Biovalorisation of crude glycerol and xylose into xylitol by oleaginous yeast Yarrowia lipolytica

Abstract Background Xylitol is a commercially important chemical with multiple applications in the food and pharmaceutical industries. According to the US Department of Energy, xylitol is one of the top twelve platform chemicals that can be produced from biomass. The chemical method for xylitol synt...

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Main Authors: Ashish A. Prabhu, Dominic J. Thomas, Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro, Gary A. Leeke, Angel Medina, Carol Verheecke-Vaessen, Frederic Coulon, Deepti Agrawal, Vinod Kumar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-06-01
Series:Microbial Cell Factories
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12934-020-01378-1