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Proceed<strong>in</strong>g of the 4 rd International Symposium“NEW RESEARCH IN BIOTECHNOLOGY” USAMV Bucharest, Romania, 2011culture media <strong>in</strong> comparison with bioproducts obta<strong>in</strong>ed with the same stra<strong>in</strong> , but <strong>in</strong>submerged culture (figure 4). The aim of our study is to quantify the content of azaphylone<strong>in</strong> Monascus metabolite obta<strong>in</strong>ed <strong>in</strong> submerged media and the citr<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>, <strong>in</strong> or<strong>de</strong>r to <strong>in</strong>dicatethe suitability to use Monascus metabolites as food additiveFig.4. Content of gamma am<strong>in</strong>obutyric acid <strong>in</strong> bioproducts obta<strong>in</strong>ed with Monascus sp. onsoli<strong>de</strong> state or submerged biosynthesis842. MATERIAL AND METHODSIn this study we used 2 stra<strong>in</strong>s of Monascus: Monascus sp.1 and Monascus sp.2 supplied byBioeng<strong>in</strong>eer<strong>in</strong>g and <strong>Biotechnology</strong> Department of University POLIEHNICA of Bucharest.Metabolites from the two stra<strong>in</strong>s were obta<strong>in</strong>ed <strong>in</strong> submerged biosynthesis, with threeculture media which conta<strong>in</strong> starch (Medium 1), ethanol (medium 2) and <strong>de</strong>xtrose (medium3). The content of each culture media used <strong>in</strong> this study is presented <strong>in</strong> Table 1. Theazaphylone content was monitorised dur<strong>in</strong>g all bioprocess (10 days) by measur<strong>in</strong>g theoptical <strong>de</strong>nsity of aqueous extract at 400 nm (for yellow azapylones), 420 nm (for orangeazaphylones) and 500 m respectively (for red azaphylones). All experiments was realised <strong>in</strong>triplicate, on the thermostated Heydolph rotary shaker, <strong>in</strong> Erlenmeyer flasks with totalvolume of 500 ml. Each Erlenmeyer flask was filled with 100 ml culture media. In additionfor all samples resulted from biosynthesis on <strong>de</strong>xtrose media, the citr<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong> content wasmeasured by higy performance liquid chromaotography (HPLC). The <strong>de</strong>vice used was theAgilent type, with C18 column. The solvent used as carrier was the methanol. Calibrationcurve was recor<strong>de</strong>d with methanolic citr<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong> solution (the citr<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong> was supplied by Sigma).3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONIn culture media which conta<strong>in</strong> starch, Monascus sp.1 do not producedpigmentation. For the second stra<strong>in</strong> Monascus sp.2, maximum concentration of red

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