Exploring yeast diversity to produce lipid-based biofuels from agro-forestry and industrial organic residues

MN Mota, P Múgica, I Sá-Correia - Journal of Fungi, 2022 - mdpi.com
Exploration of yeast diversity for the sustainable production of biofuels, in particular
biodiesel, is gaining momentum in recent years. However, sustainable, and economically …

Sophorolipids bioproduction in the yeast Starmerella bombicola: current trends and perspectives

MA Qazi, Q Wang, Z Dai - Bioresource Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
Sophorolipids are highly active green surfactants (glycolipid biosurfactants) getting
tremendous appreciation worldwide due to their low toxicity, biodegradability, broad …

Potential role of sophorolipids in sustainable food systems

J Bueno-Mancebo, A Artola, R Barrena… - Trends in Food Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Background Sophorolipids (SLs) are a type of extracellular biosurfactants obtained
from renewable raw materials by fermentation with non-pathogenic yeasts. The …

Oleaginous yeasts: time to rethink the definition?

JM Salvador López, M Vandeputte, INA Van Bogaert - Yeast, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Oleaginous yeasts are typically defined as those able to accumulate more than 20% of their
cell dry weight as lipids or triacylglycerides. Research on these yeasts has increased lately …

[HTML][HTML] Agro-industrial waste to microbial sophorolipids: Innovations and impacts on the food industry

MA Purohit, AJ Das, D Ghosh - Current Research in Microbial Sciences, 2024 - Elsevier
The cost-effective production of sophorolipids (SLs) using agro-industrial waste represents a
significant advancement in sustainable practices within the food industry. Sophorolipids …

TransAAP: an automated annotation pipeline for membrane transporter prediction in bacterial genomes

LDH Elbourne, B Wilson-Mortier, Q Ren… - Microbial …, 2023 - microbiologyresearch.org
Membrane transporters are a large group of proteins that span cell membranes and
contribute to critical cell processes, including delivery of essential nutrients, ejection of waste …

Membrane transport engineering for efficient yeast biomanufacturing

XY Li, MH Zhou, DW Zeng, YF Zhu, FL Zhang… - Bioresource …, 2024 - Elsevier
Yeast strains have been widely recognized as useful cell factories for biomanufacturing. To
improve production efficiency, their biosynthetic pathways and regulatory strategies have …

The emerging concept of transportome: state of the art

FA Ruffinatti, G Scarpellino, G Chinigò… - …, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
The array of ion channels and transporters expressed in cell membranes, collectively
referred to as the transportome, is a complex and multifunctional molecular machinery; in …

Bubbling insights: unveiling the true sophorolipid biosynthetic pathway by Starmerella bombicola

SLKW Roelants, S Bovijn, E Bytyqi, N de Fooz… - … for Biofuels and …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Background The yeast Starmerella bombicola is renowned for its highly efficient
sophorolipid production, reaching titers and productivities of (over) 200 g/L and 2 g/(L h) …

A Cumulative Effect by Multiple-Gene Knockout Strategy Leads to a Significant Increase in the Production of Sophorolipids in Starmerella Bombicola CGMCC 1576

J Liu, X Zhang, G Liu, G Zhao, X Fang… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Sophorolipids (SLs), an important biosurfactant produced by S. bombicola, were one of the
most potential substitutes for chemical surfactants. Few reports on the transcriptional …