Example 5
For substrate quantification (glucose, glycerol, acetate, ethanol, and xylose) an ion exchange chromatography was applied. We used the System Gold HPLC system composed of the pump LC-126, the autosampler LC-508, the UV detector LC-166, (all Beckmann Coulter, Krefeld, Germany), the Jetstream 2 Plus column oven (Knauer, Berlin, Germany), and the refractive index detector LCD 201 (Gynkotek, Munich, Germany). The applied column was the Organic Acid Resin (Chromatographie Service GmbH, Langerwehe, Germany) with a length of 30 cm and a diameter of 8 mm. The running buffer was 5 mM sulfuric acid, which was pumped isocratically with a flow rate of 0.8 mL/min at a temperature of 50° C. 5 μL of the sample were injected.