Sugar composition of extra and intracellular polysaccharides produced by candida lipolytica [4124] grown on methanol media

ABSTRACT

Candida lipolytica [4124] was grown on different methanol culture conditions for single cell protein production. The extracellular polysaccharides amount produced in 3 different methanol media was found to be ranging between 141.0 and 185.0mg/L at the 3rd day of growth. The free monosaccharides of Candida lipolytica [4124] cells were identified and estimated. The chromatographic analysis of the hydrolysates of intracellular polysaccharides indicated the presence of glucose, galactose and mannose as dominant bound sugars; xylose was present only in media containing 2,6-dichlorophenol indophenol