Table 1 Research progress on the biotransformation of decane and methyl decanoate to sebacic acid

C. cloacae 310

Decane

0.427

–^a

Shiio and Uchio (1971)

Engineered C. tropicalis

Decane

0.94

–^a

Chung et al. (2015), Beardslee et al. (2014)

Engineered C. tropicalis

Decane + methyl decanoate

± 13^b

–^a

Beardslee et al. (2014)

C. tropicalis mutant

Decane + methyl decanoate

27.0 ± 2.14^c

0.50 ± 0.04

This study

C. tropicalis mutant

Decane + methyl decanoate

34.5 ± 1.10^d

0.64 ± 0.02

This study