Starmerella
| Starmerella | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Phylum: | Ascomycota |
| Subphylum: | Saccharomycotina |
| Class: | Saccharomycetes |
| Order: | Saccharomycetales |
| Family: | Incertae sedis |
| Genus: | Starmerella C.A. Rosa & Lachance[1] |
| Type species | |
| Starmerella bombicola C.A. Rosa & Lachance | |
| Species | |
|
S. bombicola | |
Starmerella is a genus of fungi within the Saccharomycetales order. The relationship of this taxon to other taxa within the order is unknown (incertae sedis), and it has not yet been placed with certainty into any family.[2] Several members of the Starmerella clade are associated with flowers and flower-visiting insects like bees and bumblebees; these yeasts cope well with high sugar niches. Many strains (species) of the Starmerella clade, including Starmerella bombicola and Candida apicola are known to produce sophorolipids which are carbohydrate-based, amphiphilic biosurfactants.[3][4][5]
References
- ↑ Rosa CA, Lachance M-A. (1998). "The yeast genus Starmerella gen. nov. and Starmerella bombicola sp. nov., the teleomorph of Candida bombicola (Spencer, Gorin & Tullock) Meyer & Yarrow". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 48 (4): 1413–7. doi:10.1099/00207713-48-4-1413. PMID 9828444.
- ↑ Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet (Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany) 13: 1–58.
- ↑ Kurtzman, C. P., Price, N. P., Ray, K. J., & Kuo, T. M. (2010). "Production of sophorolipid biosurfactants by multiple species of the Starmerella (Candida) bombicola yeast clade". FEMS microbiology letters 311 (2): 140–146]]. doi:10.1111/j.1574-6968.2010.02082.x.
- ↑ Parekh, V. J., & Pandit, A. B. (2011). "Optimization of fermentative production of sophorolipid biosurfactant by Starmerella bombicola NRRL Y-17069 using response surface methodology". Int J Pharm Biol Sci 1 (3): 103–116.
- ↑ Takahashi, M., Morita, T., Wada, K., Hirose, N., Fukuoka, T., Imura, T., & Kitamoto, D. (2011). "Production of sophorolipid glycolipid biosurfactants from sugarcane molasses using Starmerella bombicola NBRC 10243". Journal of oleo science 60 (5)): 267. doi:10.5650/jos.60.267.
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