A novel thermostable cellulase-producing Bacillus licheniformis A5 acts synergistically with Bacillus subtilis B2 to improve degradation of Chinese distillers' grains.

Gang Yang, Diqin Yang, Xiaodan Wang, Wentao Cao

Bioresource technology 2021 Apr

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Lack of effective degradation approaches of Chinese distillers' grains (CDGs) produced by Chinese liquor industry results in environmental pollution and economic waste. Cellulase activity was characterized at different temperatures to find thermostable cellulase-producing bacteria, and microbial co-culture method was used to improve the degradation of CDGs. Incubation of endoglucanase produced by Bacillus licheniformis A5 at 80 °C for 120 min showed 82% residual enzyme activity. Notably, enzyme activity increased by 30%-70% after co-culturing Bacillus licheniformis A5 and Bacillus subtilis B2. The two strains increased degradation rate of CDGs by 70% compared with optimized results of Bacillus subtilis B2 culture alone, and increased the reducing sugar content to 16.6 mg/mL. In addition, 2% ethanol increased degradation rate of CDGs by 15% in co-culture. The findings of this study imply that Bacillus licheniformis A5 acts synergistically with Bacillus subtilis B2 to improve degradation of CDGs. Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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Gang Yang, Diqin Yang, Xiaodan Wang, Wentao Cao. A novel thermostable cellulase-producing Bacillus licheniformis A5 acts synergistically with Bacillus subtilis B2 to improve degradation of Chinese distillers' grains. Bioresource technology. 2021 Apr;325:124729