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Budding Yeast Protein Extraction and Purification for the Study of Function, Interactions, and Post-translational Modifications
Published on: October 30, 2013
[Technology for the whole utilization of brewer's yeast in food industry]
M A Otero1, A Cabello, M C Vasallo
1Departamento de Bioquímica, División de Biotecnología, Instituto Cubano de Investigaciones de los Derivados de la Caña de Azúcar (ICIDCA), La Habana, Cuba.
Abstract:
A flexible scheme for the fractionation of brewer's yeast was developed. The procedure allows the production of different products such as: dry yeast flakes, dry yeast pills, yeast-extract based table sauce, yeast protein concentrates and soy-like sauce. The investment required for the processing of one ton per day is below 2 million dollars with an overall profitability higher than 53%. Investment is recovered in 0.75 years. The production of food ingredients from yeast upgrades its biomass about 25 fold. Present procedure is compared with other biomass fractionation processes taking into account the utilization of all technological streams where the process becomes environmentally friendly since effluent production significantly lower than similar technologies.
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