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Title: | Supplementation with rac-GR24 facilitates the accumulation of biomass and astaxanthin in two successive stages of Haematococcus pluvialis cultivation |
Authors: | Wang, Xiang Mou, Jin-Hua Qin, Zi-Hao Hao, Ting-Bin Zeng, Lan Buhagiar, Joseph A. Liu, Yu-Hong Balamurugan, Srinivasan He, Yuhe Lin, Carol Sze Ki Yang, Wei-D.ong Li, Hong-Ye |
Keywords: | Biomass Plant hormones Algae culture Green algae Freshwater algae -- Biotechnology Plant biochemistry |
Issue Date: | 2022 |
Publisher: | American Chemical Society |
Citation: | Wang, X., Mou, J-H., Qin, Z-H., Hao, T-B., Zheng, L., Buhagiar, J. A.,…Li, H-Y. (2022). Supplementation with rac-GR24 facilitates the accumulation of biomass and astaxanthin in two successive stages of Haematococcus pluvialis cultivation. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 70(15), 4677-4689. |
Abstract: | The unicellular freshwater green alga Haematococcus pluvialis has attracted much research attention due to its biosynthetic ability for large amounts of astaxanthin, a blood-red ketocarotenoid that is used in cosmetics, nutraceuticals, and pharmaceuticals. Recently, numerous studies have investigated the functions of natural astaxanthin; however, the high cost of the production of astaxanthin from H. pluvialis cultures restricts its commercial viability. There is an urgent need to fulfill commercial demands by increasing astaxanthin accumulation from H. pluvialis cultures. In this study, we discovered that treatment of H. pluvialis cultures at the beginning of the macrozooid stage (day 0) with 1 μM rac-GR24, a synthetic analogue of strigolactones (a class of phytohormones), led to significant increases in biomass [up to a maximum dry cell weight (DCW) of 0.53 g/L] during the macrozooid stage and astaxanthin (from 0.63 to 5.32% of DCW) during the hematocyst stage. We elucidated that this enhancement of biomass accumulation during the macrozooid stage by rac-GR24 is due to its increasing CO2 utilization efficiency in photosynthesis and carbohydrate biosynthesis. We also found that rac-GR24 stimulated the overproduction of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) and antioxidant enzymes in H. pluvialis cultures, which alleviated the oxidative damage caused by reactive oxygen species generated during the hematocyst stage due to the exhaustion of nitrogen supplies. Moreover, rac-GR24 treatment of H. pluvialis synergistically altered the activity of the pathways of fatty acid biosynthesis and astaxanthin esterification, which resulted in larger amounts of astaxanthin being generated by rac-GR24-treated cultures than by controls. In summary, we have developed a feasible and economic rac-GR24-assisted strategy that increases the amounts of biomass and astaxanthin generated by H. pluvialis cultures, and have provided novel insights into the mechanistic roles of rac-GR24 to achieve these effects. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/103460 |
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