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Reyes, A., (2022). Cuantificación específica de biomasa en biopelículas fúngicas mixtas de Trichoderma reesei y Aspergillus spp. mediante PCR [Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12996/5250
Reyes, A., Cuantificación específica de biomasa en biopelículas fúngicas mixtas de Trichoderma reesei y Aspergillus spp. mediante PCR []. PE: Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina; 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12996/5250
@misc{renati/247984,
title = "Cuantificación específica de biomasa en biopelículas fúngicas mixtas de Trichoderma reesei y Aspergillus spp. mediante PCR",
author = "Reyes Calderón, Alonso",
publisher = "Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina",
year = "2022"
}
Production of cellulases by mixed cultures of A. niger and T. reesei shows that enzymatic titers of total cellulases, endoglucanases and β-glucosidases can be higher in comparison with individual cultures. Although mixed cultures constitute a promising fermentation system, it has not been addressed how much of this enzymatic synergism depends on a certain proportion of fungal mixed biomass. In this work, biomass was specifically quantified in biofilms composed of A. niger and T. reesei, two filamentous fungi commonly used in the industrial field. Mixed biofilms were collected from 48 to 120 hours of growth and DNA was extracted for qPCR assays with specific primers for each fungus. These primers were designed from non-conserved regions of actin and β-tubulin genes of both A. niger and T. reesei. Specificity of these primers was tested both in silico and experimentally. Using these primers, a statistically significant correlation was obtained between qPCRcalculated biomass and dry weight biomass data. Mycelium proportion in biofilms did change over time: at 48 hours, 62% of A. niger and 38% of T. reesei; 72 hours, 53.5% and 46.5%; 96 hours, 84.5% and 15.5% and 120 hours, 95.9% and 4.1%, respectively, suggesting a competitive interaction between these two fungi, at the end of which A. niger replaced almost completely T. reesei mycelium. In conclusion, it is possible to perform a specific quantification of biomass by qPCR in mixed biofilms of filamentous fungi. In fact, the presented method could also be applied to any culture system, in order to study metabolic responses that fungi, or even other microorganisms, display when interact with each other
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