Production of water-soluble surface-active exolipids by Torulopsis apicola
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Summary
Several Torulopsis yeasts were screened for production of extracellular surface-active compounds. One strain, Torulopsis apicola IMET 43747, was studied in greater detail. Both on nalkanes and on carbohydrates it produced a mixture of water-soluble biosurfactants with remarkable interfacial activities and surface-tension values around 30 mN m-1 and interfacial tension below 1 mN m-1. Most of the biosurfactants are produced in the late exponential and in the early stationary growth phase. Production was increased by using hydrophobic compounds as the carbon source. The yields on n-alkanes were influenced by the concentrations of both the carbon source and the yeast extract. The effects of one purified biosurfactant on microbial growth on nalkanes and its antibacterial and antiphagal activities reveal new physiological aspects of biosurfactant generation by T. apicola.
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Carbohydrate Carbon Source Stationary Growth Yeast Extract Growth Phase
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