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Improvement of lipid compound prooduction by red yeasts though random mutagenesis

KOSTOVOVÁ, I. ROUBALOVÁ, M. POKRÝVKOVÁ, Z. BYRTUSOVÁ, D. SZOTKOWSKI, M. HLAVÁČEK, V. MÁROVÁ, I.

Original Title

Improvement of lipid compound prooduction by red yeasts though random mutagenesis

Type

abstract

Language

English

Original Abstract

Lipid compounds are useful for human nutrition, pharmaceutical and biofuel applications and represent products of high value. As a very promising microbial lipid producers are considered so called red yeasts. Red yeasts are characteristic with their pink to red coloration which is caused by lipid pigments (carotenoids) production. Random mutagenesis can affect production rate of metabolite and more efficient substrate utilization. This study is focused on the effect of ultraviolet irradiation to lipid and carotenoid production by red yeasts strains. The main target was to employ random mutagenesis induced by ultraviolet irradiation to gain lipid overproducing mutants capable of utilizing economically feasible substrates such as glycerol or whey. For this experiment were used yeasts of genus Rhodotorula.

Keywords

Red yeast, random mutagenesis, lipids, carotenoids

Authors

KOSTOVOVÁ, I.; ROUBALOVÁ, M.; POKRÝVKOVÁ, Z.; BYRTUSOVÁ, D.; SZOTKOWSKI, M.; HLAVÁČEK, V.; MÁROVÁ, I.

Released

2. 5. 2017

Publisher

Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava

Location

Bratislava

Pages from

58

Pages to

58

Pages count

1

BibTex

@misc{BUT138833,
  author="Iveta {Kostovová} and Monika {Roubalová} and Zuzana {Pokrývková} and Dana {Byrtusová} and Martin {Szotkowski} and Viliam {Hlaváček} and Ivana {Márová}",
  title="Improvement of lipid compound prooduction by red yeasts though random mutagenesis",
  booktitle="44th Annual Conference on Yeast",
  year="2017",
  edition="44",
  number="44",
  pages="58--58",
  publisher="Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava",
  address="Bratislava",
  note="abstract"
}