Yeast Culture Collections
Yeast Culture Collections Kyria Boundy-Mills Curator, Phaff Yeast Culture Collection Food Science and Technology UC Davis Outline • Definition and importance of yeast • How yeasts are isolated and characterized • How yeasts are preserved and stored • Yeast collections of the world • Phaff Yeast Culture Collection history, holdings and activities What are yeasts? Single-celled fungi ~1700 species known Only 1% of species are named! Require C, N sources Basic life science research Model organisms 4 Nobel prizes in last 15 years Fermented foods and beverages, chemicals, biofuels, pharmaceuticals Products made using Yeasts • Amino acids • L-cystine, L-glutamic acid, L-serine, L-lysine, L-threonine, D and L-methionine; L-tryptophan, Nacetyl-glycine, L-phenylalanine • Carotenoids • Astaxanthin, carotene, lycopene • Acetoin, adipic acid, acetanilide, dicarboxylic acids, 1,3- • Chemicals propanediol, ethylacetate, 2,3-butanediol, glycerol, 1-ß- • Enzymes hydoxybutyric acid, !-ketoglutaric acid, lactic acid • Invertase, galactosidase, lipase, phytase, pectinases, trehalase, • Feed additives inulinase, glucoamylase, proteases, esterases • Fermented foods • SCP, SCO, phytase, ß-glucans, riboflavin, amino acids • Beer, bread, wine, miso, soy sauce, many other fermented foods • Flavors and beverages, ethanol • Food ingredients • 2-Phenlyethanol, nucleotides,ethylacetate, acetaldehyde, citric acid, furanones, methyl ketones • Heterologous and other proteins • Citric acid, acetic acid, lactic acid, ribonucleotides, biosurfactants- sophorolids
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