Abstract
An endophytic bacterium Paenibacillus polymyxa DS-R5 which can effectively inhibit the growth of pathogenic fungi was isolated from Salvia miltiorrhiza in our previous study. By using hydrochloric acid precipitation, methanol extraction, silica gel column isolation, dextran gel chromatography column, and HPLC, 3 compounds with antifungal activity were isolated. To further improve the production of antifungal compounds produced by this strain, fermentation medium was optimized using one-factor-at-a-time, Plackett-Burman design, and Box-Behnken design experiments. Through statistical optimization, the optimal medium composition was determined to be as follows: 14.7g/l sucrose, 20.0g/l soluble starch, 7.0g/l corn steep liquor, 10.0g/l(NH4)2SO4, and 0.7g/lKH2PO4. In this optimized medium, the highest titer of antifungal compounds reached 3452 U/ml, which was 123% higher than that in the initial medium. In addition, in order to guide scale-up for production, logistic and Luedeking-Piret equations were proposed to predict the cell growth and antifungal compounds production. The fermentation kinetics and empirical equations of the coefficients (X0, Xm, μm, α, and β) for the two models were reported, which will aid the design and optimization of industrial processes. The degrees of fit between calculated values of the model and the experimental data were 0.989 and 0.973, respectively. The results show that the cell growth and product synthesis models established in this study may better reflect the dynamic process of antifungal compounds production and provide a theoretical basis for further optimization and on-line monitoring of the fermentation process.
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