title: Kinetics of soybean oil consumption and cephamycin C production in culture of Streptomyces sp. using mineral support.
abstract: A simple kinetics of soybean oil consumption and cephamycin C production in Streptomyces sp. culture using a mineral support is proposed in this study. The mineral support was used for both suspending the soybean oil as fine oil droplets and immobilizing mycelia. The optimum concentrations of oil and mineral support for obtaining the maximum cephamycin C production were determined to be 50 and 15 g/l, respectively, by the proposed kinetics. At the optimal concentrations, the concentration of cephamycin C estimated from the proposed model and from the experimental data was 2.82 and 2.80 g/l, respectively. The results of the simulation coincided well with the experimental data for various concentrations of the soybean oil and the support. This demonstrates that our model can explain the kinetics of a culture using vegetable oil as the carbon source and mineral support for both oil suspension and mycelial immobilization.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Shizuoka University, 836 Ohya, Shizuoka 422-8529, Japan.
authors.forename: E Y
authors.initials: EY
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ichida
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kahar
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Okabe