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Table 2 Influence of media composition on cinnamic acid degradation. Strain OKYL029 was cultured in 10 mL media supplemented with 125 mg/L cinnamic acid in 100 mL shake flasks at 30 °C and 220 rpm for 22 h. Cinnamic acid, p-coumaric acid and 4-HBA show the average concentration in mg/L ± standard deviation of duplicates. – indicates no detection of the compound in either of the replicates. AS ammonium sulphate, YaC yeast extract and casamino acids, VaM vitamin and trace metal solution

From: Cinnamic acid and p-coumaric acid are metabolized to 4-hydroxybenzoic acid by Yarrowia lipolytica

Media base

nitrogen source

C/N ratio

additional supplements

acid added

OD600

cinnamic acid [mg/L]

p-coumaric acid [mg/L]

4-HBA [mg/L]

Delft

AS

3

 

cinnamic acid

5.0 ± 0.0

-

-

-

Delft

AS

18

 

cinnamic acid

5.1 ± 0.2

-

-

-

Delft

AS

18

YaC

cinnamic acid

8.5 ± 0.0

-

15.2 ± 0.5

9.3 ± 0.6

Delft

AS

116

 

cinnamic acid

2.4 ± 0.1

-

-

-

Delft

urea

3

 

cinnamic acid

6.0 ± 0.3

-

-

-

Delft

urea

116

 

cinnamic acid

2.4 ± 0.1

7.3 ± 5.6

-

-

LPU

urea

3

 

cinnamic acid

22.5 ± 0.4

37.8 ± 2.1

10.8 ± 0.6

-

LPU

urea

3

VaM

cinnamic acid

23.1 ± 1.2

9.7 ± 0.7

10.9 ± 0.4

-

LPU

urea

200

 

cinnamic acid

13.7 ± 0.4

-

24.2 ± 0.3

-