PMID- 35988608 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20221019 LR - 20221019 IS - 1879-1026 (Electronic) IS - 0048-9697 (Linking) VI - 851 IP - Pt 1 DP - 2022 Dec 10 TI - Influence of lactate to acetate ratio on biological production of medium chain carboxylates via open culture fermentation. PG - 158171 LID - S0048-9697(22)05270-6 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158171 [doi] AB - Waste valorisation via biological production of widely used in the industry medium chain carboxylates (MCCs) via open culture fermentation (OCF) could be a promising alternative to the commonly used anaerobic digestion. Lactate-rich waste streams are considered as valuable substrates for carboxylate chain elongation (CE), however, there are certain limitations related to the production efficiency. Acetate produced and accumulated in the acetogenesis plays an important role in CE, i.e. acetate is elongated to butyrate and then to caproate which is most popular MCC. Henceforth, it was investigated whether the ratio of lactate to acetate (L:A) affected carboxylates yields and product distribution in the lactate-based CE in OCF. The tested L:A ratios influenced carboxylates selectivity in batch trials. In the ones with lactate as the sole carbon source, propionate production was predominant but when a higher relative acetate concentration was used, the production of butyrate and CE to caproate was favored. The co-utilization of lactate and acetate in a continuous process increased the production of butyrate and caproate compared to the phase with lactate as the sole carbon source, however, controlling the relative concentration of lactate and acetate during co-utilization was not an effective strategy for increasing caproate production. 16S rRNA gene amplicon reads mapping to Caproiciproducens were the most abundant in samples collected throughout the continuous processes regardless of the L:A ratios. CI - Copyright (c) 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Brodowski, Filip AU - Brodowski F AD - Water Supply and Bioeconomy Division, Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Energy, Poznan University of Technology, Berdychowo 4, 60-965 Poznan, Poland. FAU - Lezyk, Mateusz AU - Lezyk M AD - Water Supply and Bioeconomy Division, Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Energy, Poznan University of Technology, Berdychowo 4, 60-965 Poznan, Poland. FAU - Gutowska, Natalia AU - Gutowska N AD - Water Supply and Bioeconomy Division, Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Energy, Poznan University of Technology, Berdychowo 4, 60-965 Poznan, Poland. FAU - Kabasakal, Tugba AU - Kabasakal T AD - Water Supply and Bioeconomy Division, Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Energy, Poznan University of Technology, Berdychowo 4, 60-965 Poznan, Poland. FAU - Oleskowicz-Popiel, Piotr AU - Oleskowicz-Popiel P AD - Water Supply and Bioeconomy Division, Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Energy, Poznan University of Technology, Berdychowo 4, 60-965 Poznan, Poland. Electronic address: piotr.oleskowicz-popiel@put.poznan.pl. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20220818 PL - Netherlands TA - Sci Total Environ JT - The Science of the total environment JID - 0330500 RN - 0 (Acetates) RN - 0 (Butyrates) RN - 0 (Caproates) RN - 0 (Propionates) RN - 0 (RNA, Ribosomal, 16S) RN - 1F8SN134MX (hexanoic acid) RN - 33X04XA5AT (Lactic Acid) RN - 7440-44-0 (Carbon) SB - IM MH - Acetates MH - Butyrates MH - *Caproates MH - Carbon MH - Fermentation MH - *Lactic Acid MH - Propionates MH - RNA, Ribosomal, 16S OTO - NOTNLM OT - Acetate OT - Caproate OT - Caproiciproducens OT - Chain elongation OT - Lactate COIS- Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. EDAT- 2022/08/22 06:00 MHDA- 2022/10/20 06:00 CRDT- 2022/08/21 19:23 PHST- 2022/07/01 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/08/08 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2022/08/16 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/08/22 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/10/20 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/08/21 19:23 [entrez] AID - S0048-9697(22)05270-6 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158171 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Sci Total Environ. 2022 Dec 10;851(Pt 1):158171. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158171. Epub 2022 Aug 18.