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Knowing that in nature fungi or actinomycetes grow almost exclusively on solid supports, the solid-state fermentation has been widely investigated and has shown some improvement in enzyme and bioactive metabolite production. However, although this technique has been exploited for enzyme and secondary metabolite production, the available fermentation technologies failed to overcome major scale up bottlenecks. Subsequently, solid cultivation is widely substituted by liquid state fermentation in scale-up procedures. In order to solve this limitation, we recently focused on agar-supported fermentation (Ag-SF) and built-up a fully automated scale-up device called Platotex. This prototype offers 2m2 of cultivation surface in highly controlled conditions. Platotex use was also extended to solid state fermentation on agricultural by-products, leading to the valorisation of biomass waste.
OUAZZANI Jamal; SERGENT Didier; CORTIAL Sylvie; LOPES Philippe. Universal fermentor, PLATOTEX. WO 2007/135098.
Isolation and Characterization of Unusual Hydrazides from Streptomyces sp. Impact of the Cultivation Support and Extraction ProcedureGéraldine Le Goff, Marie-Thérèse Martin, Bogdan I. Iorga, Emilie Adelin, Claudine Servy, Sylvie Cortial, Jamal Ouazzani.
Journal of Natural Products. 2013, volume 76, issue 2,pages 142–149.
New bioactive polyketides isolated from agar-supported fermentation of Phomopsis sp. CMU-LMA, taking advantage of the scale-up device, Platotex.
Emilie Adelin, Marie-Thérèse Martin, Sylvie Cortial, Pascal Retailleau, Jamal Ouazzani.
Phytochemistry, 2013, In Press.
Application of solid-phase extraction to agar-supported fermentation.
Géraldine Le Goff, Emilie Adelin, Sylvie Cortial, Claudine Servy, Jamal Ouazzani.
Bioprocess Biosyst Eng. 2012, DOI: 10.1007/s00449-012-0873-3.