
Single Cell Oils
Microbial and Algal Oils
Description
Key Features
- Includes sufficient detail on molecular breeding of yeasts and molds
- Shows how microbial oils have gone from being academic curisoisties to being minor commodity oils
- Presents details on the safey and nutrition of single cell oils for human and animal nutrition
Readership
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Single Cell Oils for the 21st Century
Colin RatledgeChapter 2 Arachidonic Acid-Producing Mortierella alpina: Creation of Mutants, Isolation of the Related Enzyme Genes, and Molecular Breeding
Eiji Sakuradani, Akinori Ando, Jun Ogawa, and Sakayu ShimizuChapter 3 Metabolic Engineering of an Oleaginous Yeast for the Production of Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Quinn Zhu, Zhixiong Xue, Naren Yadav, Howard Damude, Dana Walters Pollak, Ross Rupert, John Seip, Dieter Hollerbach, Daniel Macool, Hongxiang Zhang, Sidney Bledsoe, David Short, Bjorn Tyreus, Anthony Kinney, and Stephen PicataggioChapter 4 Development of a Docosahexaenoic Acid Production Technology Using Schizochytrium: Historical Perspective and Update
William Barclay, Craig Weaver, James Metz, and Jon HansenChapter 5 Arachidonic Acid: Fermentative Production by Mortierella Fungi
Hugo StreekstraChapter 6 Production of Single Cell Oils by Dinoflagellates
James Wynn, Paul Behrens, Anand Sundararajan, Jon Hansen, and Kirk AptChapter 7 Alternative Carbon Sources for Heterotrophic Production of Docosahexaenoic Acid by the Marine Alga Crypthecodinium cohnii
Lolke Sijtsma, Alistair J. Anderson, and Colin RatledgeChapter 8 Production of Eicosapentaenoic Acid Using Heterotrophically Grown Microalgae
Zhiyou Wen and Feng ChenChapter 9 Downstream Processing, Extraction, and Purification of Single Cell Oils
Colin Ratledge, Hugo Streekstra, Zvi Cohen, and Jaouad FichtaliChapter 10 Searching for Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid-Rich Photosynthetic Microalgae
Zvi Cohen and Inna Khozin-GoldbergChapter 11 Carotenoid Production Using Microorganisms
Michael A. BorowitzkaChapter 12 Survey of Commercial Developments of Microalgae as Biodiesel Feedstock
Marguerite TorreyChapter 13 Algae Oils for Biofuels: Chemistry, Physiology, and Production
Michael A. BorowitzkaChapter 14 Production of Lipids for Biofuels Using Bacteria
Daniel Bröker, Yasser Elbahloul, and Alexander SteinbüchelChapter 15 Safety Evaluation of Single Cell Oils and the Regulatory Requirements for Use as Food Ingredients
Alan S. Ryan, Sam Zeller, and Edward B. NelsonChapter 16 Nutritional Aspects of Single Cell Oils: Applications of Arachidonic Acid and Docosahexaenoic Acid Oils
Andrew J. Sinclair and Anura JayasooriyaChapter 17 Recent Developments in the Human Nutrition of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids from Single Cell Oils
Connye N. Kuratko, James P. Hoffman, Mary E. Van Elswyk, and Norman Salem, JrChapter 18 Applications of Single Cell Oils for Animal Nutrition
Jesus R. Abril, Todd Wills, and Flint HardingChapter 19 Applications of Single Cell Oils for Aquaculture
Mario Velasco-Escudero and Hui GongChapter 20 Future Development of Single Cell Oils
David J. Kyle
Product details
- No. of pages: 516
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press and AOCS Press 2010
- Published: May 1, 2010
- Imprint: Academic Press and AOCS Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9781893997738
- eBook ISBN: 9781630670078
About the Editors
Zvi Cohen
Affiliations and Expertise
Colin Ratledge
After gaining his PhD from Manchester University and a four-year spell as a post-doc in Trinity College, Dublin, Colin joined Unilever at their research laboratories at Colworth House in the UK. It was here that he was introduced to the pleasures of working with microbial lipids and of trying to produce something commercially useful out of them. However, the plug was pulled on the project and Colin decided to return to the safer environment of academic research and joined the teaching staff of the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Hull in 1967. And here he has spent the rest of his career, being promoted through the ranks until he was given a personal professorial chair in 1983. Colin’s research work with microbial lipids began to take off when he realised that nothing was known, in biochemical terms, as to how some microorganism were able to produce copious amounts of lipid in their cells whilst others completely failed to do so. Work on the biochemistry of lipid accumulation in yeasts and fungi was the main focus of much of the research that was carried out at Hull. Work that was helped by many research students, post-docs and dedicated technicians plus government and EU grants and considerable support from industry who began to take increasing interests as to what microorganisms might be able to achieve in the way of producing desirable edible oils. It was during this time that the terms were coined of 'Single Cell Oils' and also 'oleaginous microorganisms’, both of which seem to have been accepted as part of the glossary of lipids. The very first commercial single cell oil was produced in 1985 as a result of research work carried out at Hull; this was an oil rich in γ-linolenic acid (GLA) being produced by the fungus, Mucor circinelloides. The large-scale process was developed by J & E Sturge at Selby, North Yorkshire, using their expertise with fungi as they were major producers of citric acid using Aspergillus niger. Production was at the 220 m3 level and, when production ceased in 1990, some 50 tons of GLA-SCO had been produced, all used for human consumption. His work has been recognised by the receipt of several awards, including the highly prestigious Stephen Chang Award from AOCS in 2011. He has been visiting professor at a number of universities including National University of Malaysia, Polytechnic University Hong Kong, Ben Gurion University Israel and Jiangnan University, China. Colin’s research work continued to explore the finer details of lipid biosynthesis and accumulation in both yeasts and fungi gradually building up a reasonable, but by no means complete, picture as to what was going on in the oleaginous microorganisms to allow them to accumulate so much lipid. In all, he has published over 300 scientific papers and reviews plus being writer and editor of 18 books.
Colin officially retired in 2004 but has continued to be active in research and also with various editing roles including being Associate Editor for Lipids, editorial advisor for Lipid Technology and Editor in Chief of Biotechnology Letters. He also continues to be a consultant for a number of companies involved in various aspects of SCO production. Dept of Microbial Biochemistry, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, U.K.