LIQUID HOT WATER AND STEAM EXPLOSION PRETREATMENT OF SUGARCANE BAGASSE FOR ENZYME PRODUCTION BY A SEQUENTIAL SOLID-STATE AND SUBMERGED METHOD

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# LIQUID HOT WATER AND STEAM EXPLOSION PRETREATMENT OF SUGARCANE BAGASSE FOR ENZYME PRODUCTION BY A SEQUENTIAL SOLID-STATE AND SUBMERGED METHOD

F. M. CUNHA 1,2,3, A. BADINO 2, C. S. FARINAS 3,, E. XIMENES 1 and M. R. LADISCH 1

1 Purdue University, Laboratory of Renewable Resources Engineering
2 Federal University of São Carlos, Department of Chemical Engineering
3 EMBRAPA Instrumentacao
E-mail para contato: cunha_fm@yahoo.com.br

RESUMO – The use of sugarcane bagasse on enzyme production is a promising
alternative for reducing the costs of second generation ethanol. However, a
pretreatment step is required to increase cellulose and hemicellulose accessibility.
Here, the influence of Liquid Hot Water (LHW) and steam explosion (SE)
pretreatments in cultivations with three _Aspergillus_ strains were investigated. A
new sequential method was carried out with a first step in solid-state for 24h,
followed by the transition to submerged cultivation and enzyme production in the
presence of 1% (w/v) of sugarcane for 72h. For both _A. niger_ strains, the
endoglucanase production was 20 to 50% higher in cultivations with steam
exploded sugarcane bagasse. The xylanase and β-glucosidase production,
however, were higher in LHW pretreated sugarcane bagasse, with xylanase
production around 23% higher and β-glucosidase up to 4-fold higher. The _A. niger_
A12 strain produced the higher titers of all enzymes evaluated, resulting in 1.26;
26.25; 3.70 and 0.58 IU.mL -1 of endoglucanase, xylanase, β-glucosidase and βxylosidase, respectively, in LHW bagasse. Pretreated bagasse is not suitable for
enzyme production by _A. oryzae P27C3_, indicating that this strain may be more
sensitive to possible inhibitory products released from both pretreatments.

## 1. INTRODUCTION

The enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocellulosic feedstocks is a promising route compared
to chemical approaches due to its lower environmental impact (Sukumaran _et al._, 2009). In
order to ensure that enzymatic hydrolysis will be effective to convert lignocellulosic
substrates in sugars, the utilization of specific enzymatic extracts is needed. However, the
high costs of cellulases production combined to low specific enzyme activities limits its
industrial application (Kocher _et al._, 2008).

Recent research related to the source of the enzymatic extracts applied to the hydrolysis
of lignocellulosic materials have shown that the extracts produced in the presence of
lignocellulosic derived inducers instead of commercial substrates result in better hydrolysis
performance due to their specificity to the substrate (Castro _et al._, 2010; Singh _et al._, 2009).

Enzymatic extracts produced by different microbial strains also have different effects in the
hydrolysis of these materials (Maeda _et al._, 2011).

Due to the complexity and strength of the lignocellulosic materials, its use in
cultivations for cellulase and xylanase production may require, at first, a pretreatment step in
order to render the cellulose fraction more accessible to the fungi. Pretreatment can positively
impact not only enzyme production, but also the hydrolysis of lignocellulosic materials
(Wyman _et al._, 2011; Ladisch, 2010).

In Brazil, the main lignocellulosic material used for enzyme and cellulosic ethanol
production is the sugarcane bagasse, due to its availability in sugarcane mills. Among the
chemical and physical pretreatments that can be used for sugarcane bagasse pretreatment, the
Steam Explosion (SE) and the Liquid Hot Water (LHW) pretreatments has gained attention as
they enable the increase of cellulose digestibility through sugar extraction without the
necessity of chemical compound additions (Kohlmann et al, 1994; Mosier _et al._, 2005, Kim _et_
_al._, 2009a). Furthermore, the LHW pretreatment results in higher preservation of xylan than
the SE pretreatment.

The cultivation methods for cellulase production can be divided into solid-state
fermentation (SSF) and submerged fermentation (SmF), and each one has advantages or not
according to the desired application. In view of the technological demand for strategies to
improve the production of cellulase using sugarcane bagasse, a new cultivation method that
combines both SSF and SmF processes has been developed; this new sequential solid-state
and submerged fermentation method using sugarcane bagasse as substrate has shown
promising results (Cunha _et al._, 2012).

The aim of this research project has therefore been to evaluate the impact of SE and
LHW pretreatments on endoglucanase and xylanases production by three different strains of
_Aspergillus sp_ . from the Brazilian biome through the sequential fermentation method using
sugarcane bagasse as inducer substrate.

## 2. MATERIAL AND METHODS 2.1 Substrate

The inducer substrate used was sugarcane bagasse. The stem exploded sugarcane bagasse
(SSB) was provided by CTC (Piracicaba, Brazil). It was pretreated at 17x10 5 Pa, 205 ° C for
20 min. The liquid hot water pretreated sugarcane bagasse (LHW) was pretreated on the
Laboratoy of Renewables Engineering and Resources (LORRE) using stainless steel tubes
(2.54cm diameter×2.1mm wall thickness×11.4cm long) fitted with a pair of 1 in Swagelok
tube end fittings (Swagelok, Solon, OH) (Kim _et al._, 2009b). The bagasse was heated at 190
°C by placing the tube in a Tecam® SBL-1 fluidized sand bath (Cole-Parmer, Vernon Hills,
IL) at 190 °C for 20 min (5 min heat-up time and 15 min hold time). After that, the tube was
cooled by placing it in water. The pretreated material was dried at 40°C and stored until use.
The compositions of both sugarcane bagasse samples (Table 1) were determined following
the NREL procedure.

## _2.2 Microorganisms_

Three _Aspergillus_ strains were used for enzyme production: _A. niger_ A12 (wild strain
isolated from black pepper); _A. oryzae_ P27C3 (wild strain isolated from the soil of Amazon
forest) and _A. niger_ 3T5B8 (morphological mutant, Couri and Farias, 1995). All strains are
deposited at the Embrapa Food Technology microorganism collection in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil.

## _2.3 Nutrient medium_

The nutrient medium used for pre-culture and enzyme production was adapted from
Mandels and Sternberg (1976), and contained (w/v): 0.14% (NH4)2SO4, 0.20% KH2PO4,
0.03% CaCl2, 0.02% MgSO4.7H2O, 0.50% peptone, 0.20% yeast extract, 0.03% urea, 0.10%
Tween 80 and 0.10% of salt solution (5 mg/L FeSO4.7H2O, 1.6 mg/L, MnSO4.H2O, 1.4 mg/L
ZnSO4.7H2O, and 2.0 mg/L CoCl2). The nutrient media was supplemented with sugarcane
bagasse according to each experiment condition, described in the next sections.

## _2.4 Sequential solid-state and submerged fermentation (SF)_

In the sequential cultivation method experiments, the pre-culture was initiated as SSF,
using sugarcane bagasse as substrate. A volume of spore suspension resulting in a
concentration of 10 7 spores per gram of bagasse was added, and the cultivation was kept as
SSF under static conditions for 24 h at 32 °C. Then, a volume of nutrient medium enriched
with 30 g/L of glucose was added (40 parts of nutrient medium per gram of dry solid), and the
cultivation was continued as SmF in an orbital shaker incubator for 48 h at 32 °C and 200
rpm. For enzyme production, a volume of pre-culture suspension corresponding to 10% (v/v)
was transferred to the culture and incubated for 32 °C and 200 rpm for 72h. The culture
medium for enzyme production in SF was the same described in section 2.3, enriched with 10
g/L of glucose and 1 % (w/v) of sugarcane pretreated bagasse. After cultivation, the samples
were filtrated and enzyme assays were performed.

## _2.5 Enzyme assays_

Endoglucanase activity was assayed according to the IUPAC (Ghose, 1987)
procedure _,_ in the presence of 1% (w/v) low viscosity carboxymethyl cellulose in 50mM
sodium citrate buffer pH4.8. The xylanase activity was determined according to the IUPAC
procedure, in the presence of 1% (w/v) oat spelts xylan in 50mM sodium citrate buffer pH
4.8. One unit of endoglucanase or xylanase activity was defined as the amount of enzyme that
released 1 µmo _l_ of reducing sugar per min under the assay conditions. The reducing sugars
concentration was determined by the DNS method. The β-glucosidase and β-xylosidase
contents were determined in the presence of p-nitrophenyl substrates (Dien _et al._ , 2008).

## 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

Compositional analysis of the sugarcane bagasse: The composition of the sugarcane
bagasse after SE and LHW pretreatments (Table 1), as well as the components extracted by
water after each pretreatment, are showed in Tables 1 and 2, respectively.

Table 1 - Composition of sugarcane bagasse after SE and LHW pretreatments

It can be seen on Table 1 that the lignin and also the C-6 carbohydrates contents are
present in the same rate after SE and LHW pretreatments. However, the C-5 carbohydrates
rate is higher in LHW bagasse, which may explain a higher xylanase production in
cultivations with this bagasse. While SE pretreatment released a higher amount of sugars as
glucose, xylose and cellobiose, the LHW pretreatment conserved the xylooligomers fraction
(Table 2).

Table 2 – Components released in the hot-washing water after SE and LHW
pretreatments

Enzyme production: It was observed that both _A. niger_ strains can grow on pretreated
sugarcane bagasse and produce endoglucanase, xylanase and β-glucosidase. The enzymes
profile, however, were impacted differently according to the pretreatment. All the sequential
solid-state and submerged cultivations were performed in quintuplicates and the extracts were
combined for following experiments. In this sense, the results presented are the enzyme
activities of the total five cultivation broths.

Figure 1 shows the endoglucanase production for the six conditions evaluated
(cultivations with _A. niger_ A12, _A. niger_ 3T5B8 and _A. oryzae_ P27C3 using LHW and SE
bagasse). It is possible to observe that the endoglucanase production can be up to 20% and
50% higher in cultivations with SE pretreated sugarcane bagasse, by _A. niger_ A12 and _A._
_niger_ 3T5B8, respectively. Once both SE and LHW sugarcane bagasse have similar contents

of C-6 carbohydrates, the higher xylooligomers concentration on LHW sugarcane bagasse and
other oligosaccharides, as well as phenolic components released during LHW pretreatment,
caused the inhibition of the endoglucanase secreted to the medium. The same effect was
observed by Ximenes _et al._ (2010, 2011).

An opposite effect was observed regarding xylanase (Figure 2) and β-glucosidase
production (Figure 3). The LHW pretreated sugarcane bagasse provided more favorable
cultivation conditions for higher xylanase and β-glucosidase production. For the _A. niger_
strains, the xylanase production was up to 23% higher when LHW bagasse was used instead
of SE bagasse. The β-glucosidase production by _A. niger_ A12 was 4-fold higher when LHW
was used as substrate.

Figura 1 – Endoglucanase production after 72h of sequential solid-state and submerged
fermentation by three _Aspergillus_ strains growing on steam-exploded (SE) and liquid hot

water (LHW) pretreated sugarcane bagasse

Figura 2 – Xylanase production after 72h of sequential solid-state and submerged
fermentation by three _Aspergillus_ strains growing on steam-exploded (SE) and liquid hot

water (LHW) pretreated sugarcane bagasse

Figura 3 – Xylanase production after 72h of sequential solid-state and submerged
fermentation by three _Aspergillus_ strains growing on steam-exploded (SE) and liquid hot

water (LHW) pretreated sugarcane bagasse

The _A. niger_ A12 strain produced higher titers of all enzymes evaluated, resulting in
1.26; 26.25; 3.70 and 0.58 IU.mL -1 of endoglucanase, xylanase, β-glucosidase and βxylosidase, respectively, in LHW bagasse. These results were obtained under the new
sequential solid-state and submerged cultivation method, and are promising in comparison to
those which Rodríguez-Zúñiga _et al._ (2014) obtained under conventional solid-state
fermentation using the same _A. niger_ A12 strain and LHW pretreated sugarcane bagasse,
which resulted in endoglucanase and xylanase activities of 0.75 and 1.31 IU.mL -1,
respectively.

The _A. oryzae_ P27C3 strain, however, was not able to produce high enzyme titers on
pretreated bagasse. This strain was recently isolated from the Amazon forest soil and it has
been showed to be more sensitive to the products released during the sugarcane pretreatment.
However, even in low titers, the enzyme production profile followed the same trend as
observed for the _A. niger_ strains.

## 4. CONCLUSION

For the three _Aspergillus sp_ ., while the endoglucanase production was favored by the
SE pretreatment, the xylanase and β-glucosidase production were higher in LHW bagasse
cultivations. However, the _A. oryzae_ could not produce high enzymatic titers, indicating that
this strain (or enzymes secreted in medium) is more sensitive to possible inhibitory products
released from both pretreatments. The higher enzyme production was achieved by _A. niger_
A12 in LHW cultivation, resulting in 1.26; 26.25; 3.70 and 0.58 IU.mL -1 of endoglucanase,
xylanase, β-glucosidase and β-xylosidase respectively.

## 5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

CAPES Foundation, Ministry of Education of Brazil. “PDSE/CAPES Scholarship – Process
nº 12470-12-0” and to FAPESP (Proc. 2011/23807-1).

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