Draft Genome Sequence of the Basidiomycetous Yeast-Like Fungus Pseudozyma hubeiensis SY62, Which Produces an Abundant Amount of the Biosurfactant Mannosylerythritol Lipids

Masaaki Konishi; Yuji Hatada; Jun-Ichi Horiuchi

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00409-13

Draft Genome Sequence of the Basidiomycetous Yeast-Like Fungus Pseudozyma hubeiensis SY62, Which Produces an Abundant Amount of the Biosurfactant Mannosylerythritol Lipids

Genome Announc. 2013 Jun 27;1(4):e00409-13. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00409-13.

Authors

Masaaki Konishi¹, Yuji Hatada, Jun-Ichi Horiuchi

Affiliation

¹ Department of Biotechnology and Environmental Chemistry, Kitami Institute of Technology, Kitami-shi, Hokkaido, Japan.

Abstract

The basidiomycetous yeast-like fungus Pseudozyma hubeiensis strain SY62 is capable of producing an abundant amount of the glycolipid biosurfactant mannosylerythritol lipids (MELs), which are a major component of monoacetylated MEL (MEL-C). To reveal the synthetic pathway of the MELs of strain SY62, we present the 18.44-Mb draft genome sequence.