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. 2021 Jan 27;9(2):251. doi: 10.3390/microorganisms9020251

Table 3.

Fatty acid profile of oleaginous yeasts extracted using various nonmechanical pretreatment/cell disruption and total lipid extraction methods.

Oleaginous Yeast Fermentation Medium Non-Mechanical Pretreatment Lipid Extraction Method Fatty Acid Profile (%) Reference
C14:0 C16:0 C17:0 C18:0 C18:1 C18:2 C18:3 C20:0 C24:0
Rhodotorula glutinis
NRRL YB-252
Raw glycerol Treated with 2 M HCl Bligh and Dyer method 20.4 1.1 68.3 4.0 [100]
Lipomyces starkeyi NRRL Y-11557 39.3 7.8 42.5 4.2
Lipomyces lipofer
NRRL Y-11555
35.1 8.2 43.1 3.7
Cryptococcus curvatus NRRL Y-1511 17.3 18.0 49.5 10.6 1.7
Candida cylindracea
NRRL Y-17506
30.0 7.3 29.3 23.1 3.3
Rhodosporidium toruloides DEBB 5533 Sugarcane and urea Mineral acids Solvent recovery chloroform and sample, 1:1 1.0 21.5 0.0 4.6 62.1 7.6 0.7 0.1 0.7 [101]
Cryptococcus curvatus ATCC 20509 YPD media HCl digestion Chloroform and methanol (1:1, v/v) 0.5 ± 0.1 26.6 ± 1.4 18.2 ± 0.9 47.3 ± 3.4 5.9 ± 0.3 0.5 ± 0.0 [21]