Overview
- Summary of cutting-edge research and biotechnical applications
- Basis for new ideas of future applications of Yarrowia lipolytica
- Combines latest research results and contextual literature
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Microbiology (BRIEFSMICROBIOL)
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Due to its ability to degrade hydrophobic substrates highly efficiently, the non-conventional yeast Yarrowia lipolytica offers various applications in the food, feed, pharmaceutical, and fine chemistry industries, as well as in environmental protection contexts such as waste treatment and bioremediation.
The yeast breaks down hydrophobic substrates such as n-alkanes, fatty acids, fats, and oils, yielding valuable biotechnological products such as organic acids, extracellular enzymes, aroma compounds, bioemulsifiers, polyols, single-cell proteins, and single-cell oils. Further, Y. lipolytica is an efficient platform for the production of various heterologous proteins; more than a hundred heterologous proteins – including those of viruses, bacteria and fungi, as well as plant, animal and human proteins – have already been produced in Y. lipolytica. Since its genome has been sequenced, it is now possible to use new recombinant technology and metabolic engineering in order to improve the metabolic pathways involved in the creation of desirable metabolites and products.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Biotechnological Applications of the Yeast Yarrowia lipolytica
Authors: Farshad Darvishi Harzevili
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Microbiology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06437-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-06436-9Published: 05 May 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-06437-6Published: 15 April 2014
Series ISSN: 2191-5385
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5393
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 74
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Eukaryotic Microbiology, Applied Microbiology, Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology