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Enhanced high-solids fed-batch enzymatic hydrolysis of sugarcane bagasse with accessory enzymes and additives at low cellulase loading Marie Rose Mukasekuru, Jinguang Hu, Xiaoqin Zhao, Fubao Fuelbiol Sun, Kaneza Pascal, Hongyan Ren, and Junhua Zhang ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/ acssuschemeng.8b01972 • Publication Date (Web): 24 Aug 2018 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on August 27, 2018
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Enhanced high-solids fed-batch enzymatic hydrolysis of sugarcane bagasse with accessory
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enzymes and additives at low cellulase loading
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Marie Rose Mukasekuru,†,¶ Jinguang Hu,‡ Xiaoqin Zhao,† Fubao Fuelbiol Sun,†* Kaneza Pascal,† Hongyan
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Ren,§* Junhua Zhang╫
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Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China
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Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
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Key Laboratory of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of
Forestry Products Biotechnology / Bioenergy Group, Wood Science Department, University of British
Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Anaerobic Biotechnology, School of Environmental and Civil Engineering,
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Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China
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Rwanda
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*Corresponding Author
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Fubao Fuelbiol Sun, PhD, Assoc Prof;
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Key Laboratory of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of
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Biotechnology, Jiangnan University;
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[email protected] ;
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*Corresponding Author
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Hongyan Ren, PhD, Assoc Prof;
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Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Anaerobic Biotechnology, School of Environment and Civil Engineering, Jiangnan
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University, Wuxi 214122,China;
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[email protected] ;
Department of Applied Biology, College of Science and Technology, Avenue de l’armée, Kigali 3900,
College of Forestry, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China
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HIGHLIGHT
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hydrolysis
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High-solids hydrolysis (20%) produced ~160 g/L fermentable sugars with 83% cellulose and 90% xylan hydrolysis at 3 FPU/g substrate after 72 h
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Extra β-glucosidase addition is evidently unnecessary for Cellic CTec2 hydrolysing lignocellulosic substrate
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Mixed use of additives and accessory enzymes is highly instrumental for high-solids cellulase
al-AGO pretreated substrates present an industrially relevant hydrolysability
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ABSTRACT
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High cellulase loading is still a major impediment in the production of fermentative sugars from high-solids
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enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocellulosic substrates in the enzyme-based “biorefinery” industry. This study
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attempted a high-solids (20%) enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocellulosic substrate at a very low cellulase
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loading with mixed use of additives and accessory enzymes by fed-batch mode. To avoid the high initial
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biomass viscosity, the high-solids enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocellulosic substrates was initiated with a
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solids content of 8%. Thereafter, 4% of the additional substrates were consecutively fed into the hydrolysis
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system after 6, 12, and 18 h to reach a final solid content of 20%. Some additive mixtures (40 mg Tween 80
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+ 10 mg tea saponin + 20 mg/ g substrate BSA) were observed to enable this fed-batch hydrolysis to
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increase 30% of the glucose yield after the 48 h. The combination of these additives and accessory
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enzymes (2.4 mg/g substrate xylanase and 1 mg/g substrate AA9) in the high-solids hydrolysis system
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further boosted the sugar release. This allowed us to achieve an industrially relevant sugar yield (83%
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cellulose and 90% xylan hydrolysis) and fermentable sugar titer (~160 g/L) after 72 h, with a low cellulase
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enzyme loading (3 FPU/g substrate). Our results indicate that the fed-batch substrate addition process is a
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favourable model for high-solids enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocellulosic substrates. Moreover, the synergism
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between the additives and accessory enzymes can greatly boost the high-solids enzymatic hydrolysis of
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lignocellulosic substrates.
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KEYWORDS: Atmospheric glycerol organosolv-pretreated, Sugarcane bagasse, High solids content,
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Enzymatic hydrolysis, Low enzyme loading, Additive and accessory enzyme
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■INTRODUCTION
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A potent sugar platform comprising pretreatment and enzymatic hydrolysis is widely recognized in the
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lignocellulosic biorefinery industry as the key to the efficient bioprocessing of holocellulosic polysaccharides
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into fermentative sugars. This has led to extensive research on pretreatment processes including dilute
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acid/alkaline,1 steam explosion,2 liquid ammonia,3 and ionic liquid.4 To date, these employed pretreatment
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methods are still unsatisfactory in terms of component selectivity, holocellulose hydrolysability, and
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fermentation inhibitor production. In our laboratory, atmospheric glycerol organosolv (AGO) pretreatment
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was initiated ten years ago using industrial glycerol as a cooking solvent.5,
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Thereafter, dozens of
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researchers investigated the AGO pretreatment method of various lignocellulosic biomass.7 To date, the
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AGO pretreatment has presented obvious features as below 7, 8: 1) organosolv pretreatment; 2) atmospheric
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operation process; 3) value-added organosolv lignin; 4) non-toxic solvent; 5) usable solvent residual as
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microbial carbon source; 6) less production of furan inhibitors; 7) a bridge between bioethanol and biodiesel
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production. Besides, the AGO pretreatment deconstructs the recalcitrant cell wall of lignocellulosic biomass
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with good selectivity, rendering the substrate a robust hydrolysability and fermentability. AGO-pretreated
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wheat straw with a 2 % solids content reached 90% of glucose yield after 24-h enzymatic hydrolysis with 16
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FPU/g of cellulase loading. Recently, the 48-h enzymatic hydrolysis of AGO-pretreated sugarcane bagasse
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at a solids content of ≤10% reached >80% at 10 FPU/g.8 Additionally, this pretreatment process produced
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relatively few furan derivatives that are adverse to the subsequent microbial fermentation.8 Briefly, an
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AGO-pretreated substrate is likely to be a valid feedstock candidate for the ongoing industrially relevant
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enzyme-based biorefineries.
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Nevertheless, most of the current enzymatic hydrolysis processes produced from the AGO-pretreated
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substrate at a dilute solids content (≤10%) yield low glucose titers (10 FPU/g).11 Briefly, the current high-solids
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enzymatic hydrolysis is not yet desirable in terms of “three-high” (titer, yield, and productivity) demand in the
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conventional starchy ethanol fermentation industry.17 Therefore, it is crucial to discover other effective
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strategies that enhance the “three-high” level of this process.
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As reported extensively in the literature, some additives [surfactants, bovine serum albumin (BSA), and
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polymers] and accessory enzymes [β-glucosidase, xylanase, and auxiliary activity 9 (AA9)] have improved
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the enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocellulosic substrates.17-21 Zhang et al. revealed that the addition of BSA and
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Tween 80 in an enzymatic hydrolysis with a solids content of 2% increased the glucose yield by 72.4% and
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68.8%, respectively.18 In our earlier study, the addition of accessory enzymes (BG, xylanase, and AA9)
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significantly enhanced enzymatic hydrolysis.19, 20 These additives22, 23 and accessory enzymes
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been investigated in high-solids enzymatic hydrolysis. Ma et al. demonstrated that the addition of 2 g/L
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Tween 80 allowed a 30% increase of enzymatic hydrolysis with a solids content of 25%.22 Hu et al.
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discovered that the combination of xylanase and AA9 increased the hydrolysis rate by 30% for SPP and 5
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20% for SPCS substrates at 20% solids loading.24 These studies have evidenced that the addition of
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additives and accessory enzymes promotes high-solids enzymatic hydrolysis. Nevertheless, to date,
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information on the recombination of these additives and accessory enzymes in the high-solids enzymatic
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hydrolysis of lignocellulosic substrates is scarce.
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Based on the above factors, this study attempted to improve the high-solids (20% solids content)
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enzymatic hydrolysis of an alkaline-catalysed atmospheric glycerol organosolv (al-AGO)-pretreated
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substrate at low enzyme loading. To our knowledge, this is the first time that the high-solid enzymatic
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hydrolysis of AGO-pretreated lignocellulosic substrate was reported, especially that with a mixed use of
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additives and accessory enzymes. First, some key variables, i.e., enzyme loading and initial solid content,
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were selected for the high-solids enzymatic hydrolysis of al-AGO-pretreated sugarcane bagasse. Next, the
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high-solids hydrolysis of the substrates was explored using the fed-batch mode, and additives and
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accessory enzymes were subsequently selected for this hydrolysis process. Finally, the high-solids
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fed-batch enzymatic hydrolysis of the al-AGO-pretreated substrate was performed and characterized
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successfully to efficiently achieve high-titer fermentable sugars.
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■MATERIAL AND METHODS
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Material. Sugarcane bagasse (41.2% cellulose, 20.6% hemicellulose, and 23.0% lignin) was purchased
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from Guangxi Province, China. It was dried to constant weight at 105 °C and subsequently stored in a
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polyethylene plastic container. Industrial glycerol, purchased from a chemical plant in Jiangsu Province,
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China, was of commercial grade (95% purity). Tea saponin (95% purity) was technical grade, commercially
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purchased from Shanghai Shifeng Biological Technology Co., Ltd. Cellulase preparations Cellic® CTec2
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(CTec2; 141 FPU/g) and beta-glucosidase (54.21 U/mL) were a generous gift from Novozymes (China)
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Investment Co., Ltd. Endo-xylanase solid powder (150 mg protein/g) was acquired from Vland Biotech,
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China. Recombinant lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (NCBI: XM_001907667.1; AA9) was produced
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in Pichia pastoris GS115 from Podospora anserina in our laboratory according to a previously reported
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method.25
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al-AGO Pretreatment of Sugarcane Bagasse. In a typical run, 100 g of dry sugarcane bagasse was 6
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directly mixed with 1000 g of 95.0% industrial glycerol and 0.2% (w/w) NaOH (3 g) as catalyst. And the
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mixture was then cooked at 240 °C for 30 min in a three-necked round-bottom flask (5 L). The pretreatment
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condition with alkaline addition was selected in our laboratory as reported in our earlier work, 5,8 which would
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be reported elsewhere. The main components of the al-AGO-pretreated sugarcane bagasse comprised
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(w/w): 57% cellulose, 25% hemicellulose, and 12% lignin.
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Selection of Key Variables and Additives for Fed-batch Enzymatic Hydrolysis. Each sample,
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equivalent to 4.50 g dried al-AGO-pretreated substrate (10%, w/v) was loaded in a 250-mL Erlenmeyer flask
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supplemented with citric buffer (0.05 M, pH = 4.8) to acquire 45 g of slurry. Next, different CTec2 loadings
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were added at 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 FPU/g dried substrate to select the desirable enzyme loading.
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Subsequently, the enzymatic hydrolysis processes of the al-AGO-pretreated substrates [6, 8 10, 12, and
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14% (w/v) solids contents] were carried out to select an initial solid content, in 250-mL Erlenmeyer flasks
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supplemented with citric buffer (0.05 M, pH 4.8), to acquire 45 g of slurry. To test an additive, 60 mg/g of the
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surfactant (Tween 80, Tween 20, PEG (Polyethylene glycol) 4000, PEG 6000, PEG 10000, and PEG 20000),
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non-catalytic protein [bovine serum albumin (BSA), casein, corn steep liquor (CSL), and peptone), or
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polymer [tea saponin and cationic polyacrylamide (c-PAM)] was added to the enzymatic hydrolysis mixture
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(10%, w/v) at the selected enzyme loading. Once the additive was identified, different amounts of it were
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further examined under the same hydrolysis condition to establish the additive amount. The enzymatic
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hydrolysis process was conducted at 50 °C for 48 h with a shaking speed of 180 rpm. For the sugar assay,
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samples were collected after 6 h, 12 h, 24 h, and 48 h and centrifuged at 10,000 rpm for 5 min.
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High-solids Hydrolysis of Substrates via the Fed-batch Mode. Once the initial solids content and
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cellulase loading were selected, high-solids hydrolysis was carried out for 72 h with different feeding
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amounts (3 and 4%) and times (6, 12, 18, 24, and 30 h) to build the fed-batch enzymatic hydrolysis process.
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Then, an AL4 (43) orthogonal experiment with three variables (Tween 80, BSA, and tea saponin) and four
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levels was designed to determine the amount of additive mixtures.20 Next, to evaluate the role of the
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accessory enzymes (BG, endo-xylanase, and AA9), different enzyme loadings were assessed along with the
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additives in the fed-batch cellulase hydrolysis. The enzymatic hydrolysis process was also performed at
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Analytical Procedures. The glucose titer in the enzymatic hydrolysate was measured with a commercial
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SBA-40E biosensor (H2O2 electrode sensor) using glucose as standard. The xylose titer was assayed with
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high performance liquid chromatography equipped with an Aminex HPX-87H column (300 × 7.8 mm,
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BioRad, US) at a column temperature of 65 °C; 5 mM H2SO4was used as the mobile phase at a flow rate of
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0.6 mL min−1. The glucose and xylose yields were determined and calculated, respectively, from the
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equations (1) and (2):
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Glucose yield (%) = 0.9× [g in glucose] × 100 / [g in cellulose]
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Xylose yield (%) = 0.88 × [g in xylose] × 100 / [g in xylan]
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In this paper, except for specific descriptions, the hydrolysis refers to glucose yield. All the samples were
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analysed in duplicate and mean values were calculated with standard deviations of ˂ 4%.
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■RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
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Key Variables of the High-solids Enzymatic Hydrolysis Process. Reasonable cellulase loading is
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perquisite for the economic and efficient enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass.26 In this study, to
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run the hydrolysis process at a low cellulase loading, different enzyme loadings (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 FPU/g
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dry substrate) were employed for the batch hydrolysis of al-AGO-pretreated sugarcane bagasse at 10%
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solids content with a shaking speed of 180 rpm (Figure 1). At an enzyme loading of 1 FPU/g and 2 FPU/g,
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the glucose yield from the enzymatic hydrolysis was 34% and 40% after 48 h, respectively. At 3
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FPU/g, >60% of the enzymatic hydrolysis was attained after 48 h, and at 4 FPU/g, glucose yield reached
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68% after 48 h. Results showed that the enzymatic hydrolysis increased with a high enzyme loading.
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Especially, the enzyme loading of 3 FPU/g contributed to a fast increase of the glucose yield. Meantime, the
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substrate liquefaction was observed with naked eyes. For the enzyme loading of 1 FPU/g and 2 FPU/g, the
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substrate took a long liquefaction and completely liquefied at 24 h. Contrarily, the substrate tended to liquefy
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when the enzyme loading was higher than 4 FPU/g. This observation indicated that an enzyme loading that
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is too low is adverse to substrate hydrolysis, resulting in a long liquefaction time. On the other hand, an
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enzyme loading that is too high can contribute towards a fast process but is less economically attractive 8
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owing to the high enzyme cost.15, 27 Considering that 3 FPU/g is of an extremely low cellulase loading level
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and rendered the enzymatic hydrolysis a relatively short liquefaction time (< 12 h), 3 FPU/g substrate of
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Initial Solids Content. The aim of this experiment was to select a suitable initial solids content for the
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high-solids hydrolysis process. Different solids contents [6, 8, 10, 12, and 14% (w/v)] were examined in a
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batch hydrolysis process for 48 h with a shaking speed of 180 rpm at 3 FPU/g substrate of cellulase loading.
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As shown in Figure 2, the glucose yield from enzymatic hydrolysis at different solid contents increased with
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the hydrolysis time. Obviously, the increase of solid content led to a gradually low profile of glucose yield.
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When the solid content was not more than 8%, the substrate took a short liquefaction time of 6 h by
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observation with naked eyes, whereas 12 h for the enzymatic hydrolysis at ≥ 10% of the solid content. Thus,
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it is evident that selecting 8% as the initial solid content was reasonable. In regards to the glucose titer
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(Figure S1), the glucose released from enzymatic hydrolysis process first increased and subsequently
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decreased. It can be guessed that the initial increase of solid content should supply more accessible
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opportunity of substrate to the cellulase enzymes and enhance the interaction of enzyme and substrate,
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thereby releasing more sugars. At a solids content of 8%, the glucose content reached a peak level of 42 g/L,
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suggesting that the interaction of enzyme and substrate reached a maximized level. Thereafter, the
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increased solid content was mainly responsible for the sticky broth, resulting in a long liquefaction time and
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thus low hydrolysis. And even, the hydrolysis process failed in liquefaction at 48 h when the solid content
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exceeded 18% (Data not shown). A similar phenomenon was reported in other studies.12, 16 They suggested
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that the unreasonable increase in solids content in the enzymatic hydrolysis process contributes towards a
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low hydrolysis yield. Accordingly, based on the liquefaction time and final glucose titer, an initial solids
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loading of 8% (w/v) was selected.
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concentrations >15% dry matter (w/w).10,
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extremely sticky slurry and mass-transferring difficulty, which was likely responsible for the above long
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liquefaction time of substrate hydrolysis with a high initial solid content.
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effects derived from the high-solids enzymatic hydrolysis, we next adopted a substrate fed-batch method to
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realize the high-solids (20%) enzymatic hydrolysis process. The substrate feeding mode was assessed with
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an initial solids content of 8% by feeding unequal amounts (3% and 4%) at different times (6, 12, 18, 24, and
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30 h). The enzymatic hydrolysis of Mode 3 with feeding for three times was 51% at 72 h, a value that is
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slightly higher than that observed for Mode 1 (49%) with feeding for four times (Table 1). Likewise, the
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comparison of Mode 4 and Mode 1 also showed that feeding for three times was better than feeding for four
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times in improving the enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocellulosic substrate. When considering the feeding time,
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the hydrolysis at Mode 1 was better than that at Mode 2, while Mode 3 was superior to Mode 4. This
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comparison suggested that feeding the substrate at an earlier stage was favourable. Conversely, a delay in
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substrate feeding produced low hydrolysis yields, probably due to enzyme inactivity.12 Thus, a solids content
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of 4% (w/v) was selected, at feeding times of 6, 12, and 18 h, to achieve a total solids content of
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20%.Nevertheless, several studies have indicated that compared to the batch mode, the fed-batch mode
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hindered the high-solids enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocellulosic substrates.26, 29 These contradictory results
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are very probably attributed to the different stages in which the substrates are fed. A typical enzymatic
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hydrolysis process initially displays a relatively rapid rate that subsequently decreases. Thus, if the substrate
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is fed too early, the cellulase enzymes have not completed the initial substrate hydrolysis and not yet
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desorbed from the initial cellulosic substrate.26 And the viscosity in the hydrolysis system tends to increase
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with the substrate feeding, which is adverse to the mass transfer, hence a low hydrolysis yield.28 More
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seriously, the substrate feeding can result in occurrence of the hydrolysis break-off. Late addition is helpful
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to avoid the high viscosity in the broth as the initial substrate has made relatively sufficient liquefaction and
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hydrolysis. Nevertheless, the late addition is also less effective since the cellulase deactivity often occurs in
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the hydrolysis process and end product inhibition by the liberated glucose.13, 29 Thus, both the method and
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stage of substrate feeding are critical to maintain a fast liquefaction and thus a low viscosity. 28 Unfortunately,
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this is complicated by substrate characteristics, enzyme type/loading, and hydrolytic environment so that
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substrate fed-batch mode will require deeper and more precise knowledge of the lignocellulosic hydrolysis
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addition of surfactants to the cellulase mixture can significantly improve the enzymatic hydrolysis of
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lignocellulosic substrates.19-21 In this experiment, the hydrolysis of al-AGO-pretreated substrates (3 FPU/g
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substrate of cellulase loading) was supplemented with 60 mg/g substrate of surfactant to examine their
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effect on batch hydrolysis. Figure 3A reveals that both Tween 80 and 20 significantly enhanced the
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enzymatic hydrolysis process; addition of high molecular weight PEG also aided the process. Among the
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three surfactants, Tween 80 afforded the highest cellulose hydrolysis, reaching 80% after 48 h. additionally,
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compared to the process with no surfactant added, Tween 80 enhanced both the 24-h and 48-h enzymatic
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hydrolyses by 30%. Accordingly, Tween 80 was selected as surfactant for subsequent analyses. Further, the
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addition of 40 mg/g of Tween 80 produced a maximum enzymatic hydrolysis of 84%, 45% higher than that
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observed with the control. Such a remarkable performance was attributed to the capability of Tween 80 to
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act as a specific activator to alleviate the inhibition of lignin, hemicelluloses, and their derivatives in some
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key cellulase components (cellobiohydrolase).21 Consequently, we concluded that the addition of 40 mg/g
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substrate of Tween 80 as substrate was adequate to improve the hydrolysis of al-AGO-pretreated
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sugarcane bagasse.
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Selection of Protein and Polymer. Some additives such as BSA and tea saponin significantly facilitate the
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enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass.31, 30 Notably, the tea saponin is a newly found additive
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useful for the lignocellulosic hydrolysis, which is a type of natural non-ionic biosurfactant or biopolymer with
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a weight-average molecular weight of ~ 800 g/mol.30 The tea saponin is commonly extracted from tea-oil
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processing byproducts of the Camellia oleifera Abel. crop that is planted widely for extrusion of nutritional
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edible oils in some Asian countries, mainly in China.32 In this experiment, accordingly, proteins (BSA, casein, 11
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corn steep liquor, and peptone) and polymers (tea saponin and c-PAM) were investigated in the batch
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enzymatic hydrolysis of al-AGO-pretreated substrates at 3 FPU/g (Figure 3B). Among these additives, the
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individual addition of BSA and tea saponin enhanced enzymatic hydrolysis and increased 48-h cellulose
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hydrolysis by 13% and 11%, respectively. Thus, BSA and tea saponin were selected as additives with
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respective concentrations of 40 mg/g and 10 mg/g. At these polymer concentrations, 48-h enzymatic
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hydrolysis approached 90%. Both additives displayed an active role in the enzymatic hydrolysis of the
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substrates. BSA can be irreversibly and competitively adsorbed onto the lignin coating the cellulose, thereby
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preventing lignin adsorption to cellulose.31 On the other hand, tea saponin can promote the adsorption of
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cellulolytic enzymes on the substrate and mediate the release of adsorbed enzymes, thus improving the
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Orthogonal Optimization of Additives. Recent research has evidenced that some additives enhanced
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enzymatic hydrolysis performed at high solids contents.22, 23 Therefore, based on the above batch enzymatic
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hydrolysis results, an orthogonal design (Tween 80, BSA, and tea saponin) was employed for the high-solids
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fed-batch enzymatic hydrolysis process. The reaction was carried out with 8% of the initial solids content
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and 4% substrate feeding at 6, 12, and 18 h to achieve a total solids content of 20% (w/v). Table 2 illustrates
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that mixtures of these additives (Tween 80, tea saponin, and BSA) at different proportions significantly
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enhanced the process. The order of additive influence was Tween 80 > Tea saponin > BSA (Table S1). The
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reasonable combination of these additives was determined as 40 mg/g Tween 80, 10 mg/g tea saponin, and
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20 mg/g BSA. With this determined combination, the high-solids enzymatic hydrolysis reached 58% and
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released 74 g/L of glucose after 48 h. Compared to the control, this translates to ~30% enhancement.
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Figure 4 describes the profile of the high-solids fed-batch enzymatic hydrolysis process with the
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optimized combination of additives. The substrate [4% (w/v) total solids content] was fed separately at 6, 12,
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hydrolysis processes increased. At 72 h, the hydrolysis processes with and without additives reached 62%
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hydrolysis process enhanced the reaction by ~20%.33 This study clearly confirms that compared to the
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addition of the individual additives, a mixture of several additives can effectively increase the enzymatic
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hydrolysis process. Nonetheless, the effectiveness of additive combination has been mainly verified in
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enzymatic hydrolysis at low solids contents. At high solids contents, there is an increasing tendency towards
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using single additives.22, 23 Ma et al. indicated that the addition of Tween 80 (2 g/L) at a solids content of 25%
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increased cellulose conversion by 30%.22 Unfortunately, there is extremely limited information on the use of
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additive combination in hydrolysis processes at high solids contents. Thus, this study underlined the positive
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Consequently, the above combination of additives can be used for further experimentation to facilitate
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fed-batch enzymatic hydrolysis.
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Enzymes. Previous studies have indicated that the supplementation of cellulases with BG can minimize the
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inhibition of the end-products (mainly cellobiose) towards cellulases and thus, improve the hydrolysis of the
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cellulose embedded in the lignocellulosic biomass.10, 34 Such beneficial effects would be more pronounced
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in a high-solids enzymatic hydrolysis process where the cellulase enzymes experience multiple stresses in
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the hydrolysis system. Therefore, in this study, different amounts of BG were supplied along with the
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optimized additives to assess the role of BG in the cellulase hydrolysis of al-AGO-pretreated sugarcane
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bagasse at a high-solids content (Figure 5A). However, the addition of extra BG did not boost the 13
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high-solids (20%) enzymatic hydrolysis, even at a high BG loading of 45 U/g dried substrate (Fig. 5). This
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was attributed to the already high BG activity in the new Novozyme CTec preparation.19, 35 Our earlier work
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revealed that the addition of BG (1–8.0 mg/g glucan) to Cellic CTec1 produced no beneficial effects on the
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enzymatic hydrolysis of SO2-catalysed steam exploded sweet sorghum bagasse.19 Since the CTec2
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preparation contains even higher BG activity (1200 U/mL) than that of CTec1 (210 U/mL),19 it follows that the
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supplementation of BG to CTec2 is unnecessary for the hydrolysis of al-AGO-pretreated lignocellulosic
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Addition of Endo-xylanase. Previous studies have shown that the supplementation of xylanase to a
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cellulase preparation can effectively facilitate the liquefaction of various types of pretreated lignocellulosic
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substrates at high solids contents.24 Therefore, we next assessed the addition of endo-xylanase in the
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high-solids (20% of the total solid loading) fed-batch hydrolysis of al-AGO-pretreated substrates at a
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relatively low cellulase loading (3 FPU/g substrate). As expected, the addition of xylanase (2.4 mg protein/g
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substrate) significantly enhanced the cellulose hydrolysis by ≤ 30% after 48-h hydrolysis (from 56% to 71%,
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Figure 5B). The result is consistent with our previous findings, whereby the addition of xylanase greatly
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contributed towards the hydrolysis of SO2-catalysed steam-pretreated sweet sorghum bagasse to produce a
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30% increase.19 In this study, the al-AGO pretreated substrate contained rich hemicellulose, high up to 25%.
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The xylan dominated hemicellulose not only acts as a coating to restrict the accessibility of cellulose to
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cellulase enzymes,19, 24 but also serves as a cellulose microfibril cross linker to maintain an integrated cell
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wall structure. Accordingly, the xylanase addition exerted a beneficial hydrolysis-boosting effect on the
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xylan-enriched substrate. It can assumed that this boosting effect should be attained by synergizing the
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enzyme interaction between xylanase and cellulase, and increasing the cellulose accessibility to the
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cellulase with the xylan coating removal.36 In addition, due to the hydrophilicity of the xylan polymer, the
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removal of xylan by xylanase enzymes reduces the viscosity of the biomass slurry, thus improving the
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liquefaction of high-solids loading hydrolysis.24 In brief, our data have indicated that the addition of
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endo-xylanase robustly enhanced the enzymatic hydrolysis of al-AGO-pretreated substrates at high solids
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Addition of AA9. Recent studies have emphasized that lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs)
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such as AA9 can significantly improve cellulose hydrolysis by oxidative cleavage of the highly organized
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crystalline cellulose region and thus, improve cellulose accessibility to cellulase enzymes.19 However,
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previous studies have only assessed the boosting effects of AA9 at relatively low solids contents. The
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negative charges created by AA9 oxidative cleavage induce fibre repulsion,37 thereby facilitating biomass
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liquefaction by avoiding fibre aggregation at high solids contents. To verify this, different amounts of AA9
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were added in dilute cellulase (3 FPU/g) with the optimized additives and endo-xylanase (2.4 mg/g) to
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hydrolyse an al-AGO-pretreated substrate (20%, w/v) (Figure 5C). The initial enzymatic hydrolysis
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increased significantly with the addition of AA9. Thus, when 1.0 mg/g AA9 was added, the 48-h cellulose
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hydrolysis reached a plateau of 76%, a 10% increase over that observed with the control. Thus, 1.0 mg/g
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substrate of AA9 was selected in our study.
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High-solids Hydrolysis with Additives and Accessory Enzymes. Figure 6 depicts the course of 72-h
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high-solids enzymatic hydrolysis processes with established additives (40 mg/g Tween 80, 10 mg/g tea
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saponin, and 20 mg/g BSA) and accessory enzymes (2.4 mg/g endo-xylanase and 1 mg/g AA9). All the
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the 48-h fed-batch enzymatic hydrolysis of the al-AGO-pretreated substrate was 44% with a glucose titer of
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56 g/L. This value is much higher than that observed for the batch enzymatic hydrolysis (25% and 31 g/L,
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respectively; data not shown). Similarly, Wang et al. reported that the fed-batch enzymatic hydrolysis (20
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FPU/g glucan) at 20% solids loading produced a glucose titer of 66.0 g/L, >20% higher than that observed
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for the batch hydrolysis.38 Evidently, such a fed-batch mode is an effective way to run the high-solids
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enzymatic hydrolysis process, especially at low enzyme loadings.39
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As for the glucose yield (Fig. 6A), all the profiles fluctuated at early stage (24 h) of the hydrolysis with
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feeding the substrate and subsequently presented a climbing tendency till up to the end. The solid content
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increased by feeding the substrates in the hydrolysis system, whereby the access and interaction between
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substrate was presumably intensified, finally releasing more fermentative sugars (Fig. 6B). Interestingly, the 15
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change of glucose yields in four types of hydrolysis was obviously different at the early stage. For the
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hydrolysis with CTec2 alone, the first substrate feeding reduced the glucose yield of 12 h. With the
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addition of AA9 changed such the downward profile of glucose yield. Undoubtedly, the stepwise addition of
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process. Finally, the high-solids hydrolysis process produced glucose titers of 78, 95, and 105 g/L,
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required ~6 FPU/g enzymatic loading to achieve an equivalent hydrolysis level (Figure S2). Our earlier
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10 FPU/g of cellulase loading to approach an equivalent level.8 These results indicate that the combination
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of additives and accessory enzymes lowers cellulase loading during enzymatic hydrolysis; this can stand out
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in high-solids fed-batch enzymatic hydrolysis processes. Accordingly, the combination of additives and
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accessory enzymes has presented a superior advantage in high-solids fed-batch hydrolysis of
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lignocellulosic substrates.
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In summary, high-solids fed batch hydrolysis of sugarcane bagasse with a solids content of 20% was
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successfully carried out with 3 FPU/g dried substrate of cellulase preparation CTec2 combined with several
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additives (40 mg/g Tween 80, 10 mg/g tea saponin and 20 mg/g BSA) and accessory enzymes (2.4 mg/g
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endo-xylanase and 1 mg/g AA9). The 72-h enzymatic hydrolysis process released 105 g/L of glucose and
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51 g/L xylose, with 83% and 93% cellulose-to-glucose and xylan-to-xylose yields, respectively. Several 16
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studies have also reported high-solids enzymatic hydrolysis at ~20% solids contents (Table 3).On
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comparing the other lignocellulosic substrates, al-AGO-pretreated sugarcane bagasse presented relatively
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high holocellulose (57% cellulose and 25% hemicellulose) and low lignin (12%) contents that produced
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high-titer fermentable sugars via high-solids enzymatic hydrolysis. After a 72-h fed-batch hydrolysis, the
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substrate yielded 83% glucose and 90% xylose, rendering 156 g/L of fermentable sugars (105 g/L glucose +
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51 g/L xylose). This was an unprecedentedly high level of sugar output as compared to that of previously
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reported processes with similar solids contents. Thus, the enzymatic hydrolysis process studied herein
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achieved an interestingly high fermentative sugars productivity of 2.2 g/L/h (= 156 (g/L) / 72 (h)). Notably, the
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high-solids enzymatic hydrolysis was implemented at an extremely low cellulase loading (3 FPU/g substrate
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compared to commonly reported values > 10 FPU/g).To the best of our knowledge, this is the lowest level
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A fed-batch mode is indeed beneficial to run high-solids enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocellulosic substrates, in
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which early feeding of all the substrates (< 24 h) facilitates the process. al-AGO pretreated lignocellulosic
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substrates present an industrially relevant hydrolysability, rendering 83% of glucose yield and 90% of xylose
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yield at 72 h from high-solids substrate (20%) with 3 FPU/g substrate of the cellulase loading. The
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combination of additives (Tween 80, tea saponin, and BSA) and accessory enzymes (endo-xylanase and
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AA9) can effectively enhance the high-solids enzymatic hydrolysis. Extra β-glucosidase addition is evidently
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unnecessary for the cellulase preparation CTec2 hydrolysing lignocellulosic substrate. The customization of
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a cellulase preparation on the specific substrate shows potential for application to high-solids hydrolysis of
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lignocellulosic substrates to lower the enzyme cost in the ongoing lignocellulosic biorefining industry.
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The work was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21776114; 21176106), together
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with the Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (SBK2018021515). Part of the work was
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Foundation (2016T90419). The authors also give thanks to the national first-class discipline program of
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Table and Figure legend
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Figure 1. Selection of a suitable cellulase loading for the high-solids enzymatic hydrolysis of an
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al-AGO-pretreated substrate. Batch enzymatic hydrolysis was conducted at a solids content of
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10% (50 °C and 180 rpm) in citric buffer solution (45 mL, 50 mM, pH = 4.8) for 48h.
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Figure 2. Selection of the initial solids content for the fed-batch enzymatic hydrolysis. The process was
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carried out using 3 FPU/g substrate of cellulase loading in citric buffer solution (45 mL, 50 mM,
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pH = 4.8) for 48h.
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Figure 3. Effect of surfactants (A) and proteins and polymers (B) on the enzymatic hydrolysis of an
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al-AGO-pretreated substrate. The enzymatic hydrolysis [10% (w/v) solids content] was
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conducted using 3 FPU/g substrate of cellulase loading and 60 mg/g substrate of the initial
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additives under the above mentioned conditions.
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Figure 4. Hydrolysis profile of the al-AGO-pretreated substrate [20% (w/v) solids content] with 3 FPU/g
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cellulase loading supplemented with 40 mg/g Tween 80, 20 mg/g BSA, and 10 mg/g tea
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saponin. The fed-batch hydrolysis was initiated with an initial solids content of 8%, followed by
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feeding with 4% substrate, separately at 6, 12, and 18 h.
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Figure 5. Evaluation of the effect of the accessory enzymes on the high-solids enzymatic hydrolysis
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process [20% (w/v) solids content]. Hydrolysis was implemented as mentioned above. A) BG
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addition; B) endo-xylanase addition; and C) AA9 addition (2.4 mg/g endo-xylanase).
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Figure 6. High-solids enzymatic hydrolysis of al-AGO-pretreated substrates at 3 FPU/g for 72 h with the
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combination of additives (40 mg/g Tween 80, 20 mg/g BSA, and 10 mg/g tea saponin) and
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accessory enzymes (2.4 mg/g endo-xylanase and 1 mg/g AA9). A) glucose yield; B) sugar titer.
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G, glucose; Xyl, xylose
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Table 1. Selection of a substrate fed-batch mode for the high-solids enzymatic hydrolysis of the al-AGO-pretreated substrate. Enzymatic hydrolysis was initiated with a solids content of 8% and 3 FPU/g substrate of cellulase loading in citric buffer solution (45 mL, 50 mM, pH = 4.8) for 72 h. Enzymatic hydrolysis Substrate feeding
48 h
72 h
6h
12 h
18 h
24 h
30 h
Titer (g/L)
Yield (%)
Titer (g/L)
Yield (%)
Mode1
3%
3%
3%
3%
-
56 ± 0.7
44 ± 0.6
61 ± 1.4
49 ± 1.1
Mode 2
-
3%
3%
3%
3%
48 ± 1.4
39 ± 0.3
56 ± 0.7
45 ± 1.4
Mode 3
4%
4%
4%
-
-
58 ± 0.7
46 ± 0.6
64 ± 0.7
51 ± 0.7
Mode 4
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4%
4%
4%
-
52 ± 1.4
42 ± 1.1
59 ± 1.4
47 ± 1.1
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Table 2. Optimization of additives using the orthogonal experiment for the high-solids enzymatic hydrolysis process. The hydrolysis was carried out with an initial solids content of 8%.Feeding with 4% of each substrate was performed at 6, 12, and 18 h to achieve a total solids content of 20% (w/v). Additives (mg/g)
Enzymatic hydrolysis
Tween 80
BSA
Tea saponin
Control
0
0
1
40
2
Glucose titer (g/L)
Glucose yield (%)
6h
12 h
24 h
48 h
6h
12 h
24 h
48 h
0
20 ± 0.7
28 ± 0.7
45± 1.1
58 ± 0.7
40 ± 0.5
35 ± 0.9
36 ± 0.8
46 ± 0.2
20
10
24 ± 0.0
38 ± 0.7
54 ± 0.7
74 ± 1.4
47 ± 0.0
48 ± 0.7
43 ± 0.6
58 ± 1.1
40
20
20
23 ± 0.4
35 ± 1.4
52 ± 1.4
72 ± 0.7
45 ± 0.7
44± 1.8
41 ± 1.1
57± 0.2
3
20
40
20
22 ± 1.4
32 ± 0.7
48 ± 0.4
66 ± 1.1
43 ± 2.8
40± 0.8
38 ± 0.3
52 ± 0.8
4
20
20
10
22 ± 0.7
33 ± 1.8
50 ± 1.4
68 ± 1.4
43 ± 1.0
42± 2.3
40 ± 1.1
54 ± 1.1
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Table 3. High-solids (~20%) enzymatic hydrolysis of various lignocellulosic substrates Substrate components (%)
Enzymatic hydrolysis
Hydrolysis
Substrate source
Source C
H
L
ABPERC
68
3
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SEP wheat straw
52
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SEP olive tree
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AGO-pretreated SCB
Cellulase loading
Mode
Time (h)
Titer (g/L)
Yield (%)
46 FPU/g
Batch
114
126
84
[14]
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13.5 FPU/g + 67.5 U/g BG
Batch
96
76
60
[9]
2
-
15 FPU/g + 15 CBU/g BG
Batch
72
65
52
[30]
60
13
14
10 FPU/g
Batch
72
96
80
[5]
SEP SCB
55
4
32
8.25 FPU/g
Batch
96
77
69
[31]
OP poplar
92
1
2
20 FPU/g + 80 CBU/g BG
Batch
96
158
85
[25]
EP Poplar
49
13
34
20 FPU/g + 80 CBU/g BG
Batch
48
71
83
[38]
NaCl-pretreated wood
48
19
29
22 FPU/g + 68 U/g BG+ 1% Tween 80
Batch
120
81
40
[37]
SEP SSB
49
5
41
20 FPU/g +0.175mL/g solids Tween80
Fed-batch
120
66
46
[34]
FP SCB
86
-
-
10 FPU/g
Fed-batch
144
150
80
[35]
AHP-pretreated SCB
65
14
13
15 FPU/g + 25 CBU/g substrate BG
Fed-batch
48
82
57
[36]
NaCl-pretreated wood
48
19
29
22 FPU/g + 68 U/g BG+ 1% Tween 80
Fed-batch
120
127
64
[37]
Al-AGO-pretreated SCB
57
25
12
3 FPU/g
Fed-batch
72
64
51
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3 FPU/g + additives + accessory enzymes
Fed-batch
72
105
83
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Abbreviations: C, cellulose; H, hemicellulose; L, lignin; FPU, filter paper unit; CBU, cellobiase unit, SCB, sugarcane bagasse; SSB, sweet sorghum bagasse; BG, beta-glucosidase; UBHW, unbleached hardwood pulp; AA9, lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase, AHP, alkaline hydrogen peroxide, al-AGO,
alkaline-catalysed
atmospheric
glycerol
organosolv;
GLP,
green
liquor-pretreated;
SEP,
steam
explosion-pretreated;
organosolv-pretreated; FP, formiline-pretreated; ABPERC, acid bisulfite-pretreated eastern red cedar; DAP, dilute sulfuric acid-pretreated
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Note: Picture adopted from the old Chinese fable of Yugong Yishan (The Old Fool Who Moved Mountains). C, cellulase; A, additives; AE, accessory enzymes; G / X, glucose and xylose, respectively. The high-solids substrate enzymatic hydrolysis process is just like moving the mountains, Tai-hang Mountain and Wang-wu Mountain. The additives and accessory enzymes (assisting laborer) are helping the cellulase (elite laborer) to hydrolyse collaboratively the cellulose and hemicellulose components (two mountains) consisting mainly of the al-AGO pretreated substrate into fermentative glucose and xylose sugars (little stones).
Figure Cellulase enzymatic hydrolysis of alkaline-catalysed atmospheric glycerol organosolv-pretreated substrate with mixture of additives and accessory enzymes
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