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The effect of soybean oil and glucose on the growth of Torulopsis bombicola and sophorose lipid production in continuous culture was investigated. As the dilution rate in 100 g/l glucose and 100 g/l soybean oil medium was increased, the dry cell weight and sophorose lipid concentration decreased. Sophorose lipid productivity, however, was maximum at a dilution rate of 0.03 h−1. The cell yield from glucose and the sophorose lipid production from soybean oil were approximately constant regardless of the dilution rate. The specific consumption rate of soybean oil was closely related to the specific production rate of sophorose lipid. These results suggest that soybean oil was used only for sophorose lipid production whereas glucose was used only for cell mass and maintenance. When the soybean oil concentration was varied at fixed dilution rate in 100 g/l glucose medium, a high concentration of soybean oil was found to inhibit sophorose lipid production.
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Received: 9 January 1997 / Received revision: 5 March 1997 / Accepted: 13 April 1997
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Kim, S., Oh, D., Lee, K. et al. Effect of soybean oil and glucose on sophorose lipid fermentation by Torulopsis bombicola in continuous culture. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 48, 23–26 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002530051009
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002530051009