Genome Sequence of a Marine Carotenoid Producing Yeast Rhodotorula mucilaginosa CYJ03

Abstract

Carotenoids are valuable pigments that have been widely used in food, pharmaceutical, animal breeding and cosmetics industries. Due to the increasing demand for carotenoids of natural origin, the trend for production of carotenoids by red yeast has become popular. Strain Rhodotorula mucilaginosa CYJ03 was isolated from northern Yellow Sea of China for its carotenoid producing potential. It was found that the whole genome of CYJ03 was 19.03 Mb in size and contained 6301 protein-coding genes including a gene cluster for the carotenoids biosynthesis. The genome sequence would be valuable for exploring the potential biological properties of CYJ03, as well as for facilitating the molecular genetic analysis and the manipulation of carotenoids accumulation in this strain, and for the development of it as an engineered host for carotenoid production.

Journal

Journal ID (publisher-id): JOUC

Title: Journal of Ocean University of China

Publisher: Science Press and Springer (China )

ISSN (Electronic): 1672-5182

Publication date (Electronic): 24 January 2020

Publication date (Print): 01 April 2020

Volume: 19

Issue: 2

Pages: 466-472

Affiliations

¹School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266000, China

²Marine Microbiological Engineering & Research Center, Marine Biomedical Research Institute of Qingdao, Qingdao 266000, China

Author notes

*Corresponding author: HE Zengguo, Tel: [phone], E-mail: bioantai88@ 123456vip.163.com

Article

Publisher ID: s11802-020-4149-2

DOI: 10.1007/s11802-020-4149-2

Copyright statement: Copyright © Ocean University of China, Science Press and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany 2020.

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