@article{mbs:/content/journal/micro/10.1099/00221287-133-8-2181, author = "WHITE, MICHAEL J. and HAMMOND, ROGER C. and ROSE, ANTHONY H.", title = "Production of Long-chain Alcohols by Yeasts", journal= "Microbiology", year = "1987", volume = "133", number = "8", pages = "2181-2190", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/00221287-133-8-2181", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/micro/10.1099/00221287-133-8-2181", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1465-2080", type = "Journal Article", abstract = "SUMMARY: Fourteen yeast strains from six genera were analysed for the presence of long-chain alcohols. Six strains from three genera contained long-chain alcohols, highest levels being found in Candida albicans. The alcohols were identified and determined by TLC, GLC and GLC-MS. The major long-chain alcohols synthesized by these organisms were saturated, primary alcohols with C14, C16 or C18 chain length. Unsaturated long-chain alcohols were not detected. In all strains that produced long-chain alcohols, the relative proportions were C16 > C18 > C14. Long-chain alcohol contents were higher in organisms from anaerobically, as compared with aerobically, grown cultures reaching about 650 μg (g dry wt organisms)-1 in stationary-phase cultures of C. albicans. In cultures of C. albicans, synthesis of long-chain alcohols occurred only after the end of exponential growth. The alcohols were predominantly present as free alcohols. The fatty-acyl chain-length profile of the triacylglycerol and to a lesser extent the sterol/wax ester fractions from C. albicans reflected that of the long-chain alcohols produced by this yeast.", }