Effects of alcohol compounds on the growth and lipid accumulation of oleaginous yeast Trichosporon fermentans.

ABSTRACT: The inhibitors present in dilute acid-treated lignocellulosic hydrolysates would show great effect on the growth and product formation of microorganisms. To understand their inhibitory law and mechanism on oleaginous microorganism could help improving the efficiency of lignocellulose hydrolysis, detoxification, and lipid fermentation. The effects of four representative alcohol compounds present in lignocellulosic hydrolysates, including furfuryl alcohol, vanillyl alcohol, catechol, hydroquinone on the cell growth and lipid accumulation of Trichosporon fermentans were systematically investigated in this work. The toxicity of selected alcohol compounds was well related to their log P value except furfuryl alcohol, whose log P value was the minimum but with the highest toxicity to T. fermenta

SUBMITTER: Huang C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3465294 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature