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Methanol-Utilizing Yeasts

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Methane and Methanol Utilizers

Part of the book series: Biotechnology Handbooks ((BTHA,volume 5))

Abstract

The ability of yeasts to grow on methanol as a source of carbon and energy has been discovered relatively recently. Whereas bacterial utilization of methanol was found before the end of the previous century, it was not until 1969 that growth of eukaryotic microorganisms at the expense of this one-carbon compound was reported (Ogata et al. 1969). Independent studies by several other research groups soon followed this first report and established that a variety of yeasts (Lee and Komagata, 1980a) and some filamentous fungi (Goncharova et al., 1977) are able to utilize methanol as a source of carbon and energy for growth.

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