Taxonomic group: fungi / Ascomycota
(Phylum: Ascomycota)
Associated disease: infection due to Candida [ICD11:
XN3CL 
]
NCBI PubMed ID: 28929199Publication DOI: 10.1007/s00253-017-8519-7Journal NLM ID: 8406612Publisher: Springer
Correspondence: Inge.VanBogaert
UGent.be
Institutions: BioPort Group, Centre for Synthetic Biology, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Sophorolipids are well-known biosurfactants produced by yeasts, having potential applications ranging from nanomaterials, medicine, and cosmetics to large-volume applications such as cleaning and soil remediation. Because of their environmentally friendly nature, they attained much interest during the past decades as a sustainable and ecological alternative to petroleum-derived surfactants. Stronger yet, research activities and scientific publications on the topic are ever increasing. However, often these studies lack proper producer strain identification and detailed structural product characterization. Flaws regarding strain identity can have huge consequences when moving to valorization and moreover tend to persist quite long in scientific literature. Furthermore, too often sophorolipid production is proposed where other biosurfactant structures cannot be ruled out based on the chemical analysis. Finally, absolute quantitative yield determination frequently occurs with variable product purity and without proper calibration standards. This review aims to highlight and discuss these discrepancies and proposes some guidelines for good practice in future sophorolipid research.
biosurfactant, sophorolipid, starmerella, chemical structure analysis, yeast identification
Structure type: structural motif or average structure
Location inside paper: Fig. 2, p. 7816 (sec. Determination of the specific sophorolipid congener)
Compound class: glycolipid, sophorolipid
Contained glycoepitopes: IEDB_140628,IEDB_142488,IEDB_146664,IEDB_983931,SB_192
Biosynthesis and genetic data: genetic data
NCBI Taxonomy refs (TaxIDs): 1008382
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There is only one chemically distinct structure:
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(later renamed to: Candida kuoi)