ORI GI NAL PAPER

Screening of phytase producers and optimization of culture

conditions for submerged fermentation
Hasan B. Coban

Ali Demirci
Received: 6 May 2013 / Accepted: 24 July 2013 / Published online: 14 August 2013
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
Abstract Phytase (myo-inositol-hexakisphosphate phos-
phohydrolase) is an enzyme, which breaks down phytate to
inositol and orthophosphoric acid. Phytase has been used as
feed additive, and in some medical applications for years.
To date, phytase production has been usually performed as
a solid-state fermentation with small production volumes.
Therefore, the aim of this study was to increase the phytase
activity in submerged fermentations by screening several
microorganism strains based on the literature to select the
most productive phytase producer and optimizing growth
parameters such as temperature, pH, and aeration level
using response surface methodology (RSM). As a result,
among the four different microorganisms evaluated,
Aspergillus cuum (NRRL 3135) was selected as the most
productive strain. Optimum temperature, pH, and aeration
values were determined as 33 C, 4.5, and 0.9 vvm,
respectively, for A. cuum in 2-l batch submerged phytase
productions. Under these conditions, phytase activity was
measured as 2.27 U/ml. Therefore, this is a unique study
showing the production of phytase with A. cuum suc-
cessfully in submerged fermentation as opposed to the
traditional solid-state fermentation.
Keywords Phytase Aspergillus cuum
Optimization Growth parameters Submerged
Abbreviations
RSM Response surface methodology
PDA Potatoes dextrose agar
MRS ManRogosaSharpe
HPLC High pressure liquid chromatography
ANOVA Analysis of variation
Introduction
Phytate is the primary storage of phosphate in plants,
which is especially abundant in legumes, cereals, pollens,
and nuts. It plays an important role during germination by
liberating high amounts of phosphorus, which are used for
ATP synthesis [1]. However, six reactive groups of phy-
tate make it a polyanionic chelating agent which reacts
with proteins, amino acids, and important divalent cations
such as Ca
2?
, Mg
2?
, Zn
2?
, Cu
2?
, Fe
2?
, and Mn
2?
in
humans and animals [2]. Therefore, this may result in
malnutrition and several health problems such as iron
deciency, bone weakness, tooth decay, and digestion
problems [3, 4]. In addition, phytate also causes some
environmental problems. While ruminant animals sustain
the microora, which releases inorganic phosphorus from
phytate, monogastric animals such as chickens and pigs
can produce little or no phytase in their intestine. Since,
monogastric animals are generally fed with soybean and
other meals, which have a high concentration of phytate,
excessive phosphorus accumulation occurs in their man-
ure. This causes problems such as water pollution, algal
blooms, sh kills, and changing of fauna and ora in the
environment [5].
Phytase, catalyzes hydrolysis of phytate to inositol and
orthophosphoric acid [6]. It has been used as food and feed
additive to prevent the adverse effects of phytate as
described above. Nelson et al. [7] pretreated a cornsoya
diet with phytase of Aspergillus niger. When microbial
phytase was added to low phosphorus diets for broilers, the
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Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering,
The Pennsylvania State University, UniversityPark, PA16802, USA
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availability of phosphorus increased by 60 % and the
amount of phosphorus in the droppings decreased by 50 %.
Moreover, after 21 days of phytase supplementation body
weight of male and female chicks increased by 13.2 and
5.8 %, respectively. Supplementation of the low phytate
diet with phytase also increased the relative retention of
total P
3-
, Ca
2?
, Cu
2?
, and Zn
2?
by 12.5, 12.2, 19.3, and
62.3 %, respectively [8]. Phytase has been also used to
produce inositol phosphates and phospholipids, which play
a role in transmembrane signaling and transfer of Ca
2?
from intracellular reserves [9]. Inositol phosphate deriva-
tives can be used as enzyme stabilizers and enzyme sub-
strates for metabolic investigation, as enzyme inhibitors
and therefore potential drugs, and as chiral building blocks
[10].
Phytase can be secreted by several microorganisms
including bacteria, yeasts, and molds. Bacterial phytase are
generally produced from Lactobacillus, Escherichia,
Pseudomonas, and Klebsiella spp. Bacterial phytase is the
most active at pH 6.06.5 and at 60 C. Other isolates have
been tested for extracellular phytase productions such as
Mucor, Penicillium, Aspergillus, and Rhizopus spp. Liu
et al. [6] evaluated 58 different fungi for the production of
extracellular phytase and found that, A. cuum as the most
efcient producer. Only a few yeast species such as Sac-
charomyces cerevisiae, Schwanniomyces castellii, and
Schizophyllum commune have been reported as phytase
producers.
To date, phytase production has been mostly performed
as a solid-state fermentation. Salmon et al. [11] used
different agroindustrial residuals and studied solid-state
phytase production using S. commune. Similarly, phytase
production was studied by Gibson on starch media and by
Han et al. on cereal grains and legume seeds and by
Ebune et al. on canola meal using A. cuum [1214].
However, solid-state phytase productions are not very
exible to scale-up for commercial productions. More-
over, costly and complex extraction steps are used to
separate and purify the enzyme, even it is produced
extracellularly. In addition, lack of stirring during fer-
mentation causes heterogeneity in phytase properties in
the solid-state productions. Therefore, there is a need to
produce phytase in submerged liquid fermentation. For
example, Haritha and Sambasivarao [15] produced phy-
tase under submerged fermentation conditions using Rhi-
zopus oligosporus. Soni and Khire [16] produced and
partially characterized phytase from A. niger NCIM 563.
In addition, Mittal et al. [17] produced phytase under
submerged conditions using orange peel our as substrate
and Klebsiella as microorganism. However, all these
studies were performed in shake-ask scale and fermen-
tation parameter optimization was not studied to maxi-
mize phytase production. As it is well known, the shake-
ask fermentations have always limited working volume
and growth parameters such as pH, agitation, and aeration
cannot be controlled effectively, which makes the scale-
up challenging for industrial productions. Therefore,
microbial phytase production and optimization of fer-
mentation parameters should be studied for submerged
fermentation in bioreactors.
The aim of this study was to select the most productive
phytase producer microbial strain from among several
microorganisms, which have been reported as phytase
producer in the previous studies and to increase the phytase
activity by optimization of the growth parameters such as
temperature, pH, and aeration in submerged fermentations
using a Box-Behnken design.
Materials and methods
Microorganisms and media
Lactobacillus plantarum (B-4496), Lactobacillus aci-
dophilus (B-4495), Lactobacillus amylovorus (B-4540),
and A. cuum (NRRL 3135) were obtained from Agri-
cultural Research Service Culture Collection (Peoria, IL).
Lactobacillus strains were grown in 10 ml of MRS med-
ium (Neogen, Lansing, MI) at 37 C for 24 h and stored at
4 C as working cultures. A. cuum was grown on potato
dextrose agar (PDA) (Difco, Sparks, MD) slants at 30 C
for 6 days and stored at 4 C as working cultures. All
cultures were regularly transferred to sterile fresh media
every 2 weeks to maintain viability. Stock cultures for
future studies were kept frozen in 20 % glycerol at
-85 C.
Phytase selective agar medium was used to perform
microorganism screening. Medium includes 20 g of glu-
cose, 4 g of Na-phytate (A&Z Food Additives Co. Ltd.,
Zhejiang, China), 2 g of CaCl
2
, 5 g of NH
4
NO
3
, 0.5 g of
KCl, 0.5 g of MgSO
4
(7H
2
O), 0.01 g of FeSO
4
(7H
2
O),
0.01 g of MnSO
4
(7H
2
O), and 15 g of agar per liter of
deionized water. After pH was adjusted to 7, medium was
autoclaved and plated [18].
Screening of strains for phytase production
Based on the previous studies in the literature, L. planta-
rum, L. acidophilus, L. amylovorus, and A. cuum were
selected for screening. All Lactobacillus species were
grown at 37 C for 24 h in 10 ml of MRS medium.
A. cuum were grown on PDA plates for 6 days at 30 C. At
the end of the incubation, A. cuum spores were suspended
by 2 ml of 0.1 % peptone water per plates. Then, 20 ll of
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each inoculum, which had *10
6
CFU/ml was used to
inoculate on phytase selective agar plates using point
inoculation and plates were incubated at their specic
temperatures for 2 days. Microorganisms, which produced
phytase, created clear zones on the phytase selective agar
plates. To be sure if the zones were generated by phytase
activity or microbial acid production, phytase selective
agar plates were subjected to washing with several solu-
tions. First, all plates were washed with distilled water to
remove the microorganisms. Next, plates were covered
with 2 % cobalt chloride solution and incubated for 5 min
at room temperature. Then, cobalt chloride solution was
discarded and the plates were covered with equal volume
of freshly prepared 6.25 % ammonium molybdate and
0.42 % ammonium vanadate mixture. After 5-min incu-
bation at room temperature, solution was discarded and still
existing clear zones represented phytase activity [18].
Diameters of clear zones were measured to compare phy-
tase activity of each microorganism.
In order to validate phytase selective agar results, shake-
ask phytase fermentation was also performed for each
strain. Shake-ask phytase fermentation medium consisted
of 80 g of glucose, 0.5 g of KCl, 0.5 g of MgSO
4
, 0.1 g of
Fe
2
(SO
4
)3H
2
O, 0.02 g of MnSO
4
H
2
O, 8.6 g of NaNO
3
,
3 g of (NH
4
)
2
SO
4
, and 10 g of Na-phytate per liter of
deionized water. Flasks include 100 ml of medium were
inoculated with 1 % (v/v) inoculum, which had
*10
6
CFU/ml and incubated at 200 rpm for 6 days at
37 C for L. plantarum, L. acidophilus, and L. amylovorus
and 30 C for A. cuum. Aliquot samples were taken every
12 h during 144-h fermentation, and analyzed to determine
phytase activity.
Batch fermentation in submerged bioreactors
and optimization of growth parameters
Selected microorganism strain (A. cuum) was used for
submerged fermentation and growth conditions were opti-
mized to obtain maximum phytase production in Sartorius
Biostat B Plus bioreactor (Allentown, PA) equipped with a
2-l vessel with 1-l working volume. The same medium
composition which was used for shake-ask fermentations
was also used for reactor fermentations. Batch fermentation
was conducted according to three factors Box-Behnken
design of RSM using MINITAB statistical software
(Version 15, State College, PA) (Table 1). The growth factors
evaluated were temperature (2540 C), pH (47), and
aeration rate [01.5 volume of air/volume of broth/minute
(vvm)]. Temperature and pH intervals were set based on
the literature review and aeration interval was set based on
preliminary experiments. Agitation speed was maintained
to 300 rpm for all fermentation runs. A. cuum spores
present on each PDA petri dishes were grown for 6 days at
30 C, were suspended by adding 7 ml of 0.1 % peptone
water solution and used as inoculum. Fermentations were
started by adding 30 ml of A. cuum inoculum, which had
10
6
spores/ml. Samples were collected (2 ml) from the
reactors every 24 h to determine phytase activity and glu-
cose concentration during 6 days.
Validation of the model
Fermentations were run under the conditions identied as
optimum with three replications to validate suggested
optimum condition by RSM. Results, which were obtained
Table 1 Box-Behnken
response surface design and
phytase activity and residual
glucose results
Run
order
Temperature
(C)
pH Aeration
(vvm)
Measured phytase
activity (U/ml)
Predicted phytase
activity (U/ml)
Glucose
residual (g/L)
1 32.5 5.5 0.75 2.14 2.13 28
2 25 5.5 0 0.72 0.52 55
3 40 4 0.75 1.76 1.62 38
4 32.5 5.5 0.75 2.12 2.13 26
5 25 7 0.75 0.67 0.80 45
6 25 5.5 1.5 0.88 0.96 40
7 32.5 4 0 1.10 1.30 38
8 40 5.5 0 0.77 0.70 51
9 32.5 5.5 0.75 2.13 2.13 28
10 32.5 7 1.5 1.10 0.89 40
11 25 4 0.75 1.34 1.33 34
12 32.5 7 0 0.73 0.79 38
13 40 5.5 1.5 0.74 0.94 45
14 40 7 0.75 0.65 0.66 63
15 32.5 4 1.5 1.94 1.87 32
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from fermentations, were compared with predicted value
from the model. If the values are close to each other with a
minor standard deviation, the model will be accepted as
representative.
Analysis
Samples were collected and centrifuged at 5,2009g for
15 min to remove the biomass. Then, supernatant was used
for phytase activity and glucose concentration analyses.
Biomass concentration could not be measured in the col-
lected samples due to bulk microbial growth in the
reactors.
Phytase activity
Phytase activity was determined as described by Kim et al.
[19] with minor modications. Cell-free broth (0.125 ml)
was mixed with 0.125 ml of 1.5 mM Na-phytate in 0.1 M
sodium acetate solution, and mixtures were incubated in
the water bath at 55 C for 30 min. After incubation,
reaction was stopped by adding 0.25 ml of 15 % trichlo-
roacetic acid (TCA) solution into the tubes. Then, 2 ml of
color regent was added, which was prepared freshly with
2:1:1:1 ratio of water, 2.5 % ammonium molybdate, 6 N
H
2
SO
4
, 10 % ascorbic acid, and tubes were incubated at
55 C for 30 min. After cooling down to room tempera-
ture, absorbances were measured at 700 nm using a
spectrophotometer (Beckman Coulter, Fullerton, CA). Un-
inoculated fermentation medium was used as the blank for
the measurement. The obtained data were used to calculate
the activity unit of phytase (U/ml), which was dened
as the amount of phosphorus liberated in lmole from
1.5 mM phytate per min under the assay conditions.
Fig. 1 Phytase selection media
results for A. cuum (a),
L. plantarum (b), L. acidophilus
(c), and L. amylovorus (d)
Fig. 2 Shake-ask phytase production results for screened
microorganism
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Glucose concentration
Glucose concentrations were measured using high pressure
liquid chromatography (HPLC) with a refractive index
detector (Waters, Milford, MA). Glucose determination
was performed using Aminex HPX-87H column (Bio-Rad,
Richmond, CA) with 0.8 ml/min isocratic ow of 0.012 N
sulfuric acid. The detector and column temperature were
maintained at 35 and 65 C, respectively. The cell-free
samples were ltered using 13-mm diameter, 0.2-lm pore-
sized lters (PALL Life Sciences, Port Washington, NY).
Statistical analysis
MINITAB Statistical Software package was used for sta-
tistical analyses. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was per-
formed for investigating statistically signicant differences
between phytase activities at different growth parameters
and terms that have p value lower than 0.05 were consid-
ered as signicant.
Results and discussion
Microorganism screening
There were several microorganisms, which can produce
phytase have been mentioned in the literature; however, it
is important to identify the best strain for submerged fer-
mentation. Four of the phytase producer strains were
selected for screening several microorganisms based on the
literature review. Microorganisms, which produced phy-
tase, created clear zones on phytase selection agar media
and the most productive strain was selected by comparing
average diameter of clear zones (Fig. 1). Among four
microorganisms, A. cuum showed the largest clear zones
by 2 cm. L. plantarum and L. acidophilus had 1.1 and
0.9 cm diameter as the clear zones, respectively, whereas
no clear zone was observed for L. amylovorus on the
phytase selective agar plate. Phytase selective agar results
were validated by performing shake-ask fermentations for
screened microorganisms. A. cuum showed the highest
phytase activity by 1.02 U/ml, whereas L. plantarum and
L. acidophilus produced 0.41 and 0.28 U/ml activity within
120 h, respectively. Similar to phytase selective agar
results, there was no phytase activity determined for
L. amylovorus (Fig. 2). Microorganism screening result
was also supported by the literature. Vohra and Satyan-
arayana showed that phytase, which was secreted by
A. cuum gave the lowest K
m
value among 29 microor-
ganisms [21]. Similarly, Shieh and Ware studied 24 dif-
ferent Aspergillus species and concluded that A. cuum
(NRRL 3135) was the most yielded microorganism [20]. In
the literature, Aspergillus species have been generally used
for solid-state phytase productions; however, this study
demonstrated that A. cuum is the most productive strain
for even in submerged shake-ask fermentations among the
screened microorganisms.
Optimization of growth parameters
Growth parameters for A. cuum such as temperature, pH,
and aeration were optimized in 2-l batch bioreactor under
submerged fermentation conditions using a Box-Behnken
design. Table 1 shows the overall Box-Behnken design,
experimental, predicted activity values, and glucose
residuals for different fermentation conditions. A. cuum
produced high phytase activity (2.13 U/ml) at 32.5 C, and
phytase activity was decreased below and above this tem-
perature. It can be seen from Table 1, phytase activity was
less than 1 U/ml when fermentation was run at 25 or 40 C,
except for run # 3 (40 C, 4 pH, and 0.75 vvm aeration)
and # 11 (25 C, 4 pH, and 0.75 vvm aeration). In addition,
phytase was produced with high activity under low pH
conditions. When fermentations were run at 40 C and
0.75 vvm aeration, but different pH conditions, phytase
activity was obtained as 1.76 U/ml at pH 4 (run # 3) and
0.65 U/ml at 7 pH (run # 14). Similarly, results obtained
Table 2 ANOVA table for
phytase production by A. cuum
in submerged fermentation
bioreactor
Terms Coefcients Standard error coefcient p values
Constant -17.5115 3.09780 0.002
Temperature 0.9083 0.13629 0.001
pH 1.5891 0.61533 0.049
Aeration 2.7411 0.84534 0.023
Temperature 9 temperature -0.013 0.00193 0.001
pH 9 pH -0.1313 0.04818 0.041
Aeration 9 aeration -1.1037 0.19272 0.002
Temperature 9 pH -0.0097 0.00926 0.345
Temperature 9 aeration -0.0087 0.01852 0.660
pH 9 aeration -0.1058 0.09258 0.305
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from the fermentations conducted at 25 C at different pH
values; phytase activity was 1.34 U/ml when fermentation
was run at 4 pH (run # 11) and it was decreased to 0.67 U/
ml when pH was maintained to 7 at the same temperature
and aeration level (run # 5). Additionally, phytase activity
was increased by aeration up to a certain level. For
example, when the fermentation was conducted at 25 C,
5.5 pH, and 1.5 vvm aeration conditions (run # 6), phytase
activity was 0.88 U/ml; however, it was obtained as
0.72 U/ml when there was no aeration (run # 2).
Fig. 3 Phytase activity trends
with changing growth
parameters
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Vohra and Satyanarayana [1] suggested the growth
conditions as optimum for phytase production with A. c-
uum are 27 C and pH 5 in shake-ask submerged fer-
mentation, which are similar to the optimum values of this
study. However, there is no information about aeration
level for submerged phytase production in their study,
which was determined as 0.9 vvm in this current study.
Aeration was not only necessary for the oxygen supple-
mentation for the microorganisms, but also it provided
better agitation in the fermentation broth.
Response surface model
A second-order polynomial equation (Eq. 1) and ANOVA
table (Table 2) were created by MINITAB software to
show the predicted values, effects of temperature, pH, and
aeration for batch phytase production.
Phytase (U/ml) 17:5115 0:9083 T
1:5891 pH 2:7411 A
0:013 T T 0:1313
pH pH 1:1037 AA
0:0097 T pH 0:0087 T A
0:1058 pHA 1
where T is temperature and A is aeration.
R
2
predicted coefcient (0.8780) indicates how well the
model prediction responses for the new observations and
R
2
(0.9564) indicates how well the model ts the experi-
mental data. To show the good t, experimental and pre-
dicted values were plotted (not shown) and the slope of the
best-tted line was determined as 0.96, which is very close
to 1.
Also it can be seen from Table 1 that model predicts
better when the fermentation was run under mid conditions
(run # 1, # 4, and # 9) (32.5 C, 5.5 pH, and 0.75 vvm
aeration) than low temperature conditions [run # 2 (25, 5.5
pH, and 0 vvm aeration), # 5 (25 C, 7 pH, and 0.75 vvm
aeration) and # 6 (25 C, 5.5 pH, and 1.5 vvm aeration)].
ANOVA showed that all main effects and two-way
interactions except for temperature 9 pH, tempera-
ture 9 aeration, and pH 9 aeration were signicant
(Table 2). Among the main effects, temperature was the
most effective growth parameter on phytase production,
since it has the lowest p value. In addition, application of
optimization in MINITAB suggested that the maximum
phytase activity can be obtained as 2.27 U/ml at 33 C, 4.5
pH and 0.9 vvm aeration conditions. In the literature, Soni
and Khire, and Papagianni [16, 21] reported 40 and 15 U/
ml phytase activities with A. niger. However, their results
seem to be questionable. Although the basic principle of
the spectrophotometric phytase analysis was dependent on
the colorimetric measurement of the amount free phosphate
released, KH
2
PO
4
was added to the fermentation media.
Due to KH
2
PO
4
, which was present in the medium, extra
color occurrence due to presence of KH
2
PO
4
might have
affected the results. Moreover, Soni and Khire [16] men-
tioned that they used buffer and enzyme solution as blank
in their studies. Many nutrients in the fermentation medium
may impact the color occurrence in phytase activity assay.
Therefore, un-inoculated fermentation medium should be
used as blank, which was the case in this study. On the
other hand, Mittal et al. [17] also performed phytase pro-
duction in a similar medium, which did not include any
phosphate source and they reported 0.9 U/ml phytase
activity, which is about 2.5 times lower than the activity
was obtained in this study (2.27 U/ml).
Phytase activity trends with changing growth parameters
are shown in Fig. 3. It can be seen from Fig. 3a that phy-
tase was produced with high activity between 30 and 35 C
when pH was around 4. Phytase activity decreased sharply
higher than pH 5 values (Fig. 3b). Additionally, it can be
seen from Fig. 3c, that low aeration rate affects phytase
activity more than high levels. Therefore, submerged
phytase fermentation systems with A. cuum, must be
denitely aerated. Therefore, this study suggests that phy-
tase activity can be obtained in high levels with
0.80.95 vvm aeration interval.
Phytase activity and glucose consumption under the
conditions identied as optimum are shown in Fig. 4.
Phytase activity rapidly increased 24 h after inoculation
and it started to decrease after 120 h. Similarly, glucose
consumption rate was increased 24 h after inoculation, and
28 g/L glucose was leftover in 120 h of fermentation when
the highest phytase activity was obtained. Maximum sub-
strate consumption rate and maximum phytase activity
production rate was calculated as 0.5 g glucose/h and
0.022 U/ml/h, respectively.
Fig. 4 Phytase activity and glucose consumption trend under condi-
tions identied as optimum
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Validation of the optimum conditions
Batch fermentation was conducted in triplicate at the
conditions identied as optimum, which were 33 C, pH
4.5, and 0.9 vvm for validation purpose. The phytase
activity obtained from the fermentations was found as
2.22 0.12 U/ml, and the predicted activity value from
the model was 2.27 U/ml, which was similar.
Conclusions
In conclusion, the most productive phytase producer
microorganism selection and optimization of growth
parameters for phytase production in 2-l batch reactors
were performed. A. cuum was identied as the most
productive strain for phytase production among A. cuum,
L. plantarum, L. acidophilus, and L. amylovorus. More-
over, Box-Behnken design was used to determine optimum
growth conditions, which were determined as 33 C, 4.5
pH, and 0.9 vvm aeration. Maximum phytase activity was
found as 2.27 U/ml at these conditions identied as the
optimum. This study clearly demonstrated that phytase
production can be performed in submerged fermentation
using bench-scale bioreactors; however, scale-up studies
are needed to assess efciency and performance at larger
scales.
Acknowledgments This work was supported in part by Turkish
Ministry of Education by providing scholarship to Hasan Bugra
Coban and the Pennsylvania Agricultural Experiment Station.
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