Microorganism for Bioconversion of Sugar Hydrolysates into Lipids

Metabolic and genetic engineering and further other genomics, transcriptomics, and metabolomics tools still need to be further developed to provide more useful information and new ways on enhancing lipid production in oleaginous microorganisms, optimizing fatty acid (FA) profiles, enhancing lipid accumulation, and improving the use of low-cost raw materials as lignocellulosic hydrolysates. Several oleaginous organisms have been described as good lipid producers, being the fast ones the yeasts. However the kinetics for this production is much slower than that required for industrial processes, unless the products are sold at high competitive prices (fine chemicals, cosmetics, and food), covering the costs for the long residential bioreactor times.