White Biotechnology in Glycolipids Biosurfactants

Most well-studied biosurfactants are glycolipids and are reported from both bacteria and yeast. Glycolipids have monosaccharide, disaccharide, or sugar alcohol as polar moiety and long chain aliphatic or hydroxyaliphatic acids as nonpolar moiety. Glycolipids exhibit good surface activity and physicochemical properties, which make them most prospective biosurfactants for industrial applications. Here, we 

Rhamnolipids (RLs) are produced through aerobic fermentation using Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Jeneil Biosurfactants, Rhamnolipid Companies Inc., AGAE Technologies LLC are some commercial suppliers of rhamnolipids. 

Sophorolipids are mainly produced by the yeasts such as Candida bombicola and Candida apicola species. They have CMC of around 40-100 mg/L.They can be used to stabilize oil in water emulsions as their hydrophilic/lipophilic balance is between 10-13.  

Develter et al. discussed about sophorolipids. They mentioned that sophorolipids could be used as potential detergent for hard surface cleaning. Compared to commercial 

Compared to conventional sophorolipids, those with medium chain fatty acid have high solubility and surface activity with possibly better applicability. Cytochrome P450 

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