What makes Yarrowia lipolytica well suited for industry?

YK Park, R Ledesma-Amaro - Trends in Biotechnology, 2023 - cell.com
Yarrowia lipolytica possesses natural and engineered traits that make it a good host for the
industrial bioproduction of chemicals, fuels, foods, and pharmaceuticals. In recent years …

Expanding sugar alcohol industry: Microbial production of sugar alcohols and associated chemocatalytic derivatives

P Liang, M Cao, J Li, Q Wang, Z Dai - Biotechnology Advances, 2023 - Elsevier
Sugar alcohols are polyols that are widely employed in the production of chemicals,
pharmaceuticals, and food products. Chemical synthesis of polyols, however, is complex …

Metabolic engineering of Yarrowia lipolytica for high-level production of scutellarin

P Zhang, W Wei, Y Shang, BC Ye - Bioresource Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
Scutellarin drugs have been recognized as a key item in the national development of
essential clinical emergency drugs for treating cardiovascular and cerebrovascular …

Microbial sources of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) and the prospect of organic residues and wastes as growth media for PUFA-producing microorganisms

M Kothri, M Mavrommati, AM Elazzazy… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The discovery of non-fish sources of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) is of great
biotechnological importance. Although various oleaginous microalgae and fungi are able of …

Designing synthetic microbial communities with the capacity to upcycle fermentation byproducts to increase production yields

R Rafieenia, C Klemm, P Hapeta, J Fu, MG García… - Trends in …, 2024 - cell.com
Microbial cell factories, which convert feedstocks into a product of value, have the potential
to help transition toward a bio-based economy with more sustainable ways to produce food …

Recent advances in the microbial synthesis of hemoglobin

X Zhao, J Zhou, G Du, J Chen - Trends in Biotechnology, 2021 - cell.com
Hemoglobin is a cofactor-containing protein with heme that plays important roles in
transporting and storing oxygen. Hemoglobins have been widely applied as acellular …

Yarrowia lipolytica: a multitalented yeast species of ecological significance

D Mamaev, R Zvyagilskaya - FEMS yeast research, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Yarrowia lipolytica is characterized by GRAS (Generally regarded as safe) status, the
versatile substrate utilization profile, rapid utilization rates, metabolic diversity and flexibility …

[HTML][HTML] Metabolic engineering of Yarrowia lipolytica for poly (ethylene terephthalate) degradation

KE Kosiorowska, P Biniarz, A Dobrowolski… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is the most widely used plastic, whose global production
scale causes serious problems due to it being highly non-biodegradable. The present work …

Enhancing erythritol production from crude glycerol in a wild-type Yarrowia lipolytica by metabolic engineering

S Yang, X Pan, Q Wang, Q Lv, X Zhang… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background: Erythritol is a zero-calorie sweetener that is widely used in the food,
pharmaceutical, and medical industries. Crude glycerol is the main by-product of biodiesel …

[HTML][HTML] Production of PETase by engineered Yarrowia lipolytica for efficient poly (ethylene terephthalate) biodegradation

KE Kosiorowska, AD Moreno, R Iglesias, K Leluk… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
There has been a growing interest in poly (ethylene terephthalate) PET degradation studies
in the last few years due to its widespread use and large-scale plastic waste accumulation in …