Taxonomic group: fungi / Ascomycota
(Phylum: Ascomycota)
Associated disease: infection due to Candida [ICD11:
XN3CL 
]
NCBI PubMed ID: 20738402Publication DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2010.02082.xJournal NLM ID: 7705721Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
Correspondence: cletus.kurtzman

ars.usda.gov
Institutions: US Department of Agriculture, Foodborne Bacterial Pathogens and Mycology Research Unit, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, Peoria, IL, USA, US Department of Agriculture, Renewable Product Technology Research Unit, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, Peoria, IL, USA
Sophorolipids are carbohydrate-based, amphiphilic biosurfactants that are of increasing interest for use in environmentally benign cleaning agents. Sophorolipid production was tested for 26 strains representing 19 species of the Starmerella yeast clade, including Starmerella bombicola and Candida apicola, which were previously reported to produce sophorolipids. Five of the 19 species tested showed significant production of sophorolipids: S. bombicola, C. apicola, Candida riodocensis, Candida stellata and a new species, Candida sp. NRRL Y-27208. A high-throughput matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-time of flight MS assay was developed that showed S. bombicola and C. apicola to produce a lactone form of sophorolipid, whereas C. riodocensis, C. stellata and Candida sp. NRRL Y-27208 produced predominantly free acid sophorolipids. Phylogenetic analysis of sequences for the D1/D2 domains of the nuclear large subunit rRNA gene placed all sophorolipid-producing species in the S. bombicola subclade of the Starmerella clade.
phylogeny, MALDI-TOF MS, biosurfactant, sophorolipids, yeasts
Structure type: cyclic polymer repeating unit ; 711.36 [M+Na]+
C
34H
56O
14Location inside paper: Table 3
Compound class: sophorolipid
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_140628,IEDB_142488,IEDB_146664,IEDB_983931,SB_192
Methods: GLC-MS, DNA sequencing, MALDI-TOF MS, extraction, cell growth, evaporation
Related record ID(s): 44339, 44340, 44341, 44342, 44344
NCBI Taxonomy refs (TaxIDs): 75736,
1008382
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