme production. As pointed out earlier, chemically pretreated bagasse can contain toxic substances (Vasconcellos et al., 2015) that inhibit the growth of the microorganisms; therefore, higher concentrations of bagasse lower the enzyme production. The effect of the concentration of bagasse pretreated with hydrogen peroxide solution was greater when compared with the bagasse pretreated with acid-alkaline solution.
 
A.E (IU/L) = -12515.9 + 3409.8 × [B] - 181.5 × [B]2 + 847.1 × T - 13.7 × T2 - 69.9 × T × [B]                                    (1)
A.E (IU/L) = 22522.2 - 2078.4 × [B] - 1149.8 × T + 14.7 × T2 + 55.0 × [B] × T                                                          (2)
A.E (IU/L) = -11059.1 - 3416.9 × [B] + 1054.2 × T -19. 9 × T2 + 86.4 × T × [B]                                                         (3)
 
 
Production of cellulases by bacteria
 
The results of enzymatic production with the bacteria B. megaterium and B. subtilis are shown in Table 4. Among the bacteria, B. megaterium showed better results (CMCase activity of 156.7 IU/L at 33°C using acid-alkaline pretreated sugarcane bagasse at 0.5%, w/v), even better than the yields found by SmF of the fungi Penicillium and Rhizomucor.
 
Shahid et al. (2016) reported a production of 710 IU/L (CMCase activity) by B. megaterium BM 05 using wheat straw as substrate. Al-Gheethi (2015) investigated the potential   of  different   sewage  sludge   as   medium   of production of cellulases by B. megaterium. The highest and lowest activities were 14,300 and 1400 IU/L, respectively, which did depend on the studied sewage. In addition, the authors studied the use of bagasse as a carbon source and the achieved enzyme activity was 9800 IU/L. The enzyme activities reported by the authors were much higher than those found in this work, which corroborates with the statement that the species of microorganism and the working conditions result in very different enzyme productions.
 
 
 
literature, depending on the species used and the working conditions. Jiménez-Leyva et al. (2017) evaluated three different strains of B. subtilis in the production of cellulases using carboxymethylcellulose and microcrystalline cellulose as carbon sources. The authors found CMCase activities between 150 and 450 IU/L. Vaid and Bajaj (2017) studied different sources of carbon and nitrogen in the production of cellulases by the strain B. subtilis G2 and the highest activity was 2179 IU/L using banana peel, which was very close to the activity using sugarcane bagasse (2000 IU/L).
 
Regarding to the substrates used in this work, we can see that the sugarcane bagasse treated with hydrogen peroxide led to the lowest values of enzyme activity, both for B. megaterium and B. subtilis. For B. megaterium, a slightly higher enzyme production was observed when bagasse pretreated with acid-alkaline solution was used. For B. subtilis, the enzyme productions were close to the natural bagasse and pretreated with acid-alkaline solution.
 
The effects of the temperature and the concentration of sugarcane bagasse on the enzyme production were statistically analyzed and the results of ANOVA are shown in Table 5. Statistical analysis was performed only for B. megaterium, which showed the best enzyme production. After removing the variables that did not significantly affect the enzyme activities (p> 0.05), the values of the effects of the variables on the enzyme production were obtained (Table 6), as well as the equations (Equations 4 to 6) that describe the behavior of the variables in the enzyme activity, and the surface response (Figure 2a, b, and c), when using natural bagasse and bagasses pretreated with acid-base and peroxide solutions, respectively. It can be seen that both variables influenced the enzyme production, similarly to the results obtained with T. koningii. When natural sugarcane bagasse was used, higher concentrations produced higher enzymatic activities; however, an increase in the temperature resulted in a decrease in the activity. The effect of the temperature was twice greater than that of the bagasse concentration. For the other two types of pretreated bagasse, there is a decrease in the enzyme production by increasing both substrate concentration and temperature, where temperature is the variable that most influenced the enzyme production.
 
A.E. (IU/L) = -1545.0 + 14.7 × [B] + 105.9 × T - 1.7 × T2 (4)
A.E (IU/L) = - 633.6 - 12.9 × [B] + 55.0 × T - 0.9 × T2    (5)
A.E (IU/L) = - 567.5 - 46.4 × [B] + 46.5 × T - 0.8 × T2 + 1.2 × [B ] × T                                                                    (6)
 
 
 


 CONCLUSION

This study showed that T. koningii is a good choice to produce cellulases by SmF using natural sugarcane bagasse as carbon source and relatively low temperature of cultivation. These findings could be attractive from an economic point of view, because pretreatment of the bagasse  increases  its   final   cost,  as  well    as   higher temperature is energy consuming and therefore not environmentally friendly.

 


 CONFLICT OF INTERESTS

The authors have not declared any conflict of interests.

 


 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The authors appreciate the financial support from Foundation for Research Support of Espírito Santo (FAPES), Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES) and by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brasil (CAPES) - Finance Code 001.

 



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