Abstract
Hydrocarbon-assimilating yeasts, Candida rugosa JF-101 and Saccharomycopsis lipolytica MIL 4040, gave respectively 7. 6-fold more Candicin (galactosylceramide) and 3.4-fold more Candicin-like cerebroside (CLC) from n-hexadecane than from glucose. Each Candicin and CLC were present in significant amounts in the intracellular membrane fraction containing mitochondria and microbodies. In both yeasts, the amount of cerebroside in the microbodies fraction was about 2. 5 times that in the mitochondria fraction. Candicin was noted to induce the fruiting of Schizophyllum commune.
