Morita Tomotake, Konishi Masaaki, Fukuoka Tokuma, Imura Tomohiro, Kitamoto Dai
Research Institute for Innovations in Sustainable Chemistry, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba Central 5-2, 1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
J Biosci Bioeng. 2007 Jul;104(1):78-81. doi: 10.1263/jbb.104.78.
Microbial conversion of glycerol into functional bio-based materials was investigated, aiming to facilitate the utilization of waste glycerol. A basidiomycete yeast, Pseudozyma antarctica JCM 10317, efficiently produced mannosylerythritol lipids (MELs) as glycolipid biosurfactants from glycerol. The amount of MEL yield reached 16.3 g l(-1) by intermittent feeding of glycerol.
研究了微生物将甘油转化为功能性生物基材料的过程,旨在促进废甘油的利用。一种担子菌酵母,南极假丝酵母JCM 10317,能有效地从甘油中生产甘露糖赤藓糖醇脂(MELs)作为糖脂生物表面活性剂。通过间歇添加甘油,MEL的产量达到了16.3 g l(-1)。