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NADH fluorescence aided by a stoichiometric metabolic pathway model and culture dynamics was used to elucidate the unobservable intracellular physiological state in two metabolically different phases during culture of Clostridium acetobutylicum. The validity of the theoretical model was examined over a range of culture pH regimes and initial sugar concentrations. The H2/CO2 gas concentration ratio was found to be an important process parameter. NADH fluorescence detection was compared with simultaneous enzymatic measurements. The specific fluorescence (fluorescence per biomass, F/X) provided a distinction between oxidative and reductive culture metabolism independent of the pH or substrate concentration changes. A good indicator of the type of culture activity proved to be the dF/dt parameter. The net fluorescence measurements correlated with butanol accumulation under all growth conditions suggesting the possible use of the fluorescence probe as a butanol probe in this fermentation.
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Srivastava, A.K., Volesky, B. On-line fluorescence measurements in assessing culture metabolic activities. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 34, 450–457 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00180569
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