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Construction and fed-batch cultivation of Candida famata with enhanced riboflavin production.
Journal of biotechnology - 20 Feb 2014
Dmytruk Kostyantyn, Lyzak Oleksy, Yatsyshyn Valentyna, Kluz Maciej, Sibirny Vladimir, Puchalski Czeslaw, Sibirny Andriy
Abstract excerpt
Riboflavin (vitamin B2) is an essential nutrition component serving as a precursor of coenzymes FMN and FAD that are involved mostly in reactions of oxidative metabolism. Riboflavin is produced in commercial scale and is used in feed and food industries, and in medicine. The yeast Candida famata (Candida flareri) belongs to the group of so called "flavinogenic yeasts" which overproduce riboflavin under iron...
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