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Two Novel Biosurfactants Produced by Aureobasidium pullulans A11211-4-57 from a Fleabane, Erigeron annus (L.) pers

The Journal of Antibiotics volume 75, pages 589–592 (2022)Cite this article

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Biosurfactants have been widely used in various industrial fields including medicine, food, cosmetics, detergent, pulp and paper, and oil and fat degradation. The culture broth of Aureobasidium pullulans A11211-4-57 using glucose as carbon source exhibited potent surfactant activity. The culture broth was separated by column chromatographies using ODS, silica gel, and Sephadex LH-20 resins, consecutively, to provide two biosurfactants. Based on mass and NMR measurements, their structures were determined as myo-inositol lipids and named pullusurfactans F and G. These compounds showed a high degree of activity, with 27.25 mN/m and 24.07 mN/m, respectively, at 1.0 mg l−1, which is useful for washing and cleaning agents.

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The authors thank Ms. Ji-Young Oh, Center for University-wide Research Facilities (CURF) at Jeonbuk National University, for performing NMR measurements.

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Kim, JS., Ki, DW., Lee, IK. et al. Two Novel Biosurfactants Produced by Aureobasidium pullulans A11211-4-57 from a Fleabane, Erigeron annus (L.) pers. J Antibiot 75, 589–592 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41429-022-00556-0

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