Pseudomonas oleovorans NRRL

Two bacterial strains. Pseudomonas oleovorans NRRL B-14682 and Pseudomonas corrugata 388 were employed to convert the co-product stream resulting from soy-based biodiesel production (CSBP), which contained glycerol, FFA soaps and residual fatty acid methyl esters... 

Glycerine and levulinic acid Pseudomonas oleovorans NRRL B-14682 Ashby et al. 2012... 

Microbial hydroxylation of a methyl group has the potential to be stereoselective in cases where the substrate possesses enantiotopic CH3 substituents. A classic example of such a process is the conversion of isobutyric acid to P-hydroxyisobutyric acid (Fig. 4), where the use of Candida rugosa IFO 0750 leads to formation of the D-(—) (R) isomer [9], and the L-(+) (S) product is obtained from oxidation using Bullera alba IFO 1030 [10]. Similar stereoselectivity is also observed in the oxidation of homologous acids and hydrocarbons by Rhodococcus species [11], and in the oxidation of cumene (1) to (jR)-2-phenylpropionic acid (2) by Pseudomonas oleovorans NRRL B-3429 (Fig. 5) [12]. 

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