Effect of Different Carbon Sources on Biosurfactants’ Production by Three Strains of Lactobacillus spp.

Table 8

Chemical composition of biosurfactants produced by lactobacilli strains while using sugar cane molasses or glycerol as substrate.

Substrates	LAB strains	Total proteins; (g/100 gMS)	Total sugars; (g/100 gMS)	Total lipids; (g/100 gMS)
Molasses	Lb. cellobiosus TM1	52.93 ± 1.27	46.66 ± 0.47	0.00 ± 0.00
	Lb. delbrueckii N2	63.64 ± 0.24	35.26 ± 1.10	1.10 ± 0.70
	Lb. plantarum G88	8.96 ± 0.53	51.13 ± 0.92	39.60 ± 0.65
Glycerol	Lb. cellobiosus TM1	4.20 ± 0.51	27.10 ± 0.36	68.20 ± 1.96
	Lb. delbrueckii N2	3.18 ± 0.94	31.26 ± 1.36	65.23 ± 1.07
	Lb. plantarum G88	1.20 ± 0.14	43.96 ± 1.40	54.40 ± 0.30

LAB = lactic acid bacteria; values are means ± standard deviation; ; a, b, c, and so on indicated column comparison; values followed by the same letter in superscript on the same column are not significantly different () according to Duncan’s multiple range test.