Method of extracting useful components from microbial cells
AssigneeIdemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
InventorsTatsuo Shinozaki, Nobuyuki Kikkawa, Fumiaki Fujitani, Kenjiro Tanaka
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Abstract
Method of extracting a useful component from microbial cells by disrupting microbial cells. Microbial cells are disrupted in one or more stages in a high-pressure multi-stage homogenizer and said disrupted cells are contacted with solvent in one or more remaining stages of the homogenizer to extract a useful component.
Claims9
A method of extracting a component from microbial cells containing the same, which comprises disrupting microbial cells in a first stage in a high-pressure multi-stage homogenizer in the absence of a solvent for extracting said component from the cells, and contacting said disrupted cells with a solvent in a directly succeeding stage of said homogenizer to extract said component from the cells.
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