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Xylitol production from a mutant strain of Candida tropicalis.
Letters in applied microbiology - 1 Jul 2011
Jeon Y J, Shin H-S, Rogers P L
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AIMS: To characterize the kinetics of growth, sugar uptake and xylitol production in batch and fed-batch cultures for a xylitol assimilation-deficient strain of Candida tropicalis isolated via chemical mutagenesis. METHODS AND RESULTS: Chemical mutagenesis using nitrosoguanidine led to the isolation of the xylitol-assimilation deficient strain C. tropicalis SS2. Shake-flask fermentations with this mutant showed a...
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