Ya-Chen Dong
Zhejiang University
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Carbohydrate Polymers | 2015
Jun Zhang; Ya-Chen Dong; Linlin Fan; Zhihua Jiao; Qihe Chen
The effect of culture medium compositions on gellan gum production produced by fermentation with a halobacterium Sphingomonas paucimobilis QHZJUJW CGMCC2428 was studied. In this work, a fractional factorial design was applied to investigate the main factors that affected gellan gum production by S. paucimobilis QHZJUJW CGMCC2428. Sucrose was the best carbon source for gellan gum and peptone displayed better inducing effect. Central composite design and response surface methodology were adopted to derive a statistical model for optimizing submerged culture medium composition. These experimental results showed that the optimum culture medium for producing gellan gum was composed of 40.00 (w/v) sucrose, 3.00% peptone (w/v), MgSO4 (w/v), 9.20% KH2PO4 (w/v), 7.50% Na2HPO4 (w/v), 4.30% K2SO4 (w/v), pH 6.8-7.0. The maximal gellan gum was 19.89±0.68 g/L, which was agreed closely with the predicated value (20.12 g/L). After incubated for 72 h under the optimized culture medium in 5-L bioreactor, the gellan gum fermentation reached about 19.90±0.68 g/L, which was higher than that in the initial cultivation medium.
Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry | 2011
Mingliang Fu; Wei Wang; Feng Chen; Ya-Chen Dong; Xiaojie Liu; Hui Ni; Qihe Chen
8-Prenylnaringenin (8PN), which presents in hop, enjoys fame as the most potential phytoestrogen. Although a number of health effects are attributed to 8PN, few reports are available about the production of it. In this work, screening of fungi to efficiently transform isoxanthohumol (IXN) into 8PN was designed. The biotransformation of IXN was significantly observed in Eupenicillium javanicum, Cunninghamella blakesleana, and Ceriporiopsis subvermispora under five kinds of transformation conditions. As a comparative result of IXN transformation, E. javanicum was the optimal biocatalyst to produce 8PN. Transformation caused by growing precultured fungal mycelia, a process designated as G2, was a favorable condition for IXN transformation in view of the yield of 8PN. The possible transformation pathway of 8PN bioproduction is postulated in this work. The construction of fungus and transformation mode derived from the current work is viable and an alternative procedure for 8PN formation.
Scientific Reports | 2017
Ya-Chen Dong; Jingjin Hu; Linlin Fan; Qihe Chen
As a typical harmful inhibitor in cellulosic hydrolyzates, acetic acid not only hinders bioethanol production, but also induces cell death in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Herein, we conducted both transcriptomic and metabolomic analyses to investigate the global responses under acetic acid stress at different stages. There were 295 up-regulated and 427 down-regulated genes identified at more than two time points during acetic acid treatment (150 mM, pH 3.0). These differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were mainly involved in intracellular homeostasis, central metabolic pathway, transcription regulation, protein folding and stabilization, ubiquitin-dependent protein catabolic process, vesicle-mediated transport, protein synthesis, MAPK signaling pathways, cell cycle, programmed cell death, etc. The interaction network of all identified DEGs was constructed to speculate the potential regulatory genes and dominant pathways in response to acetic acid. The transcriptional changes were confirmed by metabolic profiles and phenotypic analysis. Acetic acid resulted in severe acidification in both cytosol and mitochondria, which was different from the effect of extracellular pH. Additionally, the imbalance of intracellular acetylation was shown to aggravate cell death under this stress. Overall, this work provides a novel and comprehensive understanding of stress responses and programmed cell death induced by acetic acid in yeast.
Carbohydrate Research | 2014
Linlin Fan; Ya-Chen Dong; Yi-Fei Fan; Jun Zhang; Qihe Chen
Mannosylerythritol lipids (MELs) are mainly produced by strains of the genus Pseudozyma and by Ustilago maydis. These glycolipid biosurfactants exhibit not only excellent surface-active properties but also versatile bioactivities. Mannosylerythritol lipid-A (MEL-A) is worth investigating due to its self-assembling property. In this work, crude MELs were produced by resting Pseudozyma aphidis ZJUDM34 cells using different culture media. MEL-A fractions were isolated and identified using high-performance liquid chromatography combined with mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS) and gas chromatography combined with mass spectrometry (GC-MS). The results showed that MEL-A homologs had long unsaturated fatty acid chains, and the chain lengths range from C8 to C20. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) was employed to confirm the chemical structures of the MEL-A homologs. Fermentation medium without NaNO3 and medium with manganese ions enhanced MEL-A production by Pseudozyma aphidis ZJUDM34.
Journal of Food Science | 2015
Ruosi Fang; Ya-Chen Dong; Feng Chen; Qihe Chen
Rice wine is a traditional Chinese fermented alcohol drink. Spontaneous fermentation with the use of the Chinese starter and wheat Qu lead to the growth of various microorganisms during the complete brewing process. Its of great importance to fully understand the composition of bacteria diversity in rice wine in order to improve the quality and solve safety problems. In this study, a more comprehensive bacterial description was shown with the use of bacteria diversity analysis, which enabled us to have a better understanding. Rarefaction, rank abundance, alpha Diversity, beta diversity and principal coordinates analysis simplified their complex bacteria components and provide us theoretical foundation for further investigation. It has been found bacteria diversity is more abundant at mid-term and later stage of brewing process. Bacteria community analysis reveals there is a potential safety hazard existing in the fermentation, since most of the sequence reads are assigned to Enterobacter (7900 at most) and Pantoea (7336 at most), followed by Staphylococcus (2796 at most) and Pseudomonas (1681 at most). Lactic acid bacteria are rare throughout the fermentation process which is not in accordance with other reports. This work may offer us an opportunity to investigate micro ecological fermentation system in food industry.
Medicinal Chemistry | 2016
Yongwu Niu; Hong-Ji Li; Ya-Chen Dong; De-Qin Xu; Qihe Chen
Gastrodin (GAS), the main bioactive component of G. elata Blume, has important pharmaceutical and functional activities. The aim of this study is to produce GAS from p-2-hydroxybenzyl alcohol (HBA) through biotransformation. The conversion of exogenous HBA into GAS compound was conducted using cell suspension cultures of Armillaria luteo-virens Sacc. The bioconversion conditions were fully optimized with response surface methodology (RSM), turning out that the optimal transformation conditions composed of 3 mg/mL HBA, 6.5 g/30 mL inoculums level, 1.5% Tween 80, pH 4.5, and transformation temperature at 23°C. Under the optimized conditions, the conversion productivity of GAS reached the highest value (5.65 ± 0.45 mg/L). Verified experiments further validated that the optimized conditions were suitable for predicting the actual process of HBA transformation in the resting-cell system. The bioconversion kinetics model was as well simulated with Michaelis–Menten equation, which showing the suitability. The present study proposed the biotransformation pathway of HBA into GAS by resting cells transformation, indicating that the biotransformation process involved glucosylation reaction. Furthermore, Imprinting Control Region (ICR) mice in vivo demonstrated that the identified gastrodin possessed a significant anti-inflammatory activity. The fundamental data in the present work provides an efficient way to produce GAS through the whole-cells biocatalysis.
African Journal of Biotechnology | 2011
Hui Ni; Qihe Chen; Feng Chen; Mingliang Fu; Ya-Chen Dong; Hui-nong Cai
Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering | 2014
Ya-Chen Dong; Yi-Ning Dai; Teng-Yang Xu; Jin Cai; Qihe Chen
Archive | 2012
Qihe Chen; Ruosi Fang; Ya-Chen Dong; Guoqing He; Teng-Yang Xu
International Journal of Food Science and Technology | 2013
Ruosi Fang; Ya-Chen Dong; Teng-Yang Xu; Guoqing He; Qihe Chen