Fungus
yarrowia lipolytica
Definitions related to yarrowia lipolytica:
  • A dimorphic yeast in the phylum Ascomycota. This species is strictly aerobic, degrades hydrophobic substrates, assimilates glucose, fructose and mannose, and utilizes ethanol and glycerol as carbon sources. Y. lipolytica is a biocatalyst and used commercially in biotransformation to catalyze hydrolysis, esterification, interesterification and transesterification reactions. It is also used for the production of citric acid.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Any fungal organism that can be assigned to the species Yarrowia lipolytica.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
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