title: New PHA products using unrelated carbon sources.
abstract: Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) are natural polyesters stored by a wide range of bacteria as carbon source reserve. Due to its chemical characteristics and biodegradability PHA can be used in chemical, medical and pharmaceutical industry for many human purposes. Over the past years, few Burkholderia species have become known for production of PHA. Aside from that, these bacteria seem to be interesting for discovering new PHA compositions which is important to different industrial applications. In this paper, we introduce two new strains which belong either to Burkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc) or genomovar-type, Burkholderia cepacia SA3J and Burkholderia contaminans I29B, both PHA producers from unrelated carbon sources. The classification was based on 16S rDNA and recA partial sequence genes and cell wall fatty acids composition. These two strains were capable to produce different types of PHA monomers or precursors. Unrelated carbon sources were used for growth and PHA accumulation. The amount of carbon source evaluated, or mixtures of them, was increased with every new experiment until it reaches eighteen carbon sources. As first bioprospection experiments staining methods were used with colony fluorescent dye Nile Red and the cell fluorescent dye Nile Blue A. Gas chromatography analysis coupled to mass spectrometry was used to evaluate the PHA composition on each strain cultivated on different carbon sources. The synthesized polymers were composed by short chain length-PHA (scl-PHA), especially polyhydroxybutyrate, and medium chain length-PHA (mcl-PHA) depending on the carbon source used.
authors.affiliation: Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas , São Paulo, SP , Brasil ; Instituto de Pesquisas Tecnológicas do Estado de São Paulo, Laboratório de Biotecnologia Industrial , São Paulo, SP , Brasil.
authors.forename: Fernanda
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Matias
authors.forename: Maria Filomena
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: de Andrade Rodrigues
keywords: Burkholderia; Burkholderia cepacia complex; Genomovar-type; mcl-PHA; polyhydroxyalkanoates; polyhydroxybutyrate
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