Lactulose is a semisynthetic nondigestive sugar derived from lactose, with wide applications in the food and pharmaceutical industries. Its biological production routes which use cellobiose 2-epimerase (C2E) as the key enzyme have attracted widespread attention. In this study, a set of C2Es from different sources were overexpressed in Escherichia coli to produce lactulose. We obtained a novel and highly efficient C2E from Clostridium disporicum (CDC2E) to synthesize lactulose from lactose. The effects of different heat treatment conditions, reaction pH, reaction temperature, and substrate concentrations were investigated. Under the optimum biotransformation conditions, the final concentration of lactulose was up to 1.45 M (496.3 g/L), with a lactose conversion rate of 72.5 %. This study provides a novel C2E for the biosynthesis of lactulose from low-cost lactose.
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