Paper Title :Microbial Lipid Extraction by Electroporation Technique Culturing Lipomyces Starkeyi on Palm Oil Mill Effluent (POME)

Author :Ahasanul Karim, Abu Yousuf, M Amirul Islam, Che Ku Mohammad Faizal

Article Citation :Ahasanul Karim ,Abu Yousuf ,M Amirul Islam ,Che Ku Mohammad Faizal , (2018 ) " Microbial Lipid Extraction by Electroporation Technique Culturing Lipomyces Starkeyi on Palm Oil Mill Effluent (POME) " , International Journal of Advances in Science, Engineering and Technology(IJASEAT) , pp. 44-50, Volume-6, Issue-1

Abstract : Abstract - Microbial lipid is considered as a substitute of traditional edible oils like plant oil, animal fat, cooking oil etcetera as feedstock of biodiesel. Oleaginous yeast strain Lipomyces starkeyi is a potential candidate can play a key role for simultaneous bioremediation as well as lipid accumulation from hydrocarbon enriched palm oil mill effluent (POME). The main obstacle to obtain higher lipid extraction from microbial biomass is the cell wall breakup. Therefore, the present study is intended to develop a novel cell wall disruption technique for the extraction of biomolecules from microbial biomass within a short time as well as eco-friendly. In this study, the electroporation (EP) technique was employed to disrupt yeast cell where voltage, pulse frequency and pulse width were 4kV, 100 Hz and 0.01 s respectively. In addition, different treatment time (2, 4, 8 min) were employed to observe the effect of EP treatment on cell inactivation as well as lipid extraction. Our experimental results show that the maximum lipid extraction was achieved by employing 8 minutes EP treatment. These results suggest that EP would be an attractive technique alternative to the traditional microbial cell disruption that leads to significant lipid extraction. Keywords - Palm oil mill effluent; Bioremediation;Lipomyces starkeyi; Electroporation; Microbial lipid.

Type : Research paper

Published : Volume-6, Issue-1

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