Rhodosporidium toruloides - A potential red yeast chassis for lipids and beyond

Z Wen, S Zhang, CK Odoh, M Jin… - FEMS Yeast …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The red yeast Rhodosporidium toruloides naturally produces microbial lipids and
carotenoids. In the past decade or so, many studies demonstrated R. toruloides as a …

Engineering Rhodosporidium toruloides for increased lipid production

S Zhang, JM Skerker, CD Rutter… - Biotechnology and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Oleaginous yeast are promising organisms for the production of lipid‐based chemicals and
fuels from simple sugars. In this work, we explored Rhodosporidium toruloides for the …

The engineering potential of Rhodosporidium toruloides as a workhorse for biotechnological applications

YK Park, JM Nicaud, R Ledesma-Amaro - Trends in biotechnology, 2018 - cell.com
Moving our society towards a bioeconomy requires efficient and sustainable microbial
production of chemicals and fuels. Rhodotorula (Rhodosporidium) toruloides is a yeast that …

Functional integration of multiple genes into the genome of the oleaginous yeast Rhodosporidium toruloides

X Lin, Y Wang, S Zhang, Z Zhu, YJ Zhou… - FEMS yeast …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The basidiomycetous yeast Rhodosporidium toruloides represents an excellent producer for
microbial lipids and carotenoids. However, further rational engineering of this …

Metabolic engineering of the oleaginous yeast Rhodosporidium toruloides IFO0880 for lipid overproduction during high-density fermentation

S Zhang, M Ito, JM Skerker, AP Arkin… - Applied Microbiology and …, 2016 - Springer
Natural lipids can be used to make biodiesel and many other value-added compounds. In
this work, we explored a number of different metabolic engineering strategies for increasing …

Functional genomics of lipid metabolism in the oleaginous yeast Rhodosporidium toruloides

ST Coradetti, D Pinel, GM Geiselman, M Ito, SJ Mondo… - Elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
The basidiomycete yeast Rhodosporidium toruloides (also known as Rhodotorula
toruloides) accumulates high concentrations of lipids and carotenoids from diverse carbon …

Engineering Rhodosporidium toruloides with a membrane transporter facilitates production and separation of carotenoids and lipids in a bi-phasic culture

JJL Lee, L Chen, B Cao, WN Chen - Applied Microbiology and …, 2016 - Springer
The oleaginous yeast Rhodosporidium toruloides has great biotechnological potential. It
accumulates a high amount of lipids which can be used for biofuels and also produces …

Xylose Metabolism and the Effect of Oxidative Stress on Lipid and Carotenoid Production in Rhodotorula toruloides: Insights for Future Biorefinery

MJ Pinheiro, N Bonturi, I Belouah… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The use of cell factories to convert sugars from lignocellulosic biomass into chemicals in
which oleochemicals and food additives, such as carotenoids, is essential for the shift …

Comparative proteomic analysis of Rhodosporidium toruloides during lipid accumulation

H Liu, X Zhao, F Wang, Y Li, X Jiang, M Ye, ZK Zhao… - Yeast, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Intracellular lipid accumulation is a common biological process for some eukaryotic
microorganisms under specific growth conditions, yet study on this phenomenon at an ' …

Recent advances in lipid metabolic engineering of oleaginous yeasts

A Chattopadhyay, M Mitra, MK Maiti - Biotechnology Advances, 2021 - Elsevier
With the increasing demand to develop a renewable and sustainable biolipid feedstock,
several species of non-conventional oleaginous yeasts are being explored. Apart from the …