Microbial lipids from cellulolytic oleaginous fungus Penicillium citrinum PKB20 as a potential feedstock for biodiesel production

Microscopy approaches to screening oleaginous microorganisms and evaluating their potential as feedstock for biodiesel production

Celso Sant’Anna1, Veronica S. Ferreira, Marianne M. Monnerat, Roberta F. Pinto, Wanderley de Souza and Juliana L. Martins 1 Lab. de Microscopia, Diretoria de Ciências Aplicadas às Ciência da Vida Dimav, Instituto Nacional de Metrologia, Qualidade e Tecnologia Inmetro, RJ, Brazil 2 Lab. de Microbiologia, Diretoria de Ciências Aplicadas às Ciência da Vida Dimav, Instituto Nacional de Metrologia, ...

Getting Lipids for Biodiesel Production from Oleaginous Fungi

The Oleaginous Yeast Meyerozyma guilliermondii BI281A as a New Potential Biodiesel Feedstock: Selection and Lipid Production Optimization

A high throughput screening (HTS) methodology for evaluation of cellular lipid content based on Nile red fluorescence reads using black background 96-wells test plates and a plate reader equipment allowed the rapid intracellular lipid estimation of strains from a Brazilian phylloplane yeast collection. A new oleaginous yeast, Meyerozyma guilliermondii BI281A, was selected, for which the gravime...

Single cell oil of oleaginous fungi from the tropical mangrove wetlands as a potential feedstock for biodiesel

BACKGROUND Single cell oils (SCOs) accumulated by oleaginous fungi have emerged as a potential alternative feedstock for biodiesel production. Though fungi from mangrove ecosystem have been reported for production of several lignocellulolytic enzymes, they remain unexplored for their SCO producing ability. Thus, these oleaginous fungi from the mangrove ecosystem could be suitable candidates for...

Dihydroisocoumarins from the Mangrove-Derived Fungus Penicillium citrinum

Three new dihydroisocoumarin penicimarins G-I (1-3), together with one known dihydroisocoumarin (4) and three known meroterpenoids (5-7), were obtained from a fungus Penicillium citrinum isolated from the mangrove Bruguiera sexangula var. rhynchopetala collected in the South China Sea. Their structures were elucidated by the detailed analysis of spectroscopic data. The absolute configuration of...