Microbial oils
AssigneeC16 Biosciences, Inc.
InventorsHarold M. MCNAMARA, Shara TICKU, David HELLER, Alexandre CHAPEAUX, Daniel PEDRAZZOLI, Taciana ALBUQUERQUE
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Abstract
The disclosure relates to microbial oils produced by oleaginous microorganisms, and fractions of those microbial oils. The disclosure provides microbial fats with higher melting temperatures and saturation levels. Further provided are methods of fractionating microbial oils.
Claims113
A microbial fat obtained from an oleaginous yeast, wherein the microbial fat comprises the following amounts of fatty acids relative to the total fatty acids:
- a) at least about 35% w/w saturated fatty acids;
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- b) less than about 15% w/w total polyunsaturated fatty acids.
A microbial fat obtained from an oleaginous yeast, wherein the microbial fat comprises an average fatty acid desaturation level of less than about 0.72.
A microbial oil obtained from an oleaginous yeast, wherein the microbial oil comprises the following amounts of fatty acids relative to the total fatty acids:
- a) less than about 40% w/w total saturated fatty acids;
- and
- b) at least about 10% w/w total polyunsaturated fatty acids.
A method of fractionating a first microbial oil to obtain a microbial fat and a second microbial oil, wherein the method comprises:
- a) melting the first microbial oil;
- b) crystallizing the melted first microbial oil;
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- c) separating solid and liquid phases of the crystallized first microbial oil
- wherein the solid phase of step (c) is the microbial fat and the liquid phase of step (c) is the second microbial oil.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.