Abstract:The yeast
Starmerella bombicola
NBRC10243 is an excellent producer of sophorolipids, which are among the most useful biosurfactants. The primary alcoholic metabolic pathway of
S. bombicola
has been elucidated using alcohol oxidase FAO1, but the secondary alcohol metabolic pathway remains unknown. Although the FAO1 mutant was unable to grow with secondary alcohols and seemed to be involved in the secondary alcohol metabolism pathway of
S. bombicola
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