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1. Introduction
In the shake flask fermentation, the culture flasks (usually Erlenmeyer) of 250 or 500 mL or
larger are used for growing microorganisms. Shake flask fermentation is the cheapest and simplest
technique to grow bacteria or fungi, aerobically, in small volumes of nutrient broth. The broth is
poured into Erlenmeyer Flasks equipped with cotton-wool stoppers, and autoclaved. After cooling,
some microbes are "seeded" into the flask, and it is placed on a Shaker machine. The shaking
agitates the content and so ensures aeration, so that the microbes could breathe. These flasks are
shaken, generally, by an incubator shaker at a suitable agitation speed, which is usually in r.p.m.
Shaken cultures are usually applied to aerobic processes. In general, filamentous microorganisms
are grown for the production of secondary metabolites, which begins 1 to 3 days after inoculation
and continues 3 to 4 days thereafter, for instance. In all such cases, the shaken cultures are used
for strain improvement as well as for determination of the optimum conditions for the fermentation
process. In many industrial processes, it is also used for the initial stages of inoculum development.
Shaken cultures are a convenient method of growing microorganisms in submerged cultures under
aerobic conditions created by shaking; it is a small scale equivalent of stirred tank bioreactor. Both
the devices are extensively used with filamentous microorganisms and, often, with other types of
microorganisms as well.
Usually, complex media are used for shake flask cultures. However, to enhance the growing
the synthetic medium is being devised for the fermentation process. Studies on inoculum size,
temperature, agitation, nutrition are initially done using these cultures to monitor their influences
on growth and product formation.
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In a batch culture, there is neither input supplied nor output generated throughout the
fermentation. The medium culture is initially inoculated with the microorganism. The growth keeps
increasing until at certain extent, the growth is inhibited because of the decreasing substrate
concentration and the presence of toxic metabolites.
Lag phase is the time between inoculation and reaching the maximum growth rate. There
are two sub phases in the lag phase. In the first phase, there is no growth identified whereas in the
second sub phase which is also known as acceleration phase, there is a constant growth begins.
The second phase is exponential phase. The cells begin to proliferate with their maximum
growth rate. The doubling time of E.coli is 20 minutes. Exponential phase is important for
determining the maximum growth rate, and doubling time, d since the growth at this time is the
most constant and ideal.
Retardation phase is the period between exponential and stationary phase, or in other
words, the phase before the growth becomes stationary. Among the factors that inhibit the growth
are reduced dissolved oxygen tension (DOT), substrate concentration, pH changes and presence
of inhibiting metabolites. After retardation phase, the growth phase enters stationary phase where
the growth becomes constant for a period of time before it declines.
Finally, the growth declines from its stationary phase due to the cells lysation. This is
indicated by the decrease of the viable cell number.
There are many specific media for certain microorganisms like Luria Bertani (Lennox) and
Terrific Broth media. Bacterial E.coli growth media: LB Miller broth/LB Lennox broth is the most
commonly used medium in molecular biology for E.coli cell culture. LB broth contains the
enzymatic digestion product of casein commonly known as peptone (some vendors term it
Tryptone), yeast extract, and sodium chloride. Peptone is rich in amino acids and peptides. Its
amino acid and peptide compositions reflect those of casein. In addition to amino acids and
peptides, yeast extract also contains nucleic acids, lipids and other nutrients which are needed for
bacterial growth. (LB Miller, Lennox)
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incubation conditions. TB is commonly used for protein expression and plasmid production in a
laboratory scale. (TB broth)
2. Theories
1 dX
net [1/h]
X dt
Yield Coefficients ( Y X / s ) are defined based on the amount of consumption of another material
X
YX / s [g cells/g substrate]
S
Mass doubling time ( d ) is calculated based on cell numbers and the net specific rate of replication
ln 2
d [h]
net
For substrate limited growth Monod equation is applicable in cellular system. Monod equation is
as the following:
m S
g [1/h]
Ks S
m = maximum specific growth rate when S >> K s
g = net when endogeneous metabolism is unimportant
K s = saturation constant or half-velocity constant
K s = S when g = m
S>> K s , g = m
m S
S<< K s , g
Ks S
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4. Experimental Procedures
TB Glycerol
.37 350 500 150 10 7
Microorganism used is Escherichia coli. There are many kinds of media for E coli for
instance Luria Bertani broth or Terrific Broth. Terrific Broth is a readied phosphate
buffer media.
Prepare the Terrific Broth according to the recommended formula or recipe stated at
the chemical bottle.
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The example readied recipe for the broths are as the following:
Please further read the instruction of bottle
Table 2: Broth
Grow the media at 150 rpm for 4 hours assuming exponential growth of E coli.
At this stage, the seed cultures are assumed to be at its most active condition.
Take note the OD for seed culture using spectrophotometer
Table 4
Take note: (please prepare enough seeds for all main experiments)
** Please take note the initial OD (after 5 loops inoculation) and final OD
(after 4 hours of fermentation)
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b) Main experiment
Using aseptic technique, transfer 10% of inoculum to the main experiment media.
For instance, if the working volume is 150ml, therefore, 10% of inoculum would be
15mL of seed culture needed
The shake flask is then capped (cotton plugged) and swabbed with 70% ethanol
before incubation in a thermostated rotary shaker at required rotational speed and
temperature for 24 hours.
.
(iii) Sampling
1. Required amount of sample is transferred into the sampling tube with interval time
for every hour or every 2 or 3 hours.
2. 5 mL of sample is withdrawn every time sampling is done during fermentation for
measuring optical density (OD), glucose analysis and total cell number
(biomass concentration: g/L).
3. Refer to Table below for planned usage of sample volume:
Table 5: Sampling
Suggested method:
Certain tenth-time dilution is proposed for the OD measurement by using
spectrophotometer. For instance, with 1 mL sample, take only 100 uL sampl e being
added to 900 uL of Distilled Water for OD measurement in 1000 uL Cuvette.
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Alternative method
1. Aluminum weight of boat are dried in an oven at 80C for 6-8 hours and placed in
a dessicator containing a drying agent for cooling before weighing (for 30min).
2. The cell pellet (after sample is centrifuged at 10,000 rpm) is suspended in 10 mL
centrifuge tube with distilled water.
3. The cell then transferred to aluminum foil boat. The tube was rinsed with water
and placed in an oven at 80C for overnight.
4. The sample is then removed from the oven with tongs and placed in a dessicator
to cool and weighed rapidly on an analytical balance. The weight of the cell pellet
is recorded.
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Seed/Inoculum
Main experiment
Absorbance
Cell Dry Weight
Optical Density Absorbance Empty Dried Centrifuge
Time X
No OD Real OD Centrifuge tube + sample
(h) (g/L)
(10 times dilution) (ODread times 10) m1 m2
(m2-m1)
OD read
1 0
2 0.5
3 1
4 1.5
5 2
6 2.5
7 3
8 3.5
9 4
10 6
11 8
12 10
13 12
14 16
15 20
16 24
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5. Report: (100M)
1 Abstract/Summary (5M)
2 Introduction (5M)
3 Aims/Objective (5M)
4 Theory (10M)
5 Apparatus (5M)
6 Methodology/Procedure (10M)
7 Results (10M)
8 Calculations (10M)
9 Discussion (20M)
10 Conclusion (10M)
11 Recommendation (5M)
12 Reference/Appendix (5M)
6. References
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