Filamentous fungal biomats, methods of their production and methods of their use
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1. A method of producing a biomat by a surface fermentation method comprising(a) inoculating an artificial liquid growth medium with an effective amount of a biologically pure culture of filamentous fungal strain MK7 (ATCC Accession Deposit No. PTA-10698);
- (b) incubating the inoculated filamentous fungi to produce a filamentous fungal biomat on the surface of the liquid medium; and
(c) harvesting the filamentous fungal biomat,wherein the biomat comprises at least two structurally different cell layers in contact with each other, including an upper aerial hyphae layer in contact with the atmosphere during the surface fermentation and a lower layer in contact with the liquid media during the surface fermentation, wherein the lower layer has a higher fungal density than the aerial hyphae layer.
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Abstract
A novel method of growing fungi is disclosed which uses an engineered artificial media and produces high density filamentous fungi biomats that can be harvested with a minimum of processing and from which fungal products such as antibiotics, proteins, and lipids can be isolated, the method resulting in lowered fungus cultivation costs for energy usage, oxygenation, water usage and waste stream production.
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1. A method of producing a biomat by a surface fermentation method comprising
(a) inoculating an artificial liquid growth medium with an effective amount of a biologically pure culture of filamentous fungal strain MK7 (ATCC Accession Deposit No. PTA-10698); -
(b) incubating the inoculated filamentous fungi to produce a filamentous fungal biomat on the surface of the liquid medium; and (c) harvesting the filamentous fungal biomat, wherein the biomat comprises at least two structurally different cell layers in contact with each other, including an upper aerial hyphae layer in contact with the atmosphere during the surface fermentation and a lower layer in contact with the liquid media during the surface fermentation, wherein the lower layer has a higher fungal density than the aerial hyphae layer. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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