Publication detail
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"
}