• Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.229-235
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• 1995

The surface tension-decreasing biosurfactant was purified from Rhodotorula muciloginosa G-1. The purification procedure was the solvent extraction of culture broth. To ensure complete extraction, the sample was extracted twice with equal volume of ethylacetate. The crude solution was washed with n-hexane to remove unconsumed soybean oil. The crude sample of biosurfactant was applied to Silica gel column chromatography equilibrated with chloroform, and eluted with chloroform : methanol gradient. Serveral solvent system was used to developed the thin layer chromatography (TLC). The purified biosurfactant sample gave one spot (Rf 0.78). It was estimated that biosurfactant was glycolipid about having M.W.1,500 with standard of polyethyleneglycol by Sephadex LH-20 column chromatography.