Abstract
Cutaneotrichosporon curvatus DSM 101032 is an oleaginous yeast that can be isolated from various habitats and is capable of producing substantial amounts of polyunsaturated fatty acids. Here, we present the first draft genome sequence of any C. curvatus species.
Highlights
Cutaneotrichosporon curvatus, until recently known as Cryptococcus curvatus, is an oleaginous yeast of great interest for biotechnological applications due to the increasing demand of microbial lipids as a feedstock for the production of sustainable and renewable fuels and fine chemicals [1, 2]
C. curvatus has the capability to utilize a broad spectrum of different renewable carbon sources, like glucose, sucrose, lactose, xylose, glycerol, arabinose, and cellobiose [6]
The C. curvatus genome sequencing revealed several hits of coding sequences for enzymes required for the degradation of renewable polymers, such as cellulose and chitin, as well as enzymes for the metabolism of the resulting monomers
Summary
Cutaneotrichosporon curvatus, until recently known as Cryptococcus curvatus, is an oleaginous yeast of great interest for biotechnological applications due to the increasing demand of microbial lipids as a feedstock for the production of sustainable and renewable fuels and fine chemicals [1, 2]. C. curvatus has the capability to utilize a broad spectrum of different renewable carbon sources, like glucose, sucrose, lactose, xylose, glycerol, arabinose, and cellobiose [6]. It was shown to be capable of utilizing these and other substrates, like pretreatment-derived hemicellulose, organic waste from the food industry, or active sludge to produce lipids in numerous batch and fed-batch cultivations [7,8,9,10].
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