%0 Journal Article %A WHITE, MICHAEL J. %A HAMMOND, ROGER C. %A ROSE, ANTHONY H. %T Production of Long-chain Alcohols by Yeasts %D 1987 %J Microbiology, %V 133 %N 8 %P 2181-2190 %@ 1465-2080 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/00221287-133-8-2181 %I Microbiology Society, %X 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. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/micro/10.1099/00221287-133-8-2181