Tipsupar Malai. Cyclodextrin production from rice starch. Master's Degree(Biotechnology). Chulalongkorn University. Center of Academic Resources. : Chulalongkorn University, 1995.
Abstract:
Aims at the developement of efficient cyclodextrin production from rice starch. The result demonstrated that pretreatment of rice starch with the enzyme alpha-amylase was necessary for high cyclodextrin yield. Appropriate conditions were 10 g% of rice starch treated with 0.1% alpha-amylase at 50ํC for 15 minutes. The pretreated starch was subsequently used for cyclodextrin production by the action of the enzyme cyclodextrin glycosyltransferase (CGTase) from Bacillus sp. A 11. With the use of complexing agent, cyclohexane, which was selected as the solvent of choice, the production yield of cyclodextrins was twice of that without complexing agent. The optimum conditions were pretreated starch incubated with CGTase (25 Units/g starch) and cyclohexane (5%, v/v) for 18 hours. Furthermore, preference production of certain cyclodextrin could be achieved by varying the concentration of rice starch or CGtTase used. Less than 5 g% starch and more than 200 Units CGTase/g starch mainly yielded alpha-CD, while 10-30 g% starch and less than 200 Units CGTase/g starch resulted in beta-CD as the major product. Besides cyclodextrins, some non-cyclic (linear) oligosaccharides were also detected in the reaction products, as analyzed by HPLC. Those overlapped with CD peaks were maltotetraose (G4), maltopentaose (G5), maltohexaose (G6). Amyloglucosidase and beta-amylase were used in the attempt to differentiate the linear from the cyclic oligosaccharides. It was found that beta-amylase (20 Units, 1 hr, 25ํC) completely digested linear oligosaccharides (G4-G6) without destroying the cyclodextrin products. By using cyclohexane in the production of cyclodextrins, the crude beta-CD obtained was 42 g% which constituted for most of the CDs (total CDs was 44 g%). If purer beta-CD is preferred, beta-amylase treatment which yielded 34 g% beta-CD (80% recovery) and crystallization at 4C were performed. By the 1st crystallization, the beta-CD crystals obtained was about 12 g% (28% recovery, 95% purity)