Production of cerebroside from beet molasses by the yeast Saccharomyces kluyveri

Food Biotechnology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 95-105

  Tamura, Masahiko ^a,b   Matsumoto, Osamu ^a   Takakuwa, Naoya ^c   Oda, Yuji ^c   Ohnishi, Masao ^d  

^a Shimizu Bio Plants   (Japan)

^b IWATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR HOKKAIDO REGION   (Japan)

^d OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fermentation; Glucosylceramide; Single spore; Sphingolipid

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBON; CELL CULTURE; ETHANOL; FATTY ACIDS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STRAIN; SUGAR (SUCROSE); YEAST;

BEET MOLASSES; CARBON SOURCES; CEREBROSIDE; SPORULATION;

MOLASSES;

BETA VULGARIS SUBSP. VULGARIS; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES KLUYVERI;

EID: 23944505205     PISSN: 08905436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/FBT-200063426     Document Type: Article

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