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Improved production of melanin from Aspergillus fumigatus AFGRD105 by optimization of media factors

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Title
Improved production of melanin from Aspergillus fumigatus AFGRD105 by optimization of media factors
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AMB Express, November 2015
DOI 10.1186/s13568-015-0161-0
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Nitya Meenakshi Raman, Pooja Harish Shah, Misha Mohan, Suganthi Ramasamy

Abstract

Melanins are indolic polymers produced by many genera included among plants, animals and microorganisms and targeted mainly for their wide range of applications in cosmetics, agriculture and medicine. An approach to analyse the cumulative effect of parameters for enhanced melanin production was carried out using response surface methodology. In this present study, optimization of media and process parameters for melanin production from Aspergillus fumigatus AFGRD105 (GenBank: JX041523; NFCCI accession number: 3826) was carried out by an initial univariate approach followed by statistical response surface methodology. The univariate approach was used to standardise the parameters that can be used for the 12-run Plackett-Burman design that is used for screening for critical parameters. Further optimization of parameters was analysed using Box-Behnken design. The optimum conditions observed were temperature, moisture and sodium dihydrogen phosphate concentration. The yield of every run of both designs were confirmed to be melanin by laboratory tests of analysis in the presence of acids, base and water. This is the first report confirming an increase in melanin production A. fumigatus AFGRD105 without the addition of costly additives.

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Unknown 28 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 39%
Student > Bachelor 3 11%
Student > Master 3 11%
Other 2 7%
Lecturer 1 4%
Other 3 11%
Unknown 5 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Immunology and Microbiology 7 25%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 18%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 14%
Physics and Astronomy 1 4%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 1 4%
Other 4 14%
Unknown 6 21%
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