Rhodococcus opacus B4: a promising bacterium for production of biofuels and biobased chemicals

Castro, Ana Rita; Rocha, Isabel; Alves, Maria Madalena; Pereira, Maria Alcina

doi:10.1186/s13568-016-0207-y

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Table 4 Comparison of total fatty acids production between different lipid accumulating Rhodococcus using sugar, organic acid and hydrocarbon defined substrates

From: Rhodococcus opacus B4: a promising bacterium for production of biofuels and biobased chemicals

Strain	Substrate	Incubation time (h)	FA (g g⁻¹ CDW^a)	FA (g L⁻¹)	Reference
R. opacus B4	Glucose (40 g L⁻¹)	24	0.528	0.600	This study^b
	Glucose (40 g L⁻¹)	72	0.613	0.700
	Acetate (6 g L⁻¹)	24	0.664	0.300
	Hexadecane (1 g L⁻¹)	24	0.273	0.090
R. opacus PD630	Glucose (40 g L⁻¹)	24	0.507	1.1
	Glucose (40 g L⁻¹)	72	0.580	1.6
	Acetate (6 g L⁻¹)	24	0.505	0.270
	Hexadecane (1 g L⁻¹)	24	0.218	0.045
	Glucose (16 g L⁻¹)^c	72	0.516	2.87	Kurosawa and Sinskey (2013)
	Glucose (240 g L⁻¹)	147	0.380	25.2	Kurosawa et al. (2010)
	Glucose (10 g L⁻¹)	12	0.198		Kosa and Ragauskas (2012)
	Glucose (40 g L⁻¹)	96	0.412		MacEachran et al. (2010)
	Glucose (40 g L⁻¹)	120	0.378		MacEachran and Sinskey (2013)
	Acetate (6 g L⁻¹)	24	0.310		Alvarez et al. (1997a)
	Hexadecane (1 g L⁻¹)	48	0.380		Alvarez et al. (1997a)
R. opacus DSM1069	Glucose (10 g L⁻¹)	12	0.216	0.244	Wei et al. (2015)
R. opacus DSM1069	Glucose (10 g L⁻¹)	120	0.179		Kosa and Ragauskas (2012
R. ruber NCIMB 40126	Glucose (10 g L⁻¹)	24	0.190		Alvarez et al. (1997a)
	Glucose (10 g L⁻¹)	84	0.380		Alvarez et al. (2000)
	Hexadecane (1 g L⁻¹)	24	0.260		Alvarez et al. (2000)
Rhodococcus sp. A5	Glucose (10 g L⁻¹)	72	0.176		Bequer Urbano et al. (2013)
Rhodococcus sp. A5	Hexadecane (1 g L⁻¹)	72	0.283		Bequer Urbano et al. (2013)
R. fascians 123	Glucose (10 g L⁻¹)	24	0.038		Alvarez et al. (1997a)
	Hexadecane (1 g L⁻¹)	24	0.181		Alvarez et al. (1997a)
		72	0.129		Alvarez (2003)
R. erythropolis 17		72	0.434		Alvarez (2003)
R. erythropolis 17		24	0.176		Alvarez et al. (1997a)
Rhodococcus sp. 20		72	0.081		Alvarez (2003)
R. aetherivorans IAR1	Acetate (9 g L⁻¹)	80	0.240		Hori et al. (2009)
R. aetherivorans IAR1	Toluene (0.5 g L⁻¹)	50	0.240		Hori et al. (2009)
Rhodococcus sp. 602	Hexadecane (1 g L⁻¹)	48	0.223		Silva et al. (2010)
R. rhodochrous	Glucose (20 g L⁻¹)	168	0.430	3.030	Shields-Menard et al. (2015)
R. jostii RHA1	Glucose (nr)	nr	0.484		Hernandez et al. (2008)
	Acetate (nr)	nr	0.212
	Hexadecane (nr)	nr	0.304

^aCellular dry weight
^bConditions with possible substrate limitation are not included
^cEngineered R. opacus PD630 strain to utilize xylose
nr not reported

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