Abstract

Strain improvement by genetic manipulation or optimization of fermentation conditions for overproduction of vitamin B(12) has a drawback due to feed back inhibition. To resist the feed back inhibition by analogues of vitamin B(12) in Propionibacterium freudenrechii subsps. shermanii (OLP-5), we have tested with microbially separated B(12) analogues from three different strains. Microbial analogues were differentiated from commercially available vitamin B(12) by high pressure liquid chromatography and spectrophotometric method. An analogue isolated from NRRL-B-4327 was shown to increase vitamin B(12) concentration from 18.53 ± 0.15 to 31.67 ± 0.58 mg/l in OLP-5 strain. The presence of chemical analogue (ICH(2) Co(DH)(2) (H(2)Py)(4)) increased vitamin B(12) production from 16.13 ± 0.15 to 18.53 ± 0.15 mg/l in OLP-5. These findings revealed that addition of B(12) analogues in fermentation media have developed strain resistance to feed back inhibition by vitamin B(12).

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