Marcelo C. Matsudo

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• Ph.D.
• Professor at Federal University of ABC

This study sought to evaluate the influence of five macronutrients (acetate, calcium, sulfate, nitrogen, and phosphate) on the cell growth and heterologous mCherry protein production by Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. In the first step, three nitrogen (N) sources were tested (NH4NO3, NaNO3, and NH4Cl), and NH4NO3 was selected as N source for the followi...

As atividades dos abatedouros, frigoríficos e laticínios geram efluentes altamente poluidores, os quais requerem tratamento e disposição. Por meio de processos biotecnológicos, é possível produzir substâncias de valor agregado a partir desses efluentes. Por conter nitrogênio e fósforo, esses efluentes têm sido avaliados para o cultivo de microalgas...

Taking into account the worrying scenario of water scarcity, it is essential to enable more efficient technologies for wastewater treatment. Wastewater may be treated by conventional biological processes that remove pathogenic organisms, particulate and soluble organic compounds, and other components. However, secondary effluents from treatment pla...

This review aimed to present Chlamydomonas reinhardtii as an alternative for heterologous protein production, especially for biopharmaceuticals, and its general characteristics when compared with other expression systems. The need to produce heterologous proteins for industrial interest, therapeutic ends, and diagnostic kits has led to the developm...

The present study sought to evaluate the secondary wastewater from dairy industry as a culture medium for Monoraphidium contortum, in bench-scale tubular photobioreactor, aiming at tertiary wastewater treatment and microalgae biomass production. Since the used secondary wastewater contained residual phosphorus (P) but negligible residual nitrogen (...

The applications of microalgae biomass have been widely studied worldwide. The classical processes used in outdoor cultivations of microalgae, in closed or open photobioreactors, occur in the presence of bacteria. Understanding how communication between cells occurs through quorum sensing and evaluating co-cultures allows the production of microalg...

Dunaliella salina, important source of β-carotene, was cultivated in different NaNO3 (1N = 75 mg L−1, 1.5N = 112.5 mg L−1, and 3N = 225 mg L−1) and NaH2PO4·2H2O (1P = 5.65 mg L−1, 1.5P = 8.47 mg L−1, and 3P = 16.95 mg L−1) concentrations in seawater-based f/2 medium, by semi-continuous process applying different medium feeding percentage (F = 20% a...

Background The environmental and social problems associated with increasing world population and industrial development have brought concerns related to water and atmospheric pollution, climate change, as well as the production of staple food. In addition, concerns about healthy food for improving life quality have also increased. Scope and approa...

Secondary wastewaters from the dairy industry may cause eutrophication of water bodies when not properly treated, mainly because they contain nutrients such as phosphorus and nitrogen. Tertiary treatment using microalgae could be an adequate solution for Minas Gerais State, the largest Brazilian milk producer, contributing to the reduction of envir...

Microalgae strains, newly isolated from freshwater in mangrove areas of Central and North Coasts of Sao Paulo State (Brazil), were evaluated regarding total protein and lipid content, and fatty acids profile. The biochemical composition was compared with that observed in strains obtained by UTEX Culture Collection (USA). Among seven identified gree...

In this study, secondary effluent from dairy industry was employed for the cultivation of Chlorella vulgaris in a bench-scale tubular photobioreactor. We sought to evaluate the biomass production, the consumption of nitrogen in the medium, and the final biomass composition. Considering the need of nitrogen supplementation, we evaluated the nitrogen...

In this study, secondary effluent from dairy industry was employed for the cultivation of Chlorella vulgaris in a bench-scale tubular photobioreactor. We sought to evaluate the biomass production, the consumption of nitrogen in the medium, and the final biomass composition. Considering the need of nitrogen supplementation, we evaluated the nitrogen...

Biotechnology advances have allowed bacteria, yeasts, plants, mammalian and insect cells to function as heterologous protein expression systems. Recently, microalgae have gained attention as an innovative platform for recombinant protein production, due to low culture media cost, compared to traditional systems, as well as the fact that microalgae...

Microalgae are photosynthetic microorganisms known for their variety of compounds that can be useful for food, feed, pharmaceuticals, and fuel industries. Microalgae production costs have been one of the major obstacles to large-scale commercial production. Therefore, several studies are still being performed aiming to increase biomass by developin...

Several studies have focused on the use of CO2 from alcoholic fermentation as carbon source in the cultivation of microalgae. However, considering the quantity of bioethanol produced in Brazil, for example, only part of this gas could be effectively used. In this sense, this inorganic carbon could be stored in the form of sodium bicarbonate and car...

Microalgae may be considered as the main alternative source of valuable biomolecules for several commercial applications, such as food and energy. This study sought to evaluate photosynthetic microorganisms isolated from fresh water in mangrove areas of southern Coast of Sao Paulo State (Brazil). After cultivation in Erlenmeyer flasks, 9 green alga...

In microalgae biotechnology, several strategies have been used aiming to increase biomass productivity and oil content, for example, by exploring novel bioreactor design and cultivation techniques. In the present study, the influence of stressing agents (sodium thiosulphate, sodium chloride, and glycerol), under nitrogen starvation, were evaluated...

Microalgae are unicellular and photosynthetic organisms which have great potential for providing various products of interest in the food, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics industry. The green alga Ankistrodesmus braunii has been cited as capable of producing large amounts of lipids. In this sense, this work aims to study A. braunii growth...

Microalgae cultivation, when compared to the growth of higher plants, presents many advantages such as faster growth, higher biomass productivity, and smaller land area requirement for cultivation. For this reason, microalgae are an alternative platform for carotenoid production when compared to the traditional sources. Currently, commercial microa...

Since cultivations of Arthrospira platensis have a high water demand, it is necessary to develop treatment methods for reusing the exhausted medium that may prevent environmental problems and obtaining useful biomass. The exhausted Schlösser medium obtained from A. platensis batch cultivation in bench-scale mini-tanks was treated by varying concent...

BACKGROUND Ethanol may be an attractive carbon source for microorganism growth for the production of several biomolecules. Nonetheless, high amounts of ethanol may be harmful for microbial cells. This study evaluated the effect of adding ethanol to the cultivation of Scenedesmus obliquus, under batch and fed‐batch processes. RESULTS A single addit...

BACKGROUND Botryococcus braunii is a eukaryotic photosynthetic microorganism, requiring light, water, and inorganic nutrients for growth. It can convert CO 2 into biomass and bioactive compounds with applications in food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries. Parameters such as inorganic carbon and nitrogen sources, vitamins, and salts are import...

NH4NO3 simultaneously provides a readily assimilable nitrogen source (ammonia) and a reserve of nitrogen (nitrate), allowing for an increase in Arthrospira platensis biomass production while reducing the cost of the cultivation medium. In this study, a 22 plus star central composite experimental design combined with response surface methodology was...

Arthrospira platensis has been photoautotrophically cultivated for the production of high quality biomass. It contains satisfactory contents of protein, pigments, and fatty acids. The use of organic compounds as a carbon source has been studied, aiming to improve the biomass productivity in a mixotrophic process. In this study, A. platensis was cul...

The ability of Arthrospira platensis to use ethanol as a carbon and energy source was investigated by batch process and fed-batch process. A. platensis was cultivated under the effect of a single addition (batch process) and a daily pulse feeding (fed-batch process) of pure ethanol, at different concentrations, to evaluate cell concentration (X) an...

Photobioreactor design and operation mode are essential steps to ensure a high overall microalgae yield and cell productivities, making viable the commercial production. For this reason, there are trends of research in the field of microalgae that encompass design and development of reactor systems towards maximum productivity with minimum operatio...

To reduce CO2 emissions from alcoholic fermentation, Arthrospira platensis was cultivated in tubular photobioreactor using either urea or nitrate as nitrogen sources at different light intensities (60 μmol m−2 s−1 ≤ I ≤ 240 μmol m−2 s−1). The type of carbon source (pure CO2 or CO2 from fermentation) did not show any appreciable influence on the mai...

This chapter comments on fed-batch cultivation of Arthrospira platensis under different carbon and nitrogen sources, pH, temperature, light intensity, type of photobioreactor and typical parameters of the fed-batch process, such as feeding time, addition protocol and flow rate. Inexpensive nitrogen sources, such as urea, ammonium salts and nitrogen...

Similar to other photosynthetic microorganisms, the cyanobacterium Arthrospira platensis can be used to produce pigments, single cell proteins, fatty acids (which can be used for bioenergy), food and feed supplements, and biofixation of CO(2) . Cultivation in a specifically designed tubular photobioreactor is suitable for photosynthetic biomass pro...

Urea has been considered as a promising alternative nitrogen source for the cultivation of Arthrospira platensis if it is possible to avoid ammonia toxicity; however, this procedure can lead to periods of nitrogen shortage. This study shows that the addition of potassium nitrate, which acts as a nitrogen reservoir, to cultivations carried out with...

Arthrospira platensis has been studied for single-cell protein production because of its biomass composition and its ability of growing in alternative media. This work evaluated the effects of different dilution rates (D) and urea concentrations (N(0)) on A. platensis continuous culture, in terms of growth, kinetic parameters, biomass composition a...

Bioenergetic analysis may be applied in order to predict microbial growth yields, based on the Gibbs energy dissipation and mass conservation principles of the overall growth reaction. The bioenergetics of the photoautotrophic growth of the cyanobacterium Arthrospira (Spirulina) platensis was investigated in different bioreactor configurations (tub...

Carbon dioxide released from alcoholic fermentation accounts for 33% of the whole CO(2) involved in the use of ethanol as fuel derived from glucose. As Arthrospira platensis can uptake this greenhouse gas, this study evaluates the use of the CO(2) released from alcoholic fermentation for the production of Arthrospira platensis. For this purpose, th...

Arthrospira (Spirulina) platensis (Nordstedt) Gomont was autotrophically cultivated for biomass production in repeated fed-batch process using urea as nitrogen source, with the aim of making large-scale production easier, increasing cell productivity and then reducing the production costs. It was investigated the influence of the ratio of renewed v...

This study dealt with the influence of both the feeding time and light intensity on the fed-batch culture of the cyanobacterium Spirulina (Arthrospira) platensis using ammonium chloride as a nitrogen source. For this purpose, a 2(2) plus star central composite experimental design combined with response surface methodology was employed, and the maxi...

Arthrospira platensis was cultivated photoautotrophically at 6.0 klux light intensity in 5.0-L open tanks, using a mineral medium containing urea as nitrogen source. Fed-batch experiments were performed at constant flowrate. A central composite factorial design combined to response surface methodology (RSM) was utilized to determine the relationshi...

A cianobactéria Spirulina platensis possui alto teor de proteína e vem sendo cultivada fotoautotroficamente para a produção de biomassa microbiana. Embora as fontes convencionais de nitrogênio utilizadas para a produção de Spirulina spp. sejam os nitratos, há a possibilidade do emprego de uréia, utilizando o processo descontínuo alimentado, com dim...