Published in Biotechnology Reports
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Published in Bioprocess and biosystems engineering
Bioconversion of biodiesel-derived glycerol into 2,3-butanediol has received recently much attention due to its increasing surplus and its multiple uses in industry as bulk chemical. The influence of initial glycerol concentration on 2,3-butanediol production in batch runs has been studied. A concentration higher than 140 g/L produces an inhibitory...
Raw glycerol is an industrial byproduct from biodiesel production and is one of the most promising substrates for 2,3-butanediol (2,3-BD) production; however, 2,3-BD is not yet produced by fermentation from glycerol on a commercial scale due to poor process economics. Class 1 microorganism collections were screened and Raoultella planticola strain ...
Published in Water, Air, & Soil Pollution
The replacement of synthetic surface-active compounds (SACs) by their microbial counterparts is carving out a niche for themselves in the field of bioremediation. However, the high cost of microbial products has limited their application at a realistic scale. In the current study, several hydrocarbon-degrading microorganisms were assayed as potenti...
Published in Bioresource technology
The red yeast Sporobolomyces ruberrimus H110 was able to use glycerol as a carbon source. The highest concentration (0.51gL(-1)) and productivity (0.0064gL(-1)h(-1)) of carotenoids were achieved when raw glycerol from biodiesel production, containing around 1gL(-1) of fatty acids, was used as the carbon source, which represented increases of 27% an...
Published in Microbial Cell Factories
BackgroundAlthough some microorganisms can convert glycerol into valuable products such as polyunsaturated fatty acids, the yields are relative low due primarily to an inefficient assimilation of glycerol. Mortierella alpina is an oleaginous fungus which preferentially uses glucose over glycerol as the carbon source for fatty acid synthesis.Results...
Published in BMC Biotechnology
BackgroundAchieving a sustainable society requires, among other things, the use of renewable feedstocks to replace chemicals obtained from petroleum-derived compounds. Crude glycerol synthesized inexpensively as a byproduct of biodiesel production is currently considered a waste product, which can potentially be converted into value-added compounds...
Published in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
To promote the effective use of raw glycerol (a by-product of biodiesel production), 110 yeast strains that produce d-arabitol from glycerol were isolated from environmental samples. Among them, strain 17-2A was an effective d-arabitol producer in the presence of 250 g/l glycerol and was identified as Candida quercitrusa based on morphological, phy...
Published in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
To establish and develop a biotechnological process of α-ketoglutaric acid (KGA) production by Yarrowia lipolytica, it is necessary to increase the KGA productivity and to reduce the amounts of by-products, e.g. pyruvic acid (PA) as major by-product and fumarate, malate and succinate as minor by-products. The aim of this study was the improvement o...
Published in Journal of bioscience and bioengineering
To produce glyceric acid (GA) from methanol-containing glycerol, resistance to methanol of Gluconobacter frateurii NBRC103465 was improved by chemical mutagenesis using N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine. The obtained mutant Gf398 produced 6.3 g/L GA in 5% (v/v) methanol-containing 17% (w/v) glycerol medium, in which the wild-type strain neither ...
