title: Isolation of yeast Kurtzmanomyces sp. I-11, novel producer of mannosylerythritol lipid.
abstract: Yeast strains were screened for producers of glycolipid-type biosurfactants from soybean oil as a sole carbon source. The structure of the glycolipid (MEL-I-11) produced by strain I-11 was analyzed. The hydrophilic sugar moiety was mannosylerythritol and the fatty acid components were C8:0 (36.4%), C12:0 (11.9%), and C14:2 (25.9%). The MEL-I-11 was identified as 6-O-acetyl-2,3-di-O-alkanoyl-beta-D-mannopyranosyl-(1-->4)-O-meso-erythritol. The strain I-11 was identified as a Kurtzmanomyces species, a novel producer of mannosylerythritol lipid.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Biotechnology, Graduate School of Advanced Sciences of Matter, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan. kakugawa@syokuhin-kg.pref.hiroshima.jp
authors.forename: Koji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kakugawa
authors.forename: Masahiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tamai
authors.forename: Kunihiko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Imamura
authors.forename: Keiko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Miyamoto
authors.forename: Shozo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Miyoshi
authors.forename: Yuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Morinaga
authors.forename: Osamu
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: Tokichi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Miyakawa
mesh_terms: D005960:Glucosides / Q000032:analysis; D006017:Glycolipids / Q000032:analysis*; D015394:Molecular Structure; D015003:Yeasts / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D005960:Glucosides; D006017:Glycolipids