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Table 1 Fermentation strategy of microbial manufacturing

From: Current advances for omics-guided process optimization of microbial manufacturing

Product group

Product

Strain

Carbon source

Nitrogen source

Temperature ( ℃)

DO

pH

Feedingstrategy

Fermentation mode

Biomass

Titer

References

Terpene compound

α-humulene

Oleaginous yeast Candida

Glucose

Peptone

30

 > 20%

5.5

When the concentration of glucose fell below 5 g/L for the first time, high sugar solution was added

Fed-batch, two-phase fermentation

OD600: 470

4.115 g/L

Zhang et al. (2022d)

α-santalene

Escherichia coli

Glucose, glycerol

Tryptone

37

-

7.0

Constant rate (80 mL/h) with glycerol mixture

Fed-batch, two-phase fermentation

OD600:250

2.916 g/L

Zhang et al. (2022c)

β-amyrin

Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Glucose, ethanol

Peptone

30

 > 40%

5.5

Three-stage feeding controlled by glucose and ethanol

Fed-batch

OD600:334

2.6 g/L

Du et al. (2022a)

α-farnesene

Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Glucose

Peptone

30

5.5

When the initial carbon source was exhausted, glucose was fed to keep its concentration below 1.0 g/L

Fed-batch, two-phase fermentation

OD600:400

10.4 g/L

Wang et al. (2021)

( +)-valencene

Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Glucose, sucrose

(NH4)2SO4

30

 > 20%

5.0

-

Fed-batch, two-phase fermentation

DCW:105 g/L

16.6 g/L

Ye et al. (2022)

(−)-eremophilene

Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Glucose, ethanol

(NH4)2SO4

30

10–30%

5.0

Two-stage feeding controlled by glucose and ethanol

Fed-batch, two-phase fermentation

OD600:425

34.6 g/L

Deng et al. (2022)

Amorpha-4,11-diene

Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Glucose, ethanol

(NH4)2SO4

30

40%

5.0

Ethanol pulse feeding (10 g/L)

Fed-batch

OD600:195

4 g/L

Westfall et al. (2012)

Artemisinin

Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Glucose, ethanol

(NH4)2SO4

30

40%

5.0

Ethanol pulse feeding (10 g/L)

Fed-batch, two-phase fermentation

25 g/L

Paddon et al. (2013)

Geranylgeraniol

Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Glucose, ethanol

(NH4)2SO4,corn steep liquor

33

5.5

Glucose, glucose/ethanol mixed feed (5.8 g/h)

Fed-batch

3.31 g/L

Tokuhiro et al. (2009)

Geraniol

Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Glucose, ethanol

Peptone

30

 > 30%

5.7

Adding glucose or ethanol, glucose and ethanol concentrations were lower than 1 g/L and 5 g/L, respectively

Fed-batch, two-phase fermentation

OD600:85

1.68 g/L

Jiang et al. (2017)

Geraniol

Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Glucose, ethanol

(NH4)2SO4

30

 > 30%

5.0

Constant flow rate of 0.1 L/h plus 400 g/L ethanol

Fed-batch, two-phase fermentation

OD600:55

1.69 g/L

Zhao et al. 2017)

Limonene

Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Glucose, ethanol

Peptone

30

-

-

Adding a certain amount of ethanol at 20 and 40 h

Fed-Batch Shake Flasks

OD600:33

0.918 g/L

Cheng et al. (2019)

Organic acids

Succinic acid

Escherichia coli

Glucose, galactose

Tryptone

37

-

7.0

-

Fed-batch, two-stage fermentation controlled by DO

DCW:2 g/L

22.4 g/L

Olajuyin et al. (2016)

L-valine

Escherichia coli

Glucose

(NH4)2SO4

37

 > 20%

7.0

Adding glucose solution at a constant rate to keep the concentration of residual sugar lower than 5 g/L

Fed-batch, two-stage aerobic and oxygen limitation fermentation

OD600:75

84 g/L

Hao et al. (2020)

Citric acid

Yarrowia lipolytica

Glucose

(NH4)2SO4

30

50%

6.0

Glucose pulse feeding regulated by dissolved oxygen

Fed-batch, nutritionally limited fermentation

DCW:15 g/L

80–85 g/L

Kamzolova and Morgunov (2017)

Pyruvic acid

Candida glabrata

Glucose

spent yeast cell dry powder

30

5.5

-

Batch

DCW:17.7 g/L

65.1 g/L

Lu et al. (2022)

Biobased chemicals

1,3‐Propanediol

Klebsiella pneumoniae

Glucose

NH4Cl

30

7.0

Intermittent addition of 500 g/L glucose solution with a concentration of 50 to 150 mM

Fed-batch

OD600:20

62 g/L

Lama et al. (2020)

Polyhydroxybutyrates

Bacillus megaterium

Glucose

(NH4)2SO4

37

7.0

Batch

DCW:10.52 g/L

5.61 g/L

Mohanrasu et al. (2020)

Hyaluronan

Streptococcus zooepidemicus

Glucose

Tryptone

37

7.0

Fed-batch, two-stage fermentation with pH and temperature control

4.75 g/L

Liu et al. (2018a)

Fusaricidins

Paenibacillus kribbensis CU01

Glucose

NH4Cl

30

6.8

The process of continuous cultivation at a constant rate of 2.5 ml/min using a feed of fresh modified M9 medium

Continuous Fermentation

0.579 g/L

Ryu et al. (2020)

Lipid

Yarrowia lipolytica SKY7

Glycerol

Tryptone

28

25–40%

6.5

When glycerol concentration reached below 5 g/L, a glycerol feed was added so that the glycerol concentration was 20–25 g/L

Fed-batch

DCW:51.67 g/L

19.47 g/L

Kumar et al. (2021)

Recombinant antibody

Escherichia coli

Glucose

NH4Cl

30

30%

6.8

Constant flow rate of 0.1 g/L/h plus ethanol

Fed-batch, oxygen limitation fermentation

OD600:73

2.056 g/L

Biermann et al. (2013)